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 | Rapid Cycling Bipolar/Paranoia | agitation, cold chills, muscle spasms, clicking teeth | Geodon made me extra violent and agitated. Ruined my family life, hate it, did not help at all. | F | 22 | 6 months 80 1X day | 3/21/2011 | 1 | Psychosis and racing thoughts | A HORRIBLE drug! I was taking this in March/April of 2010. The side effects were the worst thing I have ever experienced in my life. I was constantly cold, had horrible uncontrolled muscle clenching in my arms and legs that lasted around the clock for days. I could barely sleep due to the symptoms. I was sweating uncontrollably. I had anxiety on a massive scale and even something as simple as listening to a North Korean propaganda song on YouTube caused me to have a panic attack (I am not joking about that either). My dreams also were enough to cause extreme anxiety/panic attacks. Had no appetite whatsoever. I could barely even drink anything. The symptoms lasted for a week after taking the medication. | The doctor, instead of putting me on the lowest dose and see how it would effect me, had the wisdom to put me on a high dose of a drug I had never taken before. I have since stopped seeing that doctor. Be VERY careful with this drug! This drug can be dangerous to people such as myself. USE CAUTION and take the LOWEST possible dose when starting this drug even if your doctor thinks otherwise! | M | 26 | 2 weeks 80 1X day | 3/20/2011 | 1 | Bipolar manic | it is 5 days later after Ive stop taking it I am still having bad acne shivers and numbing and tingling in head and face hair has slowed down on falling out though | F | 45 | 20mg 1X day | 3/11/2011 Patient History | 1 | Schizoaffective disorder | Chest pains, tics, dry mouth, excessive salivation, twitching tongue, blurred vision, slurred speech, muscle fatigue. | This is a horrible drug and I am terrified I will have permanent brain damage because of taking it. My symptoms were minimal and my doctor put me on the maximum dosage, I will never forgive him! Stay away from this drug, it is a true nightmare. | F | 37 | 1 years 80 2X day | 3/5/2011 | 1 | schizophrenia | became suicidal and very agitated. started breaking things and ended up in the hospital for months.became more and more agitated and agressive. | this medication will ruin your life. do not let the medical doctor talk you into taking a high dose. all antipsychotics seem to work at first. then they change you brain chemisty and all of your symptoms worsen and new symptoms arise and then they just keep adding more and more meds. read the book....the drug may be your problem. peter briggin md | M | 32 | 5 months 80 2X day | 2/18/2011 | 1 | Schizoaffective Panic Disorder | Involuntary mouth movements, spasms, flicking of the tounge. My neck would tighten and my jaw would clench for long periods without me noticing. Confused thinking, worsening as dosages proceeded, vision "confused" i.e. both eyes stop cooperating with each other, waning perception of reality. I would have severe "panic" episodes where my body would tighten, I felt like I HAD to do something but I didn't know what, how or why. I hurt physically and mentaly. I felt like if I let go I would die. overall decline of the thread of mental stability I had before. | Nothing I was experiencing before taking geodon was as bad as what I was experiencing after taking it. I don't know why I took it so long maybe it's the stock I put in "small town" psychiatry. I started taking it because of confused thinking, loss of reality and over all I smoked to much pot and had a few bad trips. Nothing i couldn't have worked on. After about 6 months of 160 MG at night (this stuff made be DEAD SLEEPY) I felt like I had no control my physical or mental health. I spiraled out of control and ended up in the ER with unexplained "panic" episodes where they would medicate me with Ativan. The ER "to this day" think I am a hypocondriac and refuse to really take a good look at me. I have been off geodon for about 4 months know and I feel the downward spiral has stopped but I am not getting better. I feel that this drug has hurt me physically and mentally. I can here my doctor tell me "you feel this way because of your condition." Bull. I know what this drug did to me. It hurt me. Just my experience. Pay attention to yourself while taking this drug. | M | 23 | 1 years 160 MG 1X day | 2/17/2011 | 1 | bipolar? | intense jaw clenching, extreme anxiousness, a lot of confusion, paranoia, inability to concentrate, agitation, anger, suicidal thinking | This drug may help other people, but it made me feel really awful. I recently tried to overdose on some pills a couple months ago and was in the hospital. Recently my psychiatrist thought that I might be bipolar, which I've been considering back and forth for a while now. So, I started taking it a week or two ago. I started off on 40 mg once a day for like 5 days, and then I went up to twice a day one morning, and I felt probably the worst I have ever felt in my entire life. I will never take it again. It was last monday morning