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 | 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 | 2 | BIPOLAR | sore throat, stiff neck muscles, rapid heart beat, panic attacks | M | 27 | 15 days 20MG 1X day | 3/25/2012 | 1 | Bipolar 2 | Worst itchy rash ever. Pins and needles pain. Fever could not sleep skin felt like it was on fire. Had to go to the hospital because of this plus I was having shortness of breath. They told me to stop taking the medication ASAP. | F | 45 | 15 days 20mg x2 | 3/17/2018 | 1 | Bipolar | agitation,hostility,and anxiety along with increased hunger and thirst and urination and confusion. He threatened his life and others lives and was so full of hate and anger. He was bouncing off the wall and had tremors. | I don't recommend this for children at all. I have learned my lesson and when a DR. recommends a new medicine I am going to fully research it before I give it to my child. So now he is in the hospital for threatening his own life and his counslers life and it wasn't even his fault, it was the stupid ass Dr. that put a bipolar person on a medicine that a side effect is hypomania. If you have had a similar expierance please e-mail me at [email protected] | M | 9 | 16 days | 3/29/2009 | 3 | bipolar/rapid cycling/borderline pe | high anxiety....adding Klonipin has helped with that but the racing thoughts are unbearable sometimes. It does help me sleep though I am dizzy when I wake up. No drug is a cure all so I am sticking with this until things settle down in my life a bit. I have been experiencing crazy dreams & while it does help me sleep, it's not for prolonged peroids...usually about 3 to 4 hours at a time. | Nothing so horrible that I want to stop taking it right away but I am going to discuss these side effects with my doctor at my next visit in a week. | F | 36 | 17 days 40 1X day | 7/25/2011 | 1 | Bipolar II | Severe depression, suidical thoughts, extreme drowsiness, felt shaky/trembly, eyes "funny" - couldn't focus on details like I could before | This is an update to my previous post of 9/11/09 where I raved about Geodon. I was only taking 20mg once a day, at night. Not long after my raving review, I descended into a hellish depression of the magnitude I used to suffer before I was ever even on antidepressants at all. I can't describe the hell this drug has been for me. Now it has been over a week since I stopped taking it, and I am STILL suffering. This is truly scary for me. How can taking the minimum tiny dose of a med for 2 and 1/2 weeks mess someone up this bad? I have no idea when I'm ever going to be better. I had a bad experience with Lamictal 2 years ago where I experienced suicidal depression, but it didn't take this long to go away after I stopped taking it. So here I am, over a week off the drug, and I am still struggling with depression, despite still being on Lexapro. I don't know what this med did to my brain, and that scares me. At least the shaking/trembly feeling seems to have gone. But the sleepiness of having to take a nap every day, the anxiety/morbid thoughts, and depression are still with me. This is HELL. This is worse than whatever bipolar symptoms I was going thru. Now I'm scared to try any more drugs for fear of continually going thru this. Why would I??? I feel like some insignificant lab rat/guinea pig. | F | 44 | 17 days | 9/27/2009 | 5 | Schizophrenia, bipolar | drymouth, cold all the time, loss of appetite and I think it affects my spelling and typing skills... | Geodon has helped me tremendously with paranoia and manic depression. I also take Lamictal. I still have suspicous thoughts but I can deal with them much better. I am generally happier since starting the combination together. I smile more and I'm in a much, much better mood and feel somewhat stable. | F | 38 | 18 days | 7/5/2007 | 3 | Bipolar 1 | My depessive mood quickly improved while taking 20 MG twice per day. Since incresing to 40 MG twic per day I am extremly tired during the day and have almost fallen asleep behind the wheel. At night I wake up after 4 hours of sleep and can't fall back to sleep. Energy level is high to being agitated. | M | 57 | 18 days 40 MG 2X day | 7/23/2011 | 1 | Bipolar | I was diagnosed bipolar just because of my family history, I don't have it! Anyhow my doc started me on 20mg and I was ok but feeling anxiety 8 hours after taking it, so he increased me to 40mg. The first night I woke up to use the restroom, used it and came back to the room and fell smack dab into my son's dresser, surprised I didn't knock any teeth out. Husband had to put me back to bed I was so weak. Called the nurse who agreed I should eat with the dosage the 2nd night. Did that and 2 hours later could hardly walk or talk. Started getting the shiver/shakes and getting weaker after hours so ended up in the ER. This was the worst 8 hours of my life. They did nothing for me but take tests at the hospital. I've done