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Carbatrol Information

What's inside Carbatrol

Carbatrol Active Ingredients: carbamazepine, details.
Carbatrol Dosages & Strengths
Strength Format Route Strength Class
Carbatrol 200 mg capsule, extended release oral 1.0 each OTC
Carbatrol 100 mg capsule, extended release oral 1.0 each OTC
Carbatrol 300 mg capsule, extended release oral 1.0 each OTC

Recent Carbatrol Side Effects

Posted by jodilee64 5 months ago
I have been taking 200 mg x2 a day of Carbatrol and the side effects I have noted were hair loss, headache, blurred vision, a...


Carbatrol in the News

Shire plc: Excellent Performance Across All Areas of the Business ... - PR Newswire (press release)
CARBATROL - Epilepsy US prescriptions for CARBATROL for the year to December 31, 2007 were down 5% compared to the same period in 2006. ...
Thu Feb 21 09:44:20 -0500 2008

Antiepileptic Drugs Linked to Increased Risk for Suicidality - Medscape (subscription)
AEDs included in the analysis included carbamazepine (Carbatrol, Shire US, Inc; Equetro, Validus Pharmaceuticals; and Tegretol/Tegretol XR, ...
Fri Feb 01 10:30:25 -0500 2008

Genetic test info added to epilepsy drugs, US says - Reuters India
The prescription medicines are Shire PLC's Carbatrol, Validus Pharmaceuticals Inc's Equetro and Novartis AG's Tegretol. The drugs are used to treat epilepsy ...
Wed Dec 12 12:59:48 -0500 2007


Carbatrol Chemical Information

carbamazepine - A tricyclic compound chemically related to tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) with anticonvulsant and analgesic properties. Carbamazepine exerts its anticonvulsant activity by reducing polysynaptic responses and blocking post-tetanic potentiation. Its analgesic activity is not understood; however, carbamazepine is commonly used to treat pain associated with trigeminal neuralgia.



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Frequently Reported Side Effects of Carbatrol

depression, hair loss, headache blurred vision
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