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 | Bipolar | Serious coma-like tiredness. 40 mgs a day is enough to knock me out the entire day. i'm always anxious. my jaw seems to be permanently clenched. i get really bad headaches, almost to the point of migraines. i forgot to take my medicine one night, and it was impossible for me to go to sleep. | It made me happy at first, but the side effects aren't worth putting up with. I cannot even get myself out of bed to go to school in the morning. I hate it. | F | 17 | 3 weeks | 2/25/2008 | 1 | weight loss | horrendous manic episodes, raging behavior, and basically having a feeling of being possessed. | I don't have bi-polar, nor do I have schizophrenia. I was never diagnosed with either; I was prescribed Geodon because I mentioned I needed to lose weight. Why would someone prescribe you a pill and keep increasing the dosage when it clasehes with your other pills and is for something you have never even been diagnosed with?! Jeez, I don't need to lose weight THAT BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 22 | 3 months | 2/24/2008 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Bipolar | 160 mg geodon. loss of sex drive, i have not had a nights sleep in three months.staring into space alot. i feel dumber. i do not feel like my old self at all. this med is not good for me. i decided to take myself off it. i dont care if my psychiatrist gets mad. i want to sleep again. i tried amnbien, lunesta, unisom, simply sleep and valerian root to help me sleep. the geodon is just too strong and the sleeping meds do not work. | i am sick of taking this med | M | 32 | 5 months | 11/7/2007 | 1 | bipolar 11 | left arm numbness and tingling, not sleeping, extreme fatigue, cold sweats, anxiety. | was on geodon for 6 days. caused me to fear i was having a heart attack which led to er visit and overnight stay. all heart test negative. will never take again.... it seems like a crap shoot when on psych. meds. you never know the weird side effects you will have. | F | 50 | 6 days | 10/17/2007 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Bipolar | extreme sleepiness in the am, loss of words, weight gain | i had to revolve my life around the medication. i had to take it at the right time so i wouldnt be tired the next day at work and sometimes it still wasnt out of my system the next day and i was so tired the kept dozing off despite my attempts to walk around i fell asleep standing up i got called into the office at work and almost lost my job a few times. the medicine almost ruined my life. i wouldnt reccomend it to anyone. it was TERRIBLE | 19 | 4 months | 7/12/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | Anxiety, severe agitation to the point that I wanted to hurt myself. | I ended up in the hospital overnight because of the severe agitation. They had to give me Xanax to calm me down. | F | 31 | 2 days | 7/3/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | Coma like sleeping. Very irritable and restless. Felt like my head was in a vice all the time. Lost weight (good thing), but mostly because I lost interest in eating. Was up to 120 mg. | Was my first meds to try and was a very bad experience. From taking Invega, I know that I can feel better, but Invega made me lactate a little over three weeks from starting it. :( | M | 34 | 45 days | 5/22/2007 | 1 | for a mood disorder Aspergers& add | initial tiredness, then insomnia.When the dosage was increased,to 60mg and 40mg more restlessness and mental breakdown.Falling asleep at school so 60mg pm and 20mg am. To combat the increased insomnia and solemnence and negative mentlmental state increased again to 80mg pm and 20 mg pm. Developed Tardive Dyskensia!!! at the final doseage and the Dr. refused to see us any more. | had more outbursts and lack of self control on a "regular dose" so the Dr. upped the dosage. More Agitation and outbursts ensued, so the dosage was upped again. Final dosage 80mg pm and 20 mg am in a 12 year old boy! | M | 12 | 3 months | 5/15/2007 | 1 | for a mood disorder | initial tiredness, then insomnia.When the dosage was increased,to 60mg and 40mg more restlessness and mental breakdown.Falling asleep at school so 60mg pm and 20mg am. To combat the increased insomnia and solemnence and negative mentlmental state increased again to 80mg pm and 20 mg pm. Developed Tardive Dyskensia!!! at the final doseage and the Dr. refused to see us any more. | had more outbursts and lack of self control on a "regular dose" so the Dr. upped the dosage. More Agitation and outbursts ensued, so the dosage was upped again. Final dosage 80mg pm and 20 mg am in a 12 year old boy! | M | 12 | 3 months | 5/15/2007 |