natural childbirth and that was 10x's easier than this. All my other docs and people around me agree I'm not bipolar, this is crazy! Not taking any meds unless I'm dying next time around. | F | 40 | 20 days | 6/15/2009 | 5 | bipolar 1, sleep | weight loss, no appetite, general agitation, twitching | I have been on Geodon for about three weks now and I have been manic bipolar for as long as I can remember. I started taking 60 mg of geodon at 6:30pm and 60 mg at 9pm for calming my manic moods and letting me sleep better. I am mostly manic and combined with 3 mg of Lunesta I can sleep a good 5 hours without waking up at all. That's the best sleep that I've gotten in years. I am a chronic insomniac and I find that this combo works best instead of having to take 400 mg's of Benadryl or 6 or 9 mg of Lunesta. I find that it has mild sedative effects that I really find to be the most help to my mania but agitation was increased by a minorly noticeable amount when taken during the day. | M | 23 | 21 days 60 2X day | 2/18/2010 | 2 | schizo | i felt very sleepy and exhausted for the days i was on geodon, and it did not help with any wellbeing issues. i felt more paranoid about having it inside me | M | 26 | 24 days | 9/18/2005 | 1 | bi-polar, anxiety | The drug worked great to help me sleep and feel calmer (however I did have some sleepiness after the morning dose so I would set my alarm and take it 3 hours before I had to get up and that solved the problem) and I felt like I had more energy during the day. However - there is one hideous side-effect that sent me to the ER: I had such terrible abdominal bloating that I felt like I was going to burst open! I felt and looked like I was 4 months pregant while on this drug. The effect got worse over a 2 week period until I felt like I must be growing a huge tumor in my abdomen and I went to the ER. They x-rayed me and really found nothing (they thought I was mildly constipated- that's all the ER doc could come up with), but the discomfort was terrible. I actually have stretch marks on my belly from the short time I took the drug, and I didn't gain weight in any other part of my body. I went off of it and the effects subsided, but my doc wanted me to go back on it again. So I took | It's a shame the drug has this awful side-effect, otherwise I really did feel better on it. | F | 35 | 25 days | 3/2/2006 | 4 | Bipolar I | Hypomanic when I started. Initial drowsiness. Started 80 mg at bedtime with 20mg PRN during the day. I was hammered in the am after 80 mg. Mania increased until I ended up in ER. | Learned at low doses geodon can induce mania. Increased bedtime dosage to 120 mg. Curiously, not so hungover at this dose, and I've come down to a manageable mood. Still a bit hypomanic. No daytime PRN dosages. I finally got some good sleep too. Obviously this drug is very unpredictable and since our "consitutions" are so individual one must be monitored very closely initially, and always watch for any changes, physical or mental. I have been searching for 3 1/2 years and I'm hopeful. | F | 49 | 26 days | 10/11/2006 | 5 | Treatment resistant depression | Started taking this a month ago, 20 mg. at night plus 100 mg. Cymbalta/day after trying several other drugs for my depression with little response. The first couple of nights it knocked me out, which was fine with me as I have trouble sleeping anyway. | For me this has been a miracle drug! I feel like my normal, pre-depression self without any wacky side effects. | F | 47 | 30 days | 3/9/2006 | 5 | Bi-Polar Type II | The only side effect thus far is sleepy in the morning, after taking Geodon the night before | Thus far, this is the first mood staboliser that I have taken that has not given me the gambet of henous side-effects, I am hopefull now. | M | 40 | 30 days | 6/7/2008 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | grogginess, some initial anxiety | I have only been on for one month and this is how I can summarize the change in my life: Before I slept because I wanted to and got up because I had too, now, I sleep because I have to and get up because I want too, amazing, how productive I am and just an overall decent well being - finally looking forward to life | F | 48 | 30 days | 11/19/2009 | 5 | Bipolar Depression | None maybe teeth grinding clenching, otherwise the next morning I woke up on a hustle baby. I was alive omg I was alive, dear god overnight I got my life back. Ty | Demand it | F | 51 | 30 days 120 mg 1X day | 9/3/2020 | 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 | 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 | 4 | severe depression and anxiety | jaw clenching | I started taking Geodon in the morning and it made me too tired so I switched to evening and it works great. I feel much better. However, I am clenching my jaw like crazy. My doctor wants to increase my dosage to 80mg. I am a bit scared. | F | 47 | 30 days 60mg 1X day | 9/1/2010 |