I am considering switching meds. Considering, since I am so sensitive and can not tolerate most meds. I am currently taking 800mg of Carbamazepine and 30mg of Baclofen daily. Can’t take much more as I become toxic quickly. My question to you is: when and if you switched meds how did you manage? I am told I need to completely wean off the Carb before I can start another med. This terrifies me as even a reduction of 200mg make the pain increase incredibly. Not looking forward to this at all but trying to be brave and explore the possiblity. Putting on my big girl panties now.
that may not be true. What med are you swiching to? Usually med are used in comb. Hope you find the right ones right away..good luck...prayers going with you...
Every time my neuro switched my meds, they would ween me off the old meds at the same time. So while I would slowly decrease the old meds, I would slowly increase the new ones. I think they like to do it that way because no meds can equal pain. Plus, you can’t just stop taking Carbamazepine abruptly anyways. But obviously your doctor will tell you how to do this correctly (or your pharmacist, like KC Dancer mentioned, might know better)
It seems by what you said, that Carbamazepine is at least working somewhat, that your doctor may want to keep you on that and maybe add on something else in addition.
Good luck to you! I hope that you can figure out a good combination to get your pain under control.