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 |
| 2 | Depression, anxiety, Bipolar2 | Small amount of nausea first day. Lifted me out of my depression and felt GREAT for the first 3 weeks. Then started having VERY strange thoughts, emotions, overreactions, getting a little hysterical, had a panic attack and had a lot of anxiety. | At 3-4 weeks is when the drug fully kicks in and my psychologist suggested that because this drug is really for schizophrenia which I don't have, that sometimes at the 3-4 week stage it can actually start to cause symptoms of this instead of fix whatever else you have. Im going off it today! Have felt like Im losing control of my mind, not fun. Not an awful drug, just hasn't worked out to be the right one for me. | F | 33 | 4 weeks 20MG 1X day | 1/12/2011 | 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 | 4 | Bipolar I Disorder | hand tremor and uncontrolled tongue movements | Geodon is a great drug for me. It controls my mania and auditory hallucinations. My hands are shaky, but I can live with that. I've actually come off of Geodon before and the side effects go away completely, so I'm not worried long-term. | M | 24 | 2 years 20 2X day | 12/30/2010 | 2 | Mixed Bipolar Mania | I felt good for about three or four days. I now, again feel confused easily, poor memory and concentration, restless, I black out when I sleep and lose time, I Sleep more than I wake, GERD and terrible painful swallowing, nausea due to the painful GERD, shakiness when I miss my dose. | I liked it for a few days and I still like the fact that my moods are seemingly more stable. I work my butt off to keep good and to do what I need to do and was given this on a recent trip I took to the ER for mania uncontrolled. I stayed overnight and felt a lot less agitated and aggressive in the morning. Now I take it at 9 or 10 am and pass out cold by 1pm. This is not okay. I have a three year old. The severe tiredness just started four days ago and fortunately things have been okay when I wake up, which can be hours later. I am going to taper this drug down to 20mg at bedtime and see if that doesn't solve things. The GERD is so painful I can't seem to get relief. Probably buying Prilosec OTC to see if that will help. The confusion and inability to concentrate are not okay either. They are the biggest factors behind getting on meds in the first place. Love the weight loss, hate the drug. Wondering if just getting some ativan again may help? Lamictal too? I don't know. FRUSTRATED. | F | 24 | 2 weeks 20mg 2X day | 12/16/2010 | 1 | As adjunct to Cymbalta for depression | M | 61 | 60mg 1X day | 12/14/2010 Patient History | 1 | Depression, Anxiety, etc. | weight gain, intense hand shaking, increased anxiety, i either sleep a lot or not at all, acne, panic | I wouldn't wish this drug on even the people i hate most in the world. depression wise, it helps a little. The side effects got worse over time, and are a huge cause of my anxiety. There are a lot of weirder aspects that are hitting me about perception and time. its the most difficult drug ive ever experienced. seriously consider if it is worth it. | F | 24 | 5 weeks 160 1X day | 12/8/2010 | 2 | Depression, mood stabilization | Bouts of anxiety, tremors, hair loss and greasiness | I would not recommend Geodon. I took it at night, before bedtime, but I do know that it makes me feel very zombie-like...BUT doesn't help with sleep. It did nothing to stabilize my mood. Topomax works better. The only things it has done is give me bouts of anxiety like the four horsemen of the apocolypse are after me, give me tremors like I have Parkinson's disease, make my hair fall out in clumps, and change the texture of my hair to this "greasiness," that will not wash out no matter how many times, or with what shampoo I use! I used to have long healthy-looking hair and it's just crazy that medicine can affect your hair like that. I take Prozac and Adderall during the day and did not experience ANY of these side effects until I started with the Geodon. Consequently, I am in the process of titrating OFF of Geodon, so wish me luck. | F | 40 | 3 months 180mg 1X day | 12/6/2010 | 4 | bipolar mixed episodes | drowsiness, tardive dyskinesia. | I really like the way geodon works. I have had to take it during the day and will never take it during the day again. Makes me feel