Carbamazepine effect birth control pill?

i'm being put on Carbamazepine, I'm on the pill......anyone know if it'll stop my pill working? some sites say it MAY interact with it.....talk about unhelpful!

[Malaksharif]

hi,
i do not know about the medication you mention.............but i would like to share this with you

lamictal and trileptal do affect birth control pills and vise verse i.e. you can get pregnant using these as they reduce the effectiveness of birth control pills by 40%to 50% ,,,,,,,,,,also (which done me a great harm) the birth control pills reduce the effect of BP meds up to 50% also.


i read on some site (but i cannot remember which) that birth control pills can affect most of psychiatric meds.

hope i could be of any help

[adel_ezz]

Carbamazepine is the generic name for tegretol with dose 600-1600mg. This is one of 3 most classical drugs for bipolarity used especially in Britain (lithium, tegretol, depakote) and have become standard for half a century. In the USA they don't use it often because of its interactions with other drugs. They substitute it for oxcarbazepine (trileptal) 1200-2400mg. The latrter has less interactivity with other drugs. This one appeared later as an alteration of the first by changing an oxygen molecule.

What is strange to me, your pdoc used the generic name of the drug, usually they write the brand name so that the pt is also aware of what he is taking. e.g. they usually don't write fluoxetine for the famous AD prozac or divalproex for depakote or lamotrigine for lamictal etc,,,

have a nice day

[aurora8]

I've been taking Tegretol(Carbemazepine) since 1993 for SAD, I recently spoke to my dr about possible birth control. According to him neither the pill or injection were going to work with Tegretol, and for this reason I'm now on the coil.