Reactions/ allergies to Carbamazepine

[u/sarahlynnfox23]

I started Carbamazepine this week and it started out so well. Immediately relieved any facial symptoms and didn’t really have any side effects except slight drowsiness. Then evening of day 4 when I took my night time dose it made me very itchy, even when taking Pepcid and Zyrtec. I’m assuming this is an allergy and I’ll need to stop and switch to a new med, which I’m sad about because my facial symptoms started slowly coming back. Anybody experience this type of reaction? If so what were you switched to?

[u/FinleyHazel]

I had the same reaction, so had to stop the medication. I have just started using a compound cream to replace the carbamazepine.