Geodon

Geodon isn't very good from my experience because I found out that I have to take it two hours after I take my Effexor XR medicine in the morning due to interactions with Serotonin Syndrome which happens from too much in your brain. So, I tried it for a few months, it started causing tiredness that got increasingly worse, it also caused me to have panic attacks, and I normally don't have them this bad. Lastly, I found out from the doctor's blood test, my A1C went way up and I'm sure it was from this drug because it says it can raise your blood sugar. I don't recommend it unless these side effects don't bother you, they did for me, the tiredness was overwhelming, and I couldn't even do chores or tasks at home. It's a good thing I wasn't employed, or I wouldn't be able to handle it.

I tried Rexulti for just one day when I thought Geodon was worse, but it turned out to the other way around. I switched back to Geodon and I'm quite happy with it overall. The only side effect I have from taking 40 MG at night is the tiredness in the morning, it takes several short power naps in my bed to feel more awake. It has helped my depression become lesser sometimes at least. I'm currently separated from my wife, and she filed for divorce, so it's been super hard on me emotionally with lots of depression and crying at home, not fun at all! Geodon is helping at least the crying to be somewhat lesser. I take one dosage after dinner and the other at bedtime to make it not so much at once. Additionally, I have just 20 MG in the morning after taking my Effexor XR, I waited about an hour or two like the pharmacist told me to do, then I take the Geodon. I've gotten used to the routine and it's working somewhat, better than Rexulti, that's for sure!

I took this medication in the early 2000’s as a antipsychotic in just 6 months I developed Tardiv Dyskinesia. My jaws are offset. This made my depression even worse. With my severe TD people do double triple looks and lots of outright stares. It has made me anti social due to these reactions from people in public. Now my Dr has prescribed Austedo 36 mg once daily. It took a while to get get it approved thru my BCBS insurance and after I received the prescription I saw why. I was approved for 12 months of the Austedo. After receipt of the meds I looked at my claims paid by BCBS and was totally stunned one month (30) pills cost $14,456.00. Yes that’s ONE month supply. I can’t tell if it helped my initial condition since I was only on it for 6 months. The TD is severe and caused other issues like severe clenching and grinding of my teeth. 2 years ago after spending thousands upon thousands of dollars for dental work my dentist said there was nothing else he could due for me for what remained of my teeth. I was referred to a specialist dentist who did a six hour surgery to remove all my teeth, the surrounding nerves put in screw anchors for my new “forever” full mouth replacement steel teeth for $52,500.00. I now have beautiful teeth but adding it all up GEODON has cost not only emotional trauma self isolation but with a years worth of Austedo and all the dental work for 24 years it’s going to total approx $300,000.00. So be careful what take BIG PHARMA sold me expensive GEODON now gets another $185,000 to TRY and fix my TD Good luck to all with issues requiring this and other medications

After 31 years of being on Lithium and depakote for Bipolar, it stopped working. I was then diagnosed with psychosis and schizo affective disorder. I really didn’t want to get on an antipsychotic medication but the delusions and hallucinations were becoming to regular. I knew my sister had been on it for 20 years and it worked great for her. So far it’s working well with my depakote, lithium and Restoril. It does make me a little drowsy during the day but, it has helped with my insomnia tremendously. I have been having a little dizziness. I was worried about weight gain but, the first month I lost 8lbs. I feel somewhat normal again and my thinking is clear. I’ve taken zypreza and risperdol and had horrible side affects. I’m glad I’ve only experienced mild symptoms with geodon. It seems to be working well for me.

This stuff is great when I first started it it made me very sleepy but after that evened out my mind is clear I have a normal thought flow normal person energy I can actually get things done my aggression is gone I eat better I sleep better mood is controlled the only side effect I had with this was like “restless body syndrome” which was uncomfortable it made me feel like a soda someone shook up but after getting my dose changed to one dose I take at night that stopped completely (I’m on 120 mg)

I take this for schizoaffective disorder. It’s the only antipsychotic I’ve tried that gets rid of my schizophrenia symptoms AND doesn’t have horrible side effects. I’m on 80mg and have been for over a year. I function so much better now than I ever have.

I had the worst stiffness of head muscles that I have experienced in my life with this medication.

I feel normal with it, and I am excited to still try my base methods of care and treatment, even with an aggressive form of schizophrenia with bipolar. Some, or many of my delusions are hard to forget because while I had them, I was still able to get food, bathe, and live semi-normally even though I had all these thoughts, feelings, and emotions about everyone around me. It was like I would hear one thing about people, and then run with that one piece of information that I heard into a full scale delusion with just myself. Now during Christmas time and normal times it is hard to rebound myself everytime and not believe them. The medication IS great, though!! Super happy I tried it after such a downfall of sequences with abilify and depakote... This one is good.

Had an allergic reaction. Sad because it worked for bipolar depression, irritability, and overspending.

Been on it four days. I'm only on 20 mg with dinner. No side effects so far. Feel better...calm, happy without irritability. I think it's wearing off in early afternoon though and that I need a small morning dose, too.

I couldn't take latuda due to crippling feelings in my legs. I recently started geodon and I'm functional. Wake up with energy and it has help with calming my panic attacks. Positive experience

This drug ruined my life. Im 45 yrs old and feel like in 85. After only 5 doses i was paralyzed and could even remember my name. That was 7 years ago. I am still recovering from the Damage geodone had on me. It was the worst choice of my life taking this poison. People say they don’t know me anymore. I gave hallucinations visual and auditory. My life is hard and meaningless now. I curse the makers of this drug for the damage this caused me. I would rather take rat poison then grodone again. Beware, this pill can ruin your life in every aspect. It should be made illegal and the makers sued out if buisness.

