Asthma and Carbamazapin

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Kennethimpey - 15 Jan 2005 20:11 GMT

Hi All
For the passed 3 months I had what I thought was a very hard to git rid of cold
or maybe the flu. Last weekend I was having hard trouble breathing and I was
panicing for breath. On Monday I saw my Doctor we tried to do a lung test and I
just could not complete it without choking. The results were dismal. Previously
I had 2 T.C.
seizures and was put on Carbamazapin 600mg p. Day. and for 4 months all was ok.
However on Monday he spoke to my neurologist and said that I had asthma, he
said that I must change my pills. They said that I should stop taking them
straightaway, which I did. I was a bit concerned about stopping so suddenly but
they are the experts. 3 days later during the night I had my third Tonic Clonic
Seizure.
My question is could this have been caused by the way the tablets were stopped?
The Asthma is clearing up nicely, and on Monday I start with Ergenyl 300 One
tablet for a week and then Two. Was the Doctors right to stop my pills
suddenly?
Thanks
Kenny

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G.Ross - 17 Jan 2005 06:27 GMT

> Hi All
> For the passed 3 months I had what I thought was a very hard to git rid of
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> Thanks
> Kenny

I'd say so, without being a pharmacist. When we reduce my 2 tablet night
dose 2x200mg Tegretol CR, to replace it with another med, it was done over
*8 weeks and I had bloodwork are week 4 and 8. (A second med was added and
started at week 4.)
There's a medications glossary at http://efa.org for one, there might be
others via Howdy Dave and Julie's Idaho websites if you have their addresses
up. (Each puts their address at end of their posts.) It was the efa.org
site that I found out about Grapefruit Juice conflicting with Tegretol
absorption. I haven't read that site for a few years now. G./

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G.Ross - 17 Jan 2005 06:29 GMT

Note Spell it Carbamazepine OR Tegretol on any searches? of N. America
sites like the Ep. Foundation of America one I just posted.
That's how it's spelled in N. America. G.

> Hi All
> For the passed 3 months I had what I thought was a very hard to git rid of
[quoted text clipped - 24 lines]
> Thanks
> Kenny

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Sofia - 22 Jan 2005 00:11 GMT

> Was the Doctors right to stop my pills
> suddenly?

If you ask me, you really should get a second opinion.

You see, I was diagnosed to have a nose allergy when I began to pant for
breath like you, but I was on different drugs for my tonic-clonic
seizures then...and that was in 1992!

It's just that, even after I was put on carbamazapine, my nose allergy
didn't get any get either any better, nor any worse, and it's 2005 now and
it's still here.

Couldn't it have been a different drug of some kind you were on at the
time, I've never actually heard of tegretol causing breathing problems, or
I would have stopped taking it years ago!

Sofie

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