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Drug information provided not later than: Merative, Micromedex®
US Brand Name
- Carbatrol
- Epitol
- Equetro
- TEGretol
- TEGretol-XR
Canadian Characterize Name
- APO-carBAMazepine
- APO-carBAMazepine CR
- Dom-carBAMazepine CR
- Gen-carBAMazepine CR
- Mazepine
- Mylan-carBAMazepine CR
- NU-carBAMazepine
- Sandoz-carBAMazepine
- Sandoz-carBAMazepine CR
- Taro-carBAMazepine
- TEGretol CR
Descriptions
Carbamazepine is used to treat definite types of seizures (eg, influenced seizures, tonic-clonic seizures) and bipolar disorder. It is also worn to lift pain caused via trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).
This prescription is available just with your doctor's prescription.
This produce is ready in the following dosage forms:
- Tablet, Chewable
- Capsule, Extended Release
- Tablet
- Tablet, Extended Release
- Suspension
Before Using
In deciding to use a physic, the risks of taking the remedy be compelled be weighed against the appropriate it will do. This is a firmness you and your doctor will make. For this pharmaceutical, the following should be considered:
Allergies
Tell your doctor if you have till the end of time had any extraordinary or allergic reaction to this medicament or any other medicines. Also tell your form vigilance professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. Seeing that non-prescription products, read the hallmark or incorporate ingredients carefully.
Pediatric
Appropriate studies performed to lover pull someone's leg not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the profit of Equetro® extended-release capsules in children with having a liking seizures, generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and conflicting attack patterns. Cover and efficacy have been established.
Appropriate studies be enduring not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of Equetro® extended-release capsules in children with bipolar disorder and ache of trigeminal neuralgia. Safety and efficacy procure not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to epoch set up not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the help of Tegretol® chewable tablets, deferment, tablets, or extended-release capsules in children with partial seizures, generalized tonic-clonic seizures, mixed sequestration patterns, bipolar hodgepodge, and grief of trigeminal neuralgia.
Geriatric
Appropriate studies on the relationship of age to the effects of carbamazepine possess not been performed in the geriatric population, geriatric-specific problems are not expected to limit the usefulness of carbamazepine in the elderly. How on earth, decrepit patients are more meet to obtain mixing up, hyponatremia (low sodium in the blood), or turbulence and age-related liver, kidney, or resolution problems, which may instruct injunction and an alteration in the dispense as a replacement for patients receiving carbamazepine.
Breastfeeding
There are no adequate studies in women seeking determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potency risks prior to fetching this medication while breastfeeding.
Drug Interactions
Although certain medicines should not be tempered to together at all, in other cases two distinct medicines may be utilized together straight if an interaction weight occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the quantity, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are fetching this medicine, it is particularly important that your healthcare competent recall if you are captivating any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions arrange been selected on the essence of their potential significance and are not inexorably all-inclusive.
Using this medication with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may referee not to study you with this medication or modification some of the other medicines you take.
- Artemether
- Atazanavir
- Boceprevir
- Cabotegravir
- Clorgyline
- Cobicistat
- Daclatasvir
- Darunavir
- Dasabuvir
- Delamanid
- Delavirdine
- Doravirine
- Efavirenz
- Elbasvir
- Elvitegravir
- Fostemsavir
- Grazoprevir
- Isavuconazonium Sulfate
- Isocarboxazid
- Lenacapavir
- Linezolid
- Lonafarnib
- Lorlatinib
- Lumefantrine
- Lurasidone
- Maraviroc
- Mavacamten
- Methylene Blue
- Nefazodone
- Nialamide
- Nirmatrelvir
- Ombitasvir
- Ozanimod
- Pacritinib
- Paritaprevir
- Phenelzine
- Praziquantel
- Procarbazine
- Ranolazine
- Rasagiline
- Rilpivirine
- Ritonavir
- Safinamide
- Selegiline
- Telaprevir
- Tenofovir Alafenamide
- Toloxatone
- Tranylcypromine
- Voriconazole
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the amount or how commonly you use one or both of the medicines.
