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 | Major Depression | I take 160mg a day; 40mg in the morning and 120mg at night. My hands shake (even more with the lithium I take) a little and I'm losing more hair than normal. Sometimes I feel a little tired in the morning. | My hallucinations have almost stopped. I still have sleep issues, mostly from falling asleep or wakeing up to early. | M | 35 | 4 months | 11/27/2009 | 4 | Anxiety/Depression and Panic Attack | Loss of appetite, greatly decreased sex drive, less alertness in general. | This drug definitely did calm me down... It got me through a tough time in my life. It also stopped my panic attacks. It's a good drug overall, just has some side effects that I don't like which is the reason why I am getting off of it. | M | 33 | 6 months | 11/15/2009 | 4 | mood disorder NOS | for the first few weeks I was very tired on geodon. I learned that if I take it every 8 hours I can avoid any withdrawal and remain stable. If I don't take it every 8 hours I get irritated, sad, a little angry and nervous too. | Getting used to this drug was tricky but so far has been worth it. After a few dosing increases and finding the right times of the day to take it, I am feeling much more stable, even good. The sleepiness has pretty much gone away and I've had 2 good stable weeks for the first time in a long time. I have paranoid thoughts that can be very scary and geodon has helped curb this. I am functioning well in school and at work. I take 80 mg at 6:30am and 80 mg at 3:00pm and then 160 mg at 10:00pm. It has taken some time to figure out how much to take and when to take it but I am finally satisfied. I think a lot of the symptoms people have are of the drug wearing off between the 8-12 hour mark... this is just my guess but I think keeping geodon in your system at a steady rate will significantly decrease the bad side effects (which might just be the beginning of withdrawal from the drug). This has been the case for me anyway. I'm glad I stuck it out with geodon... sometimes I wanted to give up on it but I know that I'm improving with it. It feels really good to be stable. | F | 27 | 3 months | 10/24/2009 | 4 | Social Anxiety | Blurred Vision, exhaustion, feeling hungover | The first couple days I started taking Geodon I felt really hungover, like I have never ever been before. It only lasted 2 days and then I felt great. I would just lay around before taking it and now I get up and feel like I have a purpose and get things done. You really just need to give this drug some time to work. I feel stable now. My appetite has been curbed which was an unexpected gain. I have been on xxanx and lexapro for years and finally I feel like Geodon is a breath of fresh air. Give you body time to get through the side effects and it will adjust. My one warning is not to take this during or before you have things to do. I wait until I get home from work, even if it is late to take my Geodon. I took it a few times at dinner time as prescribed but felt like I was going to pass out at work and the whole ride home I thought I was going to fall asleep at the wheel even after several cups of coffee. This will work for you if you give it time, the side effects at first may be awful enough to make you want to stop, but let it work for a month and you will see a differece. | F | 24 | 3 months | 10/14/2009 | 4 | Bipolar | When taking 80 mg twice a day, I had extreme twitching of my hands and fingers. Loss of appetite. | I guess the medicine is working but the twitching is still there but not as extreme cuz the dosage was reduced to 40 mg twice a day. Still a little concerned with the loss of appetite. Don't get me wrong, I need to lose 20lbs put on from other meds but I need nutrition. So I have to make myself eat but I fill up fast. | F | 39 | 30 days | 9/16/2009 | 4 | Bi-polar | Restlessness, insomnia, tardive dyskinesia | I take 80mg. I started getting restless when my doc bumped me to 120mg, but since took me down to 80mg. If any one has the same symptoms, have your doctor prescribe propranolol. It helps a lot. My doctor thinks my insomnia comes from other sources, but it's the Geodon. I sleep okay with benedryl. | F | 36 | 5 months | 9/4/2009 | 4 | BI POLAR | Sleepiness, dry mouth (frog in my throat constantly), clenching jaw, memory loss, trouble focusing or concentrating, weird dreams, muscle twitches, tremors, paranoia, blurred vision, appetite suppressiong (good thing!)body acne, sweating, tight muscles in neck and thighs, feel off balance, irritable at times, increased skin oiliness, dialated pupils otherwise it's doing its job. | I am at 160mg that I take at night because they knock me out. It took awhile before the sleepiness got any better in the mornings, it sometimes took hours, now its only about an hour. I feel I can tolorated most of the side effects in order to feel better which it does help with that. I just hope they go away eventually. | F | 30 | 2 months | 8/25/2009 | 4 | schizophrenia | I have experienced tight muscles in back and neck as well as very clinched jaw muscles, BUT, these are NOT side effects, they are WITHDRAWAL symptoms which occurred anywhere from 4-6 hours before my next dose and when 1st starting the med. The doc had me on 80 mg 2x per day, and these withdrawals happened only after he switched me to 80 mg once per day. | The solution to avoiding the withdrawals is to take 20mg at morning and at noon, then 40 mg at bedtime. I am very happy with the way this med helps me to think so much more clearly. I have been told by old friends that I am like