GEODON Reviews (ZIPRASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.7 (579 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare GEODON with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR GEODON | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | bi-polar depression | Great side effects--decreased libido (previously a lot of risky behavior here) and major weight loss (50 pounds in a year and a half and still losing--I was very overwight thanks to zyprexa); possible symptoms of tardive dyskinesia (very bad and can be permanent, so I had to stop taking it) | This is a WONDER drug. Made me incredibly stable (good for bi-polars like myself), Cut my sex drive to zero, which is great because I was involved in frequent risky sex behavior. The problem was that I was developing syptoms of tardive dyskinesia--read up about that on the web--trembling of lips and eyelids that progresses to uncontrollable lip smacking and contortions of the face--one you get that it is irreversible, even if you stop taking the medicine, so I had to get off it before my symptoms became worse. If you quit early you have a chance at reversing the syptoms. | M | 2 years | 7/13/2007 | 5 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Wanting to move all the time, dizziness/sleepiness when I take the dose at night. Not such a bad thing. | Extremely helpful, just switched from Zyprexa. Would highly recommend this drug. It has been a miracle drug for me. | M | 3 weeks | 4/20/2009 | 4 | PTSD and GAD | Would fall into a deep sleep for approx. 3-4 hours; nothing could wake me according to my wife. | Geodon is an excellent drug for PTSD and anxiety disorder; have not experienced any flashbacks while taking this medications. Thank God!!! | M | 2 months | 2/3/2007 | 4 | PTSD and GAD | Would fall into a deep sleep for approx. 3-4 hours; nothing could wake me according to my wife. | Geodon is an excellent drug for PTSD and anxiety disorder; have not experienced any flashbacks while taking this medications. Thank God!!! | M | 2 months | 2/3/2007 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder | I took my first 40mg dose today for the first time, so I don't have a complete idea of the side effect profile, but I have noticed a lack of appetite and a mild headache. | My psychiatrist claims that Geodon should improve cognition, plus stabilize my hypomanic tendancies (which personally I would like to preserve). So far, I can somewhat understand what he means, that is, it seems like I can focus better and be less "scatter-brained." I have an anxiety disorder that I hope this medication can resolve. I will update my remarks as I continue with my regimen. | M | 1 days | 9/13/2005 | 3 | psychotic episodes | I started at 40 mg a day and that made me really agitated. Increased to 80 mg a day and now I am tired all the time. It is causing some cognitive dulling. I just want to lose the weight I gained from Seroquel. | It's calming at a higher dose for me. Maybe 80 mg is too much but I will stick to this dosage for now. | F | 14 days | 11/7/2008 | 2 | Bipolar and anxiety | Extreme sleepiness, cannot get started in the morning. Every time I see the dr and tell him I am doing worse, he increased my dosage of Geodon and I think that it may be CAUSING me to be more depressed and anxious. Depression and anxiety are less common side effects. | I found little joy in food/eating. One thinks that would be good but you don't realize how much pleasure/joy you get out of food, thinking about food, planning, and eating. It took some of the joy out of life to lose that. Anyway, I'm able to stick to a diet which I'm not complaining about. And after 50 years I stopped biting my nails without even trying. | F | 7 months | 2/8/2008 | 1 | treatment resistant anxiety/depress | Dizziness, hallucinations, sleeplessness, mania, loss of appetite, severe depression, feeling out of touch. | I was not bipolar or schizophrenic, my doctor gave me Geodon because antidepressants were making me feel too "up" and manic. Geodon was supposed to calm that down. Instead, I felt way worse than with no medication and was more manic than ever, even seeing things and having hallucinations. I felt like a robot and completely out of touch with my body, feelings, loved ones. It took forever to get this out of my system when I stopped taking it- nearly six months. | M | 3 months | 4/6/2008 | 1 | Anti-anxiety | Trembling hands, restless legs, akathisia in general, hallucinations, drowsiness, memory problems, negative personality changes | My 86-yr old father was given this drug for anti-anxiety while he was a rehab patient in a nursing home for breaking his femur and hip. After doing research, I'm not really sure why he was prescribed this drug other than he's allergic to Morphine (for pain) and morphine derivatives and Ativan (anti-anxiety). In any case, his was a horrible experience and I would recommend staying away from this drug at all costs. When we got our father home, my sister and I had to witness my father going through a hellish experience with the withdrawal symptoms. | 90 days | 10/3/2009 | 1 | Depression | This is the devil drug, I have been on a few drugs over the last 10yrs and this is the worst. So sleepy in the mornings and had a sense of beng drugged up, but was also tweeking like I was on cocaine..Rapid heatbeats freaked me out too. The only good thing was I lost 8lbs in 3 weeks. I felt worse on this drug and towards the end was thinking about taking my own life because of the way i was feeling. It may work for some but not me. | F | 3 | 3 weeks | 6/2/2009 | 2 | Bipolar, ADHD, OCD | My Daughter is 8 yrs is on Geodon. She complains she can't breath good after she takes her pill. She started at 20 mg tonight started 80 mg. She has been on it for about 5 wks. She also has had increased anxiety ad Panic attacks, she moves her leg alot and she can't seem to stop moving her Jaw. I am getting concerned about these side effects. | I m wondering if she is on the right med. She has had very odd and not good side effects from other med's like Seriquel made her legs cramp very bad and prozac made her LIERALLY climb walls She was up RUNNING 100mph for 3 days before she crashed VERY BAD! Plus others. I am feeling at a loss and don't know what to do. I don't know how long do I allow these side effects to go on to see if they go away + the Doctor says sometimes it