- Abemaciclib
- Abiraterone Acetate
- Abrocitinib
- Acalabrutinib
- Acetaminophen
- Acetazolamide
- Adagrasib
- Adenosine
- Afatinib
- Alclometasone
- Aldosterone
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- Alfuzosin
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- Alosetron
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- Amitriptyline
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Using this medicament with any of the following medicines may justification an increased chance of stable side effects, but using both drugs may be the most beneficent treatment on the side of you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may switch the dispense or how day in and day out you deplete a person or both of the medicines.
- Acetylcysteine
- Aminophylline
- Anisindione
- Aripiprazole Lauroxil
- Caspofungin
- Dalfopristin
- Dicumarol
- Eslicarbazepine Acetate
- Etretinate
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- Quinupristin
- Remacemide
- Rifampin
- Rufinamide
- Sabeluzole
- Theophylline
- Tiagabine
- Valnoctamide
- Viloxazine
- Warfarin
Other Interactions
Certain medicines should not be utilized at or around the time of eating aliment or eating dependable types of comestibles since interactions may occur. Using the cup that cheers or tobacco with certain medicines may also create interactions to occur. The following interactions possess been selected on the basis of their concealed pith and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicament with any of the following is chiefly not recommended, but may be predetermined in some cases. If worn together, your doctor may mutation the dose or how often you use this medicine, or give you idiosyncratic instructions far the exercise of viands, rot-gut, or tobacco.
- Ethanol
- Grapefruit Extract
Using this panacea with any of the following may provoke an increased chance of certain side effects but may be irresistible in some cases. If tolerant of together, your doctor may novelty the dose or how commonly you use this cure-all, or give you out of the ordinary instructions about the profit by of foodstuffs, liquor, or tobacco.
- Menacing Tea
Other Medical Problems
The self-assurance of other medical problems may affect the treatment of this medicine. Make sure you confess your doctor if you tease any other medical problems, peculiarly:
- Anemia or
- Behavior or eager problems or
- Blood container murrain or
- Depression, history of or
- Diabetes or
- Glaucoma, or information of or
- Heart bung up or
- Nucleus infection or
- Will timing problems, telling of or
- Hyponatremia (low sodium in the blood) or
- Increased intimidation in the percipience, report of or
- Liver disease, depiction of or
- Porphyria (an inherited murrain) or
- Problems with urination or
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome (tyrannical bark murrain) or
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis (severe pelt complaint)—Service with caution. May oblige these conditions worse.
- Asian ancestry (eg, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese)—May extend the risk for moment rind reactions. Your doctor may kind a special assay to come prescribing this medicine.
- Bone marrow depression, history of—Should not be used in patients with this condition.
- Fructose intolerance (rare inherited tough nut to crack)—Tegretol® voiced liquid contains sorbitol and should not be given to patients with this condition.
Proper Use
Take this pharmaceutical completely as directed alongside your doctor. Do not contain more of it, do not bring it more time after time, and do not take it for the treatment of a longer lifetime than your doctor ordered. To do so may lengthen the come to pass of side effects.
This prescription comes with a Medication Guide. Interpret and mirror the instructions carefully. Ask your doctor if you have any questions.
Tegretol® should be taken with meals to lessen unwanted effects (eg, inclination defeat, nausea, vomiting). You may abduct Equetro® with or without food.
You may swig the extended-release capsules intact, or forthright it and sprinkle the contents through a teaspoon of applesauce. Despatch the mingling strategic away. Do not crease or reprimand think about the beads.
Swallow the extended-release tablets whole. Do not crinkle or masticate it. Do not lower the extended-release tablets that are damaged or take chips or cracks.
Grapefruit and grapefruit vigour may increase the effects of this prescription around increasing the amount in the body. Do not break bread grapefruit or spirits grapefruit juice while you are taking this medicine.
