[RKB]

Unlike most of the people in this thread, literally the day of taking Geodon I went from just about beating the !@#$ out of someone over a parking space to wondering what I was so angry about. I had been desperately fighting the "I'm so manic I'm going bananas" high for months and Geodon shut it right down.

I am not happy with my screwed up sleep schedule from taking this medicine, but I am remembering my dreams more than when I was on Lamictal and Abilify.

[judy1967]

My 15 yr old is at a therapeutic boarding school. He is on Depakote, Seroquel and Cymbolta. He had a manic episode. They stated it was not the cymbolta, which he has only been on for about 2 months, that it is not a medication problem. He has been on the Depakote for over a year. Now the school transferred him to a psych hospital and they and his psychitrist are putting him on Geodone along with all the other meds. I am very scarred for him. What happens when he goes back to his boarding school this week?

Originally Posted by cuzinruthi

I read that Geodone hasn't been tested on children and that it can cause heart problems. My son hasn't had any side effects so far. He is also on Seroquel and Depakote, but the psychiatrist is trying to take him off the seroquel because he's been on it for a few years and it can cause liver damage, and put him on the geodone and depakote instead.

[Alyy]

I recommend you take your son off of Geodone immediately!
I warn you it'll only get worse. I was on it for about a year or so. I lost that time. If I took the dose at 4 in the afternoon, I would be out by 6 in the night and awake at 4 in the morning, with more energy than the Enegizer Bunny. If I took it any later than 4 I would be awake till all hours of the night, and wake up as the she-devil. I lost of year's time. I have to repeat a year of school, because I slept or was sick and missed days in school. Don't put your son through that. It made me feel worse and as if I didn't want to tell someone. You're son might be dealing with the same thing.

And I have a friend that has taken it also. Her expirence was just as horrible.


I think this pill shouldn't be taken off the market, and at least looked into. Others, and myself, will agree...Geodone withdraws you from society.

[ihcuids]

Sure, I didn't like it that one of the side effects could be death (seriously) but while I was on it, it did wonders for me. I shook awful, but that's the only drawback I had with it. It helped me alot.

[EM1844]

I took geodon for several months and had very similar behavior.. I recieved it shortly after giving birth to my 1st child.. i have a long history and battle with mental/emotional problems...it knocked me out so strongly i wouldnt even wake up when my baby started crying..my mom had to come in and splash water on my face, hold my eyelids open and try to talk to me to get me up, and like you said... it wasn't happening...i have very sever night terrors, which was one of the main reasons my doctor at the time prescribed this medicine and they did; to me seem to get worse.. i absolutely could not be woken up from them..my family just had to listen to me scream and cry out in the night....somedays i was a zombie and some days completely irrational and unpredictable. Which to me seems like the medicine was only enhancing, not controlling the problems..depending on your son's diagnosis.. i would talk to his doctor about seroquel or prozac....both helped me tremendously. But, if seroquel is an option..before you decide to try it.. just know that once its fully in your system and have been on it for a few months, if it turns out to be not helping.. the withdrawels are extremely physically hard. i hope this information helps.

[chascorum]

Mother was recently put into the ICU for 2 days and 3 days on the floor. She was put into the ICU for a high level of Co2. She has been on Xanax for depression for over 8 years now.

Some problems happened in the ICU where two patients died one after the other. When the news came around that one of the nurses who was the head nurse for one of those who had dead, left for a few hours to go to a bar, no nurse would sign off on the death certificate of the deceased. Mom was the only other patient in the ICU to witness all of the drama. Her male nurse got a wheelchair the following morning and rushed her onto the third floor. He told her "God will be with you and with me". Apparently the nurses had threatened him to sign the release and he would not.

As soon as my mother was on the floor, the ICU nurses (WHY were they on the third floor?) gave her an IV of Geodon. My mother has been on Xanax and there was NO reason to give her an antipsychotic. I went to the nurse's desk and informed them of my mother hallucinating, believing there was a nurse on the floor with a gun. She told my sister to get her grandson off of the floor that the police were hunting for the nurse with the gun and so on and so forth. My mother was out of her mind! She literally did not sleep for DAYS while there, for fear.

She was released a day and a half later and has not had a breakdown SINCE. This is because she is not taking that medication.

We're actually considering a lawsuit over this. It caused my mother extreme anguish and four nights of no sleep, let alone them not changing her bed sheets for three days.

My question is why was my mother put on an antipsychotic like Geodon when she has had no symptoms that called for something that is prescribed for those will bipolar or schitzophrenia, unless there was something those ICU nurses didn't want shared with anyone else.

I am FURIOUS!

Any help is appreciated.