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 |
| 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 | 1 | Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy | Dizziness, ringing in ears and extreme vomiting. | This could only happen to me! My sleep neurologist started me on 800 mg of Tegretol for NFLE and she forgot to titrate the dose. After taking it for one night and the next morning, I ended up in the ER due to extreme dizziness, vomiting and a ringing in my ears. I switched Doctors and changed to lamictal (titrated) which is working well. | F | 40 | 2 days 2X day | 9/22/2014 | 5 | headache | M | 23 | 10 days 100 mg | 5/27/2015 | 5 | trigeminal neuralgia | slight drowsiness | Tegretol has been a miracle drug for me. After 8 years of being misdiagnosed with atypical facial pain, tmj, dental problems, even cervical facet joint syndrome, a family practitioner diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia and put me on tegretol. For 8 years I took Oxycontin, Vicoden, Darvocet, all kinds of muscle relaxers and antidepressants, etc. and nothing helped. I tried acupuncture, hypnosis, chiropractic, homeopathic medicine, biofeedback, and had counseling with a pain psychologist. Several days a week I experienced nausea and vomiting from the excruciating pain. I prayed for God to let me die. After the third day of taking Tegretol XR, the pain was reduced to an annoying cramp, and since then I have experienced almost complete relief. It has been a Godsend. | F | 48 | 10 days | 9/15/2004 | 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 | 4 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | Blurred vision every now and then, feeling a little agitated every blue moon and lingering headache most days. | Tegretol has been a miracle drug for me. After 15 months of severe facial pain and being misdiagnosed with tmj and dental problems, inner ear infections, bad vision, neck problems, you name it they claimed I had it. They were giving me every drug known to man until I finally was diagnosed by an emergency room doctor (on a long painful night) when I could not take the pain anymore and thought I would end up dying. After some face and jaw x-rays he said I had trigeminal neuralgia NOT tmj, he put me on Ultram which took about 50% of the pain away and told me to go see a neuralogist. The neuralogist put me on tegretol and about 90% of my pain is gone as long as I stay on track. All day long I seem to have a lingering mild headache but I will take that pain anyday of the week verses the pain I have had to live with before. Every once in a while the pain comes back and the Tegretol XR does not seem to be working but it is few and far between, most days it is wonderful. I really have not had | F | 41 | 14 days | 9/29/2007 | 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 | 5 | Seizure disorder | I don't take Tegretol but rather Carbatrol ER capsules | F | 65 | 26 days | 10/5/2007 | 1 | Epilepsy | Anxiety, reduced cognition, extreme agitation, lowered white blood count, and more. | The med was a secondary med and could not handle partials or complex partials, much less tonic clonic seizures. That was in my case. It might work for others and could be worth a try. | M | 50 | 200 days 2X day | 12/12/2016 | 1 | Seizures | Just about every side effect listed on your page, incompetence, mood disorders, instability, feeling like a drunk, could not remember what I had done that morning, started to contemplate suicide as I was not able to cope in my job and perform as a provider for my family. | Now on Epilim and I am back to the old me. Please if you are anything like I was go and persuade your neurologist to try something else. | M | 55 | 400 days 500 2X day | 7/30/2014 | 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 | 1 | seizures | Side effects were very minimal. Mouth dryness. Mood was exceptional. Very happy all the time. Also slept really well and didn't even wake up tired. I had been on Keppra for 2 1/2 years and never slept and was tired all the time. I thought this was going well. Then I developed flu-like symptoms after about two weeks at full dose. I started out at 100mg. I had horrible head pain, neck pain, chills and body aches like I had been thrown down the stairs. I had a blood test and told to stop the tegretol immediately. | After I stopped the medication, I thought the symptoms would stop, but they did not. They got worse. I had toxic liver something. This has been going for a week and the doctors say it might be another week. I never would have taken this medication if I had known this might happen. | F | 45 | 1 months 200mg 2X day | 12/3/2010 | 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 | 2 | Grand Mal Seizures | Headaches, Loss of Memory, Sleepy all the time. Slurred speech. of balance. cold, Hair shedding. | bad drug | F | 42 | 3 months | 12/12/2008 | 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 | Trigeminal neuralgia | Weight gain, memory loss (technical words, names), depression | While Tegretol has been right for my pain, I would like to pursue a different treatment to avoid the side effects. Acupuncture has been mentioned as a possibility. | M | 52 | 6 months 400 2X day | 1/12/2013 | 4 | bi-polar disorder II hypomania | 11/02/07 - some daytime sleepiness but none overall | 11/02/07 - I have taken a lot of different mood stabilizer meds and this is the best one so far. It is very hard for me to wake up in the morning but that has been a lifelong struggle. Also, I feel like I crave sweets and have some stomach issues (indigestion, IBS symtoms, etc.) but that may not be a result of the Tegretol. I am also taking 50mg of setraline (Zoloft) and was on Rozerem. I started with the non XR version of carbamazapine and it made me feel drunk and very dizzy in the morning. | F | 35 | 7 months | 11/2/2007 | 3 | Epilepsy simple partial seizures | Tiredness after each increase in dose.Also slower in thinking. I find most days having to sleep during the day.Some days feel absolutely exhausted. | Currently taking 1000mg per day.Not had another seizure since last increase beginning of July.Considering changing to Keppra because of fatigue | F | 46 | 7 months | 7/25/2008 | 5 | Trigeminal Neurolgia | Tired, sometimes I struggle to find words, weight gain. I can tell it's burning through the other meds I am taking, so some adjustment is still needed. | It has been a miracle drug for my head pain. I still have daily pain, but not as bad. I have to take 2 in the morning and 1 at night because I was having problems waking up in the morning. | F | 34 | 8 months 20 mg 3X day | 4/17/2012 | 4 | seizure disorder | drowsiness, clumsiness, flat affect | superior to Dilantin | F | 54 | 8 months | 6/26/2002 |
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)