Carbamazepine as antiepiletic and analgesic | mechanism, side effects and dose

Carbamazepine not only acts as an epileptic but it can also acts as analgesic in treating neuronal pain like trigeminal neuralgia. It i not a conventional analgesic to treat body and muscular pain but it is indicated for nociception produced by enhanced neuronal activity. Its main clinical indication is in the treatment of epilepsy at a dose of 200 mg given twice daily. The drug can also be indicated for controlling manic phase of bipolar depressive disorder. Carbamazepine is chemically dibenzoazepine and it acts as enzyme inducer resulting in drug interactions.

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0:00 Introduction
1:06 Chemical structure
2:33 How it acts?
4:02 Metabolite of carbamazepine
4:51 It acts as enzyme inducer
6:15 Rare but severe side effects
7:23 How it is given?
7:50 Dose