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 |
| 1 | Bi-Polar mood stabilization | Horrible experiance: 1 week after I started taking Geodon I started experiancing lightheadedness, cold and hot surges through my entire body, tingling in my face, weak muscles, my limbs felt like lead. I had difficulty smiling, tense jaw muscles, overall feeling of being disconnected to everything. | This is a horrible drug. | F | 27 | 2 weeks | 11/28/2008 | 1 | Mood Disorder | At first this medication seemed to help, within the first few days. Now after taking it for 2 1/2 months I am in a constant state of an anxiety attack. People ask what I am having anxiety over and I don't even know. I am nervous about EVERYTHING. The drug does help me sleep. I have gained over 20 pounds. My face breaks out with these huge cysts or boils, whatever you want to call them. I don't even recognize who I am anymore inside or out. I have a constant attitude and am irritated with everything around me ALL the time. When I have my menses my insides smell like they are rotting. I am on 140 milligrams and am slowly taking my self off this awful medication regardless of what my doctor recommends. At least before I would have spells of happiness. | I would never recommend anyone start this horrific medicine. I feel as if I am being haunted and people are running around me. No joke. One of the main side effects of this drug is seizures. All the others I have had to deal with are unbearable to live with. I used to be a beautiful woman. I now look like a monster and cant fit into any of my clothes. I just want to know who I am again that is why I am stopping this medicine. I dont care what my doctor says. When I see him next time I will let him know I will no longer be his guinea pig for these horrific medicines he so likes to 'try' on me. | F | 34 | 2 months | 11/26/2008 | 2 | bipolar II/severe depression | I stayed a few days in the crisis rehab unit at the hospital, where I started taking Geodon. I'm not sure of the doseage, as I was too tired from insomnia to ask. I experienced nausea and drowsiness the first night. The second day, my doseage was increased, and during exercise time I could not maintain my balance. Later, my neck cramped up horribly, and my head was basically stuck on its side, all while I was in gut-wrenching pain. I was given adrenaline and benadryl to calm the cramping, but I blacked out before it could start working. When I awoke, I promptly threw up everything in my stomach. In the midst of all of this, the nurses were scared senseless that I was having a stroke, but it turned out to be the Geodon. I experienced one of the worst possible reactions to the drug. Needless to say, the medication was discontinued immediately. | I'm only writing this to make people aware of the kinds of side effects that they might experience. I have no opinion whatsoever as to whether the medication works or not -- I wasn't on it long enough to tell. All I know is that I had a very adverse reaction to the drug, and I will refuse it if it is given to me ever again. | M | 22 | 2 days | 11/23/2008 | 2 | GAD, mild OCD | extreme adjustment to temperatures, also had wired/tired feelings with Effexor XR | First prescribed for sleep. Geodon does nothing for GAD and OCD. Continuing to take because I don't want to go through withdrawal. Doctor is going to switch me over to Abilify. If it doesn't work I will begin treatment with Pristiq. | M | 31 | 2 years | 11/18/2008 | 2 | anxiety disorder and bi-polar | I started to have my hands shaking in the first week then my eye uncontrollably twitching the second week I started to have uncontrollable body movement's then finally I started to have my chest hurting from time to time and my head ringing. | The medication did help me with my sleeping and anxiety but the side effects never went away after months of non-use. I kept taking this drug even after telling the doctor what I was experiencing due to the fact they told me the side effects would eventually go away. I am still telling my doctor I am taking this medication with my others even though I am not due to the fact of not wanting to have arguments about the side effect's this medication is VERY damaging to the nervous system I think. Due to the fact I can not never keep my hands from shaking and my eye from twitching. In the future I see a huge class action law suite. Shame on them for pushing such a drug!! | M | 29 | 3 months | 11/8/2008 | 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 | 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 | 1 | psychotic symptoms, auditory,visual | blurred vision, inability to concentrate and focus, diminished sex drive, inability to orgasm, jaw clenching, loss of appetite, somnolence, shakiness, twitching, rash, anxiety, stomach pain, nightmares, racing thoughts. | created