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 |
| 4 | GAD | initially extreme tiredness, sleepiness and difficulty adjusting body temperature in hot weather. | overall helped with insomnia due to effexor xr and anxiety. Took some time to adjust to the medicine. Enjoyed the sleepiness. Currently take 40mg at bedtime along with Elavil. | M | 30 | 2 years | 8/3/2008 | 4 | unspecified mood disorder/psychosis | sweaty palms, elevated mood, talkative, slight tremor, sleepiness/drowsiness at night | I am taking 20mg of Geodon twice a day along with 36mg of Concerta in the morning and .5mg of Klonopin twice a day. I also take 20mg of Inderal up to three times a day for tremor and anxiety. During the day, or shortly after taking Geodon, I experience borderline symptoms of mania - excessive talking, wanting to spend money, feeling bouncy, elevated heart rate, etc. I am happier now than I have been in a while but I am also on a 10-day trial for this medicine. So we are not sure if it is the one for me. I think Geodon is an excellent medication so far...my suicidal thoughts have decreased greatly and I want to get out and do things. I don't feel sad or depressed anymore. =) | F | 17 | 5 days | 7/28/2008 | 3 | sczhiophrenia | When I began taking this drug my beard turned green and I had a constant erection in addition to my wisdom teeth growing back and every watch I strapped to my wrist seemed to stop dead within three days. I have continued to take this drug for many years and have since shaved off my beard, had my new wisdom teeth pulled, began carrying a pocket watch and now I live in a brothel. | M | 38 | 7 years | 7/24/2008 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder/Anxiety Disorder | Hypomania since starting med. Loss of apetite. Periods ceased. Agitation and restlessness most likely from the hypomania. Increased spending and talking all from the hypomania. I did lose my job though because concentration just isn't there. But I am on Social Security Disability. | To me, the benefits outweigh the side effects. I have been active, creative, and feeling better since taking Geodon. I am unable to nap or fall asleep so I do take 3mg. Ativan at night and that lets me sleep. I've actually been doing things and enjoying them. I have lost 30 pounds of the 40 I gained while on resperidol. I have been on 55 different combinations of meds and this is by far the best one! | F | 51 | 6 months | 7/22/2008 | 1 | diagnosed manic depressive | About three weeks after I began taking Geodon, I began to experience twitches in my right leg. Shortly after that, I lost neurological control of my right leg, and began a downhill battle that left me thinking that I was going to be disabled for the rest of my life. I told my psychiatrist about it and he just brushed it off. I myself thought my condition was related to the Geodon, so I stopped taking the med. against the advisement of my dr. The symptoms slowly, slowly, slowly began to go away, but i never lost the abnormal gate. The Dr. said to take the med. it wasn't causing my problem. As soon as I took it, the symptoms became worse. I was 34 yrs. old, and I was using a walker to get around. It was so embarrasing to go anywhere in public. I immediately stopped the med. and i am now symptom free. I stopped taking it in Aug. of 2007. | F | 35 | 1.5 years | 7/16/2008 | 3 | Bipolar disorder | I have just started using Geodon (prescribed on Saturday) and have been having a terrible time getting up and fully waking up in the morning. I don't dare drive because I can fall back to sleep in an instant. At the same time my whole body feels jittery and I can't STAY asleep. Is any of this similar to what others have experienced? Candace | F | 60 | 5 days | 7/15/2008 | 5 | Bipolar I disorder | I do tend to get a tense upper back, neck and jaw, but have found yoga exercises very helpful with that; I am more in touch with spontaneous emotions than on any other drug I have been on for bipolar and so feel like myself; however, this means I do have to deal with some of my easy frustration now. | I take 40 mgs. twice a day and have benefited greatly in that this drug does not make me drowsy. I am really surprised to read so many people sleep so much on it. They must be on a significantly higher dosage than I am. I also find it easier to exercise on this drug, as it does not inhibit sweating the way that many atypical antipsychotics do. I am very satisfied with this drug. | F | 44 | 7 months | 7/14/2008 | 2 | Mood Disorder/Severe Anxiety/ADHD | eyes move side-to-side really fast, no focus, grogginess, heavy feeling in chest (hard to breathe), anxiety worsened, very sensitive to hot/cold temperature | F | 28 | 2 weeks | 7/8/2008 | 1 | Bipolar | twitching, loss of words, killed my sex drive, cant wake up in the morning unless I have had 10 hours of sleep, SEVERE ANXIETY! | I have a panic attack every other day. I am unable to make decisions because I am so anxious. I had one of the worst panic attacks of my life because of this drug! If that isnt bad enough I have random twitching in my legs all the time. If I dont get more then 10 hrs of sleep I m exhausted the next day to the point that