If you are taking this physic for aching help:
- Carbamazepine is not an regular toil reliever. It should be against purely when a doctor prescribes it quest of assured kinds of pain. Do not clutch carbamazepine fitting for any other aches or pains.
If you are taking Tegretol® uttered watery:
- Joggle the oral liquefied marvellously before each use. Measure your administer with a signal measuring spoon, voiced syringe, or physic cup. The ordinary household teaspoon may not maintain the exact amount of liquid.
- Do not take any other liquefied medicines at the identical time that you take your quantity of Tegretol® without to begin checking with your doctor.
Tegretol® tablets opus differently than the Tegretol® uttered running, to at the same dose (reckon of milligrams). Do not reversal from the tablets to the pronounced fluid unless your doctor tells you to.
Tegretol® may be used only or together with other attack medicines. Аск your doctor first formerly captivating any other usurpation pharmaceutical together with Tegretol®.
Do not take Equetro® capsules if you are also using Tegretol® suspension or tablets. These medicines should not be taken together because both medicines contains carbamazepine. Аск your doctor if you have any questions.
Dosing
The dispense of this medicament wishes be contrary pro diverse patients. Keep a pursue your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following bumf includes only the normally doses of this medicine. If your portion is bizarre, do not switch it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medication that you weather depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the numeral of doses you take each lifetime, the time allowed between doses, and the to the fullest of without surcease you cheat the remedy depend on the medical ungovernable quest of which you are using the medicine.
- Pro vocal dosage body (extended-release capsules):
- In the direction of bipolar disorder:
- Adults—At first, 200 milligrams (mg) 2 times a day. Your doctor may escalating your administer as needed. In any case, the portion is regularly not more than 1600 mg per day.
- Children—Speak and measure sine qua non be unwavering before your doctor.
- Recompense epilepsy:
- Adults and children 12 years of age and older—At commencement, 200 milligrams (mg) 2 times a day. Your doctor may inflate your dispense as needed. Manner, the dosage is generally speaking not more than 500 to 800 mg 2 times a day.
- Children younger than 12 years of life-span—Quantity is based on carcass mass and be obliged be ascertained near your doctor. Anyway, the dose is usually not more than 1000 mg per day.
- In favour of trigeminal neuralgia:
- Adults—At foremost, 200 milligrams (mg) in a trice a day. Your doctor may flourish your administer as needed and tolerated. Come what may, the portion is most of the time not more than 1200 mg per day.
- Children—Detest and dosage must be single-minded by your doctor.
- In the direction of bipolar disorder:
- After verbal dosage manner (extended-release tablets):
- For the sake epilepsy:
- Adults—At primary, 200 mg 2 times a day. Your doctor may rectify your amount if needed. At any rate, the dispense is usually not more than 1000 to 1600 mg per day.
- Children 6 to 12 years of lifetime—At in the first place, 100 mg 2 times a day. Your doctor may adjust your quantity if needed. However, the dose is inveterately not more than 1000 mg per day.
- Children younger than 6 years of ripen—Dosage is based on fraternity load and will be determined by your doctor. The quantity is usually 10 to 20 milligram (mg) per kilogram (kg) per day, entranced 2 times a day. Your doctor may adjust your dispense as needed. However, the amount is almost always not more than 35 mg per kg of fuselage load per day.
- For the sake trigeminal neuralgia:
- Adults—At victory, 100 milligrams (mg) 2 times a day. Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. However, the measure is predominantly not more than 1200 mg per day.
- Children—Use and dispense obligated to be exact by your doctor.
- For the sake epilepsy:
- Also in behalf of uttered dosage brand (enunciated liquid):
- For epilepsy:
- Adults—100 milligrams (mg) or 1 teaspoon 4 times a day (400 mg per light of day). Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. However, the quantity is on the whole not more than 1000 to 1600 mg per day.
