User Reviews for Ziprasidone

Geodon (ziprasidone): I was prescribed Geodon for Depression with paranoid features. It worked well as a mood stabilizer and I didn't really notice any side effects during the day (I took 160mg at night) except for some initial appetite loss. However when I would take it with my evening meal (you have to take it with food), within 2 hours I was extremely sedated to the point of not being able to keep my eyes open. I went off the medication after a month as I didn't feel it was helping me enough to justify taking such a strong drug.

ziprasidone: This medication is hard for me to rate. I give it a 7 because it really helped stabilize my moods, and I'm really OCD but it made me stop worrying about filth and that people were going to kill me. I was never depressed on it, and it helped me sleep really well every night. At first, it was my miracle drug. However, after about 6 weeks, I started losing pleasure in everything. I had to drop out of school because I couldn't concentrate anymore (I couldn't read like I loved to anymore either), and I had to take a break from my job because I tutor math and certainly couldn't process information. I couldn't play video games and hardly joked around. I wasn't depressed...I was just a zombie. A lower dosage of this medicine may have worked.

ziprasidone: I would get very restless after each dose, and it really knocked me out, although in some ways that was a very good thing. I lost weight on it, which was a huge plus, and was way less paranoid. It was a great medicine, probably my favorite antipsychotic besides Latuda. No anger at all either; I was very relaxed.