Geodon for Schizophrenia User Reviews

• CWR...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• February 10, 2015

"This medicine, taken in the throes of suicidal ideation, changes your thoughts, literally. After taking an additional 20 mg cap, my mind wanders to other, more immediate issues such as things I can do to help myself. I start thinking about doing activities such as housework, baking, painting, and anything else that gets me back into life and out of my chair playing computer games by the hour. I think this med is miraculous in the way it draws one away from the depths of despair to functionality. I have been taking it for several years, prescribed off-brand for clinical depression, and have been continually amazed that someone could create a medication that does so much good with virtually no downside. No hair loss, no weight gain."

• tat...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• January 18, 2014

"I was given numerous medications to treat my condition, and many of them just put me in a daze and made me sleep all day. I couldn't function. Then my psychiatrist put me on Geodon, monitored my condition, and slowly increased my dosage. My condition started to improve to the point that I can now function in society. I can understand now when I start to feel paranoid and hear voices-that they are only in my head and are not real. I come back to reality and calm myself down. Geodon has helped me more than Thorazine or Seroquel. I take 80 mg in the morning and 160 mg at night. I've been able to sleep up to 6 hours now. I feel good, I'm not tired, and now I can actually eat in restaurants. I've been taking it for 3 years."

• Hen...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• June 18, 2016

"20 mg twice per day, a total of 40 mg per day. Not hungry on it. On the contrary, reduces appetite. Take it at the same moment when I have a meal for best effect! No weight gain, no effect on metabolism, stable blood sugar levels. Working! I do not feel psychotic on it!"

• Jap...
• September 1, 2009

"Geodon is a great medicine. It takes time to adjust to. Takes the false beliefs away right away. As the months go by, you will feel less depressed, have more positive thinking, and feel better about yourself. I found you have to go with the flow of adjustments to let the brain chemistry change. I'm happy my doctor has found a medicine that works. My body feels better too. Medicine takes time."

• Mom...
• November 6, 2016

"I have been on Geodon for 6 years. It works great for me. Risperdal made me sleepy, and I couldn't think as clearly. I have gained weight, but due to other medication I was taking with it. My symptoms are almost all gone. I still have some paranoia, but nothing like before. I take a lot though, 160 at night. My condition is very manageable. I just wish I didn't have this problem and didn't have to take medicine just to function normally. Good luck to all you guys searching for help."

• Mom...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• August 11, 2013

"I've been on Geodon for probably about a year, and I like it. It works, I don't really hear voices. From time to time, like once a week, I'd hear like half a min of voices compared to 24 hrs of my day before taking Geodon. My dose is always changing, but as of now, I'm on 20 in the morning and 80 at night. I get muscle tension and jaw locking. Sometimes it will look like I'm flipping people off, or I'd hide my thumb and squeeze. I'm taking Benadryl for that, which helps, I'm taking 50 mg for morning and night. I had tingling in my head, feeling like I could faint, but that only lasted a month or so. Overall, it's a good medication, I'm happy as long as I don't hear angels and demons!"

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 12, 2012

"I am only on day 3. I have to say I like it. I do not hear or see voices or people. I have a wild thought process that can imagine anything and make it real in my own mind. That is under control almost completely, which is AMAZING! Living in my head without this medicine was a nightmare. 60 mg before bed did not work for me. I couldn't sleep. So, I now take it in the morning. I also have A.D.D. (no medication for A.D.D. though). Just the Geodon and Topamax. It works perfect for me. Weight gain was a BIG problem on the other medicine they tried, so far I think I have lost, I know I have not gained, which is very important to me. I had gained 14 pounds in 3 weeks on the other medication (that's a lot of weight really fast). No jaw issues or shaking."

• Man...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• April 24, 2020

"I have been on Geodon for 9 months now, and though I have lost 30 pounds of the Risperdal weight I gained, I am now experiencing a condition called Anhedonia, and I am absolutely ruined. Now that I see the world this way, I can never go back to the way I was, I get no pleasure out of life whatsoever."

• Ell...
• May 4, 2018

"Honestly, this medication does a really good job of nipping hallucinations in the bud. It took over a week for the medicine to really work for me, though. The only complaint I have is the fact that this medication makes you so, so tired. It also changes your mood so that I don’t feel like me when I take Geodon. But, it does what it’s supposed to do, so I can’t complain too much."

• Max...
• August 25, 2023

"I have schizophrenia for most of my life. I have severe illness symptoms. I have tried many antipsychotics. Most made me gain weight. I have been on Geodon for 4 months or so. I did not gain weight on it at all. When I started, I felt very tired, but that went away the longer I was on the med. I still have slight hallucinations on it, but without it, it is very disabling. I take 80 mg once a day in the afternoon with food. I am happy with this medication. God bless."

