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 |
| 2 | MS | Somnolence Nausea | I take this with Lyrica and I don't know what this drug is doing except making me sleepy. | F | 42 | 1 months 400 mg 2X day | 2/26/2015 | 2 | Trigmental neurogia | I woke up on Saturday and I could not walk in a straight line and could not function. I called the on call doctor and he told me to stop taking it and take 1/2 pill twice a day on Sunday. Monday I took 1/2 pill in the morning and I was cold and then discovered I was weak. I called the doctor. He told me to stop taking it and call my doctor tomorrow. My doctor was not in. | I do not have as much pain but the side effects of this medicine are not good. I need to not take this medicine or adjust the dosage. | F | 62 | 4 days 200 2X day | 11/24/2014 | 2 | neuropathy of mouth | Wired up, couldn't relax, but sleepy for brief periods. Bad indigestion, stomach stayed bloated & hard. Am hypoglycemic, adversely affected blood sugar levels. Nausea with eating, headaches, food not tasting right. Did help with burning & pain. Decided side effects not worth it. | F | 58 | 8 days 200 mg x2 | 10/21/2014 | 2 | Epilesy | Foggy, tried, memory lose, weight gain. It also made life very difficult as you can't seem to remember things to keep organised. Sex drive also decreases. For me it also numbed allot of emotions which is the worse thing. I spent 2 years slowly coming off the drug and my emotions seem exaggerated as allot have been suppressed for so many years. I now don't take any medication and feel much happier and have more empathy for everyone. | F | 36 | 10 years 800mg | 6/30/2013 | 2 | seizure disorder | psoriasis from rash; photo sensitivity; weight gain of 5 to 8 pounds; very mellow; reduced sexual responsiveness; finally, low white and red blood count, increased liver enzymes | prescribed after one seizure, feel it was over-kill. It works though. | F | 54 | 16 months 300 MG 2X day | 4/2/2012 | 2 | Single seizure | - Weight gain (originally 66kg, now 80kg) - Tiredness - Increased appetite (constantly hungry), having more snacks | M | 23 | 16 months 100mg 2X day | 3/26/2012 | 2 | CRPS | Decreased libido, headaches, mouth sores, weight gain, decreased appetite, joint and muscle pain, muscle twitches, menstrual cycle gone, constipation, sleepiness, short-term memory loss. Be very careful you don't drink GRAPEFRUIT JUICE - very bad side effect. | The nerve pain did decrease but the side effects are overwhelming. Would not recommend for nerve pain but suggest you look at amytriptaline or topamax, all are bad. Do your homework and trust yourself - doctors are wrong 50% of the time! | F | 36 | 1 months 200mg 2X day | 12/5/2011 | 2 | Nocturnal Epilepsy | For the first week or two; itchiness and problems balancing. Since largely increasing the dose; difficulty concentrating, fogginess of the mind, every now and again the sensation of my skin crawling on the back and shoulders. Sometimes I still get the difficultly with balance. | I hate that I can't concentrate. It got more and more difficult as my dose increased and just as school assignments and exams were getting more and more complex. The time it would take me to make decisions got longer. Some days I get bad speech days through which I have difficulty ordering and pronouncing the syllables of each word i say. This could very well be attributed to the difficulty concentrating as I have not previously had a speech disorder or defect. | F | 19 | 7 years 1600 3X day | 7/29/2011 | 2 | Lethargy, vagueness, sun sensitivity. | It took me a month or so to get over the 'poisoned' feeling. Not too bad for several months, then side effects gradually re-asserted themselves over a period of a month or so. As my seizures were seen as the result of 'over doing' things, I have reduced to 1/2 dose (on my own) to see how that goes. I have started to get my life back a bit, and plan to stop taking altogether - and avoid late nights, heavy drinking etc. | M | 60 | 1 years 200 2X day | 9/23/2010 | 2 | Severe Mood Swings | very tired, weight gain, sluggish, bloating, and i have CRS now, can't remember &^%$! | I am in the process of weening myself until I see my Dr. I refuse to be walking stupid and tired all of the time! Some people this may work for, but not me. | F | 39 | 2 months | 7/20/2009 | 2 | Epilepsy | Always being in a "fog", slows me down, memory loss, decline in motivation, sensitive to the sun, I'm also concerned about the long term damage to my liver. | I have tonic-clonic seizures. Side effects in part cost me my marriage. It does control seizures, only have 3 or 4 a year with it. But than so does pot for me, have never had a seizure