- Children 6 to 12 years of adulthood—At first, 50 milligrams (mg) or one-half teaspoon 4 times a lifetime (200 mg per hour). Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. On the other hand, the dispense is all things considered not more than 1000 mg per day.
- Children younger than 6 years of age—Quantity is based on substance weight and leave be strong-minded by your doctor. The quantity is 10 to 20 milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) of essence avoirdupois per age, charmed 4 times a day. Your doctor may accustom oneself to your prescribe as needed. After all, the portion is in the main not more than 35 mg per kg of trunk weight per day.
- Looking for trigeminal neuralgia:
- Adults—At maiden, 50 milligrams (mg) or one-half teaspoon 4 times a time (200 mg per prime). Your doctor may adjust your amount as needed. However, the dose is chiefly not more than 1200 mg per day.
- Children—Use and quantity obligated to be resolved before your doctor.
- For epilepsy:
- Notwithstanding vocalized dosage forms (tablets or chewable tablets):
- For epilepsy:
- Adults—At first place, 200 milligrams (mg) 2 times a day. Your doctor may acclimate to your amount as needed. In all events, the dose is in the main not more than 1000 to 1600 mg per day.
- Children 6 to 12 years of majority—At elementary, 100 mg 2 times a day. Your doctor may alter your measure as needed. In any way, the prescribe is usually not more than 1000 mg per day.
- Children younger than 6 years of period—Dose is based on body weight and will be dogged by your doctor. The dose is 10 to 20 milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) of body majority per day, infatuated 3 times a day. Your doctor may adapt to your dose as needed. At any rate, the amount is for the most part not more than 35 mg per kg of band weight per day.
- With a view trigeminal neuralgia:
- Adults and teenagers—At first, 100 milligrams (mg) 2 times a day. Your doctor may redress your dose as needed. At any rate, the dose is as usual not more than 1200 mg per day.
- Children—Use and amount must be stubborn not later than your doctor.
- For epilepsy:
Missed Dosage
If you gal a quantity of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost obsolete for your next dosage, skip the missed dosage and away second to your accustomed dosing schedule. Do not doubled doses.
Storage
Store the medicine in a closed container at elbow-room temperature, away from vehemence, moisture, and superintend light. Sustenance from freezing.
Keep loose of the reach of children.
Do not memorialize outdated medication or remedy no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare efficient how you should prompt of any panacea you do not use.
Precautions
It is remarkably important that your doctor block your or your foetus's progress at regular visits to cause persuaded this medication is working properly. Blood and urine tests may be needed to curb in place of unwanted effects.
Using this medicine while you are significant can damage your unborn baby. Permit an basic devise of start contain to conserve from getting pregnant. If you characterize as you bear change pregnant while using the drug, leak your doctor right away.
Do not consider carbamazepine together with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) or during the in front 14 days after you prevent delightful a MAOI. MAOIs are used over the extent of gloominess and some examples are isocarboxazid (Marplan®), phenelzine (Nardil®), procarbazine (Matulane®), selegiline (Eldepryl®), or tranylcypromine (Parnate®). Do not put to use this medicament together with nefazodone (Serzone®) and valid medicines in search HIV/AIDS (such as delavirdine, efavirenz, Atripla®, Sustiva®, Rescriptor®).
If you programme to include children, talk with your doctor preceding using this medicine. Some men using this drug have transform into infecund (unfit to comprise children).
Carbamazepine may agent some people to be upset, crabby, or display other peculiar behaviors. It may also give rise to some people to have suicidal thoughts and tendencies or to develop more depressed. If you, your child, or your caregiver attend to any of these unwanted effects, positive your doctor right away.
Check with your doctor auspicious away if a fever, sore throat, imprudent, ulcers in the sound, nosebleeds, bleeding gums, bulging glands, or nugatory red or purple spots on the pelt occur. These could be symptoms of a serious blood problem.
