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 |
| 3 | Bipolar/Skizto | Drowsiness in the morning, seem to be unable to snap out of it for a couple of hours and so far constipation, no weight gain. | I like it. It does make me happy. No rapid voices in my head and dont hear or see shit. So we will see. | F | 24 | 3 months | 9/21/2007 | 2 | Bipolar II | Extreme, coma-like sleepiness. | I will never take this again. 40mg made me pass out...uncontrollably tired. One minute I was fine and the next I couldn't even make a full sentence because I was so exhausted. It just didn't work for me. Onto the next trial, I guess. | F | 24 | 2 days | 9/21/2007 | 4 | Depression, Anxiety | Headache, tiredness, dizziness, fatigue, tremor, twitching, Congestion, aggression, irritability, insomnia, mania. | Geodon has the potential to lift my mood but the side effects are difficult. Overall, its good for me. | M | 27 | 40 days | 9/20/2007 | 5 | Bipolar-Mixed State | None | THIS MEDICINE IS GREAT! I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 years ago. Have been on 12 meds and finally with Geodon, I have my life back. The depression is gone, mania has stopped and I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel! I take 60mg at night, and 200 mg of Trazadone for sleep. Xanax during the day. This combination and I'm finally stable. YEAH | F | 35 | 2 days | 9/19/2007 | 1 | Bipolar II | Ridiculous sleepiness and drowsiness, yet even at the peak of the drowsiness I am restless. My brain begs my body to lay down and sleep, but my body is not happy in one position for more than 2 minutes. When I tried taking the medication just before bed, I would have insomnia for at least 2-3 hours. I then started taking it earlier and slept fine, but had a lot of trouble getting up--even after 8-9 hours of sleep. I'll have a good few hours in my waking day, but mostly I'm struggling to function. Work is not really an option, even playing isn't really one either. I also noticed my left arm fell asleep in the middle of the night two different nights. Not sure if it's related to Geodon or just coincidence. | I haven't noticed much benefit from the drug. Only bad side effects. I have decided not to take any more and will talk to my doctor about something different. | F | 26 | 6 days | 9/4/2007 | 4 | BI POLAR AND RACING THOUGHTS | DEFINATELY QUIETED MY MIND. WHICH IS A GOOD THING. CAUSED DROWSINESS SO I ONLY TAKE IT AT NIGHT 20 MGS ONCE A DAY. ANYMORE THAN THAT AND I GOT EXTREMELY RESTLESS. MY HAIR HAS BEEN FALLING OUT STEADILY SINCE I'VE BEEN ON IT AND I JUST FIGURED OUT IT IS CAUSED BY THIS DRUG BECAUSE I LET MY PRESCRIPTION RUN OUT AND WAS OFF OF IT FOR A SHORT TIME AND MY HAIR STOPPED FALLING OUT. I THINK IT ALSO CAUSES MY BRUISES NOT TO GO AWAY. I AM NOW LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT MEDICATION. I AM ALSO WONDERING IF IT IS CAUSING UNTREATABLE ACNE. I'LL SOON SEE. | F | 42 | 1 years | 9/3/2007 | 3 | Bi-Polar I and OCD | At 120mg at night I would awake with the most annoying experience that I couldn't sit down to have coffee or sit period. My whole body felt to stimulated but at the same time I was tired. Lost weight Which is good. Should also say I am taking 100mg Lamictal, 300mg of Trileptal, 40mg of Traszadone, and 2mg of klonopin. | My Psychiatrist has me on 60mg at night and 20mg in the morning. This seems to have done the trick. I have noticed that my attention span is short, get bored easy, still a little restless but can live with it. It has helped my mania and OCD and racing thoughts. So I would have to say that so far so good. I was on seroquel first but not a good drug for me. | M | 44 | 3 days | 8/28/2007 | 3 | schizoaffective disorder | extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, dizziness | I have been taking geodon for 2.5 years but have recently experienced severe side effects. The medicine has taken away my mania and anxiety but I think it works so well because you are too exhausted and weak to have manic energy. It also makes me dizzy upon standing to the point where I stumble sometimes. The plus side for this med is that it has enabled me to go back to school without suffering any cognitive side effects. | F | 27 | 2.5 years | 8/17/2007 | 4 | Bipolar II, Borderline Personality | extreme sleepiness, hard to get up in the mornings - sometimes near impossible, must take it at night and with food, otherwise suffer nausea in the mornings, low blood pressure and faintness | It has helped me a lot with my moods and depression. I have had to lower the dosage from 160, to 80, now to 40 mg, because I can't tolerate the side-effects (but I also take another med to help the Geodon), and hopefully lowering the dosage doesn't affect it's ability to help me. It's been a helpful medication considering I've tried many. | F | 26 | 4 months | 8/15/2007 | 4 | cyclothymia | Body acne and terrible, terrible acne on all of face. Ihope I won't be scared. But Geodon has stableized me. I have to be careful when I take it as I fall asleep in about 1 and half hours. So have to plan when I eat dinner and take it so I will stay awake if going out that night or if I have to do homework. this part is hard to figure out. It wears off about 3pm and I get angry, uncooperative, and irritable. Then I take ativan to calm me down until dinner or night when I take it again. I take 120mg of Geodon, lamicatal 100mg, and ativan 0.5 mg take 1 or 2 under my tonuge and also 1 or 2 at night with the Geodon and mirtazapine to stimulate my apetite because I was all of a sudden