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 | Hospital | I almost died taking geodon at the hospital | M | 22 | 1 days | 2/3/2016 | 1 | Bipolar | Nose bleeds, Migrains, weight gain, anxiety, oversleeping, tiredness, memory loss still trying to figure out the damage... | I was put on geodon at age 9 to treat my bipolar. It was paired with lexapro to treat depression. I am now almost twenty and have taken myself off of both medications. I started taking myself off as soon as I turned eighteen. Since being off I sleep better. I feel more alert and aware of my surroundings. I was forced into taking this medication. When I stopped I felt as though I woke up.. I have no anger or depression. I do however have mild anxiety attacks. This medicine has made my life extremely difficult. before my diagnoses i was diagnosed with several other disorders (Asperger's, adhd, schizophrenia )and was put on various other medications from a young age. I was bullied and grew up in an abusive household. The other medications made me do really strange things. I was taking geodon before I slept at night. if i was out of it or I forgot it I would have extreme withdraws. I am now concerned about my organs and my heart after being on this medicine for so long. It was unnecessary and did nothing but hurt me in the long run. I beg any one reading this to never put any one under the age of eighteen on this medication. It is too strong and causes to many horrible side effects that can and will do permanent damage. I have never felt better then I do now being off of this stuff. I am not saying your kid doesn't have a disorder or will be mis diagnosed like I did; however the brain is not fully developed at that age. being mis diagnosed is a real possibility. There are othe | F | 19 | 10 years 120 MG 1X day | 1/2/2016 | 1 | Major depressive disorder, DID | i became a slobbering idiot, couldn't keep my eyes open, slept for 16-18 hours a day, and my dissociation worsened. | worst medication I've ever taken | F | 23 | 7 days | 11/20/2015 | 1 | Autism and mood disorder | Severely depressed, easily agitated | F | 8 | 1 weeks 20 MG | 11/3/2015 | 1 | Back pain due to spinal injury. | Permanent extreme tremors, suicidal idiology, suicide attempt resulting in hospitalization | Don't take it! | M | 28 | 8 months 300 MG | 10/9/2015 | 1 | OCD, depression, anxiety | Severe increase of anxiety, major suicidal thoughts, nausea, diarrhea, persistent shaking. And a couple times hallucinations. | I developed serotonin syndrome while I was on this medication even though my doctor made sure my body was rid of the older ones. I can't even begin to describe how it felt, my entire body was turned against me and even though I stopped taking it as soon as the symptoms appeared it took a month for all the symptoms to finally go away. After a week the major symptoms went away then slowly I felt more like myself. If you're going though this right now and see this please know that I felt *drastically* better after it was out of my system and that you will as well. | F | 17 | 5 days | 8/18/2015 | 1 | Bipolar w/ depression | The most horrible back pain. Spent 2 days in bed, missed work. | After coming off, back pain lasted 4 more days. | F | 33 | 6 days | 4/23/2015 | 1 | Mood disorder/ depression | -UNIMAGINABLE FATIGUE -low blood pressure -fainting -restlessness -dizziness/ disorientation | PLEASE DONT SKIP! My Dr. Put me on this on top of other meds to help with hopeless thoughts. I took 40mg at night and about 30-40 seconds when I woke up the following morning I felt extreme shaking and restlessness. I had to get up to go to school and the second I got up I was really dizzy and disoriented. I went to use the bathroom and I knew something was wrong because I could see black spots and felt like I was losing control of my body. I tried to call for help and tried to lift myself up with a towel hanger but it broke just as I was BLACKING OUT and hit my head on some marble. My dad is a Dr. and said the medicine can cause a SIGNIFICANT drop in blood pressure for some people. By the time I was able to lay down again I physically/verbally could not communicate or move. Another red sign was knowing that my eyes WOULD NOT STAY OPEN no matter all my will power I gave to get up due to the fatigue. I couldn't go to class I woke up in the late afternoon. I am a light sleeper and this put me out DEAD COLD even though I took it the night before. This pill will knock the hell out of you and I'm in college I can take tired this was NOT THAT. This level of exhaustion can only be felt because of something like this and I hope no one has