An anticonvulsant and analgesic medication used in psychiatry as a mood stabilizer to treat bipolar disorders. Marketed under the brand name tegretol; may also be known by the discontinued brand name equetro.
A drug which reduces pain and helps to prevent convulsions. It is used in the treatment of epilepsy, pain and bipolar disorder.
A drug used to treat seizure disorders and trigeminal neuralgia, a painful nerve disorder. Unlabeled use (meaning it does not have Food and Drug Administration approval but is used by a physician for that purpose) of carbamazepine (Tegretol, Carbatrol) includes treatment of bipolar disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, restless leg syndrome, chorea in children older than age 6, posttraumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia that is resistant to treatment.
An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy and to relieve the pain of trigeminal neuralgia. Common side-effects include drowsiness, dizziness, and muscular incoordination; abnormalities of liver and bone marrow may occur with long-term treatment.
An anticonvulsant drug used to treat most types of epilepsy, including simple and complex partial seizures and tonic-clonic seizures secondary to a focal discharge. Monitoring of concentrations in the blood may be of help in finding the most effective dose. Carbamazepine has generally fewer side-effects than other antiepileptic drugs; even so, it should be started at a low dose and increased incrementally. The drug is also used to treat trigeminal neuralgia and other types of nerve pain, as well as pain from a phantom limb. lithium-resistant depression may also benefit from carbamazepine.
A drug used to treat trigeminal neuralgia, temporal lobe epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and chronic pain.
Carbamazepine, an anticonvulsant medication, shares a chemical relationship with tricyclic antidepressants. It is administered orally or in the form of suppositories and is utilized to decrease the frequency of seizures triggered by abnormal nerve signals in the brain. Primarily, carbamazepine is prescribed for the long-term management of epilepsy. Moreover, the drug is employed to alleviate neuralgia, which refers to intermittent and intense pain caused by nerve damage or irritation. Additionally, it serves as a mood-stabilizing agent in the treatment of psychiatric disorders like mania.