TEGRETOL Reviews (CARBAMAZEPINE)Average Rating: 3.3 (287 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TEGRETOL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TEGRETOL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | bipolar 2 | i have peace now, i take 600mg per day. only thing is it is hard for me to wake up and i don't know always what is going on if you wake me in the middle of the night. i gained weight, but i cant say for sure it is the drug, also take effexor. but without the tegretol i would not have a stable life! | TEGRETOL IS THE BEST THING. i used to be troubled with very bad dreams, now i still have the dreams but it is like the stuff in them is happening to someone in another room down the hall!!!!HOORAY FOR TEGRETOL plus i would get so angry my head would buzz, or so depressed i wanted to die, or so happy i would be overexhilirated. now i get normal mad, normal sad, and normal happy. not at all like i don't feel anything. | M | 34 | 2 years | 2/2/2010 | 5 | seizures | I have had no side effects with tegretol or the generic | good but had to be i ncreased to 200 3 times a day because of several breakthrough seizures | M | 55 | 20 years 200 2X day | 5/19/2010 | 5 | seizures and bi-polar | I have no side effects. I guess if you fell 20 feet hit a 10 foot fence and rim of a concrete pool and suffer from seizures and physcilogical depression this drug will certainly work for you. This drug works wonders if you have a multi issue. | This drug works if you have a multi issue. Like Seizures, Physcilogical Depression and Nerve damage. | M | 40 | 6 years 400 mg 2X day | 2/8/2013 | 5 | status epilepsy | No sex drive whatsoever | M | 43 | 2 years 1000 mg | 3/9/2013 | 5 | Epilepsy (nocturnal seizures) | At the begining I took 2 doses of 400mg, morning and evening. After nausea in the morning my doctor cut out the morning dose. For the past 10 years I have been seizure free. A positive side effect was weight loss - I had to stop drinking beer! | Never stop taking the treatment without consulting your doctor. I did once due to a misunderstanding and the result was a seizure. | M | 42 | 11 years | 1/10/2006 | 5 | To control my seizures | I have quite a number of side effects including, Hair loss, Bone problems, Heart palpatations and short term memory loss. Yes the list is long, but i cant do without tegretol. | The only reason i am taking tegretol still is the fact that it has been the only succesful drug that has controlled my seizures. I am also taking Keppra as well to help along side tefretol, but it is always tegretol that i come back to. Plus it has allowed me to drive now :) | M | 33 | 25 years | 1/27/2007 | 5 | Seizures | Depression, tired, exhausted, joint and muscle pain, light headedness, Sensitivity to sun, lethargic, insomnia, unclear thoughts, memory loss, like living in a fog! And the list goes on and on! | i rated it a 5 cuz it does work for stopping seizures , but I often wonder if the side effects are worse than actually having a seizue! I would probably prefer the seizure if I did not live with this constant fear of them killing me! I thought I was the only one suffering from all these side effects til I stumbled onto this site! Hearing you alls stories made me feel so bad for ya til I realized "hey thats me there talking about"! I have read alot of your stories and i am trying to figure out how you all hold down a job! I would really like to work but it seems between the seizures and the side effects I cant! Not to mention the embarrassment that comes along with having seizures! And the major decrease in sex drive...or anything that requires movement...or motivation...LOL This med does work for seizures but with all the side effects I think it should be outlawed! No way a person should be forced to try to live like this! This is not a life it is just existing!!!!I have been | M | 27 | 15 years | 10/22/2008 | 5 | Idiopathic Seizures | Fatigue, Drowsiness, Ataxia (shaky hands especially in the morning), Diplopia (usually only when really tired), Nausea (only when taken without food), Dizziness (If accidentally overdose), Short term memory loss (most aggrivating of them all) | This drug controlled the seizures, nuff said. i can deal with the side effects easily, but the one i hate is the short term memory loss. Post-it notes have become my best friend. Other than that, this drug saved my life. | M | 24 | 5 years | 1/27/2005 | 5 | bipolar II | drowsiness, short term memory loss | I've been lucky with this drug. Few side effects compared to most people and it's controlled my moods very well for 12 years now. Gave me my life back. | M | 38 | 12 years | 2/8/2005 | 5 | bipolar II | If I don't eat during the day I get a little | M | 