to feel what I felt! PLEASE consider another form of medication before trying this! I have been on God knows how many mess BUT THIS WAS THE WORST! | F | 20 | 1 days 40mg | 4/22/2015 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | I was suicidal and severely depressed. Was started of Risperdal and Trazadone. Risperdal has so many law suits it's crazy. I stopped that drug. Was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was started on Geodon. Best thing I ever had for 3 weeks. I was extremely functional and able to experience joy again after months of darkness and depression. Then I missed a dose. The very next day I was suicidal again. I was depressed all over again. I stayed off for a few days before starting it again. I needed a fix. I started again and things got a little better but not much. I would still have manic phases and urges. This past Wednesday I missed a dose. I also missed Thirsdays dose. Friday I started getting strange sharp pains atop my head followed by dizziness and and elevated heart rate. I was hauled off in an ambulance with a blood pressure of 198/113. I thought I was dying. I had 5 panic attacks this past weekend and visited the hospital 5 times. Finally having a CT scan that was clear. I was also placed on BP meds. It's Monday and I'm plagued with a feeling of water running in my head. I feel itching in my head and forehead. Also burning. All accompanied by headaches. I'm tAking Ativan to help me calm down. Heart rate and blood pressure still not under control. | Worst drug ever! Will be weened off this drug ASAP. DO NOT take it! | M | 33 | 2 days 20 | 4/13/2015 | 1 | Bipolar | Made me feel in a depressed mood. I was never happy. When I stopped taking it for a whole day I would get really bad anxiety &' panic attacks.. I would never sleep if I stopped taking it. I gained a lot of weight with this. Sadly I also lost my appitite all the time. I would not reccomend this at all. I've never ever felt like this in my entire life. Made me go crazy for the longest time. | It's the worst.. Ever since I stopped taking it, I've been feeling like myself again. &' been more happier than ever. It's just a drug that makes you go crazy in my opinion. | F | 16 | 1 days 30 MG | 3/27/2015 | 1 | Bipolar 2 | Worst rash ever chest pains hearing more voices runny nose eye twitching my stomachs feel like I was in a boxing match for 12 rounds no sleep wired for 4 days straight don't know what's going on lack of concentration overall not recommended | M | 29 | 5 days 50 mg | 3/26/2015 | 1 | Ocd depression anxiety si thoughts | Shaking nauseous dizziness inability to sleep worse depression eye twitching extreme fatigue anxiety trouble breathing inability to focus | I hope the side effects go away for me soon. I know certain meds don't work for everyone and this certainly is one of those medications | F | 17 | 5 days 40 | 2/20/2015 | 1 | bipolar 1 | initially mania, lack of sleep, skin rashes and after a year at the highest dose, Tardive Dyskinesia. I was better off on the more sedative choices. I was manic as loony tunes | If you go online you can see a lot of class action lawsuits against Geodon regarding Tardive Dyskinesia which really tells you something,. | F | 54 | 3 years 50 mg 2X day | 2/17/2015 | 1 | Bipolar | This medication gave me gastritis. I took for the first few days and I had the worst stomach pains EVER!!!! This drug scrapes your stomach and destroys its lining. Ever after I stopped taking it, my stomach still hurts :(( This drug is HELLISH!!!! | Not a good drug, at all! | F | 38 | 3 days 40 2X day | 1/16/2015 | 1 | bipolar 2 | Extreme lethargy drunk feeling. Unable to wake up in the morning. Too tired to function. Strange feeling that I was going to die but apathetic to it. Missed periods. Anxiety through the roof but again kind of apathetic about it. Unable to function. | This drug is crazy. Not sure if it is meant for bipolar 2. Dr didn't explain how lethargic it makes you. I took it first time just before leaving for church and felt so drowsy and drunk an hour and a half later. I never ever should have driven! Do not take this and drive until your body is used to it! I am a single mom two young kids. This was very very dangerous for me. I couldn't wake up for them. Constantly tired. I missed a dose one night and starting hearing voices. I never heard voices before this. Withdrawal from this drug is real and scary. Psychosis shaking sweating are all withdrawal side effects. Titrating off this drug will cause this. I heard sounds and voices every time my dosage was lowered. Very scary. Read up on this drug before starting it. | F | 32 | 3 months 80mg bid | 12/29/2014 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder,Depression | Geodon helped my depression more than any medication I have ever taken.I did gain 15 lbs on it though.I developed tardive dystonia after 7 years and was told this rarely happened prior to taking it.Please read about tardive dystonia/dyskinesia before making a decision to take this medication.I worked as an RN for over 20 years and am now on disability due to severe muscle spasms and pain in my face and neck on my left side.The muscle spasms are debilitating and involuntary.Watch YouTube videos of this condition before making a decision to take it or stay on it.It will never go away and my neurologist sees this alot in his practice from people taking geodon.It seems to be more common with geodon than some of the other antipsychotics.Make sure you have to take an antipsycotic before ever doing so.All of the new ones have some severe life long compications just like the old antipsychotics.I hope I can help anyone avoid the life long pain I will have to endure. | Do Not believe your doctor when he tells you how safe these new antipsychotics are.Read about the geodon and other new antipsychotic lawsuits before taking it or staying on it. | F | 49 | 20mg 1X day | 10/8/2014 | 1 | PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder | I am 50 years-old. When I was 46 years-old, Geodon caused major anxiety beyond anything ever experienced. Face twitching, fever, whole-body muscle aching to the point of barely being able to get dressed, unable to think clearly, lack of memory, loss of reasoning, severe heart palpitations (every 10 seconds with chest and throat pain). It almost killed me. The doctor told me she never heard of those side effects so she increased the dose! Unable to think, I took it. When anxiety became so bad, curled up on the floor, I stopped taking it. My two dachshunds (7 year-old twins) had to be re-homed. I couldn't care for them. After two weeks, it sunk in what I had done. My much loved dogs are gone due to an idiot doctor. I was in 12th grade art when I was in 8th grade. My artwork was superb. Now I can't paint at all because I still shake and have finger "jumping." I am not psychotic or bi-polar. I have PTSD and chronic depression. I am now on Lamotrigine (Lamictal) 100 mg 2x pe | Suggestion: Do not take Geodon without being near someone else who can monitor you to ensure you are thinking clearly after taking it. You won't know until it is too late. | M | 50 | 2 months 20 2X day | 9/27/2014 | 1 | Bipolar 2 Depression | I was given Geodon as a Hail Mary when nothing else worked to relieve my bipolar depression. Zyprexa does work well but it caused metabolic syndrome and I had to discontinue its use over 2 years ago. I do take 750 mg. Of Depakote and 100 mg of Zoloft for basic maintenance. The first day after my first dose of taking Geodon I was driving home from a baby shower and felt like my eyes were finally open again - the world was beautiful and I loved my life! I felt expansive and so positive and decided to pop into a piercing parlour to get my nose pierce! Anyway that was the start of 5 weeks of intense mania -- spent money I didn't have, argumentative, decided to feng shei my whole house, couldn't sleep, talked incessantly, sounded like jets flying through my head and I started lying and being sneaky. I just thought I finally had come out of my depression....unfortunately my driven behaviour felt so agitated and uncomfortable and my family became concerned. I was honest with the psych doc but he didn't associate the mania with Geodon and instead cut back my zoloft to 50 mg. And wanted to decrease depakote. Well I continued to spin into mania - having 4-5 lists going no at one time and so much to do! He took me off Geodon 3 nights ago and immediately the mania was gone (along with a few thousands of dollars!) and now the normal struggle of depression has taken hold again... | F | 56 | 5 weeks 40 MG 1X day | 6/2/2014 | 1 | bipolar | PERMANENT: itchy crawling skin, skin eruptions all over including staph infections and acne bumps that really itch. TEMPORARY: confusion--I'll go into a room and forget what I went in there for. CONCLUSION: I will never ever ever take psych meds again--I'd rather be bipolar than take some shit that I don't know the outcome which can be permanent. | MEDICATION FROM HELL. I READ THAT IT KILLS ELDERLY PATIENTS AS WELL. | F | 40 | 2 years 2X day | 4/30/2014 | 1 | bipolar | Teeth chattering. Tremmors. Voices. Seeing things. Stiff mussles. 4 days off it i have a fever. | F | 41 | 3 weeks 40mg | 4/12/2014 |