GEODON Reviews (ZIPRASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE)

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GEODON  (ZIPRASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Ziprasidone injection is used to treat occurrences of severe agitation in patients with schizophrenia. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. Ziprasidone injection is used when quick relief of your symptoms is required. It is not used together with the form of this medication that is taken by mouth. An injection of ziprasidone works quickly to reduce tension and anxiety which, if untreated, can result in dangerous behavior and interfere with your treatment and care.   FDA Approval Date: 2001-02-05 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 5  bipolar loss of sleep, tremor due to this drug or depakote i am also taking. no manic episodes. works well. M 70 3 years
1/21/2008
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 1  anxiety excess saliva, abnormal tongue movements, slowed thinking, bad balance, from similar medications. TRIED ON MANY, SOME CAUSED SEVERE SEDATION please get your thyroid checked and educate yourself on hypothyroidism, many people have depression or anxiety because of a thyroid disorder, this can be easily treated, but instead doctors are putting patients on these drugs that can make the thyroid disorer worse, people who have a thyroid disorder will be sensitive to sedatives. F 67 3 months
1X day
8/8/2011
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 1  anxiety severe nightmares for messed me up in a big way. It has been 5 years and it still haunts me. should not be on the market terrible stuff M 67 2 days
1X day
5/7/2022
 5  Bi Polar II Waking early usually around 4:30 AM - that stopped after I had been on the med for about a month. When dr increased to 40 mgs at dinner I am now waking early in the morning again but I am happy... I have tried all kinds of meds over the last 44 years. It would work for a while than quit.I started Geodon 20 mg with dinner and noticed right away I felt 100% better. I was cleaning house at 4 in the morning and felt like doing things. I told my dr it was like a miracle! That lasted for two months than the depression started back. The dr increased my Geodon to 40 mgs with dinner and after a few day I was back to feeling great again. One thing I would say is to start out with a low dose and work up F 66 103 days
11/11/2007
 1  depression I think that this medication was dangerous for me, as I developed severe headaches and nausea. To be fair, it was started after a cold turkey stop to Seroquel 300mg.. Therefore I can't pin the blame on stopping the Seroquel or starting the Geodon, but the result was a deathlike experience. Deathlike in that I wanted to die, because the migraine type headaches and nausea were severe enough to not want to wake up in the morning, when I would hope upon hope that these side effects would cease, but they just continued to get worse. I'm back on the Seroquel, which I stopped because my food bills were getting out of hand. Consequently, I'm in a terrible position of having to go back to the drug that gives excessive food cravings and dramatically increases my arthritus pain, but is far less of a problem then the headaches and nausea. I could only say that for me, maybe not you as we all have our own individual reaction to medications, don't start it until you exhaust other possibilities. I wi I would suggest reading Manufacturing Depression. It is a book that talks about the pharmaceutical companies getting approval for drugs that have little efficacy and the fact that the incidence of being tagged depressed or otherwise mentally ill are nothing more than guesswork and is not science. Put ten psychiatrists to the test of prescribing medication and you'll get ten different diagnosis'. The DSM5, the psychiatrists bible, has been delayed, because one of the panelists has come out and said that being diagnosed as mentally ill is not a proven fact and that our children, who's brains are developing are going to suffer substantial future effects by using the ADD, etc. pharmaceuticals, which likely will impair them and make them addicts for life. Keep your children off all drugs that alter their brains if possible. By the way, we are all sad and over-stimulated in our lives and that doesn't make us wear the badge of being diagnosed as mentally ill. M 64 45 days
60mg 1X day
1/1/2011
 2  Bipolar 2 Disorder WEIGHT GAIN! I already have a problem with weight gain on the other psych meds. I take. This really upset me because my doctor knows how much my weight gain concerns me; so what does he do?! He prescribes Geodon which clearly has weight gain as a side effect. I'm quite peeved with him right now. Be your own advocate. Do your homework on any meds prescribed. My mistake was that I trusted my doc too much. I'll eventually get over it. F 63 1 months
40 mg. 1X day
5/27/2016
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 1  Anxiety, bipolar 1 Prescribed for recently developed severe anxiety due to work environment. Bad reaction in 4 days. Slept 3-4 hours each night. I will not continue taking. Did not effect libido. Very powerful drug. Gradually went from morning dosages 1 X (20mg) for 2 days. Felt like the walking dead but no anxiety. Went to 1 X (40mg) for 2 days felt faint, groggy, low concentration, anxiety returned in the evening. Then went to 1 X (60mg) next day anxiety returned all day, severe cramp in right knee (no knee problem before) limped most of the day. Believe it cased a severe manic attack in the evening. Also take 200 mg Lamictal, 30 mg Temazapam, 1.75 mg Alprazalam in the evenings. M 62 4 days
60 1X day
9/6/2010
 1  BP 2, Mixed States EXTREME SLEEPINESS!!!! Could not function, could not think. Awful drug, will never, never try it again. F 62 4 days
2/14/2007
 3  bipolar disorder After 3 years on 160 mg geodon, my dentist noticed that I grind my teeth a lot and recommended a night guard. At least a year later, I noticed that I choked when drinking water, bit my tongue a lot when eating and soon after that, began slurring my words. After ruling out a stroke, my doctor suggested going off geodon gradually. All symotoms disappeared. At one time I thought it helped with my symptoms but have felt no change in my symptoms after going off it and have not replaced it with anything else. I was on it for 3 and a half years. F 61
7/6/2009
