TEGRETOL-XR Reviews (CARBAMAZEPINE)Average Rating: 3.4 (51 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TEGRETOL-XR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TEGRETOL-XR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Seizures | Get tired easily. | When I started getting seizures I was put on Dilantin which was not working for me because I was getting major mood swings. When I was 11 I was put on tegretol XR and that's when I started to get less and less seizures. Now, I have been 7 years without a seizure and I am very happy with what tegretol has done for me! | F | 20 | 9 years 300mg 2X day | 11/4/2010 | 1 | Mood Disorder | When I was a teen my anxiety was misdiagnosed as Bipolar Disorder and the doctor gave me tegretol, not sure what the dosage. I went from weighing 115 to weighing 163. I stopped being able to remember everyday words as simple as license plate or macaroni. Sometimes I couldn't remember my own name, age or phone number. Thinking became so hard for me that I had to drop out of school. My mood did not get any better, the doctor just thought it did because I was no longer able to express any emotion. My hair stopped growing, my nails got thin and they were always breaking, my skin broke out in the most horrific acne I've ever seen. I slept about 16 hours every night and still never felt rested. After about 3 years I had enough of living in that zombified state and stopped cold turkey, the withdrawals were horrible, shaking and irritability like you would not believe but it was worth it to get that devil drug out of my system. It took at least a year for my memory to come back and for me to f | Hated it | F | 20 | 3 years 2X day | 2/3/2014 | 4 | Partial Epliepsy | Weight Gain | Has ended the grand mal seizures and has stabilized the seizures to a decent but not total control point. Also tried Depakote and Zonegran in conjunction and they are not totally gone away. Overall good but not great. | M | 21 | 10 years 500 MG 2X day | 2/28/2010 | 4 | PARTIAL-COMPLEX SEIZURES | DROWZINESS | F | 22 | 4 years | 11/4/2002 | 2 | myoclonic seizures | feeling tired, swelling ankles, increased seizures!!!, blurred vision | It sucks, I had less seizures before I started taking this medicine | F | 22 | 2 years | 9/15/2007 | 5 | headache | M | 23 | 10 days 100 mg | 5/27/2015 | 5 | petit-mal seizures causing migraine | I am more tired when I take this medicine. | It is very unusual for a person who has my kind of seizures to be on this medicine, but it is the only one that helps me. If I don't take it, I will have a migraine the very same day. I take 2 200 mg tablets twice a day- that's 800 mg/day for those of you who might be confused. I was on Depakote before this, but I grew out of it. | F | 23 | 12 years | 9/5/2007 | 3 | tonic clonic seizures | I have been on this medication for 15 years (since I was 8) and have had no severe issues. Sometimes I would feel dizzy or disoriented, nausea, or fatigue. That's about it. | I still get seizures on the medication, especially if I miss a dose, but not always. I am thinking of switching to Keppra bc Tegretol can produce osteoperosis in women, and newer epileptic drugs tend to have less severe side effects. And getting pregnant on tegretol is not recommended either. Just a heads up. | F | 23 | 15 years | 3/4/2009 | 5 | seizure disorder | drowziness | F | 24 | 15 years | 10/17/2001 | 1 | Mood | Acne like I was 14. Just horrible out of nowhere that took weeks to heal. I was so confused too. uugghh | XR my ass | M | 25 | 3 weeks | 3/26/2007 | 5 | Seizure Disorder (grand mal) | None. Maybe some drowsiness. | take 400 mg 2x per day. Just started this large a dose after taking 200 twice a day for 10 years. Working great, no seizures since upping dosage. | M | 27 | 1 years | 4/29/2005 | 5 | Epilepsy | Fatigue | It has helped he reduce the amount of the seizures I get. | M | 28 | 23 years 1400 3X day | 6/24/2012 | 1 | temporal lope epilepsy | Pain headache confusion can't wake up forget things but remember bits and spices later | F | 28 | 2 months 800 mg | 1/20/2012 | 4 | Bi-Polar, nerve pain | DIZZINESS and intoxicated feeling. The off and on dizziness is most bothersome. Also, if I forget to take it at it's usual time, I start to feel very sick. | It really make me feel drunk at first, but the effects slowly wore off and I feel great on it now. I take 600mg a day and I feel great. | F | 29 | | 8/13/2006 | 2 | Complex Partial Seizures/Mood | Inital side effects lasted for about 8 days. Although were strangley enjoyable, felt quite drunk! Giggly, silly, goofy. A metalic tast in throat some times, a bit tired, a bit unsteady. Not the best - but manageable. After the first 8 days, the inital side effects dropped off and I began to feel very drugged and scared. My mood became very unstable. I am now weening off it. | FYI: I am very sensative to medications in general!! The inital side effects were fine, although once it settled in - I wasn't fine at all! But that is just me. I have heard a lot of people have done well on it. | F | 29 | 11 days 200 1X day | 1/28/2011 | 1 | seizure disorder | Have experienced ringing in ears, excessive water weight gain/swelling (20 lbs), pain and feeling of cold in areas where water is most prevelant, memory loss, aggression, to name a few. | Would not reccommend it to others. | F | 29 | 4 years | 6/16/2005 | 1 | Seizures- from Shunt | Tegretol over long term (more than 36 months) causes brain damage in patients. I was told this by my neurologist after my seizure activity increased and brain function went down. | Good for short term, bad in the long term | M | 29 | 18 years | 2/25/2008 | 2 | seizures | my s daughter is autistic takes tegratol 1hr after taking screaming agatation red skin on face | F | 30 | 20 days | 5/16/2009 | 3 | Seizures, Bi-Polar | Sour Stomach,Restlessness,lack of clarity in thought | The drug took forever to find the proper dosage. I now take 1000 mg's a day but I occasionally have interaction problems with the vicodin I take for my knees and back and the clonazepam for sleep. The back of my head would start feeling overpressurized and my eyes would turn yellow, a sign of over dose from one or all drugs, but I never take moire tha usual. A day of of them will usually do the trick. | M | 31 | 4 months | 11/28/2005 | 4 | Bi-Polar II | Fatigue, goes away somewhat, hair loss, skin thinning and spots, easy to burn, dry mouth, insomnia, short term memory problems, word recall problems sometimes, increased appetite | For me living without a medication like tegretol is just not possible. As such medications go I have had the fewest side effects on tegretol. I know the hair, skin and probably memory problems have a lot to do with vitamins and I do take a multivitamin but it is not enough. I do not gain weight because of the tegretol but I have to watch my diet because I do feel hungry a lot of the time. Still well worth living with these side effects than the dark hole of depression I most often find myself in with no medication. | F | 32 | 8 years 600mg 1X day | 7/16/2010 |
TEGRETOL-XR (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. Some forms of this medication are also used to treat bipolar disorder. Carbamazepine can help to decrease extreme changes in mood and help you feel less agitated. FDA Approval Date: 1996-03-25 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)