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 |
| 3 | Biopolar | I no longer can sleep. My hands twitch and shake. I can't eat. I see and hear things. I am obsessed with certain things like pulling stickers off of things. My temper is through the roof and I have no filter. Good things . I am more aware of my body | F | 35 | 1 months 20 | 12/4/2014 | 3 | schizophrenia | Nightmares 40pounds weight gain | F | 35 | 4 years 60mg | 11/30/2014 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder,Depression | Geodon helped my depression more than any medication I have ever taken.I did gain 15 lbs on it though.I developed tardive dystonia after 7 years and was told this rarely happened prior to taking it.Please read about tardive dystonia/dyskinesia before making a decision to take this medication.I worked as an RN for over 20 years and am now on disability due to severe muscle spasms and pain in my face and neck on my left side.The muscle spasms are debilitating and involuntary.Watch YouTube videos of this condition before making a decision to take it or stay on it.It will never go away and my neurologist sees this alot in his practice from people taking geodon.It seems to be more common with geodon than some of the other antipsychotics.Make sure you have to take an antipsycotic before ever doing so.All of the new ones have some severe life long compications just like the old antipsychotics.I hope I can help anyone avoid the life long pain I will have to endure. | Do Not believe your doctor when he tells you how safe these new antipsychotics are.Read about the geodon and other new antipsychotic lawsuits before taking it or staying on it. | F | 49 | 20mg 1X day | 10/8/2014 | 1 | PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder | I am 50 years-old. When I was 46 years-old, Geodon caused major anxiety beyond anything ever experienced. Face twitching, fever, whole-body muscle aching to the point of barely being able to get dressed, unable to think clearly, lack of memory, loss of reasoning, severe heart palpitations (every 10 seconds with chest and throat pain). It almost killed me. The doctor told me she never heard of those side effects so she increased the dose! Unable to think, I took it. When anxiety became so bad, curled up on the floor, I stopped taking it. My two dachshunds (7 year-old twins) had to be re-homed. I couldn't care for them. After two weeks, it sunk in what I had done. My much loved dogs are gone due to an idiot doctor. I was in 12th grade art when I was in 8th grade. My artwork was superb. Now I can't paint at all because I still shake and have finger "jumping." I am not psychotic or bi-polar. I have PTSD and chronic depression. I am now on Lamotrigine (Lamictal) 100 mg 2x pe | Suggestion: Do not take Geodon without being near someone else who can monitor you to ensure you are thinking clearly after taking it. You won't know until it is too late. | M | 50 | 2 months 20 2X day | 9/27/2014 | 4 | Bipolar and Intermittent Explosive | Dry mouth, slight drowsiness... no big noticeable side effects, it really helps control my explosive temper. | M | 27 | 3 months 40 | 9/12/2014 | 4 | people talking in my head | tired | M | 44 | 2 years 80 2X day | 6/28/2014 | 5 | ptsd | drowsy | milder drug | M | 43 | 3 years 40 1X day | 6/21/2014 | 5 | paranoid schizo | makes you a zombie on lower dose | great now that i am on 60 in the morning and 120 in the night | 22 | 6 months 60mg 120mg 2X day | 6/15/2014 | 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 | 1 | bipolar | PERMANENT: itchy crawling skin, skin eruptions all over including staph infections and acne bumps that really itch. TEMPORARY: confusion--I'll go into a room and forget what I went in there for. CONCLUSION: I will never ever ever take psych meds again--I'd rather be bipolar than take some shit that I don't know the outcome which can be permanent. | MEDICATION FROM HELL. I READ THAT IT KILLS ELDERLY PATIENTS AS WELL. | F | 40 | 2 years 2X day | 4/30/2014 | 1 | bipolar | Teeth chattering. Tremmors. Voices. Seeing things. Stiff mussles. 4 days off it i have a fever. | F | 41 | 3 weeks 40mg | 4/12/2014 | 2 | schizo affective | Upset stomach throwing up.lots of coughing.weight gain | M | 19 | 2 months 2, 80 mg | 3/26/2014 | 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 | 3 | Psychotic disorder NOS | Tingly feeling in hands while sleeping, extreme tiredness after taking the dose. Need 12 hours sleep or I can't function. Hangover effect if not enough sleep. Vivid crazy dreams all night long. Sleep eating. Weight gain. Can't multitask. | Started out in 80 mg a day 5 years ago. Have been slowly weaning down over the years. Terrible withdrawl symptoms with each decrease. Took a couple months to settle out with each decrease. At 20 mg noticed some anxiety but have stuck it out and switched to decaf coffe which helps. Tried to go completely off and 3 days later my vision was so blurry I could not see well. Had a hallucination when I looked into the mirror. Also