Tegretol Users Please Reply!!! - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

Dee-nah · 06-09-2007, 09:16 AM

Did you get sick while using Tegretol? If so how long did it last and how many mgs are you on?

NutshellNutter · 06-09-2007, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Dee-nah

Did you get sick while using Tegretol? If so how long did it last and how many mgs are you on?

Hi Deenah,
800mgs (200am, 600pm)- no sickness...

If you're finding you're getting sickness ask for splitting your doses between am and pm... Also, ask about tegretol retard (an extended release tablet so your system isn't flooded with the drug in one go - helped with my memory prob),

Good Luck,
Nut.

Dantheinsane · 06-09-2007, 02:21 PM

I just recently stopped taking Tegretol, 400mg twice daily. I took it for three months. I was nauseous the whole time. Sometimes I even puked or dry heaved. I hated that feeling and found if I coat my stomach with food, every couple of hours, I felt better.

Dee-nah · 06-09-2007, 03:16 PM

I'm on 600mgs p.m and 400mgs a.m (600mgs in the works for a.m).. When I first started it I was just like Dan but with visual hallucinations... Now I'm getting visual halluncinations just adding another 200mgs in the p.m. I hate it, I'm hoping it doesn't last long since it's already in my system.

Thanks for suggesting Tegretol Retard, if it doesn't go away by Monday I'm calling the my pdoc..

luckygem13 · 06-10-2007, 12:56 AM

My husband and son have both taken Tegretol. My husband is thinking about going back on it because it helped him sleep. My son has a paradoxical reaction to meds and it made him a little hyper so he took it in the morning. They didn't have any complaints about it, in fact they both liked it.