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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR GEODON | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | None; I've taken this before and its as if I am on nothing. | I hear voices, and my pdoc gave it to me today, and immediately the voices went away, well 95%. I feel so much better and sane. I'm Bipolar Paranoid Schizophrenic, so it is for my schizophrenia to stop the voices in my head. WHAT A RELIEF!!! | F | 39 | 1 days 60 1X day | 4/22/2010 | 3 | Bipolar I -PTSD, Panic/Anxiety | Neck Pain, Eye Pain w/strange Eyebrow movement, Puckering and Swallowing movements, Jaw clenching- Flutters in thigh muscles,Headache in afternoon(?withdrawl between doses?), Binge eating at night after taking Bedtime dose. Edema of face and body,inability to sit still, Breast enlargement, Breast pain | The first few days on 20 mg at bedtime were a very nice relief from the paranoid thinking and psychotic anxiety. My hopelessness, crying, irrational thinking stopped! This was fantastic. Slowly I felt and saw my eyebrows raising on their own, Eye pain developed after Dr. upped me to 40mg, 20mg AM+ 20mg PM. Stiff neck started right away, I thought this was from sleeping and lying around too much from the drowsiness, but, it was the drug itself. My breasts were already a 36 D and by day 5, my bra did not fit and I had breast soreness. Had funny twitches in thigh muscles that felt like fluttering butterflies under my skin. If the Geodon did not cause the Funny face making and the binge eating, I would have continued. My fear and Dr's fear is that it might get even worse and then not go away. Cogentin did nothing to stop the eyes from rolling/mouth from puckering or jaw clenching, however, 50 mg Benedryl every 6 hours helped. I am sad I can't continue because Mood was improved so greatly. :( | F | 40 | 8 days 20 mg 2X day | 4/21/2010 | 5 | Bi Polar (Rapid Cycler) | some leg twitching, leg jumpiness | Well, I have been on Geodon for two months now, as well as a host of other drugs that have been added to control depression (Lexapro and Lamictal). Thus far the Geodon is working, I can get out of bed and get to work in the mornings, which is helpful. God knows with bipolar it can destroy much of your life. Personal relationships, career, finances all gets destroyed with this disease. I am hoping Geodon will help me rebuild my life (with the help of other drugs as well). Although I do feel a bit manic this morning. | F | 38 | 2 months 80mg 2X day | 4/12/2010 | 3 | Bipolar II | INCREASE IN APPETITE, weight gain, tiredness, licking teeth, extremely vivid dreams. | I was put on Geodon as an addition to Lamictal (400mg/day). It undoubtedly helped me, although I became hypomanic when I first started, seemed to be TRIGGERED by the med. Has helped calm my mind immensely. It definitely made the difference between just Lamictal and adding the second med. Also kept me stable when I added Lexapro. I found that it knocked me out VERY suddenly and drastically, like falling down on the way to bed. This effect has lessened, but I still have to sleep an average of 11 hours a night to feel rested. (Only take dose in the pm.) I started licking my teeth, but the doctor suggested that I try taking Vitamin E (which I was sure wouldn't work), but I'll be damned it did! I am still eating tons, gained 70 pounds in a year and a half. The dreams are crazy on Geodon, I sometimes can't tell if I'm awake or asleep if it's early in the morning or I'm tired, have almost peed the bed on many occassions. However, compared to the side-effects of Depakote (my second option), or Lithium, it is very tolerable. | F | 32 | 2 years 160 1X day | 4/9/2010 | 1 | bipolar/severe depression | dizzy, sensitivity to light(I couldn't watch TV because the motion and the light made my eyes and head throb.) SEVERE panic/rage attack..I felt like my body was going to explode limb from limb, nausea, I only took it 4 days and my vision is blurry for things up close. I twitched so hard I actually thought someone tapped twice on my shoulder. I turned around and nobody was there. very weird. | I took it with 50mg Pristiq and I take 1 or 2 klonopin per day also, and ambien for sleep. I started with 40mg Geodon, and it didn't bother me, and I slept well, so I followed doctor's orders and increased to 80, which made me pretty miserable.. all of the above symptoms...I tried 80 in the morning too, and that was one of the worst mistakes of my life. I couldn't sleep, but couldn't move either. I was being tortured inside my own body. I wanted that pill out of me. I would have made myself puked but it was already digested. I suffered that whole day, and then decided I can't take it anymore.... and that night, I didn't sleep at all... it threw me into a mania I've never felt. I feel like I got in a car wreck. Be careful with this drug. I've tried 6-7 different depression meds, a few benzodiazipines, a few mood stabilizers, and a few sleep meds, and this has to be in the top five most powerful drugs. I'm afraid for tonight and tomorrow. | M | 27 | 4 days 80mg 2X day | 4/8/2010 | 1 | anti social and severe depression. | I don't know where to start. The weird thing is that the first 2 weeks that I took