User Reviews for Carbamazepine

I HAVE BEEN ON MY SEIZURE MEDS FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS NOW IM VERY PLEASED WITH IT.

I have been on carbamazepine for many years. Recently I broke out in an itchy rash from head to toe. When tested, my level was 14.4! The highest level should only be 6.2. I stopped immediately.

This medication has caused me to become severely hostile and extremely easily agitated. Has done nothing but made my condition worse.

This has been a wonder drug for me! I could not live without it - after having burning gums, severe jaw and facial pain for over a year, within 2 days of taking this I felt instantly better. The only ancillary effect is that I don't have any mood highs or lows - just very even keel. I guess that can be good in a way...

Nerve pain is under control but I am so tired and just feel run down. I slept last night from 7 PM to 7AM and still feel tired.

I have relapses. It's like my body has become immune to how much I'm taking

Have experienced continual diarrhea since being on the medication.

this has helped me

Side effects, for me, included a threefold increase of the very symptoms it was supposed to qwell with continual recurrences for the duration of that particular dose (200MG Tab)lasting about ten hours with one episode/45min and a lull of about 10-15 min before the next. "Onsets" were non-existant. The medication seemed to be elevating and perpetuating existing symptoms. The medication was easy to ingest and Very Hard to tolerate. Hot Water Bottle or Ice Pack in hand, vertually all possible negative side affects were a part of these sessions. Trigeminal Neuralgia has been coined the "Suicude Disease." I consider myself "fortunate" here in that I characterize my experiences as a 9+ on the threshold and give a credit of 10 (IF that is the absolute max) to Cluster HA's. There is a history of lower limb reconcstructive surgeries to which I might attribute "some" number(s) but am at a loss to do so given environmental variables such as frequency and duration, as would be the case with any of the above in association with the other. With both TN and Cluster HA's it has been my experience during the periodical adventures that doctors are quite willing to provide a script and say "See me in X weeks." Quite often it has already been X days or weeks that things have been progressing; On the floor, in tears, and absolutely helpless! If the Doctors writing the scripts had the opportunity to live in the patients shoes for 24 hours they might not be so casual about treating them as guinea pigs and realize some empathy toward what dehumanizing and painful experiences the patient has been goin through. Trial and error meds shouldn't be the first item on the MD's protocol. HEY DOC! This crap hurts - right here - right NOW. Good Luck Folks. Read More Read Less

Can you tell me if this medication can cause chronic diarhea?

got this treatment for burning feet but since using this i loss my hair. is this normal. did not stop the burning feet,worse if any.

Very few side effects,snapped me out of a manic episode.

this is a wondr drug for me!! i was way out of control, acting out, swearing and cussing and anything or anyone. maic behaver lasted up to 5 days sometimes with no sleep... now no more racing thoughts, lower anger and thoughts of suicde and depress are gone. this is one drug i belive in whole hartitly!