I fall asleep driving. I have to be moving one part of my body all the time or even when I am sleeping. When I missed a dose I tossed and turned the whole night, shook uncontrolably like I was freezing but I was vary hot in reality! I HATE THIS DRUG IT IS SCREWING UP MY LIFE! | F | 21 | 1 months | 7/7/2008 | 3 | bipolar | drowsiness, headache, fever, chills, weird eye movements, strange high sensation, anxiety. | F | 39 | 3 months | 6/14/2008 | 1 | Skitsophrenia | Extreme insomnia, Racing thoughts at night, Extreme Anxiety, Thoughts of suicide, Restlessness, Weight loss, Jumping out of my skin at people. | Geodon literally almost took my life yesterday. Apparently Lexapro and Geodon either work wonderfully together, or terrible together. Sadly, it worked terribly for me. Please, for the sake of your life ( and sleep ), consider things with your doctor before taking this medication. I have battled with mental illnesses for 6 yrs. now, and yesterday was by far the scariest day of my life. We notified our pharmacist, and he told me to drink as much fluids as possible, just so that I could get the Geodon out of my system. Day three of being off of it, and I see the sun again :) | M | 15 | 8 days | 6/10/2008 | 5 | Bi-Polar Type II | The only side effect thus far is sleepy in the morning, after taking Geodon the night before | Thus far, this is the first mood staboliser that I have taken that has not given me the gambet of henous side-effects, I am hopefull now. | M | 40 | 30 days | 6/7/2008 | 3 | Bipolar/ Mood stabilizer | Drowsiness, Insomnia, Forms of Orthostatic hypotension & Tardive dyskinesia | Starting this drug was hell due to the severity of the side-effects. In the beginning I felt like I had morning sickness and threw up only twice. I felt really dizzy due to Orthostatic Hypotension which makes you feel pretty bad in the mornings. This seemed to intensify if I didn’t take my 80mg dose with food, but soon this side-effect lessened. Also, if you don’t take it EVERY NIGHT at the SAME TIME you will suffer from insomnia until you take it again. I’ve only gone 2 nights without taking it and pulled all-nighters back-to-back, so if you start it keep taking it or the side-effects will come back. Furthermore, don’t do like I did and take too much before talking to your doctor first. The other night I had a rough day and took 3-80mg (240mg total) doses of the stuff and really, really regretted it. I could not stop shaking as I was suffering from a form of Tardive dykinesia. Not sure why I felt like I needed to take that much. If you’ve ever taken too m | F | 24 | 4 weeks | 6/7/2008 | 5 | bipolar mania | drowsiness and blurred vision at first | this medicine has been a lifesaver for me...it keeps me off the ceiling and able to function | F | 30 | 6 weeks | 6/4/2008 | 3 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | As any atypical, I can only sleep on the stuff. | Good for sleep while bad for trying to be awake on Geodon, as any atypical. -Ambroz www.myspace.com/quantafamily | M | 37 | 14 days | 6/1/2008 | 1 | bipolar II, generalized anxiety, | VERY SEVERE DROP IN Blood PRESSURE, Hated it, I only took it for 5 days. | F | 31 | 5 days | 5/31/2008 | 1 | bi polar and anxiety | Panic, sleepiness, dizziness, constantly hungry, bowel problems, sadness, disassociation, feeling like hell | Not really working, making me feel worse than the worst I have ever felt being bi-polar. | F | 34 | 3 days | 5/30/2008 | 3 | Racing thoughts, nightmares, PTSD | Intense drowsiness, longer sleep periods (10 hrs as opposed to my usual 7-8), difficulty waking up, general energy loss, slurred speech and communication difficulty if I didn't go to bed RIGHT after taking it | Well, frankly, it did what it was supposed to. It stopped the racing thoughts and the nightmares... By knocking me out completely and sticking me in a dreamless, hardly restful sleep. Once I had worked my way past some of the traumatic stuff, I stopped taking Geodon as soon as I could. The difficulty waking up was just too much to deal with, as well as it causing a complete inability to stay up past 10PM once my body became dependent. Was on 40mg, once daily (at night, one hour before bed). | F | 23 | 1 years | 5/23/2008 | 5 | Bipolar/Psychosis | The worst side effect of the Geodon was that it made me feel sleepy and tired all of the time but that let up a bit as treatment went on. For the first few weeks I was dazed and high but as I adjusted that too went away. | According to my doctors I developed a tolerance to the Geodon. I was very upset about that because it was the only medication to help me without making me feel worse. The medication stopped working and wouldnt even work on max dose. | F | 22 | 2 years | 5/11/2008 | 5 | bipolar 1 | Dry mouth, and now 8 months after starting it, I'm starting to shake one of my legs all the time, but that might just be anxiety | Geodon is a great drug for me. I tried risperdal for a week, and couldn't handle it. I do get dry mouth, especially in the middle of the night, but I can handle it. It keeps my moods level. I was getting more and more rages, and the geodon has controlled them. | F | 52 | 8 months | 4/30/2008 |