GEODON Reviews (ZIPRASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 2.7 (579 Ratings)

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GEODON  (ZIPRASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Ziprasidone injection is used to treat occurrences of severe agitation in patients with schizophrenia. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. Ziprasidone injection is used when quick relief of your symptoms is required. It is not used together with the form of this medication that is taken by mouth. An injection of ziprasidone works quickly to reduce tension and anxiety which, if untreated, can result in dangerous behavior and interfere with your treatment and care.   FDA Approval Date: 2001-02-05 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 1  bi-polar restlessness, could not get my day started. Didn't hear my children wake up intill my one year old was screaming. I would stand up and i would throw up could not hold any food down even if i wanted to. I went days without eating due to that feeling of being sick. I didn't sleep for days at a time and was non stop at home and work. Can't imagine why someone would even try this it's stated it is not for long term use. Why try if it is something you can't use long term??? F 23
2/15/2008
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 4  Bipolar II w/extreme mania, anxiety Heavily blurred vision (2 hours after first dose), temporarily increased anxiety, some dizziness (temporary), slightly increased irritability (temporary) In the past, I've reacted badly to Risperdal (3 months of my memory was 'wiped'), Abilify (didn't work at all), Seroquel (a lot of weight gain), Lexapro, Zoloft, Paxil (horrible weight gain), Klonopin, Xanax, Valium (years ago) and a few others I cannot recall at the moment. I'm currently on 60mg Cymbalta, 450mg Welbutrin, Lamictal, 20mg Buspar (three times daily), 150mcg Levothyroxin (for my sluggish thyroid), and insulin as needed for 'Type 1.5' diabetes. My anxiety increased due to long-term financial stresses, which made me have a near "manic break," and sleeplessness. My pdoc added 40mg Geodon morning and evening and warned me it would take a 'breaking in period.' She also warned me of the potential side-effects, but said I wouldn't gain weight on this as I had on Seroquel. (Seroquel also gave me the *worst* leg cramps and restless leg syndrome.) She also prescribed (1) 12.5 Ambien nightly, to switch off with my usual 3mg Lunesta. The first night I took Geodon, I was awa F 47 2 days
2/11/2008
 1  depression severe dry mouth,trembling and hand and leg tremors it made me feel great first 4 days then on day 5 had a very scary experience. burning sensation in my arms and legs chest tight, hard to breath and extreme paranoia.my arms and hands were shaking had no control .had to go to er. F 29 5 days
2/10/2008
 2  Bipolar and anxiety Extreme sleepiness, cannot get started in the morning. Every time I see the dr and tell him I am doing worse, he increased my dosage of Geodon and I think that it may be CAUSING me to be more depressed and anxious. Depression and anxiety are less common side effects. I found little joy in food/eating. One thinks that would be good but you don't realize how much pleasure/joy you get out of food, thinking about food, planning, and eating. It took some of the joy out of life to lose that. Anyway, I'm able to stick to a diet which I'm not complaining about. And after 50 years I stopped biting my nails without even trying. F 7 months
2/8/2008
 1  bipolar full blown mania and extreme insomnia This is the first medicine that I have ever taken that sent me into a full blown manic episode. When I say manic, I mean my mind was racing and I literally did not sleep for 4 days. I was extremely nervous and anxious. This stuff sucked bad. F 47 1 weeks
2/8/2008
 1  bipoloar II severe depression It turned me into a type 1 manic depressive....with hair loss, itching skin, felt like my skin was 80 years old, like sandpaper, took all moisture from all parts. Now been off for 6 weeks and just now off the feeling like im on acid feeling,,shocks, buzzes. Sleepiness after I eat, but cant sleep at night, mind is wide open, ran my mouth constantly, Lamictal was worse with the rashes and mouth sores to boot, but now I still have itchy head and sores all over scalp. Hair loss was extensive. Forget about sex any kind, because you will be asleep by 2pm no matter what you do, then awaken after everyone goes to sleep, and youll be up all night long. Soon as you eat...thats it, lights out. I spent 4,000 that I did not have to spend in the two months I was on it, buying stuff like crazy. I have tried this medication along with many others, by itself, and in every dose they make of it, makes no difference. Be prepared for a long withdrawal, do not stop it immediately or you will suffer worse. I wish I could toy with the brains of the people who make and sell this crap, so then they will know true psychosis. However bad you think you have it now, take geodon it will multiply quickly. F 42 3 months
