TRILEPTAL Reviews (OXCARBAZEPINE)Average Rating: 3.1 (368 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TRILEPTAL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TRILEPTAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | | 12/28/2004 | 3 | | 4/29/2004 | 3 | partial complex epilepsy | Correction on Trileptal use time for partial complex epil. My daughter is taking it for about a year. In the comment I wrote 1 day. | 5.5 | | 10/18/2006 | 3 | Seizures | Severe depression, joint pain, weight gain, memory loss, confusion, serious loss of D vitamins, fluxuating blood pressure. | Be sure to have your doctor check your vitamin D levels. Normal is 30-100, mine was 7 after taking Trileptal. Now on prescription-strength vitamin D supplements. Was extremely confused, had difficult time understanding instructions or doing simple tasks. Gained 30 lbs in 4 months. Depression was severe. Joint pain remained after being removed from Trileptal (didn't have any before trileptal). Beginning to think the arthritis-like joint pain is permanent. | 50 | 4 months 750mg 2X day | 10/16/2010 | 2 | Rapid Cycling Bipolar II | Horrible insomnia, feelings of terror (anxiety), pounding, rapid heartbeat. | Have only been taking it 3 days as an add on for Depakote for breakthrough cycling. Can't take the insomnia. Last night I was up the entire night wide awake. Now, during the day I am exhuasted and just waiting for my toddler to go down for her nap so I can shut my eyes. | 39 | 3 days | 3/8/2006 | 1 | Bipolar I | Thought it was withdrawal from Effexor. Nausea, Blurred vision, sexual impotence, heightened anxiety, exhaustion. These side effects are still present 4 months later. Now I know it's the trileptal. | Almost went to Pysch Hospital about 5 times now due to extreme anxiety. Never had this anxiety on anything else. Quit taking it today. Started smoking again after quitting for 9 months. My doctor told me to keep taking it but I am going to stay on Wellbutrin and Ripserdone only. I'm using some amino acids-just basics like shakes. Can't wait to feel better soon. | 40 | 4 months 600mg 2X day | 7/4/2011 | 1 | Facial nerve pain | I felt Ok until day 3 and starting feeling strange. Then I had a blackout and fell and injured my knee and broke my hand. Later that evening I told my husband I was going to lay down as I didn't feel well. He heard a crash and came in the bedroom and found me getting up from blacking out and hitting my face on the edge of the nightstand. I ended up with a badly cut lip that left me with a nasty scar. I ended up in the hospital where they ran all kind of test and discovered I an one of 3% that they know of that has this happened as a result of the med. Maybe it would be more if more doctors reported it. It causes loss of sodium in the blood and I had water on my brain or in my brain forget which they said. No, I would not recommend this to anyone. | 72 | 4 days 3X day | 6/13/2016 | 1 | Epilepsy | Double vision | I hate it | 68 | 7 years 150 mg | 6/24/2020 | 5 | Rapid cycling bipolar | Nausea almost to point of throwing up. Headaches. | I have been suffering for a few months with rapid cycling and panic attacks But boy has this med changed my life. I just hope this nausea goes away. | F | 48 | 10 days 300 | 5/8/2019 | 5 | Mood disorder NOS, PTSD | First few days I spaced out a bit. Some headache | It's awesome. My moods are level. I think clearer, can focus, have control over my emotional reactions. I'm hoping it just continues to improve from here. I eat healthy, exercise regularly, take vitamins and supplements. I'm using this as a tool towards recovery not my only method of healing. Coming from a history of alcohol abuse to cope with PTSD symptoms. I just couldn't stop drinking. Tripital has taken all of those urges away. It is undetermined if I have a true bi polar diagnosis and if I will need to continue medication indefinitely.that I won't know until I've been away from self medicating with alcohol for some time. All I know though is without Tripital I would not stand a chance. I take 5htp, vitamin B and fish oil as well. Never was on the depressed side. My issue has always been hypomania and disassociation from PTSD triggers. So again Tripital works magic for this. I'll update on this again in a few months to report progress. | F | 32 | 2 weeks 300 mg | 11/27/2016 | 5 | trigeminal neuralgia | Initial tiredness on 450mgx2.pain was quickly under control and have cut back to 150mgx2 and have been on that for 12 months. No other side effects. After being on 2700mg of gabapentin to no effect this was a godsend. Cant recommend highly enough. | F | 57 | 1 years 150 mg x2 | 12/10/2016 | 5 | GAD/generalized anxiety disorder | Difficulty achieving orgasm, sleepiness. | This stuff is amazing. It helps the anger from GAD, and negative thoughts. Never hd