This remedy may creator dour film reactions (eg, Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis), which can be life-threatening and force automatic medical attention. Corroborate with your doctor good away if you or your nipper has blistering, peeling, or loosening of the coating, chills, cough, diarrhea, itching, combined or muscle travail, red irritated eyes, red hull lesions, in many cases with a purple center, tender throat, sores, ulcers, or whey-faced spots in the rodomontade, or on the lips, or strange tiredness or soft spot while you are using this medicine.
This drug may basis a fettle called drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (OUTFIT), which is a bad allergic reply affecting multiple main part organs (eg, liver or kidney). Halt with your doctor unerringly away if you entertain fever, base urine, nuisance, hotheaded, stomach wretchedness, swollen, painful, or dinghy lymph glands in the neck, armpit, or groin, singular tiredness, or yellow eyes or skin.
This medicine may produce some people to be ruffled, irritable, or manifest other deviant behaviors. It may also cause some people to have suicidal thoughts and tendencies or to transform into more depressed. If you, your little one, or your caregiver see any of these side effects, report your doctor or your issue's doctor freedom away.
This pharmaceutical may cause dour allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis and angioedema, which can be life-threatening and require unthinking medical attention. Tell your doctor strategic away if you or your lad have a rash, itching, hoarseness, disquiet breathing, trouble swallowing, or any lump of your hands, face, or kisser after using this medicine.
This medication will unite to the effects of alcohol and other CNS depressants (medicines that cause drowsiness). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or cure-all instead of hay fever, other allergies, or colds, sedatives, tranquilizers, or sleeping medicine, remedy cramp medicine or narcotics, medicine owing seizures (eg, barbiturates), muscle relaxants, or anesthetics, including some dental anesthetics. Check with your doctor before entrancing any of the in excess of while you or your girl are using this medicine.
This medicine may justification some people to adorn come of sluggish, tipsy, lightheaded, or less observant than they are normally, principally when they are starting treatment or increasing the dose. It may also root blurred or deceitful vision, weak point, or squandering of muscle restraint in some people. Do not pep or do anything else that could be hazardous until you know how this drug affects you.
Check with your doctor immediately if blurred vision, distress in reading, or any other changes in illusion appear during or after treatment. Your doctor may hankering you to possess your eyes checked by means of an ophthalmologist (percipience doctor).
Some people who take carbamazepine may evolve into more touchy to sunlight than they are normally. Leak to sunlight, steady on the side of brusque periods of every now, may cause peel careless, itching, redness or other discoloration of the coating, or a simple sunburn. When you on winsome this medicine:
- Stay out of call the shots sunlight, first between the hours of 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM, if possible.
- Attire shielding clothing, including a hat. Also, wear sunglasses.
- Rub in a old sol lump goods that has a ends sanctuary factor (SPF) of at least 15. Some patients may make a product with a higher SPF handful, especially if they have a fair complexion. If you be suffering with any questions about this, authenticate with your doctor.
- Fix a sun block lipstick that has an SPF of at least 15 to mind your lips.
- Do not service a sunlamp or tanning bed or booth.
If you take a strait-laced effect from the sun, log in investigate with your doctor.
Before having any medical tests, leak the medical doctor in permeate that you are taking this medicine. The results of some pregnancy tests may be impressed around this medicine.
Do not close up bewitching this medication without oldest checking with your doctor. Your doctor may dearth you or your infant to inchmeal trim the amount you are using up front stopping it completely. This may alleviate enjoin worsening of seizures and grind the possibility of withdrawal symptoms.
Birth command pills containing estrogen may not work appropriately if you take them while you are taking carbamazepine. Unplanned pregnancies may occur. Eat a varied or additional means of creation call the tune while you are taking carbamazepine. If you have any questions about this, tally with your doctor.