drowsy and have anxiety. I don't have any problems taking it at night. I still have to take a sleeping pill though. Geodon has helped me with my manic episodes. Although I miss the feeling of being manic if that makes any sense. I miss the energy I used to have. I also take Lamictal for depression. I developed tardive dyskinesia about 3 months ago. I have it in my left hand and my right leg and foot. | F | 40 | 18 months 160 mg 1X day | 11/29/2010 | 3 | Bipolar Type II | tremors, jaw clenching, weight loss, no zest for life, stopped caring | F | 30 | 1 years 40 MG 1X day | 11/26/2010 | 4 | Rapid cycling Bipolar | Tingling and slight numbing of limbs and face, nausea, dizziness, lightheaded. | This drug started acting day 1....calming my mind and controlling my racing thoughts. Has alleviated my anxiety and lifted my mood enough to be productive again. I'm back to cooking and doing chores on a regular basis. I feel happier/ more focused at work and organization has improved. Only drawback is that there are nights that I CAN'T stay awake past 7pm. I take it with dinner around an hour later I feel like i've been roofied. | M | 37 | 2 weeks 120mg 1X day | 11/22/2010 | 1 | Misdiagnosis of bipolar/schizophren | This drug will kill you- especially if you are a young and small. Im 20 years old and 100 lbs. I was taken to the hospital because I had been drugged at college- they found out there was LSD and other barbituates in my system (Im not a druggy- someone had drugged me). Instead of testing my blood levels, they thought I was schizophrenic or strongly bipolar - put me in a psych ward and injected me with geodon and later made me have the pills twice a day. It was killing me- I had tremors, dizziness, 25 lb weight gain in 2 weeks, dry mouth, slurring, depression, heart racing, racing thoughts, shortness of breath, tightness in my chest. The doctor I had just wanted to make money and keep me on this drug, - a good doctor would have taken me off. I knew if I took it any longer, I would die- so I stopped taking it. Finally I was cured when I stopped- because there was nothing wrong with me. For those of you that do have something to treat- take another medication to help you- not geodon. Dont | Make sure to get second opinions when taking this drug. Do not take it if you are petite as it is muchh stronger and medicine has yet to adjust dosage based on weight/size. Make sure to get blood tests and further testing done before taking this drug to make sure if it is right for you- do NOT take it without doing this because it could kill you or turn a sane person crazy if you do not need it. If a doctor says no to your request, go to a different doctor. | F | 20 | 14 days 2X day | 11/20/2010 | 1 | Bipolar mixed...I guess | Weak limbs then blacked out...slept like the dead | My pdoc has me on 250 mg of generic depakote er and after 3 weeks and it not working that great he decided to try this on me. Took it at 6am with a sandwich and then by 6 30 I had terrible diarrhea and then was so dizzy and lethargic...After that I feel like I just blacked out...My boyfriend woke me up around 1pm and I felt groggy. Got up made another sandwich, that tired me out so bad that I slept till 3pm. So exhausted I feel like I've been run over by a truck! UGH...Hated it | F | 41 | 1 days 40mg 2X day | 11/10/2010 | 5 | Psychotic Depression | Drowsiness. While coming off of it i had nausea and insomnia. | I was put on Geodon after every other antipsychotic failed. The only problem was coming off of it, i would become nauseous and suffered from insomnia but thankfully that didn't last long. I would take it again if i ever needed it. | F | 20 | 2 years 60 1X day | 11/8/2010 | 1 | depression/bipolar | i had severe muscle spazms and my head would turn to one side and be stuck there, also severe confusion and just all around bad feeling from this drug, it got so bad after 12 hrs i had to go to the ER and get a shot to counteract the geodon, it was the worst experience i have ever had with any kind of medicine, my phsych was pushing it on me really hard and gave me like 5 bottles each of 40 60 and 80mg pills and i took 2 40s the first day and 2 60s the next day and it was a terrible day to say the least. | do not take this drug, no matter how hard your Doc pushes it(and im sure they all will) stay away from geodon!!! | M | 24 | 2 days 120mg 