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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 112166" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>I'm going to second what Oceans said. How about Tegretol? </p><p></p><p>First neurologist I saw tried to change me from Dilantin to Tegretol in a one shot dose for dose switch. <em>That</em> didn't work. When the Tegretol kicked in the first day, I collapsed on the sofa and I literally didn't move for hours. I refused to take the Tegretol again. A few years later another neurologist made the change gradually replacing the Dilantin with the Tegretol over a couple of months. No extreme sleepiness. There was no more weight gain on the Tegretol than I had had with the Dilantin (3-5 pounds). Tegretol does required blood tests. In the long run, there was <em>some</em> cognitive dulling but nothing dramatic and I could have probably been on a lower dose. </p><p></p><p>In your shoes, I'd give the Tegretol a try with the caveat that he start it very low and increase it very slowly and, of course, stopping at the dose that controls the symptoms even if it's lower than the original target dose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 112166, member: 1498"] I'm going to second what Oceans said. How about Tegretol? First neurologist I saw tried to change me from Dilantin to Tegretol in a one shot dose for dose switch. [i]That[/i] didn't work. When the Tegretol kicked in the first day, I collapsed on the sofa and I literally didn't move for hours. I refused to take the Tegretol again. A few years later another neurologist made the change gradually replacing the Dilantin with the Tegretol over a couple of months. No extreme sleepiness. There was no more weight gain on the Tegretol than I had had with the Dilantin (3-5 pounds). Tegretol does required blood tests. In the long run, there was [i]some[/i] cognitive dulling but nothing dramatic and I could have probably been on a lower dose. In your shoes, I'd give the Tegretol a try with the caveat that he start it very low and increase it very slowly and, of course, stopping at the dose that controls the symptoms even if it's lower than the original target dose. [/QUOTE]
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