MEDICATION IN USE OF PAIN TREATMENT: ANTI-EPILEPTIC MEDICATIONS

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Anti-epileptic drugs have been consistently used over the past twenty years, particularly for the treatment of facial pain.

The most severe cause of facial pain is trigeminal neuralgia. The more commonly used anti-epileptic medications such as Dilantin and Tegretol have been found to be useful in treating this painful condition and also the pain associated with shingles.

Rivotril, which was included in the minor tranquilliser group, is more commonly used as an anti-epileptic drug.

These medications have been used successfully in many of the painful states associated with nerve damage, such as RSI and the central pain that sometimes follows ‘strokes’ (cerebrovascular accidents). Central pain is thought to be due to the damage to the normal pain control centres in the brain and the brainstem.

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