End of June, my boss pretty much told me that I could not work until I was off the meds. The Trileptal was really rocking my world - worse than it ever had. Fortunately I had already started planning for surgery. With me, it got to the point that the meds were almost as bad as the pain. What was weird was that they messed me up more physically than they ever had. I simply could not function in a normal manner with them anymore. But, they were much less effective in controlling the pain. I always said that I would fight it with the pills as long as I could so that I could avoid surgery. But now that I have had the surgery, I look forward to not having to take the medicine almost as much as I look forward to being pain free. That's saying a lot because the pain that I had was unlike anything that I have ever experienced. How much meds are you taking? I was 2400mg Trileptal / 4800mg Neurontin per day. Hopefully you don't have to approach those levels. Good luck.