felt out of body feelings. I went back on the 20 milligrams and went back to normal. No more hallucinations and my vision went back clear. My phychatrist says he does not understand how only 20 mg would do anything at all but I am living proof that it does. I know what I saw when I went off of it. Wish I could get off of it but I need to have my vision and I can't be hallucinating. I need to go to work. | F | 51 | 5 years 20mg 1X day | 10/27/2013 | 1 | bi polar/depression | missed menstrual cycle,shaking in the hands,anxiety,and sleepiness | F | 19 | 1 months 2 x D | 9/9/2013 | 5 | Bipolar I | Initially felt very "blah" with first dose, such that it occurred to me this must be the mood that makes people play Sudoku. Then I went promptly to sleep for 4 hours. That feeling did not persist past day 2. I had dry eyes in the morning for the first 2 years, but that also went away. I'm taking an unusually low dose but it works brilliantly for me. No mania, no psychosis to distract me from the pursuit and attainment of my goals. It works nicely in concert with Lamictal, which itself can't stop a psychotic episode (in my case) but stabilizes mood gently and fights depression. | F | 32 | 3 years 20 | 7/31/2013 | 1 | anxiety/depression/schitz | M | 25 | 20-120 1X day | 7/31/2013 Patient History | 4 | depression&Anxiety, repeat thoughts | Major dry mouth, sleepiness (which is why I only take it at night. | I love Geodon. I was put on it for repeating thoughts. I would sit around and think about everything that I did wrong from when I was younger to today. I guess it's a form of OCD. It is also prescribed for my depression. I am taking cymbalta for my anxiety. This medication is great. I can look at things differently now. My thoughts are still there, but I can stop myself and realize what I am doing, and I can turn those thoughts around into more positive thinking. I use to sleep a lot during the day. Sometimes I feel a little sleepy during the day but I do not sleep during the day anymore. This is a great thing! I am actually up doing things. Seeing the sun, hanging out with my friends, having a life. I have not had any hunger for sweets on this, or any weight gain. I was on mirtazapine before geodon and I was hungry all of the time on mirtazapine. On geodon I'm no longer craving just sugar. I am hungry but I'm hungry when I am suppose to be. I now can make good food decisions and eat the right thing because I am no longer hungry for just sugar. On mirtazapine I gained about 21 pounds. Since being on Geodon I have lost those 21 pounds plus more! I love this medication. I am active now and it has been easier for me to get over things that are negative. All the medication I've been on has made me gain weight, and I've only been on this for 4 weeks, but so far I am losing. Now I hope that the weight will stay off. So far so good. *knocks on wood* | F | 34 | 4 weeks 60 1X day | 7/26/2013 | 3 | Bipolar | I loved Geodon. It was the first time in my life that I could think clearly. Unfortunately, I had a horrible reaction. I puked 10+ times a day. I had horrible anxiety and could not sleep. I also had a horrible rash on my face. I lost 30 pound in 3 months. I finally had to go back in the hospital and change my meds. I continued to take the drug until I had to stop, because I liked thinking clearly. I have to admit, it helped me get to where I am today and that is better than I have ever been. When anyone begins a new drug, make sure you monitor any changes. . | I am currently taking Lithium and SEROQUEL. I am doing very well on them. | F | 35 | 4 months 60 1X day | 7/20/2013 | 4 | Schizophrenia | This is the third or fourth time I post about geodon and, every time I try to rate this drug, I also want to comment to readers to browse on your search page: "schizophrenia as one extreme of a sexually selected fitness indicator" to better understand the diagnosis. Basically I'm making this comment to the person previous to this post, since I mentioned not so long ago I work out and that when switched from risperdal to geodon, it seems I gave the appearance of being not that big, than when on risperdal. I gained 12 pounds in January of this year and just recently in April, had to buy bigger clothes, so I'm thinking my doctors put me back on 160 mg, without me knowing, they now my schizophrenia is severe. Those voices that I once thought were coming from my head, now when I refer to them, I label them as the "system" since now they now give advice wherever I go and are fun to be with, so, actually voices are normal, only if I knew how we make this possible. | I'm in peace with local, state and federal police, so I know I can rely on them and they give me the impression they can rely on me, so I'm very happy I've come this far in regards to my illness. You can download a complete Adobe acrobat file with the info I'm talking about from this site: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.114.7812&rep=rep1&type=pdf | M | 38 | 4 years 120 mg 1X day | 5/19/2013 |