Oh, I am aware of the serious allergy syndrome and have been watching for that as I had a nasty reaction to naproxen, physical hives for 3 years :(
Keisha- I get my blood drawn every quarter- so 4 times a year. My insurance recently changed and require us to be dispensed meds three months at a time. Maybe once you’ve been on tegretol for a bit and the drs get a sense of your levels they will pull back to only a few times a year. I’m on trilitpal and like tegretol it affects your sodium levels. I’ve been up to 2700mg of triliptal- when I was at my worst- and my Neuro was able to find a pattern in my levels and while other drs would possibly find my sodium levels odd, she was never alarmed.