issues with weight gain. | F | 31 | 4 months 600 | 8/9/2017 | 5 | Bipolar 1 | Hair thinning, initial stomach upset and acne though subsided a couple of months in. Weight neutral. | This was my wonder mood stabilizer though after three years lost its effectiveness. Higher dose above 1200 did nothing for my mood and the gi upset was extreme. All bipolar drugs have a trade off, you need to decide what u can and can't live with. This was the least evil of any drug I've been on (and there have been a lot over the past 12 years). | F | 40 | 3 years 1200 mg | 1/12/2016 | 5 | Bipolar | Tiredness initially. Now there are no side effects. | Trileptal made me pretty tired for the first few days, but I now have no side effects. It has been very, very good for relieving my depression and overall volatile mood and irritability. My bipolar is very well controlled with this as my sole mood stabilizer, in conjunction with some other types of psych meds. I have had to have the dose increased twice since going on it 8 months ago, and am now at a fairly high dose. I would definitely suggest this to someone needing a mood stabilizer. | F | 27 | 8 months 900 2X day | 9/6/2016 | 5 | Bipolar | Dizziness, loss of concentration, drowsiness, hangover-like feeling in morning | I also take this med at night since it helps combat my insomnia. Probably couldn't handle it first thing in the morning. Before being placed on Trileptol, I had been on almost every anti-psychotic and anti-depressant with no signs of relief. Within 2 weeks of being on 1200 x2 daily I had finally found stability. I eventually got down to cutting my dose in half and have been on this dose for over a year and I have not had any violent mood swings. Mania was suppressed and depression pretty much vanished. I will most likely be on this medication the rest of my life and I'm okay with that cause it's worked wonders. | F | 22 | 2 years 1200 | 3/4/2016 | 5 | bipolar | Initially headache, sleepiness but sometimes insomnia until I got used to the dosage. Started at 200 mg 2xday while hospitalized, and each time the dosage was increased side effects would come back for about a week. Side effects that are still with me are that I cannot drink alcohol with this drug AT ALL. I get diarrhea, headache, depression when I drink. This is a good side effect for me! I also have some blurred vision, not a big deal. | Feel normal for the first time in my life and in an elevated stable mood. This drug helped me accept my bipolar diagnosis.. I stopped drinking and self medicating. I am 52, have had several suicide attempts as well as many hospitalizations and been in and out of AA. I have also been very successful at times as well (typical bipolar but I could not see it). This drug did not work until I hit bottom. I could not feel the benefit until I stopped drinking and took 600 mg 2 times a day every day every 12 hours. If I take over 1200 mgs a day I get all the side effects like nausea, headache, diarrhea. | F | 52 | 6 months 600 2X day | 3/27/2014 | 5 | Seizures | Stopped my seizures completely . bad thing is 1/2 hour after I take it . It completely makes me feel out of it and I'm not able to function 100% this usually lasts for an hour . | F | 19 | 3 years 1500 | 9/9/2014 | 5 | Bipolar disorder | A little difficulty with talking and poor memory. | I have to take extra steps to remember things, make notes and set reminders but it definitely helped slow things down enough for me to think clearly and also stay calm. | F | 25 | 90 days 900 1X day | 10/24/2015 | 5 | bipolar II | first few days, was almost knocked out by sedative effect, but cleared up within 3 days - made me drowsy, dizzy when standing up, sometimes I lose my balance, and have trouble finding the right words. | drowsy cleared up completely when I started taking 1,000 mg of Vitamin D daily. All the other effects got significantly better at 6 months -- now on it for 11 months and it's like a miracle -- I feel like myself again -- no more raging anger or spending sprees. Thank god for Trileptal. | F | 42 | 1 years 300 mg 2X day | 11/14/2010 | 5 | bipolar | numbness of lips and fingertips. While I do have constipation and dizziness and weight gain, I am on quite a few other medications for other conditions and some of those other side effects also apply to these other meds I am on. (some are for heart stuff and for my chronic cluster headaches. | Without it I am a raving angry paranoid lunatic. This medication helped me more than I can say. I am SO happy to be on it and I thank God that they make something that helps me so much. | F | 43 | 2.5 years 1200 2X day | 7/29/2010 |
TRILEPTAL (OXCARBAZEPINE): Oxcarbazepine is used alone or with other medications to treat seizure disorders (epilepsy). FDA Approval Date: 2000-01-14 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)