means that she needs to icrease the dosage and than how about If I want to take her off Geodon how do I wing her so she doesn't get sick because i am reading about lots of people who say they had bad withdrawls I have been very good about working with the doctors and being PRO ACTIVE, but this is hard on her and all of us. I want her to be happy and well. | F | 8 | 47 weeks | 1/28/2007 | 1 | Autism and mood disorder | Severely depressed, easily agitated | F | 8 | 1 weeks 20 MG | 11/3/2015 | 1 | ODD | Nausea, Dizziness, Depression, Bad sleep, Suicidal thoughts. | I was not given this drug, but my 9 year old daughter was. This was to replace her Abilify, which was working at first, but then she started having thoughts about hurting herself. On the Abilify, she just had the thoughts, but she never did anything or said anything, except to the psychologist, which is why he switched her to Geodon. After almost a week on Geodon, during a particularly bad day, she freaked out her class by saying that she wanted to hang herself, and left the classroom to find a rope. This is not like her AT ALL. I don't know whose idea it was to give the OK to give this stuff to kids, and I wish I had researched it before giving my OK. I have never seen my daughter get so distraught about things in my life. She spent most of her birthday crying about anything and everything. When my wife was going to take her to Wal-Mart, she started crying hysterically saying she didn't want to go there because they were mean to people. She hasn't been to school (except for | F | 9 | 2 weeks | 11/8/2008 | 1 | Bipolar | agitation,hostility,and anxiety along with increased hunger and thirst and urination and confusion. He threatened his life and others lives and was so full of hate and anger. He was bouncing off the wall and had tremors. | I don't recommend this for children at all. I have learned my lesson and when a DR. recommends a new medicine I am going to fully research it before I give it to my child. So now he is in the hospital for threatening his own life and his counslers life and it wasn't even his fault, it was the stupid ass Dr. that put a bipolar person on a medicine that a side effect is hypomania. If you have had a similar expierance please e-mail me at [email protected] | M | 9 | 16 days | 3/29/2009 | 1 | mood disorder, OCD, tics, anxiety | abdominal pain and nausea no appetite, blurred vision, mindlessness, restlessness at times, trouble concentrating | My son was put one this after an allergic reaction to Abilify and a disastrous trial of Litium. He was originally given 80mgs. a day 40mgs in AM and 40 in PM. Initially his appetite was just sporadic and weird and then he would not eat hardly anything at all. He began to complain of stomach aches and severe nausea. He looked pale and sick most of the time. We lowered the dose to 40mgs just at night but this did not help.The night I decided to discontinue this drug he did not sleep one bit. This has never happened to him before. Everything in his body and mind was totally off while on this med. He was very irritable at times because not so much I think because of his mood problem, but because he felt so sick. There was a time early into the med where I thought his mood had improved, but that definately changed once the physical side effects kicked in. He definately cannot tolerate this med. | M | 9 | 3 weeks | 3/23/2007 | 3 | anxiety | severe tardive dystonia - this drug worked fine until after missing a night time dose we gave it in the morning with Strattera - about 7hrs later my daughter's eyes started rolling up in her head and then she would bend her head all the way back without even realizing she was doing it and she walked all bent over and couldn't really speak - freaked us out as we thought she was having a seizure or a stroke. they used benadryl which cleared up the symtoms but now not so sure about continuing with the drug | F | 11 | 3 months | 12/28/2008 | 1 | Child Onset Schizophrenia | Cognitive Issues, Akathisia, Agitation, Irregular Heartbeat | My son started this med @40mg @10y/o. Helped with auditory/visual hallucinations and delusions, but did not eliminate. Occasional irregular heartbeat. Nausea only when he didn't eat with pill. Symptoms of psychosis increased so his meds increased to 60mg. He can't sit still any longer. Walks around in class all the time. Verbally threatens teachers and other students. (Never had issues such as this before) His writing is atrocious. I can't even read it any longer. His motor skills are non existant, and the school wants to kick him out because his meds made him so agitated. I cannot recommend this drug for treatment in anybody. Schizophrenia didn't make my son crazy, but Geodon did. | M | 11 | 8 months 60 1X day | 11/29/2011 | 3 | Bipolar I with Psychosis | 20 mg works great. 40 mg caused VERY LOW blood pressure, fainting | Makes the auditory & visual hallucinations stop. 40 mg left me dizzy & blood pressure 65/40. I'm 5'2, 108 lbs. | F | 12 | 3 months | 2/13/2009 | 1 | for a mood disorder | initial tiredness, then insomnia.When the dosage was increased,to 60mg and 40mg more restlessness and mental breakdown.Falling asleep at school so 60mg pm and 20mg am. To combat the increased insomnia and solemnence and negative mentlmental state increased again to 80mg pm and 20 mg pm. Developed Tardive Dyskensia!!! at the final doseage and the Dr. refused to see us any more. | had more outbursts and lack of self control on a "regular dose" so the Dr. upped the dosage. More Agitation and outbursts ensued, so the dosage was upped again. Final dosage 80mg pm and 20 mg am in a 12 year old boy! | M | 12 | 3 months | 5/15/2007 | 1 | for a mood disorder Aspergers& add | initial tiredness, then insomnia.When the dosage was increased,to 60mg and 40mg more restlessness and mental breakdown.Falling asleep at school so 60mg pm and 20mg am. To combat the increased insomnia and solemnence and negative mentlmental state increased again to 80mg pm and 20 mg pm. Developed Tardive Dyskensia!!! at the final doseage and the Dr. refused to see us any more. | had more outbursts and lack of self control on a "regular dose" so the Dr. upped the dosage. More Agitation and outbursts ensued, so the dosage was upped again. Final dosage 80mg pm and 20 mg am in a 12 year old boy! | M | 12 | 3 months | 5/15/2007 |
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)