Carbamazepine
Brand names: Tegretol
Drug class: Mood Stabilizer
Prescription only
What is carbamazepine used for?
- PTSD
- Bipolar disorder
- Complex partial epilepsy
- Psychotic disorders
- Restless legs syndrome
- Schizophrenia
- Substance withdrawal syndrome
- Tonic-clonic epilepsy
- Trigeminal neuralgia
Epilepsy Tegretol is indicated for use as an anticonvulsant drug. Evidence supporting efficacy of Tegretol as an anticonvulsant was derived from active drug-controlled studies that enrolled patients with the following seizure types: Partial seizures with complex symptomatology (psychomotor, temporal lobe). Patients with these seizures appear to show greater improvement than those with other types. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal). Mixed seizure patterns which include the above, or other partial or generalized seizures. Absence seizures (petit mal) do not appear to be controlled by…
Carbamazepine price
Generic: From $0.12 each, about $3.58 for 30 (200 mg tablet); other forms from $0.093 per mL (100 mg/5 mL suspension).
Brand: Tegretol: from $1.63 each, about $48.84 for 30 (100 mg tablet (XR)); other forms from $0.44 per mL (100 mg/5 mL suspension).