Oxcarbazepine Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Trileptal
What is Oxcarbazepine?
Oxcarbazepine is used to treat certain types of seizures in people who have epilepsy. It is an anticonvulsant. It works by decreasing abnormal excitement in the brain.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain | 18 |
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1 | ||||
| Trigeminal neuralgia | 15 |
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5 | |||
| Other | 15 | 0 | |||||
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 5 |
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2 | ||||
| Emotional lability | 3 |
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2 |
See all 57 patients currently taking Oxcarbazepine
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Oxcarbazepine. See all 11 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Side effects too severe
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6 | 32% |
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Other
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6 | 32% |
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Doctor's advice
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4 | 21% |
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Did not seem to work
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3 | 16% |
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Course of treatment ended
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3 | 16% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 9 patient evaluations
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- sue z
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- sue z
- since Jun 01, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Trigeminal neuralgia
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips It may take up to a year after gamma-knife surgery to completely wean yourself off this drug(or reduce it to a manageable dosage). See full evaluation
See all 9 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.