Trigeminal Neuralgia
"I have been on Tegretol XR for about 3 weeks now for Trigeminal Neuralgia. I take 100 mg 2x a day. It took like two days for it to work. I only start to have pain from the attacks when I&#039;m due for my next dose. And it&#039;s not nearly as bad. The only problem is that I&#039;m already on pregabalin for fibromyalgia, so the Tegretol added makes me totally out of it. I can&#039;t remember things, I&#039;m double drowsy all day, I zone out, and I don&#039;t like that it has negative interactions with about 500 medications including Tylenol, which I usually take for breakthrough pain because ibuprofen doesn&#039;t work on me. So overall, it helps but I really hope I don&#039;t have to take this for a long period of time."