Tegretol & Anxiety?

I've just been reading the boards on Tegretol side effects & discovered my forgetfulness & brain fog is completely normal!!! I hate it but I'll take that over the pain! I'm currently taking 800mg Tegretol per day and have been for about a year or so. Luckily - I am pain free but still have burning, itching over my right eye where I used to get the stabbing pains. I'll take that rather than increasing the meds tho.

My question is about anxiety & tegretol. I work at home and I've noticed I'm becoming increasingly anxious about leaving the house. I'm not worried about pain coming back or anything else that I can think of so I started thinking, could it be due to the Tegretol?

Anyone else have this issue with Tegretol? I don't tolerate medication very well but would be open to switching if I could get rid of this anxiety.

Thanks!

I needed to see this. I went off tegretol a couple weeks ago. I am still SO anxious though. Didn't put the pieces together until just now though.. I am hoping it'll die down as I continue to get all the tegretol out of my system...I went off tegretol for persistent thoughts that I couldn't get out of my head though, but anxiety was pretty bad during the time I took it also.