trileptal versus tegretol

ve read a statement from a Psychiatrist that Tegretol is always more successful for them than Trileptal is. Go to Bipolarworld - the Dr. in charge of that wrote a abstract of his experience using Tegretol vs Trileptal for BP. But Tegretol usually has side effects. http://www.bipolarworld.org/bipolarworld/Medications/Mood%20Stabilizers/stabmeds_main.

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately two weeks after I started Trileptal I developed a rash. Now I'm on Tegretol. I did feel like I was getting a little pain relief while on the Trileptal. Just hoping Tegretol works for me. Want to get out of this constant pain so I can get back to doing the everyday things I used to enjoy.

With all of the anti-seizure meds (gabapentin, Tegretol, Trileptal, etc) you have to increase the dose slowly according to your doctor's instructions to get pain relief. That said, I did not do well on Tegretol -- it made me a zombie and did not help my pain. But everyone is different. I ended up on Trileptal -- it has less side effects than Tegretol. I took 3 doses of 600 mg per day to stop my pain.

You need to get coverage and get back on Tegretol. If you are not working you would be eligible for Medicaid. You can get emergency Medicaid by going to the local emergency room. If you are working there is a program called the "Medicaid Buy in for Working People with Disabilities" in most states where you can work and still be eligible for Medicaid as long as you have a disability and of course bipolar qualifies as a disability.

Any diarrhea? How did you feel on Tegretol ? What was trileptal like?

If you have taken tegretol I would be interested in hearing from you about your experiences with this medication. Apparently I have become much more emotionally sensitive, and I know, much more short tempered. Has this happened to you and what did you do about it? I don't know whether it's me changing and not putting up with as much as I used and those around me can't handle it or if it's the meds. Maybe it's both - I really don't know.

My wife has been taking Tegretol 200mg X 3 tines a day, this has caused her to be disorientated and nauseous & still in pain, she is trying Trileptal 300mg X 3, whilst cutting out the Tegretol. My question is how much Trileptal can she take ??????

Being female -- I can't answer your question about ED. I do know that I tried gabapentin -- didn't work, Tegretol (Carbamezepine) didn't work. But Trileptal worked well. It DID cause nausea and drowsiness. The pain doc said to take it a half-hour to an hour before eating and that resolve the nausea. He also advised taking a No-Doz (equal to 1 cup of coffee) along with the daytime doses -- and that took care of most of the drowsiness.

You do need a working mood stabilizer. Just ask about a different one. Tegretol isn't used quite as much now due to side effects. Trileptal has mostly replaced it because they are almost identical but Trileptal doesn't have certain side effects so they don't need to do blood tests. The 3 standards are lithium, Depakoate and Lamictal.

My daughter was a thin child, who took Tegretol for seizures, and gained a large amount of weight in a short time. We stopped the medication, but the weight did not reduce.

My son takes Trileptal for his Epilepsy...(he is 16)...it's affecting his memory more and more; does anyone else here take this med and have similar problems? His dosage is 900mg/twice a day. Any lower dose and his seizures return. This has been the only med that has been able to control his seizures. He has frontal lobe epilepsy with seizures that only occured in his sleep (with a couple of rare exceptions). Thanks for your help.

Trileptal is clinically similar to Tegretol but because of the way it was updated its safer and doesn't require bloodwork. For some people its a good mood stabilizer. It depends. My experience wasn't favorable but I know for some people I know it was and it would work as an adjunct to Lamictal. The side effect profile is reasonably similar to Tegretol and its effectiveness about the same. You could look it up more on the websites we have linked up or the medication website itself.

but i would like to share this with you lamictal and trileptal do affect birth control pills and vise verse i.e. you can get pregnant using these as they reduce the effectiveness of birth control pills by 40%to 50% ,,,,,,,,,,also (which done me a great harm) the birth control pills reduce the effect of BP meds up to 50% also. i read on some site (but i cannot remember which) that birth control pills can affect most of psychiatric meds.

I have been on Tegretol for about 14 years...firstly for seizure control, secondly for pain management for Paratrigeminal Neuralgia (which differs from trigeminal neuralgia). I was intrigued by this drug when I saw your post so I looked into it. The following is copied and pasted from a website explaining anti-seizure meds... "The seizure control abstained with Trilepital is as good and in some situations better than with Tegretol.

I'm thinking of changing my MS; wondered what kind of reaction people had with Tegretol. Did it help? Any side effects?

i've had epilepsy since the age of four. i am now fifty four and take 1600mgs tegretol,160mgs phenobarbitol 300mgs effexorxr for depression and 3mgs xanex-xr. i've recently swithched to generic tegretol and feel a bit funny. my memory and reflexes are much poorer and i feel more fatigued.

Tegretol is one of a variety of medications in potential use when lithium (which is the only medication specifically developed as a mood stabilizer) no longer is effective. This is some information on mood stabilizers in general including Tegretol: http://www.psycheducation.org/depression/meds/moodstabilizers.htm For some people it has an easier to tolerate side effect profile than lithium.

I take dilantin and tegretol. Soon zonegran too. Anyone know about that one? I had reactions to trileptal, depakote, and others. I had to stay in the hospital for Lamictal and topamax!!!!!

Hi, I was put on Trileptal for the TN. It did relieve it somewhat. What helped the most being on the steroids, and about a week later most of my symptoms improved. I would call your doc and ask if there is another med that might help you even more. Sorry you are going through this, I know how awful it is.

t listed. Meds like Abilify, Trileptal, Tegretol, Seroquel, Resperidol......I think those are some that should be added! Thanks!

I'm in the process of changing to Tegretol at the moment as my previous drug made me really tired and didn't kill the pain. So far I've got zero side effects.

t tolerate it much because it caused me some headache, but every drug is suitable for one and not the other. There is a cousin to tegretol called trileptal weaker than the former sometimes used. less conservative pdocs suggest lamictal, etc.. the list of MS is exhaustive incorporating a huge list even some of them are antipsychotic like seroquel and abilify. Mind you all the drugs have side effects.

You might want to ask your psychiatrist about Trileptal which is basically clinically the same as Tegretol but because it has far less of a potential to cause the specific side effect that the Tegretol requires blood monitoring for, generally doesn't require blood tests and also in having less of a potential to cause that side effect is safer in general. You could speak to them about that option.

Excellent thanks you. It looks like Trileptal is just Tegretol w/o the blood cell issue, but with more insurance issues. Go figure. I thought I had heard Cymbalta mentioned once before. I will talk to my neuro about both.

This sounds like a bad plan. If you truly cannot stand tegretol, but you've been having mood episodes (especially manic ones), you need to start a different mood stabilizer, preferably before or while stopping the tegretol. And are you having major side effects, or are you just upset that you're still getting depressed? Major and/or intolerable side effects are the only good reason to quit fast. If it's not working well enough, a dose increase or adding something else could work.

I tried Lyrica first three weeks ago with very little help. Now stopped and starting Tegretol..hopefully it will do the trick..Glad to hear yours is going well..That is great...

Hi Kathy, I am on for Trileptal for Trigeminal Neuralgia. The neuro also gave me a script for Tegretol, but felt the Trileptal does the same thing with less side effects. I know Tegretol is usually the 1st choice for TN. It does help me, sometimes not fully, but definitely lessens the pain. I don't know much about the asymmetry of the face. As far as I know it wouldn't have anything to do with TN, but again, I don't know much about it. Good luck and I do hope your pain lessons.

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