that that happened and I haven't taken it since. I'm feeling a lot better than I did then, but it's still in my system. I'm still clenching my jaw and having problems concentrating and studying. | F | 24 | 7 days 40 2X day | 2/5/2011 | 1 | Rapid-cycling Bipolar II | Extremely fatigued, felt drugged and not in control of my body (kind of like a roofie), had trouble speaking, excess salivation, my tongue felt too big for my mouth. It was an uncomfortable and terrifying experience. | I hated this drug. I tried to stick it out in the hopes that the side effects would disappear, but they just escalated as I gradually upped the dose per dr's orders. Went off cold turkey. I took this drug two years ago. | F | 20 | 10 days 1X day | 1/21/2011 | 1 | depression | I think that this medication was dangerous for me, as I developed severe headaches and nausea. To be fair, it was started after a cold turkey stop to Seroquel 300mg.. Therefore I can't pin the blame on stopping the Seroquel or starting the Geodon, but the result was a deathlike experience. Deathlike in that I wanted to die, because the migraine type headaches and nausea were severe enough to not want to wake up in the morning, when I would hope upon hope that these side effects would cease, but they just continued to get worse. I'm back on the Seroquel, which I stopped because my food bills were getting out of hand. Consequently, I'm in a terrible position of having to go back to the drug that gives excessive food cravings and dramatically increases my arthritus pain, but is far less of a problem then the headaches and nausea. I could only say that for me, maybe not you as we all have our own individual reaction to medications, don't start it until you exhaust other possibilities. I wi | I would suggest reading Manufacturing Depression. It is a book that talks about the pharmaceutical companies getting approval for drugs that have little efficacy and the fact that the incidence of being tagged depressed or otherwise mentally ill are nothing more than guesswork and is not science. Put ten psychiatrists to the test of prescribing medication and you'll get ten different diagnosis'. The DSM5, the psychiatrists bible, has been delayed, because one of the panelists has come out and said that being diagnosed as mentally ill is not a proven fact and that our children, who's brains are developing are going to suffer substantial future effects by using the ADD, etc. pharmaceuticals, which likely will impair them and make them addicts for life. Keep your children off all drugs that alter their brains if possible. By the way, we are all sad and over-stimulated in our lives and that doesn't make us wear the badge of being diagnosed as mentally ill. | M | 64 | 45 days 60mg 1X day | 1/1/2011 | 1 | As adjunct to Cymbalta for depression | M | 61 | 60mg 1X day | 12/14/2010 Patient History | 1 | Depression, Anxiety, etc. | weight gain, intense hand shaking, increased anxiety, i either sleep a lot or not at all, acne, panic | I wouldn't wish this drug on even the people i hate most in the world. depression wise, it helps a little. The side effects got worse over time, and are a huge cause of my anxiety. There are a lot of weirder aspects that are hitting me about perception and time. its the most difficult drug ive ever experienced. seriously consider if it is worth it. | F | 24 | 5 weeks 160 1X day | 12/8/2010 | 1 | Misdiagnosis of bipolar/schizophren | This drug will kill you- especially if you are a young and small. Im 20 years old and 100 lbs. I was taken to the hospital because I had been drugged at college- they found out there was LSD and other barbituates in my system (Im not a druggy- someone had drugged me). Instead of testing my blood levels, they thought I was schizophrenic or strongly bipolar - put me in a psych ward and injected me with geodon and later made me have the pills twice a day. It was killing me- I had tremors, dizziness, 25 lb weight gain in 2 weeks, dry mouth, slurring, depression, heart racing, racing thoughts, shortness of breath, tightness in my chest. The doctor I had just wanted to make money and keep me on this drug, - a good doctor would have taken me off. I knew if I took it any longer, I would die- so I stopped taking it. Finally I was cured when I stopped- because there was nothing wrong with me. For those of you that do have something to treat- take another medication to help you- not geodon. Dont | Make sure to get second opinions when taking this drug. Do not take it if you are petite as it is muchh stronger and medicine has yet to adjust dosage based on weight/size. Make sure to get blood tests and further testing done before taking this drug to make sure if it is right for you- do NOT take it without doing this because it could kill you or turn a sane person crazy if you do not need it. If a doctor says no to your request, go to a different doctor. | F | 20 | 14 days 2X day | 11/20/2010 | 1 | Bipolar mixed...I guess | Weak limbs then blacked out...slept like the dead | My pdoc has me on 250 mg of generic depakote er and after 3 weeks and it not