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Carbamazepine: Seizures
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Carbamazepine can cause side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be awake and alert. Avoid drinking alcohol. It can increase some of the side effects of carbamazepine, and can ... increase your risk of seizures. Avoid exposure to sunlight or artificial UV rays (sunlamps or tanning beds). Carbamazepine can make your skin more sensitive to sunlight and sunburn may result.
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Carbamazepine is used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy. It is ... used to relieve pain due to trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux). It should not be used for other more common aches or pains. It can also be used in the treatment of bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness).
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Carbamazepine (kar-ba-MAZ-e-peen) is used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy. It is ... used to relieve pain due to trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux). It should not be used for other more common aches or pains.
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Carbamazepine has both antiepileptic and psychotropic properties. Accepted indications include: Epilepsy: Generalized tonic-clonic (grand mal) and partial (focal) seizures. Pain syndromes: Trigeminal neuralgia and glossopharyngeal neuralgia. Manic depressive illness unresponsive to lithium. (Reynolds, 1996)
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Carbamazepine is used in the treatment of idiopathic epilepsy to control seizures, partial seizures and mixed seizure patterns. It is supposedly particularly effective for the treatment of simple or complex partial seizures.
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