47 | 5 years | 4/15/2005 | 5 | Seizures | None noticed, I was just so pleased that the seizures stopped. | 3-4 months required to get the correct dose to stop the seizures, once that was correct the seizures have stopped completely. No way would I stop or change medications. | M | 42 | 5 years | 4/26/2007 | 5 | epilepsy/ seizures | Cold sweats, memory loss, hair loss. | Terrible drug for me. I was diagnosed as an epileptic around 1988. The best drug at the time seemed to be tegretol. I was on it for roughly 11 years. While I was taking it, it always seemed to keep me on the "edge" of having a seizure. It tempered them at best. I'm one of the lucky few who get an "aura" or warning when one is coming, rather than just instantly falling to the floor. Around 1999, my neurologist suggested trying Lamictal. It was a godsend. I haven't had a single seizure since I've been using the drugs, nor have I noticed any side effects. | M | 41 | 9 years | 4/17/2008 | 5 | seizures, bipolar disorder | I remember feeling dizzy and woozy when I first started taking it for a few days. My doc described the feeling as being like a "drunken sailor". He was right. Since then , no side effects. Just necessary to get bloodwork every three months to make sure it doesn't screw up your liver. | M | 13 | 14 years | 6/12/2008 | 5 | TLE & mood swings | Took Tegretol for 15 years and it was a total godsend. Very few side effects but now unfortunately I have to stop Tegretol as it metabolises in the same way as the only two HIV salvage drugs left open to me. Tried Trileptal but bad reaction. | M | 56 | 15 years | 7/29/2008 | 5 | Epilepsy | I took carbamazepine to treat my relatively mild temporal lobe epilepsy from 1995 until 2011. I cannot say I had any bad side affects. I lead a completely "normal" life. My concentration and memory were never good (but not bad either) but at least my seizures (petit mal) became less and less over the years. I think the drug really helped me. | However! After not having a seizure (petit mal) for over a decade I came off the drug over a period of 3-4 months. Now I'm not sure why but my sex drive (after about 3-4 months off the drug) went through the roof! I was like a 17 year old boy. Then one day without warning bang I became impotent! Over night it all stopped (That would be 8 months after I came off the drug completely). The desire is still there but I no longer can function without the other drugs (and they are now starting to loose their effect)!!! I did find my concentration and memory and confidence also improved considerably after coming off the drug (well the confidence has taken a battering since the new thing) I do find it weird because carbamazepine can cause ED but I never had that problem while on carbamazepine. It was only after coming off carbamazepine that the ED problem started! However ED can be caused by loads of other things(I have been checked out from head to toe. All OK) so its probably a psyc thing (surely coming off carbamazepine did not cause my ED, could it?) Hope this helps someone (I cannot find anyone else with similar problems). | M | 44 | 16 years 400mg 2X day | 8/5/2013 | 5 | Neural Net Mess | Costs $$ | This tegertal is dope yo ! | M | 17 | 1 times 400 | 9/4/2015 | 5 | Blurry vision confusion skin problem | M | 20 | 1 days 1000 | 2/19/2016 | 5 | epilepsy | Pretty good med,but can get blurry vision sometimes and after 6 years on it can sometimes feel like I'm wasted/stoned/drunk, but without the other effects of drunk. Like, when I'm walking sometimes it's like I'm disconnected from my legs or body but they are operating normally. I think my brain sometimes isn't fully in the moment and its a bit wierd. | It works, and mostly its good. | M | 39 | 6 years 700mg/day | 3/25/2016 | 4 | epilepsy | Shaky, nausea only has been going on for a couple of months now, I've had blood tests done to rule out diabetes because it seems like my blood is going really low, good and bad days | Tegretol is a really good medicine as it stopped me having seizures at the age of 2, I was having up to 20 a day. Fully controlled now bit usually return once a year and then my medicine is put a by two mls a day. | M | 14 | 10 years 32mls | 4/29/2016 | 4 | To prevent epilepsy at sleep | Make me feel tired and sleep | M | 1 days 400 | 11/11/2015 |
TEGRETOL (CARBAMAZEPINE): Carbamazepine is used to prevent and control seizures. This medication is known as an anticonvulsant or anti-epileptic drug. It is also used to relieve certain types of nerve pain (such as trigeminal neuralgia). This medication works by reducing the spread of seizure activity in the brain and restoring the normal balance of nerve activity. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)