by Satan himself as far as I am concerned. Horrible experience for me. may work well for others though. | F | 26 | 2 months | 11/5/2008 | 1 | manic depression | HATE THIS MED!! had constant anxiety from day 1 on 80 mg. fatigue. having trouble w/right arm going numb. wanted to crawl right out of my skin!! had trouble gripping anything in right hand...and i'm right handed!!so dr upped it to 120 to calm anxiety and had full blown, thru the roof anxiety attacks all day long and uncontrollable shaking in hands. its so bad anti anxiety meds aren't working. switching back to abilify. NEVER TOUCHING THIS DRUG AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 27 | 9 days | 10/30/2008 | 2 | mixed state bopolar | loss of appetite, tremors, nervousness, jumpy (and not in a playful, happy way), difficulty typing/writing, handling small objects - motor skills markedly deteriorated, trippy feeling that just won't go away, loud and uncensored, which is not like me. | I've only been taking this for 9 days so I'm going to give it some time. The feeling of being on acid was fun the first couple of days, but come ON. I am hyperfocused, riveted in fact, by the colors, textures, people aroung me. This is at the expense of being able to multitask, which isn't good since I work with young children. I'm going to stick with this for a while, see if the side effects simmer down. The hand tremors is what's getting to me. My pdoc gave me something for those. Am also taking Lamictal 300mg, lexapro 15 mg, ambien at night. God this sucks but it's still better than the alternative. It's a good thing I work with kids, so I can act as insane and kooky as I want or need to, and nobody bats an eye! | F | 40 | 9 days | 10/23/2008 | 3 | Bipolar Depression | extreme fatigue, not being able to wake up in the morning, clenched jaw,nausea, inability to concentrate and inability to adapt to temperature changes. | I wish I wasn't as sleepy with this med, but I find that it helps if you take the med with food. I haven't noticed that much of a change in my depression. I'm also on wellbutrin for depression. | F | 26 | 4 weeks | 10/8/2008 | 5 | bipolar voices | I am ubnable to take it in the morning, it knocks me out. I can take it at night and stay up though. | geodon saved my life. I had a very bad nervous breakdown after the death of my daughter. geodon brought me out of that depression, I quit smoking and drinking and now only take geodon. | F | 43 | 6 years | 10/6/2008 | 3 | Anxiety/Depression | I started taking this medicine after trying Abilify. I gained over 15 lbs. immediately with Abilify. I initially started Geodon at dinner as my doctor told me it worked best when taken with food. However, I believe this made it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep. I was very drowsy, no doubt the lack of sleep. My husband suggested I try it at lunch, and that made a world of difference! | After switching to taking this medicine at lunch I have experienced very little side effects. I now take the lowest dose possible. Higher doses made me feel lethargic. But I do encourage anyone having similar trouble with sleeping or feeling so tired to try taking it a lunch. That fixed a great deal of my issues with Geodon. I also take this med with 75 mg of Lamictal. | F | 26 | 1 years | 10/5/2008 | 1 | Supposedly Bipoloar Disorder..Not | For the last 10 years I have been told that my depression and body pain is all in my head, so I took the advice of my doctors and took nearly every SSRI, Bipolar Drug, and the new ones for fibromyalgia...until I had the Igenex test for Lyme. I developed Tardive Diskensia..feeling like I was tripping on LSD, with tics, muscle spasms,panic attacks, anxiety attacks,GI symptoms, Geodone also made hair fall out,many sent me to ER with severe adverse reactions, including near death, I certainly wanted to die with these adverse reactions. I never attempted to harm myself nor anyone! | Classic presentation of Lyme 1998 Dr. said 2 weeks antibiotics, got over flu and lymph symptoms thought I was cured, not. Needless hysterectomy 1999, IBS, Fibromyalgia Chronic Fatigue 2000,depression, personality disorder, 2001. muscle spasms, twitching, anxiety, insomnia... April 2007 hospitalized 4 times in psych ward, voluntary, right, Three of those times I had been rushed to the ER with severe adverse effects and awoke in the psych ward. I had bleeding gums, sores in my mouth, hair loss, psychosis, mania, severe edema, so bad that they diagnosed me with venous stasis...blood not flowing in my legs. Each head doctor had a different diagnosis: PTSD, Somatiform Pain Disorder,Chronic Depression, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, IBS, 2 colonoscopies, 2 head mri's, heart work up, knee block,spinal block, and now...Bipolar with mania and psychosis. The medications have caused this. Google