User Reviews for Geodon

I have been using Geodon for three and a half years. It has been a very good medication for my mental health symptoms, and for that I am grateful. I do have some side-effect issues, however. I get something akin to restless leg syndrome that is especially bad at night when I am lying down, trying to fall asleep. I have taken Mirapex for this and also Cogentin. Both clear up 90% of my discomfort and the last ten percent is tolerable. I have some facial contortions sometimes, like a feeling that I have to make a strange face to relieve tension in my facial muscles, but that is mostly tolerable also. I do know that withdrawal from Geodon can be extremely uncomfortable so don't stop suddenly. Never let yourself run out of medicine.

Geodon has taken away SOME of the delusions/paranoia. Yet, it has made me angry and mean, and has caused me to gain weight. Recommend it for a short period of time- NOT longterm.

Geodon is a VERY GOOD medication: made me nicer, and lose the weight put on by the other antipsychotics I've been on. I feel quite normal now. I'm even thinking about looking for part-time work.

I take Invega, 12mg/day, and it helps a lot with my difficulty concentrating and the depression. I'm actually able to live a normal life with it. Unfortunately, it does not help with the hallucinations at all. So my doctor decided to try adding Geodon. It made me have seizures and made the hallucinations much, much worse. They went from happening for a minute or so at a time, a couple of times an hour to being constant. I only took it for three days. Two days after I stopped taking it, I was back to normal. The whole experience was miserable.

Geodon is really an effective medicine for Schizoaffective Disorder. One of the most challenging mental disorders to identify accurately and treat appropriately is schizoaffective disorder. This condition involves both psychotic symptoms and conspicuous, long-enduring, severe symptoms of mood disorder.

I just started this drug about a week ago and it made all my paranoid thoughts go away, something Risperdal was never able to do for about almost 10 years I've been on it. I'm 22 now and I started Risperdal when I was either 13 or 14. Before I was on olanzapine which made me gain a lot of weight in the hospital when I was 13, it made me gain 20 lbs or more I think, and on Risperdal I've gained a lot of weight every year too. Now I'm 166 and I'm really afraid about being 200 lbs so I'm going to switch completely to Geodon because I heard a lot of amazing reviews about it. I'm not getting any side effects at all and I'm feeling much better. I'm on Paxil, Risperdal, Geodon, Lamictal and I'm going to try to get off of Paxil and Risperdal completely.

Geodon has been the best antipsychotic for me from a physical point of view - I lost ten kilograms that I had put on while Zyprexa. Concentration is not very good on it though - I cannot study as well as I did on Zyprexa. I lowered the dose to 80mg and suddenly it was not sufficient and I started getting symptoms again. Now I am on 120mg and symptoms have gone away but am a bit hazy and unclear, struggling to concentrate and wanting to sleep late in the mornings. I want to try 100mg to see if I will stay stable on this dose.

I have been on the Carosel of medicines for months now and Geodon has been the only one to help cease the hallucinations and the paranoia but not inhibit my ability to think. Bloating is the only side effect that is uncomfortable so far.

This makes me very dizzy, but it works well for my hallucinations and paranoia. If I skip a day of taking it, I can't sleep! That's the only bad thing about it.

I was originally on 160mg of Geodon mainly for delusions and paranoia. It helped a great deal for paranoia but I wanted to decrease the dosage with a view to coming off it altogether. I managed to get down to 40mg but couldn't get off it altoghether as the resulting insomnia was awful. I just could not sleep without it. Unfortunately, due to paranoia I am now back up to 120mg and I can't see myself ever getting off this medication and I do suffer a lot of bloating with it although it is not as bad as Zyprexa or Clozaril for weight gain. Overall a good medicine for paranoid delusions.

This is an amazing medicine and I lost 42 lbs on it but maybe that's also why I'm this crazy now because I barely eat anything and it needs to be taken with food to be absorbed properly and I don't eat enough or exercise, which I need to start doing but I hate the fact that it makes me not enjoy eating and plus I need to take it with food. I wish it was like Risperdal and I don't need to take it with food but Risperdal didn't work for me.