Does anyone else take Trileptal? Do you have these symptoms?

Question

I get really high, chatty, sleepy and dizzy. Anybody else? Does anything you do curve these symptoms? I have to take 1600 mg a day - if I miss one dose, I have Complex Partial Seizures, you?

Answer 1

Dear brandiwhine:
Trileptal, is the comercial name of the Oxcarbazepine, a medicine akin to Tegretol (carbamazepine), and common side effects are drowsiness, sleepiness, dizziness, sometimes itching and difficult for walking a stright line, sedation and some swelling or puffing of the face, for the drug favours the retention of fluids.
Obviously, the medication at that dose is causing intolerance, and should be changed to gabapentin 400 mg BD, or Topamax (much more expensive) 300 mg per day, or a combination of either plus lamotrigine tablets 50 mg TDS.
Your doctor needs to change Your medication. You are too sensitive to it.
Yours sincerely
garfield526