 1  diagnosed with bipolar insomnia, shakiness, could not drive first two days but wasn't sure if it was this or lamictal, started both at same time. couldn't wake up in a.m., body wanted to move but mind wouldn't function to get me out of bed, so took earlier in eve then slept right away, really messed up my sleep wake cycle so I was up at 2 or 3 in am, manic. Stopped it after two weeks, off for a week, feel almost normal now. Still on lamictal in a.m. 25 mgs. F 61 14 days
1/16/2009
 1  As adjunct to Cymbalta for depression M 61
60mg 1X day
12/14/2010
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 3  Bipolar disorder I have just started using Geodon (prescribed on Saturday) and have been having a terrible time getting up and fully waking up in the morning. I don't dare drive because I can fall back to sleep in an instant. At the same time my whole body feels jittery and I can't STAY asleep. Is any of this similar to what others have experienced? Candace F 60 5 days
7/15/2008
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 3  Bipolar II Blocked sinus breathing, some agitation, mind up when trying to sleep, it does knock me out but breathing problem interferes-working on it. Doc wants me to build to 180mg but I was having too many side effects at 120. Mood is better, I'm a little hypomanic but this is not a big problem as I was withdrawn before. Helped energy and the interest in," doing something "which I didn't have before.So it seems to be helping more than it's hurting at this early point.Oh yeah, also taking Lexapro 10mg and Ativan 1mg but long time on those. M 58 6 days
7/30/2007
 5  Bipolar II Mild nausea first 3 days The best medication I've ever been prescribed for hypomania/depression. No side effects and great control of symptoms. F 57 3 months
100mg 1X day
3/11/2013
 4  Bipolar II Well, other than it making me feel drunk, or there is an earthquake going on, I was quite impressed. In one dose it stopped my hypomania. I woke up feeling I might want to live again! Sure I'm sleepy, but it's manageable. I have noticed increase in forgetfulness, but I have Fibromyalgia so deal with that anyway. I also have my appetite back which I know I need to be careful about. I think the reason I'm so impressed is I was on Depakote for 5 days and I went into a psychosis state (thought I either already killed someone or was getting ready too). I barely urinated, ate, hated everything, began throwing out things I'd cherished for years...didn't get too far into it when I decided I didn't give a damn! It's a good thing I take my dog with me when I drive because twice I was going to drive into something purposefully just to stop my brain from being so "painful", which is how it seemed to me, but I couldn't hurt my dog too. That's what was nuts: having lucid moments in between the freaky ones. I sincerely hope this the drug for me; guess we will see soon enough! F 57 1 days
40mg
1/23/2015
 3  Suicidal thoughts The first dosage I took in the evening with dinner, went to bed about 8pm and slept until 11am the next day, that worried me, so I skipped a day, the next dosage, was in the afternoon after church with dinner, approx. 4pm, I felt like I was high, I was stumbling around, I finally went to bed at 8pm, got a few calls and text msg, did not hear anything, I was out unitl about 4:30am I don't like this at all.... It helps with my insomnia, would consider taking it, if I had nothing to do the following day, and I noticed I wasn't really hungry when I did eat, but I can't take this on a regular basis F 57 2 days
20mg 1X day
11/20/2013
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 3  Bipolar 1 My depessive mood quickly improved while taking 20 MG twice per day. Since incresing to 40 MG twic per day I am extremly tired during the day and have almost fallen asleep behind the wheel. At night I wake up after 4 hours of sleep and can't fall back to sleep. Energy level is high to being agitated. M 57 18 days
40 MG 2X day
7/23/2011
 1  Bipolar disease Tooth nashing, wiggling legs withdrawal, racing thoughts I don't think it's right for everyone F 57 1 months
2X day
10/19/2010
 4  Bipolar Disorder II mania Shortly after starting on 80mg of Geodon I became very manic. PDOC doubled dose to 160mg and my mood state went to normal. M 56 14 months
2/24/2006
 1  Bipolar 2 Depression I was given Geodon as a Hail Mary when nothing else worked to relieve my bipolar depression. Zyprexa does work well but it caused metabolic syndrome and I had to discontinue its use over 2 years ago. I do take 750 mg. Of Depakote and 100 mg of Zoloft for basic maintenance. The first day after my first dose of taking Geodon I was driving home from a baby shower and felt like my eyes were finally open again - the world was beautiful and I loved my life! I felt expansive and so positive and decided to pop into a piercing parlour to get my nose pierce! Anyway that was the start of 5 weeks of intense mania -- spent money I didn't have, argumentative, decided to feng shei my whole house, couldn't sleep, talked incessantly, sounded like jets flying through my head and I started lying and being sneaky. I just thought I finally had come out of my depression....unfortunately my driven behaviour felt so agitated and uncomfortable and my family became concerned. I was honest with the psych doc but he didn't associate the mania with Geodon and instead cut back my zoloft to 50 mg. And wanted to decrease depakote. Well I continued to spin into mania - having 4-5 lists going no at one time and so much to do! He took me off Geodon 3 nights ago and immediately the mania was gone (along with a few thousands of dollars!) and now the normal struggle of depression has taken hold again... F 56 5 weeks
40 MG 1X day
6/2/2014
  

GEODON  (ZIPRASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Ziprasidone injection is used to treat occurrences of severe agitation in patients with schizophrenia. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. Ziprasidone injection is used when quick relief of your symptoms is required. It is not used together with the form of this medication that is taken by mouth. An injection of ziprasidone works quickly to reduce tension and anxiety which, if untreated, can result in dangerous behavior and interfere with your treatment and care.   FDA Approval Date: 2001-02-05 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

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