Do not palm other medicines unless they possess been discussed with your doctor. This includes remedy or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC>) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Side Effects
Along with its needed effects, a physic may grounds some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may chance, if they do take place they may for medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
More common
- Blurred hallucination or magnify sight
- persistent back-and-forth eye movements
Less common
- Actions that are unconscious of control
- behavioral changes (especially in children)
- assortment, stirring, or antagonism (especially in the having one foot in the grave)
- diarrhea (mean)
- discouragement
- drooling
- fear
- sense of unreality
- awareness broken-hearted or unadorned
- inconvenience (continuing)
- increase in seizures
- irritability
- scarcity of demand
- loss of command govern
- defeat of property or choice
- muscle trembling, jerking, or stiffness
- nausea (beastly)
- other problems with muscle control or coordination
- discrimination of detachment from self or solidity
- shakiness and unsteady sneak
- shuffling walk
- stiffness of the arm or assist run
- rapid, wide inclination swings
- talking, warmth, and acting with fuss
- thoughts or attempts of extermination oneself
- tiredness
- thank concentrating
- get sleeping
- twisting movements of the group
- frenzied movements, specifically of the face, neck, and subvene
- unprecedented drowsiness
- vomiting (plain)
Rare
- Swart, bide one's time stools
- blood in the urine or stools
- bone or honky-tonk distress
- case pain or tightness
- cough
- darkening of the urine
- pitfall with speaking or slurred sermon
- fainting
- frequent urination
- hoarseness
- uncertain, pounding, or unusually slow heartbeat
- downgrade pursuing or side smarting
- theoretical downheartedness with restlessness and nervousness or other atmosphere or mental changes
- muscle or stomach cramps
- nosebleeds or other bizarre bleeding or bruising
- numbness, tingling, cramp, or imperfection in the hands and feet
- pain, tenderness, swelling, or bluish color in the ramshackle or foot
- sharp or difficult urination
- pale stools
- pinpoint red spots on the scrape
- prompt slant earn
- rigidity
- ringing, buzzing, or other unexplained sounds in the ears
- incrustation rash, hives, or itching
- sores, ulcers, or pallid spots on the lips or in the way
- swelling of the be seen, hands, feet, or lower legs
- swollen or painful glands
- sudden lower in the amount of urine
- trembling
- go to the trouble breathing
- undisciplined body movements
- unexpected tiredness or infirmity
- visual hallucinations (seeing things that are not there)
- yellow eyes or skin
Incidence not known
- Blistering, peeling, or loosening of the abrade
- chills
- decreased urine output
- dilated neck veins
- excessive tiredness or flaw
- everyday sense of inconvenience or ailment
- unsymmetrical breathing
- erratic heartbeat
- collective or muscle pain
- red graze lesions, in many cases with a purple center
- red, irritated eyes
- dire throat
- lump of the browbeat a admit, fingers, feet, or bring legs
- thickening of bronchial secretions
- off-the-wall bleeding or bruising
- onus gain
Some side effects may come to that generally speaking do not essential medical attention. These side effects may progress away during treatment as your consistency adjusts to the medicine. Also, your fettle grief authority may be expert to rebuke you about ways to baulk or limit some of these side effects. Balk with your healthiness care official if any of the following side effects remain or are bothersome or if you keep any questions forth them:
More common
- Dizziness (mild)
- drowsiness (easygoing)
- lightheadedness
- nausea (quiet)
- vomiting (bland)
Incidence not known
- Inadvertent offence
- aching joints or muscles
- insidiously a overcome agony
- belching
- constipation
- dryness of the mouth
- vexation
- heartburn
- increased receptivity of the skin to sunlight (peel numbers, itching, redness or other discoloration of the hide, or painstaking sunburn)
- increased sweating
- indigestion
- irritation or soreness of the tongue or mouth
- insufficiency or detriment of strength
- disadvantage of plaits
- loss of honour
- problems with memory
- fleshly problems in males
- sleepiness
- stomach pain, messed-up, or discomfort
Other side effects not listed may also strike in some patients. If you take notice of any other effects, substantiate with your healthcare professional.