1X day | 11/4/2010 | 1 | Bipolar | Sedation!!!!! Memory loss, not active, zoombie like.. zone out | STAY AWAY FROM THIS DRUG!!!!!!! Geodon ruined a whole year of my life!!! I never had any energy to do anything with my 2 yr old daughter. I am 36 miles away from my job and every morning for 6 months I would fall asleep on my way to work. I would make sure I got 8 hrs of sleep every night! One morning I just couldn't open my eyes and crashed my car. I then called my Dr and told her that I was done taking it. The withdrawals are really bad headaches, mood swings, confusion.. My Dr then introduced me to Lamictal.I now feel like I have my life back!!! | F | 28 | 1 years 80 mg 1X day | 10/26/2010 | 1 | Bipolar type 2 | This medicine was kinda pushed by the psychiatrist and he jumped over to start it and gave me some samples. in 1 week I had severe headaches and trigeminal neuralgia. We stopped it and he started me on abilify...another horrible choice... I had severe anxiety. he stopped abilify and tried me on Geodon...Again same thing.. my anxiety was worse.. I had started having driving anxiety... I was feeling like i am sleep walking..all hypnotized... I agree that it sounds like Pfizer's propaganda to push this medicine. FDA needs to investigate further and put immediate ban on this drug.... Horrible medicine.. dont ever take it... | worst medicine ever.... | F | 33 | 30 days 20 mg 1X day | 10/21/2010 | 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 | 2 | Bipolar/mixed episodes | I got to the point that I was shaking so badly that I couldn't do anything with my hands and both my husband and son said that when they hugged me they could feel me shaking. On top of that, at night when I laid down my whole right side of my face twitched really badly. My pdoc told me to get off the drug immediately because she didn't want those things to become permanant and she also told me that 2 other of her patients were experiencing really bad side effects too. I have to say I feel a little like I was in a clinical trial because my pdoc always had plenty of samples (and now I have no clue how to dispose of 30 bottles of pills) for me to take which means the drug reps were really pushing this drug. At any rate I am down to 40 mgs and headed off of it as fast as I can tolerate it. As a side note, it totally killed my appetite and I lost 10lbs so in that way I am sad to see Geodon exit my life. | I am generous enough to say if it works for you then I am happy for you but it sure didn't work for me. Now I have to find something that will. I hate the whole moving from drug to drug thing. Good luck all! | F | 38 | 7 weeks 100mg max 1X day | 10/5/2010 Patient History | 3 | bipolar, anxiety,ocd | weird uncomfortable feeling, drowsy (sleep alot in the morning), leg pain at night | well i can say ive been on alot of meds in my life...and well not many have actually made a difference..im coming on a week on this and wow i see so much difference already i mean its even worth the weird hours (im on a hiatus in life anyway college dont start till jan)and everything was so clear..no racing thoughts i didnt want to rip my moms face off when she talked and it was great well untill i upped the dose today as per instructions now im up still at 5am and oh my god my legs are cramping (sould be cause i sleep on the floor but we shall see) i looked up stuff on line and im hoping to god this settles cause im on a trial with this till dec and wow what heck will this be if im in pain alot...ill keep yall posted | F | 21 | 1 weeks 120mg 1X day | 10/3/2010 | 3 | Depression, GAD, for concentration | Drowsiness, dizziness, hung over feeling, lack of appetite ;) | I've just started taking 80mg, from 40mg. I came to work and a co-worker instantly noticed that I was not feeling well. She even asked if I wanted to sit down for a bit. I felt hung over and I could barely keep my eyes open. It was a scary feeling. But after taking a caffeine tablet and drinking some TAZO "Awake" tea, I started to feel better. The second half of the day was, by far, better than the first half. I think I might've taken it too late. I'll try to take it earlier and see if it helps. It has also definitely curbed my appetite, which is a good thing. I definitely don't need to gain anymore weight from side effects of medication. | F | 28 | 11 days 80 mg 1X day | 10/2/2010 |