Trileptal and dizziness

[puck776]

I started on a very low dosage of Trileptal -- 75 mg.  I stayed on that for about a week or two, then went up to 150 mg.  I was fine with that for about one week, so Dr. increased dosage to 225mg.  The day after the increase, I experienced vertigo, some disorientation, and clumsiness to the extent that I was having some trouble consistenly walking in a straight line .  I went back down to 150 mg after two days of experiencing these symptoms, and the problems went away.

Question: is there a way for me to take higher doses of this drug without the dizziness, etc?  Is there a method for VERY slowly increasing so that my body can tolerate it without reacting with the dizziness etc?  Thanks.