1/30/2008
 5  Bipolar For about 1 week, sleepiness at 80 mg, but since then, none I currently take 40 mg in the morning and 80 mg in the evening. I was misdiagnosed as depressed with ADD until I had a major manic episode and my new doctor caught it. Since putting me on Geodon, I now have a regular sleep cycle (I used to need Ambien almost every night and now I rarely if ever take it) and my production at work has gotten amazing better. My moods are so much better and so much more controlled. I am currently not taking an antidepressant since Geodon seems to control mania as well as depression. I take Klonopin for anxiety/panic, Topamax for migraine prevention (also a mood stabilizer) and Neurotin for fibromyalgia so those may be helping as well. I haven't had any major side effects besides being sleepy the first week. Geodon is really pricey, but the cost has been well worth the benefits for me. F 30 2 months
1/27/2008
 2  schizophrenia i am on 120mg 60am 60pm, Side effects for me included extreme nausea when i first started taking it which made me puke non stop, numbness in my left hand, mainly my pinky and ring finger, an inability to hold conversations with ANYONE, even family and close friends from childhood, ive felt like i was killing my body mainly my central nervous system, inability to sleep at night, worries that i cant exercise because it feels like my heart is messed up, gained about 20 lbs, despite promises that ide lose weight.. stay far far away from this drug, and i mean FAR M 23 8 months
1/24/2008
 5  bipolar loss of sleep, tremor due to this drug or depakote i am also taking. no manic episodes. works well. M 70 3 years
1/21/2008
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 1  manic depression Schizophrenia ironically increased delusions and paranoria and hallunations. within 30 minutes of taking geodon i felt like i was going jump out of my skin. i couldnt stay still . i honestly would feel like i would die thats how bad it felt . when i was re-hospitalized while taking geodon the prescribing md insisted i be giving it again while in the hospital for observation. the hospital has video documention of the serve adverse effect geodon had on me when administered . after no longer being able to stay in bed , i paced the floor until i could no more, than sat in a chair in front of the nurses station and shook like i was being electricuted. after demanding an ativan and waiting an additional half hour i was given ativan and i felt better. the same prescribing physian told me her patients do well on haldol , we all know the side-effects of haldol. geodon is one of the worst neuroleptics and that physian was a quak ! i no longer see her , she told me if i wasnt going to take the meds she prescri geodon is as bad or worse than first generation neuroleptics such as haldol M 35 3 months
1/21/2008
 5  Paranoid Schizophrenia Hair Loss(Might be Inderol), Loss of Pleasure in Things, (Might be Schizophrenia), Loss of Words, Memory Loss, Exhaustion about four hours after taking it, Akathisia, Elevated Prolactin (Not Pregnant), Abdomen Weight Gain, Body Acne Although it has side effects it saved my life. I went from being a tortured soul to being able to lead a normal life with almost no more voices or hallucinations. Takes about three months to get rid of many of the voices, about a year, a year and a half to get rid of almost all of them. I only hear about four words a year now and they are not scary. F 37 2 years
1/20/2008
 1  treatment resistant depression Of all psych meds I've taken, this one was the absolute worst. I took it for five days. 40mg, in the evening. Side effects while taking it: depersonalization and confusion, jittery and twitchy about 5 hours before next dose; Side effects after NOT taking it: six days of awful involuntary muscle twitching (tongue, face, chin, right arm), awful headache, flu symptoms, trouble talking, shaking, inability to drive or go to work or sit still, trouble sleeping, bloated stomach. I was very, very scared. Thankfully it has been 4 days since my last dose, and most symptoms have gone away, though I still have some facial twitching. I know the comments here are skewed toward the negative, because most people come here to report complaints about drugs. That said, I have to contribute that Geodon has, of all the medications I've taken, been the scariest. I have taken other atypical antipsychotics with no problems, and Geodon caused four days of involuntary twitching in my face and hand, which resulted in my not being able to talk or think clearly. It was very scary. I was okay directly after taking it, but since it has such a short half-life, about six hours before my next dosage, I started to have muscle spasms and feel really anxious. I decided to listen to my body and stop taking it (with doctor's approval). The withdrawal (even after 5 days) was awful. I have been off work, feeling like I have the flu, for four days. Thankfully the spasms and headache are wearing off. F 30 5 days