I went from doing great on Vraylar but had to stop taking it due to the fact it's a $600 copay for a 30 day supply and my psychiatrist switched me to Geodon. I immediately got worse not better. All I could do was think about sad or bad things even things that were so hypothetical it wasn't even funny. For example I have a 10 year old Chihuahua and they live to be 18 yrs old ALOT when taken care of and this was when he was like 8 years old and all I could think about was how bad it's going to be on the day I'm going to have to get him put to sleep and I was crying non stop over it and panicking about it and acting as if the vet was in front of me administering the lethal shot right that second. I kicked my ex Wife out of my house and asked for a divorce because she cheated on me and that was back in 2016 and I was well over it when put back on geodon and had been in relationships with other girls And my ex , Wife wasn't even a care to me but as soon as I started geodon I kept running back the moment I caught her after she lied to me about it MANY times cuz I just had a gut feeling and the reality of realizing every fear I had that I thought I was just thinking crazy and exaggerating things in my head and to realize my gut feeling and everything I was afraid of happening happened that was the worst night and then time of my life and took me while to get over her but all of a sudden I was back to crying over the situation and I was obsessing on it & all day long every day all I did was think about it and play the what if game in my head even though I was over her I was still feeling like it was that night again that I caught her and kicked her out. I couldn't sleep and was eating at most once a day so then my psychiatrist upped my dose of geodon and then things went from really bad to HORRENDOUSLY bad and unfortunately we're still trying to find an antipsychotic or mood stabilizer that will work for me. I have bipolar type 1

Geodon is a miracle drug for me. I have been on a lot of other antipsychotics. But Geodon is the one with the less side effects. I've actually lossed weight on Geodon. And I feel fantastic. I used to think all the time that people didn't like me. I still have those thoughts but I don't hyper focus on them. I'm able to focus on other things instead. My thoughts don't bother me as much. I take 20mg in the morning and 40mg at night. It makes me feel weird about an hour or so after I take it at night, so I take it an hour before bedtime so I go to sleep soon after I take it. It has changed the way I plan my meals. I eat 4 meals a day now, but each meal is 500-600 calories. You have to take Geodon with a 500 calorie meal. It works most effectively when you do. At first I had trouble falling asleep, but my doctor suggested taking 10mg Melatonin 30 min. before bed. It works! When I was taking 40mg in the morning and 40mg at night, I felt very restless. But 20mg in the morning and 40mg at night is my magic dose.

Went from 60 pounds when I was 7 years old to 130 pounds 6 months later. Lost all the weight when I got off the medicine

I have been taking geodon for 7 months and have noticed a major improvement with my bipolar 2. I am able to handle very stressful situations that usually lead to me burning out in a severe depression. My depressive episodes have reduced and are not as severe as they once were. I also did not gain weight that a lot of anti psychotics cause. Overall a great experience so far.

I see this thread is a few years old, but hoping someone can shed some light on what I’m going through. I was prescribed Geodon 20mg for my bipolar disorder and having frequent mood swings. After about 3 weeks, I wasn’t feeling any better, probably worse than before I started this drug. I stopped cold turkey not realizing the consequences of doing so, my psychiatrist never informed me of the dangers of possible withdrawal symptoms. I should have educated myself more on this drug or at least read the reviews on this horrible drug. I see it does work for some people. So do not get discouraged reading all the negative reviews. My psychiatrist decided I take one weeks worth of 20mg. I feel like I’m going crazy.. horrible panic attacks, constant anxiety. Super depressed. I’ve dealt with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager, I’m 26. But this is a whole different level of anxiety and depression. I’m also on 25 mg 2 times daily of Lamotrigine, .1 mg twice daily of clonidine. And I was taking 40mg adderall but have recently tried tapering off the adderall Thinking that is a factor to my debilitating anxiety. I’ve been to the hospital 3times already for severe panic attacks and my BP was so high 170/110. I feel like this drug is killing me. I can’t sleep, I’m lucky if I get 2-3 hours of sleep each night. I have 3 little children that need me and I just can’t get out of this dark dark place. I’ve made so many lifestyle changes nothing is easing these symptoms.. And another awful symptom of withdrawal is the uncontrollable body movements (TD). I’m also wondering, me being on this medication for a short period of time, why are my stmptoms so severe and prolonged. Other people that have gone through this, please share your experience and tips on how to deal with withdrawal from Geodon. Does it get better???!?!?

Tried different meds to help with schizo / bipolar / mood and this one seems to work the best for me thus far. I noticed being more sluggish/ tired, and gets harder to get a good exercise/ sweat while on this. Which frustrates me the most. It also caused an initial mania / episode of voices before adjusting to it. But once that hump is over, my mind is cleared. I may be on edge to end this med, cuz it just doesn’t feel quite right being on it. But it’s better than taking the others that were giving me muscle pains.

Avoid this medication at all costs. It will stabilize you from mania without a doubt, but it will be VERY painful. I had constant headaches, short term memory loss, couldn't pay attention to anything, would fall asleep all the time, had really bad akathisia, was hot and sweaty all the time. I was only on 40mg as well and I couldn't stay awake to save my life! Dropped down to only 20mg and had HORRIBLE anxiety in the afternoon because the dose was too low. The drug has a very short half life to boot, so you will constantly feel like you are withdrawing from it which is the WORST PART BY FAR. There are MUCH better medications out there, and the fact they still charge so much for a drug made in 2001 is criminal. It's the WORST atypical antipsychotic in my opinion. It will make you feel awful while you are on it, and even worse should you decide to come off the drug entirely. I cannot stress this enough.

I have taken 20mg twice a day for several years. A month ago my doctor increased it to 40mg twice a day and it has been a life changer. I have energy every day and no longer lay down every day with depression. I personally haven’t had side effects. I’m thankful for this drug.