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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 5 | Seizure disorder | I don't take Tegretol but rather Carbatrol ER capsules | F | 65 | 26 days | 10/5/2007 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 5 | headache | M | 23 | 10 days 100 mg | 5/27/2015 | 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 | 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 |