while smoking. Luckily I live in WA and can get medicinal marijuana, just found the right doctor. The side effects of pot aren't as severe as Tegretol for me. Going to start weening myself off of the Tegretol, I can't wait to have the old me back! | M | 29 | 8 years | 6/20/2009 | 2 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | Headaches, dizziness, sluggishness, hearing issues (anything I heard sounded lower than it actually is) | I stopped taking this and started Trileptal instead. The hearing issue was to the point where I would never take Tegretol again! I have perfect pitch and I know what key a song is in after I hear it once. If I hear a song again (or even see a movie for a second time) and it doesn't match up with the original way I heard it, it drives me crazy. I couldn't take that anymore. | F | 29 | 1 months | 6/2/2009 | 2 | slight brain shape change after bra | involuntary leg twitching, sporadic arm achiness | F | 55 | 9 years | 5/15/2009 | 2 | partial seizures? | fatigue, memory loss, particularly with short-term, loss of libido, confusion, lack of motivation, problems with word-retrival, loss of concentration, and poor organizational skills. Basically, feel like a stupid, walking zombie that has no feelings and can sleep at the drop of a hat. | As I have not been conclusively diagnosed with epilepsy, I feel I have been caught in a whirlwind of a system, which has made it difficult to maintain my job. I'm caught in the middle, where I need to accommodate the side effects of Tegretol, or my driving privleges will be revoked once again, while trying a new medication. This is a scary proposition to me, because it tells me how powerful this drug is. I'm glad it helps others, but not for me. Sorry to vent. | F | 54 | 1 years | 9/12/2008 | 2 | Bipolar I | lots of pain in feet, bumped into everything. | I could only stand the foot pain for about 2 weeks. My Psych switched me to Trileptal and as long as I don't go above 300mg I don't have any pain. | F | 34 | 2 weeks | 2/22/2008 | 2 | seizures | forgetfulness(very irritating), drowsiness, fatigued, irregular sleep patterns, a lack of "drive", joint pains. | I took tegretol for 8 years from the ages of 4 to 12 for seizures & it seemed to work & I didn't need it for another 20 years until earlier this year when I started experiencing unexplainable dizziness, numbness & tingling in my left hand & foot & "out of body" feelings. The neurologist was totally unsure what had caused these symptoms even with the aid of an M.R.I. & E.E.G. & suggested that I go back onto tegretol as it had worked in the past.Seven months later I would really like to find a replacement medication or stop tegretol regardless as the side effects are affecting my quality of life considerably. | M | 33 | 7 months | 11/8/2007 | 2 | Bi-Polar Disorder | Skin feeling itchy (but no rash), music and ringtones sound lower in key than they really are. Nausea, dizziness, weight gain. | F | 31 | 8 days | 8/30/2007 | 2 | Extreme fatigue that has not gone away, dreams every night, some memory loss, some dizziness. My doctor has reduced my medication twice. That has helped, but I still can't begin to stay awake through the afternoon. | I've lost my job and don't have the sustained energy to look for or hold another one. And I have to get back to work! Each day, I do the things that I absolutely have to do...taking care of my elderly parents' finances and other needs and working around the house...and then I crash. I've only had two seizures as an adult(one 9 months ago and one 6 months ago) before taking this drug. I'm grateful that I'm not in any kind of pain, but the exhaustion is debilitating and frustrating because I just can't function for more than 4 or 5 hours at a time, and even then, I'm tired. The side effects are so much worse than the seizures themselves. And I'm only on 100mg/day now. | F | 48 | 6 months | 10/9/2006 | 2 | Seizure disorder | ITP a severe potenially FATAL illness where Platlets are DESTROYED. my son almost died after only 10 days of this drug. It is listed and many doctors and pharmasistes know of this. Drowisness, fatigue, SEVERE body Rash, Swollen Glands and Fever | this Drug works well for millions of others. my son's seizures did stop 100% when on the drug. But the DEATH side effect is too scary | M | 4 | 11 days | 9/22/2006 | 2 | epilepsy/seizures | Short term memory loss and tiredness. I have low blood pressure hence a pacemaker - heart misses beats. I have several blackouts/seizures over 2-3 days then none for another month. | Currently increasing medication from 800mg per day to 1200mg per day to see if there is any improvement. | F | 42 | 24 days | 8/17/2005 |