Carbamazepine

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23 Aug 2007, 5:47 pm

Carbamazepine ("CBZ") is an anticonvulsant and mood stabilizing drug, used primarily in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder. It is also used to treat schizophrenia and trigeminal neuralgia.

I started on this medication on tuesday. I gotta take it twice a day, and though it has kept me calm and helped with the tremors, it gives me terrible drowsiness and dry mouth and I have been getting continuous panic attacks. I am gonna call my doctor again on monday and let him know how I am doing.

Anyone ever take this before? Did it help?

It has helped my mood a bit, but I feel a bit more autistic, that make sense? I get even more concentrated on my interests, like, I sat down and did 10 find a word puzzles in one sitting before I noticed i was being talked to.

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24 Aug 2007, 1:35 am

Tempy wrote:

I started on this medication on tuesday. I gotta take it twice a day, and though it has kept me calm and helped with the tremors, it gives me terrible drowsiness

I would image the doctor factored your level of anxiety was high enough the sedation side effect would help you. Though likely your body will use its homeostatic mechanism to minimizes the over sedation in a short amount of time.

He must tentatively be diagnosing you with bipolar or think there is a good chance you have it. Do you have any relatives with bipolar?

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24 Aug 2007, 4:08 am

Tempy wrote:

am have been on almost the max dose of tegretol [carbamazepine] for years and can say that the side effects will wear off,they are only short term,especially drowsiness and the doping out.
might find that they affect hearing for some time-they can make hearing sound higher pitched-but it goes away.
if it carries on being like a sedative-are probably on too much of it.

it works on am ADHD [the hyperactivity part] to,some doctors do use it for ADHD but because of the possible liver problems and side effects it's not widely used.
it's also used for behavioral problems,either associated with autism or not-it's a common drug in residential homes,it has helped am a bit with meltdowns,ie,not getting them every day when set off.

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28 Aug 2007, 2:37 pm

iit helped with teh hyperactivity some but I stopped taking it. I started sufering from really bad nightmares and I couldnt cope with them. I was doped on it when I went to see the therapist this monday and anyways I get to see a psych next week and my gf said it would be unfair to go doped up so my symptoms show. Having a terrible day unmedicated with the tremors and getting easily distracted again, though.

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28 Aug 2007, 6:55 pm

Tempy wrote:

Its fairly common having nightmares or strange dreams starting
or stopping medications that effect your mind. It will be a temporary thing in most cases. You really should give it a second try.

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28 Aug 2007, 10:54 pm

i gotta say things are gonna have to get pretty bad for me to ever take meds again. but goodluck

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