Does Tegretol cause dry eyes?

[paras1234]

I have some type of trigeminal pain in nerves after lasik.

I wanted to know if Tegretol (200 mg) causes sudden dryness.

I took half pill on first day and full on the second and stopped taking it thinking that the dryness would increase.

I saw some amount of dryness increased ..Would it be due to Tegretol?

I used to take this medicine 8 months before i started it again ,but at that time did not notice so much dryness.

[Nikki]

Carbamazepine side effects

hello,

Rebecca found an article about this -- just do a search for Carbamazepine side effects and you'll find it --

or, if this works -- here's a link to her response:
http://www.dryeyezone.com/talk/showt...e-side-effects

I had found it helped with my pain too, but was wary of using it due to this study.

I have found amitriptyline to be helpful for nerve pain -- some folks find it drying, but I don't.

Hope you find something that helps --

Scott