working that great he decided to try this on me. Took it at 6am with a sandwich and then by 6 30 I had terrible diarrhea and then was so dizzy and lethargic...After that I feel like I just blacked out...My boyfriend woke me up around 1pm and I felt groggy. Got up made another sandwich, that tired me out so bad that I slept till 3pm. So exhausted I feel like I've been run over by a truck! UGH...Hated it | F | 41 | 1 days 40mg 2X day | 11/10/2010 | 1 | depression/bipolar | i had severe muscle spazms and my head would turn to one side and be stuck there, also severe confusion and just all around bad feeling from this drug, it got so bad after 12 hrs i had to go to the ER and get a shot to counteract the geodon, it was the worst experience i have ever had with any kind of medicine, my phsych was pushing it on me really hard and gave me like 5 bottles each of 40 60 and 80mg pills and i took 2 40s the first day and 2 60s the next day and it was a terrible day to say the least. | do not take this drug, no matter how hard your Doc pushes it(and im sure they all will) stay away from geodon!!! | M | 24 | 2 days 120mg 1X day | 11/4/2010 | 1 | Bipolar | Sedation!!!!! Memory loss, not active, zoombie like.. zone out | STAY AWAY FROM THIS DRUG!!!!!!! Geodon ruined a whole year of my life!!! I never had any energy to do anything with my 2 yr old daughter. I am 36 miles away from my job and every morning for 6 months I would fall asleep on my way to work. I would make sure I got 8 hrs of sleep every night! One morning I just couldn't open my eyes and crashed my car. I then called my Dr and told her that I was done taking it. The withdrawals are really bad headaches, mood swings, confusion.. My Dr then introduced me to Lamictal.I now feel like I have my life back!!! | F | 28 | 1 years 80 mg 1X day | 10/26/2010 | 1 | Bipolar type 2 | This medicine was kinda pushed by the psychiatrist and he jumped over to start it and gave me some samples. in 1 week I had severe headaches and trigeminal neuralgia. We stopped it and he started me on abilify...another horrible choice... I had severe anxiety. he stopped abilify and tried me on Geodon...Again same thing.. my anxiety was worse.. I had started having driving anxiety... I was feeling like i am sleep walking..all hypnotized... I agree that it sounds like Pfizer's propaganda to push this medicine. FDA needs to investigate further and put immediate ban on this drug.... Horrible medicine.. dont ever take it... | worst medicine ever.... | F | 33 | 30 days 20 mg 1X day | 10/21/2010 | 1 | Bipolar disease | Tooth nashing, wiggling legs withdrawal, racing thoughts | I don't think it's right for everyone | F | 57 | 1 months 2X day | 10/19/2010 | 1 | bi-polar | EXTREMELY tired!!! Can barely keep my eyes open after taking Geodon. Now, I have an upper respiratory infection which is a less common side effect, but I got it none the less. My leg muscles ached so badly that I could hardly walk one day. Bad diarrhea the first few days. On and off nausia. | Other than the horrific side effects, the drug seems to be working. I don't feel depressed or manic. However, I will not stay on it. I will ask to be taken off ASAP. The side effects are not worth it. I have children to care for. I can't be this tired. I need to drive and tend to my children. I feel like a zombie on it. | F | 36 | 10 days 60 mg 2X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | Anxiety, bipolar 1 | Prescribed for recently developed severe anxiety due to work environment. Bad reaction in 4 days. Slept 3-4 hours each night. I will not continue taking. Did not effect libido. Very powerful drug. | Gradually went from morning dosages 1 X (20mg) for 2 days. Felt like the walking dead but no anxiety. Went to 1 X (40mg) for 2 days felt faint, groggy, low concentration, anxiety returned in the evening. Then went to 1 X (60mg) next day anxiety returned all day, severe cramp in right knee (no knee problem before) limped most of the day. Believe it cased a severe manic attack in the evening. Also take 200 mg Lamictal, 30 mg Temazapam, 1.75 mg Alprazalam in the evenings. | M | 62 | 4 days 60 1X day | 9/6/2010 | 1 | Suicidal thoughts | Involuntary painful spasms of neck muscles (Tardive dyskinesia) | This medicine was prescribed to me when I started having suicidal thoughts while on Zoloft. The doctor sent me to a "safe house" to be monitored so I wouldn't act on those thoughts and so I could have my medication monitored as well. I took this medicine for the first night, and when I woke up in the morning, I started having problems with my neck muscles moving involuntarily to the point where my head would get stuck in a position for a long period of time. Everytime I would move my head into the correct position, it would snap back like a rubberband, and it was very painful and scary! The resident monitors called my doctor and I went to see her that very morning. She immediately discontinued the Geodon and prescribed me Lithium instead, and also a muscle relaxer to help with the spasms. I will NEVER go on Geodon again. | F | 27 | 1 days 1X day | 8/24/2010 |