the NY Times article on antipsychotics, geodone is in this class as well as Lithium, nearly died | F | 43 | 2 months | 10/5/2008 | 1 | Bipolar 2 and anxiety | restlessness, panic, can't think, talk, swallow, or move, weakness, can't grip anything (i.e. door handle) emotionless, face numb; hard to smile... etc... | I haven't taken any med's for my bipolar in almost a year. I'm a recovering alcoholic/addict and been clean 10 months. Went to a new psych doc yesterday and he prescribed me 160 mg.'s to be taken once a day with food. I NEARLY JUMPED OUT OF MY SKIN! all the while feeling so tired. I panicked because i had NO control over my thoughts or feelings. and felt physically paralyzed!! I slept for 13 hoursstraight, and just now am feeling better enough to move and can think a little. Still feel fuzzy/foggy, SLOW, and restless. I WILL NOT TAKE THIS AGAIN! (i realize now that my doctor just prescribed me 2x the highest dose!! andthat it might work for people in smaller doses, but I am too scared to try it again in ANY dose!!! :( ) | F | 28 | 1 days | 9/30/2008 | 2 | bipolar,rage,insomnia,anxiety,etc.. | where to begin, EXTREME insomnia , EXTREME vertigo.shaking,feels like my skin crawling . anxiety, rage intolerable,hyper-mania, go go go go go crashhhhh burnnn. yelling at people (not usual)i could actually hurt someone if they even looked at me sideways and that is not normal for me . i withdraw usually from confrontation, not on this, buddy. | not very nice, no sexual side effects (only decent thing in comparison to other similar meds) , taking a low dose also so i cant imagine a higher dose. been on for 3 weeks not prob with sleeping i also take flexeril,lexapro,ultram, elavil,Motrin 800, | F | 31 | 3 weeks | 9/29/2008 | 4 | Bipolar II/Depression | I've only been on this medicine for a week and yes I have manic episodes every night, but I don't mind it yet...I get to do alot that I didn't do before. Yes, it makes me tired in the mornings after I take it the night before. But honestly, I've been on Lamictal, Topomax, Paxil CR, Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, Nortriptyline and this is the ONLY med that has made me feel "good" and "normal"...I'm on 20 mg - 2x/day and XANAX .5 mg 2x/day. The two together work WONDERFUL. | My doctor also told me before I started taking it that I would feel really really tired at first then after a couple of days I would probably go into a manic phase, but said that it would "level out" after awhile, but to be patient. And I plan to do so because this is the first time in a LONG LONG LONG TIME (25 years) that I actually want to STAY on a medicine!!! :D | F | 41 | 1 weeks | 9/8/2008 | 2 | PTSD, BPD, depression, anorexia | hypomania, panic, disassociation, lack of focus, morning sleepiness. [also taking celexa 10mg and lithium 600mg] | i am SO happy i found this site. i thought i was going even crazier than i already am. only been taking 20mg nightly for 5 days, so was going to stick it out, but now i feel validated and plan to stop. have been completely unable to get out of bed in the morning. general lack of focus throughout the day. the worst part tho, is nightly boughts of mania. i've never had this before- i'm getting lots done like cleaning, doing dishes, organizing, etc! but completely unable to sit and get things like *my job* done. also experiencing ful blown panic attacks. will definitly talk to doctor now about discontinuing this medication. | F | 34 | 5 days | 8/29/2008 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | Extreme drowsiness at first but that subsided. Loss of appetite, I always feel full. A little bit of drowsiness in the morning. I get dizzy really easily and I have a hard time controlling my body temp. | I love this medicine. It has made a huge difference in the few weeks that I have been taking it. I will accept the mild side effects for the advatages. I've lost some of the 60 lbs that I gained on Seroquel. I can focus now and I am able to organize my day without feeling hung over. :) | F | 25 | 4 weeks | 8/27/2008 | 3 | PTSD, anxiety | taken it for 3 nights and about 2 hours after I take it, I get manic---not my norm. I also take Inderal, because Geodon tends to make me hyper and ancy. Even taking the Klonopin and Inderal concurrently, the 20mg Geodon makes me hyper, a few years back I was on 80mg and was crawling out of my skin--I won't let that happen again. The less meds, the better for me. | I want to give this a try, I learned about the PTSD cocktail , but would like to know if Vistaril is better at working than Klonopin. I take: Celexa 10mg 1mg Klonopin 3x a day 20mg Geodon at night for now Inderal 10-20mg night Concerned about the heart related problems associated with the use of Geodon--don't need that because I smoke too, and one thing at a time. | F | 38 | 3 days | 8/14/2008 |