Patient Log of Experience Using TRILEPTAL
DRUG RATINGS REPORTS HISTORY FOR A PATIENT TAKING TRILEPTAL
| Key to ratings for TRILEPTAL: 5-Very Satisfied: this medicine cured me or helped me a great deal. 4-Satisfied: this medicine helped. 3-Somewhat Satisfied: this medicine helped somewhat. 2-Not Satisfied: this medicine did not work to my satisfaction. 1-Dissatisfied: I would not recommend taking this medicine. |
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| Rating | Reason | Side Effects | Comments | Sex | Age | Time Taken and Dosage | Date Added | |
| 5 | Epileptic seizures | :2 daily doses 900mg &1200mg Fatigue, sleepiness, lethargy-all severe. IBS, Low sodium levels, causing craving for salt. Very poor concentration and short/long-term memory. Skin sensitivity, especially to sunlight. Also have problems reacting to high and low temperatures, cannot control body heat and don't sweat as much as used to. My hair has lost it's curl, apparently to do with hair follicles changing shape, happens with lot of medication. | Major symptom is the tiredness, no matter which word I use it can be described as debilitating. I am currently in a wheelchair if I leave the house and cannot push it myself-I'm too scared about having a seizure to use a mobility scooter. I ahve managed to control my sleep so that I have 8-9hours at night and 2-3hours in the afternoon, only if absolutely necessary.I have a strict sugar free/yeast free diet to control the IBS and it works to a certain point. The low sodium means that I drink less water/tea than I would like, it's either that or have a seizure due to excessively low sodium. I have never been able to go out to work or even study or work from home, initially from the seizures, but now from the tiredness. Doing very little and spending most of my day in bed or on the sofa is the norm and I will get dressed at weekends and go out with my husband for a couple of hours. I have given Oxcarbazepine 5 stars because it has very nearly totally controlled my severe convulsive seizures | F | 36 | 10 years 2100mg 1X D | 2/14/2012 | |