"i currently take 300 mg of carbamazepine a day. 100mg in morning and 200mg at night. which is hard for me to remember the different doses because this medication causes me to forget everything. i also had really bad nausea and hot flashes when i first started taking it.  i quit smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol on this drug. super amazing accomplishments, but on the other hand i have lost three jobs in six months. before tegretol i was taking 300mg of seroquel xr a day and it made me a completely unemotional zombie. so it&#039;s hard for me to control myself sometimes because i&#039;m feeling all these things i haven&#039;t felt before . i hope tegretol can work for me though and be my miracle drug, because changing meds is my living nightmare."