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Carbamazepine Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Tegretol, Tegretol XR, Carbatrol (Show all)
Generic Name: Carbamazepine
What is Carbamazepine?
Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant used to treat partial and mixed seizure patterns, generalized tonic-clonic seizures and trigeminal neuralgia. Off label it is used to treat resistant schizophrenia, alcohol withdrawal, restless leg syndrome and post traumatic stress disorders.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken |
# of patients
Efficacy
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Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain | 34 |
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4 | |
| Other | 26 |
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6 | |||
| Trigeminal neuralgia | 23 |
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7 | ||
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 18 |
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3 | |||
| Seizures | 7 | 0 | |||||
| Nerve pain | 6 |
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2 |
See all 121 patients currently taking Carbamazepine
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Carbamazepine. See all 22 dosages ►
| 200 mg all the time (24/7) | 200mg as needed | 400 mg as needed | 400mg as needed | daily | 1 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 2 x 100 mg/5 mL daily | 300 mg daily | 3 x 100 mg/5 mL daily | 400 daily | 400 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 6 x 100 mg/5 mL daily | 800 mg daily | 900 mg daily | 1000 mg daily | 1200 mg daily | 1600 mg daily | 1700 mg daily | ||
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1
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1
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1
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1
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4
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1
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1
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11
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24
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1
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10
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2
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1
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24
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13
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1
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14
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2
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1
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5
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1
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Doctor's advice
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18 | 34% |
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Side effects too severe
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16 | 30% |
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Did not seem to work
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10 | 19% |
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Other
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10 | 19% |
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Course of treatment ended
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5 | 9% |
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Not indicated
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3 | 6% |
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Personal research
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3 | 6% |
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Expense
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1 | 2% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 27 patient evaluations
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- JesswithMS
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- JesswithMS
- 800 mg daily
- since Apr 30, 2003
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Nerve pain
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips Take medication as prescribed. If you need to stop medication make sure you wean yourself off of the drug according to your doctor due to causing very sever... See full evaluation
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- MSGIRLINME
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Severe
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- MSGIRLINME
- 800 mg daily
- since Jun 26, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- katonah
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: None
- Cognition: none
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: mild
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- katonah
- since Jul 03, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Stiffness/Spasticity
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips Have your CBC done often, every two months at least. See full evaluation
See all 27 patient evaluations
Report created on March 21, 2010.