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 | Bipolar Disorder | grogginess, some initial anxiety | I have only been on for one month and this is how I can summarize the change in my life: Before I slept because I wanted to and got up because I had too, now, I sleep because I have to and get up because I want too, amazing, how productive I am and just an overall decent well being - finally looking forward to life | F | 48 | 30 days | 11/19/2009 | 3 | bipolar disorder, bpd | when i take it in the morning i get tired about 2 hours after taking it, when i take it at night, i can stay up but when i do fall asleep i sleep good...however, my hand shaking is affecting my typing and writing and i am constantly swallowing, and when i talk i sound like im slurring my words like my tonge is heavy or something...this is the most irritating to me, i also get muscle spasms in my knees | i started taking it bc my psych told me it had some of the least amount of reported side effects and it wasnt supposed to make me drowsy but it does, but the drowsiness goes away about 4 to 6 hour after taking it...im just concerned about how im talking bc i have to speak slowly for the words to come out the way they are supposed to ...i also sumtmes say sentances backwards... | F | 25 | 12 days | 11/16/2009 | 4 | Anxiety/Depression and Panic Attack | Loss of appetite, greatly decreased sex drive, less alertness in general. | This drug definitely did calm me down... It got me through a tough time in my life. It also stopped my panic attacks. It's a good drug overall, just has some side effects that I don't like which is the reason why I am getting off of it. | M | 33 | 6 months | 11/15/2009 | 1 | Bipolar | It made me feel to good (manic)for one week.Then I woke up one morning and started walking sideways,vomited,passed out,came to and could not swallow or breath.Went to the E.R. for a shot of Kogentin to counteract the Drug from hell!(Geodon) | I was prescribed this drug because I was having mixed episodes.When i started Geodon i flipped into mania.Like an idiot i kept taking it for the high flying ride.After one week of taking it, the symptoms i mentioned hit hard. | F | 40 | 1 weeks | 11/12/2009 | 1 | Schizophrenia | Complete and utter loss of appetite | I took Geodon for about 3 weeks. After about the third day I could not eat. I'd try to eat something and it would make me want to throw up. It was horrible. The only thing I could tolerate was water. I would try to eat foods I really liked and I couldn't do it, I'd just want to vomit. It got to the point that even looking at food would make me want to hurl. I lost a lot of weight in those 3 weeks. I couldn't deal with it, so I called my doctor and told her what was happening. She did some blood tests and I was off the medication in a flash. I was switched to Seroquel. | F | 37 | 3 weeks | 11/8/2009 | 2 | Hypomania | HYPOMANIA, dry mouth, clanging, lack of appetite, insomnia. | This is strange, but I am more hypomanic than usual. I cannot stop thinking of cool things to say and am saying them even more often. I could write them all down here, but it would drive you ( ). I've given it six days. The two first days I couldn't stop sleeping. When that wore off I felt relaxed. Then the mania hit sharp and lasted longer than usual, 20 hours. It's been six days, 40 mg twice a day. This is the first med that I've taken for my hypo; I also take lamictal xr, but it's for seizures. The numbers just didn't add up. I see my doc on Tuesday. Don't worry, I stopped taking it this morning. | F | 41 | 6 days | 10/31/2009 | 5 | Psychotic episode/schizoaffective | Cognitive blunting, spending money, sleepy, fatigue. Took 80 mg at night with supper. Was supposed to help me sleep. | It took away my psychosis. Got my irrational thinking back to reality. Avoided the weight gain of risperadol b/c doctor changed me. I have had hypoglycemia all my life and it often left me incapacitated. This brought my sugar up to normal. It was a godsend. I would caution others about it though because it obviously raised my sugar quite a bit. But if you were below normal like me, then it did a good job of getting sugar to normal levels. | F | 42 | 2.5 years | 10/27/2009 | 1 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Horrible side effects included extreme agitated somnolence/Akathisia. These side effects were so severe I would describe them as my idea of what going to hell would be. I couldn't do anything except sleep and ended up in the ER the day I returned to work because heart rate was racing and felt like I was suffocating ready to pass out. | Thankfully I stopped this immediately and my psychotic symptoms have not returned. I've broken a hip and