the "old me" before trauma to my head induced the psychosis of schizophrenia anytime I am overstressed. | M | 36 | 2 months | 7/6/2009 | 4 | BP II | After 1 week these subsided: drowsiness, headaches, lightheadedness if I got up too fast, no appetite (still dealing with this one), euphoric feelings right after dosage and BAD diarrhea. | I would not recommend taking Geodon. I take 40mg twice daily (so 80mg all together). It helps me tremendously but its hell to get off. I tried tapering myself down a bit just to see if I'd lose some of the 10 lbs I gained after starting it and had horrible withdrawals. Research Geodon withdrawals and decide if you want to take this drug. Your body and brain form a major addiction to it. With any drug, don't take the pdoc's word, research, get second opinions, don't just take the script, fill it and then start taking it. RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH. I learned the hard way. I don't know if I'll ever be able to come off it. | F | 28 | 4 months | 5/26/2009 | 4 | bi-polar disorder | a little more anxiety,but in the beginning my doctor was weining me off from abilify and slowly increasing 20mg of geodon with 10mg abilify and then up to 40mg with 5mg abilify also i wasnt getting my menstual period but was experiencing the prolactate side effect and have never been pregnant so i was concerned other than that i like it my doc explained once i was at 40mg geodon and only 0.5mg abilify all i needed to do was eliminate the abilify which worked well for myself for about 5 years and than it was no longer the right option drug choice for me. | it seems to be doing its job with processing my thoughts better but when it gets close to bedtime which is when i take it i start to notice my hyperactivity only when i have yet to take it. | F | 21 | 3 weeks | 4/2/2009 | 4 | Bipolar 2 | For the first two weeks, was agitated, irritable, sweaty, swallowed alot, suppressed appetite, and slept less. I kept on taking it, and the side effects have diminished, and now I feel sleepy during the day after my morning 40 mg. dose. Take 80 mg. at night and it helps me sleep. Was taking 2mg. risperdal at night, which was fine, except I went from 130 to 175 lbs. Have lost 15 lbs. so far, which is good, although the initial appetite decrease seems to be fading, as I have gained some appetite back-still not as much as when on risperdal though. | I actually felt fine on the risperdal, though I suppose I was sleeping too much-12-13 hours a night. My doctor switched me to Geodon because of the weight gain on the risperdal. Now I sleep around 8 hours a night. I also take 400 mg. lamictal and 60 mg. cymbalta daily. I am happy with the Geodon, though am thinking of asking my doctor if I can skip the morning dose because I can hardly keep my eyes open during the day. | F | 30 | 2 months | 3/16/2009 | 4 | BIPOLAR | ONE SHOULDER IS DOWN AND IN, & THE OTHER SHOULDER KEEPS GOING UP UNCONTROLLABLY. | HAVE NOT HAD A MAJOR MANIC EPISODE FOR A WHOLE YEAR!! HAVE BEEN ON 120 MG. FOR A LONG TIME AND HAVE BEEN STABLE MENTALLY. OTHER THAN THE SHOULDER THING I AM A NORMAL FUNCTIONING 37 YEAR OLD. I DO TEND TO SLEEP LATE, BUT THEN AGAIN I'VE DONE THAT MY WHOLE LIFE. IT'S NOT FOR EVERYONE, BUT FOR SOME OF US IT KEEPS US STABLE. DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL WHILE ON MOOD STABILIZERS / OR ANTIDEPRESSANTS, THIS WILL WASH THE MEDS OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM. IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO CAFFIENE, MONITOR HOW MUCH OR CUT IT OUT COMPLETELY. CAFFIENE CAN MAKE BIPOLARS MORE MANIC, IF THEY ARE SENSITIVE TO IT. | F | 37 | 1 years | 3/12/2009 | 4 | extreme drowsiness, restless leg. | I've been taking it for a couple of months. It has reduced my irritability quite a bit. It helps my mood even out. However, there is also this restless leg thing that goes on with it and it makes me so drowsy it's hard to get up and get going. | F | 45 | 2 months | 2/9/2009 | 4 | bipolar PTSD and panic disorrder | havent had any bad side effects just being groggy the next a.m. | this med is helping so far. I started out day 1 taking 40 mg then went up to 60 mg 2 days later now 120mg on day 4. i really hope this works because it is truly going to drive this miss daisy crazy!! the panic atttacks have been so bad lately | F | 27 | 4 days | 2/6/2009 | 4 | 2 1/2 month | none, but combined with kolopin I seem to be doing better, some troublr getting a good nights sleep. Once starting this med combination, I could tell a good difference inside, calm, more focused, it was strange the feeling at first but it was a good one. | Did not start the full dose when prescribed, worked my way up from 20 mg instead of 40mg like prescribed. Worked my way up slowly and that I think had alot to do with the way I feel. | F | 29 | 2 months | 12/30/2008 | 4 | Combat PTSD | So far none. Makes me very sleepy TAKE ONLY AT NIGHT. | So far this has saved my life. I have tried all atypical antipyschotics and this one doesn't have the horribe weightgain,mania that the others did. I guess everyone responds differently to the meds. It's good for me. | M | 34 | 1 months | 12/11/2008 | 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 | 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 | 4 | BP | Teeth grinding, lip movement, restlessness, extremely tired first couple of weeks, sleeplessness, squirminess, niacin rushlike feeling | It has worked so far, much more calm, less racing thoughts. Side effects haven't gotten to me yet but I hate the restlessness. | M | 33 | 4 weeks | 4/8/2008 |