it I was completely fine just a little drowsy. In just 2 weeks my doctor put me from 40 mg to 80 mg. I can honestly say that Geodon is the worst med that I've ever takin next to halodol and risperdal. I am usually anxious but this took it onto a whole other level. I was pacing back and forth with anxiety like I've never seen or heard of. I can honestly say that I wanted to go and jump off a freakin cliff on this med. I personally wouldn't recomend it to anyone. Also around the second time that I take it at 5:00 and after I take it is when the anxiety hits the hardest. Anxiety and feeling like everything is going wrong is the most common feeling I can think of. Like others have said be carefull on this drug its very very powerfull. | I am currently on my first day off the midication. I quit completely I can't go through another day of that hell. I have noticed feeling very tense and sort of anxious but nothing like what I was feeling while I was on it. I can tell you that this drug is definitely not for everyone. | M | 24 | 1X day | 4/3/2010 | 3 | BiPolar | Had severe mania before starting this med. Was on Lithium,but had terrible weight gain on that so I was taken off Lithium. Taking Geo-Don now 2x a day. Have been very thirsty,dry mouth. Water can't seem to satisfy my thirst.If I take 1st dose in morning, then I get zoned out and too foggy to do anything, not even able to drive when I take it in am, as the drug seems to take affect in 2 hours. Only lost a little weight so far, but I am willing to put up with the side effects if it will help lose the weight that Lithium caused. Not really too hungry either, which is good.Anxious to see the long term effects. | F | 43 | 5 weeks 80 mg 2X day | 3/31/2010 | 5 | Bipolar 2 | Loss of appitiete, dry mouth, jaw clinching, drowzy if taken during he day | I feel great. I am taking this with the combination of cymbalta. Feel a little manic ut I like that because I am usually very depressed and cant get out of bed. Can't take during the day. Dr. told me to take 60mg plus 60mg at night. Works great for me. Love the loss of appitiete. Jaw clinching and dry mouth not so much, but very manageable. | F | 36 | 7 weeks 120 mg 1X day | 3/15/2010 | 4 | Physhosis | Rapid/severe weight loss, nausea, aches, some anxiety | My son takes this & it has helped with his phychosis. ALL drugs of this type have side effects. You have to decide if the benefits outweigh the side effects. | M | 18 | 2 months 80mg 1X day | 3/14/2010 | 5 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | Weight loss. Food tastes really awful to me on Geodon. I no longer enjoy eating. That has helped me to lose weight. | All symptoms of schizophrenia are gone. I am only taking 20 mg once daily. Glad to be on such a low dose. | F | 24 | 1 years 20mg 1X day | 3/11/2010 | 3 | Paranoia | had periods of restlessness I couldn't sit still for 2 seconds. I had to leave work very embarrassing. | I quit after I passed out and got rushed to the hospital. | M | 52 | 1 years 30mg 2X day | 3/11/2010 | 3 | Bipolar disorder | Weight gain, drowsiness | I was in a different country when I had my psychotic attack and they put me on the strongest thing they could get their hands on, Zyprexa. I had significant weight gain, although I needed it desperately, but I was also a vegetable. | F | 24 | 4 months 100 1X day | 3/11/2010 | 2 | Severe Depression/Anger | I also took Geodon with Wellbutrin, and for the first few weeks Geodon seemed to make me feel better. I took it in the morning and generally felt sort of sedated but it was tolerable. Then, I started having severe panic attacks out of the blue: my heart would speed up to 170+ bpm, I'd pour sweat, and I'd feel extreme fear and anxiety - the worst I've ever felt in my life. It would happen the same time every day, which was a result of the medicine being metabolized. I also developed a heart-rhythm abnormality that had to be monitored closely by the MD. | I kept taking Geodon, as I wanted to get better and I trusted my MD...but the panic episodes increased in duration, then my skin became coarse/bumpy and rough, I gained 25 pounds, and I broke out in horrible cysts/pimples as my skin became severely oily (was very odd!), my hair also became coarse, dry, and started to thin in the front (and I had beautiful hair/skin.) All these side-effects, the heart-issues, along with the panic attacks caused me to stop taking Geodon. I also dumped that MD as I felt like she was more interested in "experimenting" on me rather than helping my depression! After 2 months off, my skin/hair were back to normal and the horrible, crippling attacks were a distant memory...I'd stay far away from the drug if you have other options you've not tried. | F | 33 | 4 months 40 mg 1X day | 3/11/2010 | 4 | Bipolar II | The first six months were hell, I've never felt crazier - high anxiety, constant nightmares of falling over the edge of cliffs, buildings. Weird. Too much med at the wrong time of day makes you feel oddly tense and tired at the same time. | After six months I felt much better, when I combined it with Lamictal to lower the dosage from 160mg to 60-80mg, via 20mg in the morning with lamictal and 40-60 at night. Still feel a little anxiety when my life is