ruptured my achilles tendon before and I would rather go through that then feel these side effects from Geodon. | M | 29 | 3 days | 10/26/2009 | 4 | mood disorder NOS | for the first few weeks I was very tired on geodon. I learned that if I take it every 8 hours I can avoid any withdrawal and remain stable. If I don't take it every 8 hours I get irritated, sad, a little angry and nervous too. | Getting used to this drug was tricky but so far has been worth it. After a few dosing increases and finding the right times of the day to take it, I am feeling much more stable, even good. The sleepiness has pretty much gone away and I've had 2 good stable weeks for the first time in a long time. I have paranoid thoughts that can be very scary and geodon has helped curb this. I am functioning well in school and at work. I take 80 mg at 6:30am and 80 mg at 3:00pm and then 160 mg at 10:00pm. It has taken some time to figure out how much to take and when to take it but I am finally satisfied. I think a lot of the symptoms people have are of the drug wearing off between the 8-12 hour mark... this is just my guess but I think keeping geodon in your system at a steady rate will significantly decrease the bad side effects (which might just be the beginning of withdrawal from the drug). This has been the case for me anyway. I'm glad I stuck it out with geodon... sometimes I wanted to give up on it but I know that I'm improving with it. It feels really good to be stable. | F | 27 | 3 months | 10/24/2009 | 1 | bi polar | shaky, nauseated, vomiting, hard time falling asleep, very easily irritated, angry HATE THIS DRUG! | I have been on this for three weeks and tonight...im not taking another pill. I get nauseated and vomit for no reason at all...once in my car while driving. I am very shaky and get chills (at this very moment im shaking like crazy) after reading all the other comments i just wanted to add one more saying this is the WORST drug i've ever taken! | F | 23 | 3 weeks | 10/16/2009 | 4 | Social Anxiety | Blurred Vision, exhaustion, feeling hungover | The first couple days I started taking Geodon I felt really hungover, like I have never ever been before. It only lasted 2 days and then I felt great. I would just lay around before taking it and now I get up and feel like I have a purpose and get things done. You really just need to give this drug some time to work. I feel stable now. My appetite has been curbed which was an unexpected gain. I have been on xxanx and lexapro for years and finally I feel like Geodon is a breath of fresh air. Give you body time to get through the side effects and it will adjust. My one warning is not to take this during or before you have things to do. I wait until I get home from work, even if it is late to take my Geodon. I took it a few times at dinner time as prescribed but felt like I was going to pass out at work and the whole ride home I thought I was going to fall asleep at the wheel even after several cups of coffee. This will work for you if you give it time, the side effects at first may be awful enough to make you want to stop, but let it work for a month and you will see a differece. | F | 24 | 3 months | 10/14/2009 | 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 | Bipolar II | Severe depression, suidical thoughts, extreme drowsiness, felt shaky/trembly, eyes "funny" - couldn't focus on details like I could before | This is an update to my previous post of 9/11/09 where I raved about Geodon. I was only taking 20mg once a day, at night. Not long after my raving review, I descended into a hellish depression of the magnitude I used to suffer before I was ever even on antidepressants at all. I can't describe the hell this drug has been for me. Now it has been over a week since I stopped taking it, and I am STILL suffering. This is truly scary for me. How can taking the minimum tiny dose of a med for 2 and 1/2 weeks mess someone up this bad? I have no idea when I'm ever going to be better. I had a bad experience with Lamictal 2 years ago where I experienced suicidal depression, but it didn't take this long to go away after I stopped taking it. So here I am, over a week off the drug, and I am still struggling with depression, despite still being on Lexapro. I don't know what this med did to my brain, and that scares me. At least the shaking/trembly feeling seems to have gone. But the sleepiness of having to take a nap every day, the anxiety/morbid thoughts, and depression are still with me. This is HELL. This is worse than whatever bipolar symptoms I was going thru. Now I'm scared to try any more drugs for fear of continually going thru this. Why would I??? I feel like some insignificant lab rat/guinea pig. | F | 44 | 17 days | 9/27/2009 | 2 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Memory loss (example can't remember how I got home), ED, loss of ambition, weight gain, oily skin, sweating, fever, difficulty sleeping and difficulty speaking. | Geodon is better than Zyprexa but not by much. It scares me a lot when I can't remember if I dreamed that I did something or actually did it. I can only take 80mg a day. The doctor tried to increase me to 100mg and I felt like I was having a continuos anxiety attack. I have to take 40mg in the morning and 40mg at night if I don't I go through withdrawal. It feels like a really bad flu. | M | 38 | 6 years | 9/21/2009 | 1 | borderline personality disorder | SEVERE TERRIBLE AKATHISIA-WORSE THEN RISPERDAL | WOULD NEVER TAKE AGAIN. DOCTORS TOTALLY TRY TO COVER UP THE SIDE EFFECT AKATHISIA WHEN TALKING TO THEM. IT MAKES ME FURIOUS. I WOULD NEVER TAKE THIS MEDICINE AGAIN. | M | 29 | 6 days | 9/20/2009 | 4 | Bipolar | When taking 80 mg twice a day, I had extreme twitching of my hands and fingers. Loss of appetite. | I guess the medicine is working but the twitching is still there but not as extreme cuz the dosage was reduced to 40 mg twice a day. Still a little concerned with the loss of appetite. Don't get me wrong, I need to lose 20lbs put on from other meds but I need nutrition. So I have to make myself eat but I fill up fast. | F | 39 | 30 days | 9/16/2009 | 5 | Bipolar II | Feel trembly; loss of appetite; eyes felt funny first couple days; stiff muscles first couple days; light-headed first couple days; had gnawing hunger first couple days | I'm on 20mg. I LOVE THIS MED!!! I feel for the first time in my life - other than in my manias - that I am living in a dream; that I can now actually get basic things in my life I have wanted for so long. Things I couldn't do because I was always sleeping or depressed from bipolar depressions. My appetite changed, which is great because I'm very overweight. It didn't go away; eating just doesn't feel as necessary to me. I don't taste things as vividly as before. It's very hard to eat a lot of food. I'm very outgoing, more than before. I have what I call more "emotional energy". I do still have the trembly feeling in my hands and arms even though I'm not visibly shaking. Finding it hard to focus intensely on small visible details for very long as I was able to before. Hands are a little sweaty. Don't need as much sleep. I began feeling better practically the 2nd day on Geodon. And I'm only on 20mg. It's like, can I finally have the basic, decent life and functioning I've wanted all my life, but that eluded me? I hope so!!! | F | 44 | 10 days | 9/11/2009 | 5 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | Please see my 1/20/08 posting. I'm writing to give update. I no longer hear voices at all and have been able to reduce my dose. Taking A.M. dose at 1:00 P.M. helps give me the morning hours to run errands and do things with a clear mind. Must leave 8-8 1/2 hours between doses though or else muscle cramps in shoulders. This might be due to fibromyalgia though. A note to schizophrenics, age usually ameliorates symptoms so hang in there. This is discussed in book "Surviving Schizophrenia. P.S. I am no longer a Paranoid Schizophrenic, I only have Residual Schizophrenia. I hope this helps to give others hope. | F | 38 | 5 years | 9/8/2009 | 4 | Bi-polar | Restlessness, insomnia, tardive dyskinesia | I take 80mg. I started getting restless when my doc bumped me to 120mg, but since took me down to 80mg. If any one has the same symptoms, have your doctor prescribe propranolol. It helps a lot. My doctor thinks my insomnia comes from other sources, but it's the Geodon. I sleep okay with benedryl. | F | 36 | 5 months | 9/4/2009 | 1 | Bipolar 2 | drowsiness, inattentiveness, sore throat, random pain/cramps on wrists and arms, dry mouth, euphoria, anxiety, irritability, panic and hallucinations. | Geodon not for those with BP2! I was on geodon for three days and had terrible side effects. I took the medication to help me sleep before bed and I woke up incredibly drowsy. I had a difficult time driving to work in the morning and staying awake during work meetings. On the third day, all hell broke loose. I experienced extreme highs and towards the evening anxiety, high blood pressure, panic and hallucinations. I stopped taking it that night. On the fourth day, I felt very foggy, irritable and slow. I have read that the medication is highly addictive and very difficult to wean off--I believe it. I know I was only on the medication for three days, but I did not feel myself during that time. I have read from those with BP2 that geodon was not very effective. | F | 30 | 3 days | 8/29/2009 |