1/17/2008
 3  bipolar initially panic attacks, continual hair loss (evenly distributed) Geodon had prevented psychotic episodes effectively. I am discontinuing use because of the hair loss. F 53 1.5 years
1/15/2008
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 5  Bipolar- mixed state Started at 20mg and there was no improvement and no side-effects; went up to 40mg, felt great, lots of energy, weight loss(was already on a diet); I usually gain lots of weight with Anti-psychotics; was Hypomanic but productive and happy, got a new job and they thought I was very cheerful and hard working; Psych Dr thought 60 mg would bring down the Hypomania, BUT I had NMS(short-term) and had life-threatening side effects; I could feel my heart racing, very high blood preasure, severe anxiety and pacing, live in SD- it was Winter and I suddenly realized that I had the heat off, all the doors and windows open and was standing in the middle of my house naked and sweating, severve buzzing in my head, headaches, and other fun things. Dr said take a benadryl and it brought me out of it, but put me in a coma like state. MY husband came home and found me like that and scared him to death. Now I am taking Zyprexa and am miserable. Wish I could go back to the 40mg of Geodon good-old days, F 51 3 months
1/14/2008
 5  bipolar 2 None Geodon works great for me. I gained 40 pounds on Zyprexa and my doctor switched me to Geodon. I use it as a mood stablizer in combination with Lexapro as an anti-depressant. I believe that Geodon not only keeps me from getting hypomanic but also works to alieviate my depression. I also take trazodone for sleep, xanax for anxiety, buspar for depression, meridia to help me lose weight and folic acid for depression. F 30 6 months
12/31/2007
 2  psychotic depression Extreme tiredness, agitation, constant need to move. The effectiveness is "hit and miss". One day it stops hallucinations, the next day it doesn't. I got four bad days for every good day. Wouldn't recommend it. M 24 6 weeks
12/27/2007
 3  bipolar disorder I take 120mg at bedtime. If I take it early enough the drowsiness wares off before the next day. It helps my mood, keeps it stabilized. However, I have had really bad anxiety since I've been on the drug as well as panic attacks. My doctor raised my dose from 60mg, because lower doses have been found to cause more anxiety than higher doses... but I still feel anxious a lot of the time. F 23 4 months
12/20/2007
 5  BI-POLAR DIFFICULTY SLEEPING I TAKE 100 MG AND IT WORKS GREAT FOR ME. I HAD PSYCHOTIC EPISODES WITH MY BI-POLAR BUT I HAVE NOT HAD ANY SYMPTOMS SINCE TAKING THIS DRUG. I'VE FOUND THAT TAKING THE DRUG ABOUT 2-3 HRS BEFORE I WANT TO GO TO SLEEP SEEMS TO HELP ME FALL ASLEEP A LITTLE BETTER, BUT I STILL FIND THAT I SOMETIMES NEED AMBIEN TO SLEEP. F 40 3 years
12/17/2007
 1  2005 Pulsating veins in my brain! I felt like I was gonna die! My veins in my brain felt like they were gonna burst right out of my head! My eyes went black sometimes when on this drug for like a few seconds! I was worried of going blind from this drug! Also got tardive dyskensia permentately... Also brain damage I cannot think anymore like I used too! no emotions from brain damage I feel like a old fart that's 80 years old from altimizer's I was on 80mg twice a day and felt worse than I ever felt in my lifetime! It destoryed my life and just made me feel like a zombie and changed my personality.Made me psychotic which I never used to be....The drug made me think irrational and really destoryed my mind body and soul...This feels like a drug made from Satan r somethin! Really it feels like torture or your being punished in HELL!!! I recommend this drug gets taken of the market completetly! It ruined my life....Also I went on Risperdal which I was really afraid to go on because of the side effects from Geodon and when I went on it boi did that drug destory my life too! My throat feltlike it was closing up where I couldn't get enough oxygen to my brain! I couldn't have orgasams anymore! More brain damage....also I devloped muscle tension dysphnia and spasmodic dysphonia which really destoryed my voice...I used to sound so much better and had a great singing voice! Also the worst thing is when going off both these drugs the s M 21 3 months
12/14/2007
 3  Major Depression/ psychosis/GAD Fatigue, Drowsiness, and stiffness. Can sometimes see parts of my body pulsating (i.e., arm, eye at times). Helps with the bad thoughts though. On the whole, an ok drug as I am now able to sleep. Take 40 mg at night. Also take 30 mg lexapro (10 in morning and 20 at night) and 75 mg vistiral (25 mg 3 times a day). Sex drive shot for most part, but this was shot prior to taking Geodon anyway. M 38 39 days
12/9/2007

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