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Reviewer: Laurie, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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Tegretol has kept me seizure-free for over 20 years, with no side effects. I just switched to XR a year ago. To the person who posted "I actually passed the pill in my stool after 12 hours for a 24 hr extended release": What you passed in your stool after 12 hours was the shell/casing, not the pill itself. And each pill lasts 12 hours, not 24. That is why you take it twice a day inste
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Reviewer: Debbie, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more
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I have been taking this medication for almost 20yrs after being on dilatin for 16yrs my body was to imune to Dilatin and this has work great for me seizure free just a little weight gain but better the having gram mal seizure
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Reviewer: Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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Reviewer: irishbabe5445, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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I've been on Tegretol for 21 years. The past few years things have been getting worse for me. I'm required to have a bone density test done every year due to me getting close to Osteoporsis. It eats Calicum which causes a big effect on my bones. I'm in my late twenties and my doctor says I have bones of a much older person. My doctors were stunned when they saw this. I went to two doct
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Reviewer: ctonij, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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I take this medication for epileptic seizures, this medicine tegretol works fine for me, I've been taking this medicine for more than three years now.
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