Zen is used to treat certain types of seizures (epilepsy). It is also used to relieve pain due to trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) and in the treatment of bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness). Zen works in the brain and nervous system to control seizures, pain, and bipolar disorder. Zen is an anticonvulsant.
Zen is available only with your doctor’s prescription.
Once a medicine has been approved for marketing for a certain use, experience may show that it is also useful for other medical problems. Although these uses are not included in product labeling, Zen is used in certain patients with the following medical conditions:
Alcohol withdrawal.
Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), prevention.
Central partial diabetes insipidus (water diabetes).
Neurogenic pain (a type of continuing pain).
Psychotic disorders (severe mental illness).
Prescription: Yes
Medicine Interaction: Zen Tablet - Drug Interactions If you use other drugs or over the counter products at the same time, the effects of Zen Tablet may change. This may increase your risk for side-effects or cause your drug not to work properly. Tell your doctor about all the medicines, vitamins, and ayurvedic supplements you are using, so that your doctor can help you manage or reduce the effects of the medicine. Zen Tablet may interact with the following drugs and products:
Alcohol
Amitriptyline
Amlodipine
Artesunate
Atracurium
Betamethasone
Bromazepam
Bupropion
Celecoxib
Chloroquine
Side Effects: Signs of an allergic reaction to Zen: hives, difficulty breathing, swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Report any new or worsening symptoms to your doctor, such as: sudden mood or behavior changes, depression, anxiety, insomnia, or if you feel agitated, hostile, restless, irritable, or have thoughts about suicide or hurting yourself.
Call your doctor at once if you have:
the first sign of any skin rash, no matter how mild,
slow, fast, or pounding heartbeats,
feeling light-headed or short of breath,
blood problems--sudden weakness or ill feeling, fever, chills, pale skin, sore throat, bleeding gums, nosebleeds,
liver problems--Nausea, upper stomach pain, itching, tiredness, loss of appetite, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes),
low levels of sodium in the body--headache, confusion, slurred speech, severe weakness, feeling unsteady,
severe skin reaction--fever, sore throat, swelling in your face or tongue, burning in your eyes, skin pain followed by a red or purple skin rash that spreads (especially in the face or upper body) and causes blistering and peeling.
Common Zen side effects may include:
dizziness, loss of coordination, problems with walking,
Nausea, vomiting or
drowsiness.
How to Store it: Store dry and dark place.
Over Dose: Store dry and dark place.
Precautions: Store dry and dark place.
Missed Dose: Store dry and dark place.