refusing to eat anything and was very angry and irritable. I have been on medical leave from high school as I was crying and just couldn't function since March and then started Geodon and the others listed in June and have felt better. Blut now I will start high school again and I am really nervous and scared | Since January 2007 doctor has tried many other medications none helped until I got the mix that I stated earlier. | F | 17 | 3 months | 8/13/2007 | 4 | anxiety, BP, paranoia, depression | The first few weeks after taking Geodon I felt extremely sleepy in the morning. I was taking 40 mg in the morning and 40 at bedtime. I spoke with the doc and she suggested taking both at bedtime. It worked. I am currently on 160 mg at night and it has helped me out tremendously. For depression, I also take 10 mg of Lexapro which effects I noticed right away. This drug has calmed me down to where I'm "normal" again so I don't have any negatives to say. | F | 42 | 9 months | 8/10/2007 | 4 | schizoaffective | some nausea in the mornings to the point of throwing up, some insomnia but that may go away | I can think so clearly now. The rest of my symptoms also haven't come back but we'll see how it goes. | F | 20 | 30 days | 8/6/2007 | 5 | Bipolar - mixed state | At first I had a buzzing in my head and felt like I was falling fast when I was going to sleep. It lasted only a couple of days. | Since then, every increase of Geodon has improved my symptoms when nothing else seems to work. Depression, mania, psychotic symptoms - it seems to work for everything for me. I am now on 120mg daily and that seems to work well. | M | 47 | | 8/4/2007 | 1 | depresion | dystonia-uncontroled movementsmouth tounge and head | the condition this drug caused is permanent get off geodon now | F | 34 | 8 months | 8/4/2007 | 2 | Bipolar | Extreme sleepiness, like the type where you can't do anything but sleep. Headache when increasing dosage. | I started out at 40 mg for my depression. It pulled me out of the depression. I then went up to 80 mg. Im now manic. My doctor put me up to 120 mg trying to get rid of the mania but it hasn't helped, so I believe this medicine is what is pushing the mania. Not a good med for me. | F | 29 | 2 months | 8/2/2007 | 3 | OCD, mood disorder | When I 1st tried it I got sporadic panic attacks and a low level of panic at all times @ 20mg. I went up to 80mg BID and didn't feel well. | I tried 20 mg a felt panicky (sp?). I went off of it for about a week, and then tried it again. Felt OK, and was able to increase dose, but by the time that I was on 80 mg BID I was feeling agitated, and having difficulty sleeping. I've been dropped down to 80mg and 60mg, and feel a little better. | F | 40 | 2.5 months | 8/1/2007 | 1 | schizo / paranoid | ?This drug killed my mom in 2005. She was 55yo and a heavy smoker from age 24, but her health was not as bad as some. When she took Geodon 60mg per day 20mg per dose. First pill not so bad, just a little lethargic but those symptoms didn't go away, they just kept getting worse. Three days into it she died. Her heart gave out. All her life she was off and on different medicines and a body can only take so much. If a medicine changes how you feel physically, don't take it, they are not supposed too. What they are meant for; is to change you mentally, your train of thought. She could not speak and her heart rate was very high for her and she could not take in a breath of air for more than a second. She told me that something was wrong but I thought I should listen to the DRs. So now she isn't here anymore. And I was the one that gave her the medicine and now I have to live with that. And what I should have done what trust myself, I knew my mom as well as I know my kids when they're not | F | 29 | 4 days | 8/1/2007 | 3 | Bipolar II | Blocked sinus breathing, some agitation, mind up when trying to sleep, it does knock me out but breathing problem interferes-working on it. | Doc wants me to build to 180mg but I was having too many side effects at 120. Mood is better, I'm a little hypomanic but this is not a big problem as I was withdrawn before. Helped energy and the interest in," doing something "which I didn't have before.So it seems to be helping more than it's hurting at this early point.Oh yeah, also taking Lexapro 10mg and Ativan 1mg but long time on those. | M | 58 | 6 days | 7/30/2007 | 2 | Schitzo bi-polar mania | Slept for 17 hours while on it, woke up with nose bleeds, made me not eat, felt like all the life was sucked out of me. | I hated it, sure it calmed me down, but that's only because I slept all the time. | M | 27 | 3 weeks | 7/28/2007 | 1 | Mild paranoia and depression | Aching in knees, fatigue, panic attacks, highs and lows (extreme), anger and irritability and acute depression. | Horrible drug. I want to stop it but I cant because if I dont take it even for a day I'm garenteed insomnia for at least 24 hours. As I lay in bed I have serious panic attacks and anger and imagine vicious arguments with family members and co-workers. I also have extreme sexual urges all through the night which also keep me awake. Paralyzing depression and aches, suicidal thoughts including self mutilation. Body acne and what appears to be a fungal irritation that wont go away. This feels more like a punishment for attempting suicide than a treatment for depression. Please e-mail me for any ideas on how to safely get off of this for good since I'm already on the lowest possible dosage and I'm between semisters; now's the time! | M | 19 | 3 years | 7/26/2007 |