quiet, but when occupied with something i don't notice it. Causes me to sleep 9 hours a night. If I take it from 6:30-7:30pm I fall sleep around 9:15pm, but take it later and I don't get sleepy until 11:30 or later (but still sleep 9 hours.) Dropping to 40 at night on Friday night reduces the anxiety for the next few days, but must return to 60 at night most of the time, or become manic/depressed. | M | 39 | 3 years 60-80 1X day | 2/28/2010 | 4 | Bipolar I Disorder | Extreme somnolence, blurry vision, loss of appetite, increased thirst, jaw clenching | Geodon is an add-on medication for me. My base mood stabilizer is Lithium, but it isn't enough on its own to control my moods. I began taking Geodon as 40MG in the morning and 40 at night. The somnolence and blurred vision were so bad that I couldn't function. So, my psychiatrist instructed me to take all 80MG at night. This helped tremendously. No more somnolence. I still have some blurry vision, but it's not nearly as bad as it was. I have gained a lot of weight due to other medications, so I have no complaints about the loss of appetite. I am still eating well on Geodon. The increased thirst is annoying, but I do not feel forced to drink water excessively to compensate. I'm drinking about 80oz per day and sweating much of that out when I go to the gym. The jaw clenching just started about a week ago and it is also annoying, but so far not anything I can't handle. I am feeling great overall and think I have finally found the right combination of medications to treat my illness. | F | 31 | 80MG 1X day | 2/23/2010 Patient History | 5 | Mixwd Episode | I had my first mixed episode in years. Completely went off the deep end. Geodon leved me out immediately. I have a lot of energy but not manic. Like many others I lost my appetite, but I make sure I eat 3 meals a day and very healthy. No sugar, no flour. It keeps the nausea away. The only down side is I have a little anxiety at night. I feel human again and I don't feel like playing around with new meds. I think the anxiety will go away once I adjust. | F | 34 | 7 days 20 2X day | 2/22/2010 | 5 | bipolar 1, sleep | weight loss, no appetite, general agitation, twitching | I have been on Geodon for about three weks now and I have been manic bipolar for as long as I can remember. I started taking 60 mg of geodon at 6:30pm and 60 mg at 9pm for calming my manic moods and letting me sleep better. I am mostly manic and combined with 3 mg of Lunesta I can sleep a good 5 hours without waking up at all. That's the best sleep that I've gotten in years. I am a chronic insomniac and I find that this combo works best instead of having to take 400 mg's of Benadryl or 6 or 9 mg of Lunesta. I find that it has mild sedative effects that I really find to be the most help to my mania but agitation was increased by a minorly noticeable amount when taken during the day. | M | 23 | 21 days 60 2X day | 2/18/2010 | 4 | Depression, OCD, Panic Disorder | Runny nose, difficulty speaking, quivering in the muscles of my jaw and legs. | I wanted to update my submission from 1/27/10. I have now been taking Geodon for one month and have noticed a few side effects. The doctor raised the dosage to 60mg. total daily but suggested I take it 20mg. at breakfast, lunch and dinner. The drug makes me really drowsy during the day and I feel like everything is in slow motion. I have trouble driving a car. My vision is off. I am having some difficulty speaking and my jaw feels stiff. I also noticed some initial quivering in the muscles of my legs when climbing stairs, and also the muscles in my jaw. The doctor said by dividing up the doses, the side effects will be fewer. He also gave me a prescription for Cogentin to counteract the side effects, but that made me VERY drowsy. Also there were some serious risks with taking Cogentin and a Tricyclic antidepressant at the same time, and I do take Anafranil. I cant function during the day if i take the medicine during the day. So I am back to taking it at night and it really knocks me out. I feel OK, but not wonderful like I did when I first started taking it. I have not gained any weight, which is a good thing. My appetite is weak. I think that I feel better on this drug than I did on Abilify or Risperdol. I really wish I didnt have to be on an antipsychotic drug in the first place but i had been having some paranoia and the doctor suggested this type of medication. | F | 50 | 1 months 20mg. 3X day | 2/18/2010 Patient History | 1 | mood stabilizer | I took it at night and couldn't get up in the morning. After several hours the next morning it had worn off and I decided to take it again. I felt like jelly. I couldn't drive, instead I had to have my husband miss school to pick up our son, and I laid on the floor for about 3 hours. I could barely move, even though I was awake (that's a horrible feeling). It finally wore off that evening, but I couldn't afford having that side effect, even if it would have lessened after a few days. | F | 27 | 1 days 40 MG 2X day | 2/14/2010 | 1 | i had 1 psychotic episode | I gained 65 pounds. I had chest pain and high sugar. I feel the drug was killing me leading me down to the diabetes road. | F | 39 | 7 years 40 mg 2X day | 2/13/2010 |