• sea...
• April 15, 2011

"I take 160 mg of Geodon, half at dinner and half before bed. I used to take it in the morning, but it would knock me out cold. Now I am dead to the world at night but can get through the day. I have been on many medications, and Geodon is the only one that didn't make me feel that my life was in danger and claustrophobic. I never did hear voices or delusions, just grandiose thinking. If you have to take medication, Geodon is far superior to the other antipsychotics. I developed partial blindness and tardive dyskinesia on the others. But Geodon does slow you down and cause weight gain."

• Fuz...
• July 2, 2018

"Geodon is working well for me. My condition is pretty severe, and other antipsychotic medications caused what I can only describe as an adverse reaction. It doesn't get rid of all my symptoms, but I am on a low dose. What I am most surprised by is its positive effect on my motivation and my desire to see others... I did not know medication could help that."

• Anonymous
• September 28, 2009

"When I first started taking Geodon, I was very, very tired all the time and pretty much felt like a zombie. Noticed a rapid increase in appetite and started getting constipated. Within five days, I started getting twitches around my mouth and jaw. On the seventh day, my tongue swelled up, my jaw was locked, and I had a grape stuck in my mouth (which I was trying to eat). Ended up switching medications. Can't say my experience with it was positive - still have some mouth twitching even now and tightness in the jaw from it. If you start having twitches, tell your doctor IMMEDIATELY! Don't wait, it should be something they (the doctors) warn you about."

• Ros...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 9, 2020

"Geodon was a bad drug for me!!! Made me gain a bunch of weight and didn't even touch my symptoms. I was put on this during my second hospitalization and got up to a really high dose and still didn't work but was kept on it after discharge. Caused my moods to be really unstable and led to a misdiagnosis of bipolar. Made me feel like such a zombie and made me miss Abilify, which also made me a zombie, but Geodon was so much worse. Beware!"

• Ano...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 19, 2021

"I switched to this medication from olanzapine due to the weight-neutral benefit. I did lose 5 pounds, however, I had a lot of muscle tension and pain. Voices and hallucinations did not return, so I guess it does work for the actual sickness. The muscle pain is too much, so I will be trying another, more tolerable med."

• Kri...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 14, 2015

"This is day two of taking 20 mg twice daily of Geodon. So far, I yawn a lot and could fall asleep about 30 minutes to an hour after taking it. That I really hate, because I was already always exhausted to begin with. BUT I will say I have noticed I'm a lot less paranoid and can actually walk slowly without thinking I'm being chased. It is rather pleasant. Now, when I see or hear things, I know it's just my head and can leave it be and not go into paranoid mode. I really hope the sleepiness subsides."

• Anonymous
• March 21, 2012

"I have severe schizophrenia and have been on Geodon for two years. I have trouble pronouncing some words since I started, but overall it has made me appear normal. I can think without the inner voices. I have gained some weight but not as bad as with other medicines."

• bww...
• March 4, 2012

"My wife tried this while schizoactive, and it got rid of the auditory hallucinations until close to time to take the medication again. About 1 hour before medication time, the hallucinations came back very strong and hung around for at least 1 hour after the drug was taken. The doctor increased the dosage and split it twice a day, and my wife got really bad twitches."

• Mis...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• April 8, 2016

"Took 80 mg of Geodon for 10 months. Severe weight loss, extreme loss of appetite, moderate anxiety, talked out loud to myself a lot, talking rapidly while not making sense, extreme happiness for no reason, jerked awake every night with no sleep for at least 24 hours, severe restlessness. Extreme energy. Severe weight loss, almost died. Don't recommend."

• csb...
• December 14, 2010

"Geodon has worked well for me. My hallucinations have gone away, and I had very little sleepiness or other side effects. I'm struggling with my weight and wondering if the Geodon is making it harder for me to lose weight, but I haven't gained any more weight while on it. I think that it's a good medication for me. It keeps me stable."

• Anonymous
• September 14, 2010

"Been on this for 9 months now. I take it at 5 pm - pick a time and stick with it, staying steady with the routine helps with the tired feeling. Don't ever miss a dose - I was really sick one night and couldn't keep anything down, so I couldn't take it - didn't sleep at all. I was seeing people that weren't there - and heard voices calling my name all night. At 1 am, I had all the lights in the house on. I do have muscle twitching, but it's tolerable."

• Lee...
• August 6, 2019

"Antipsychotic weight gain is an absolute nightmare. I was on Risperdal, and it made me gain twenty pounds. At first, I didn’t know what was going on. I thought I was just getting old. Then I got up to 160 pounds without even eating. This med made it so I can’t pee hardly at all, so if I just want to drink Diet Pepsi to lose weight, I have to deal with water weight. I mean just how big am I supposed to get? I have to be on this stuff for life, and I’m gaining about 2 to 3 pounds a week without even eating. How many times am I supposed to go jean shopping for bigger sizes? And I can’t say I trust Geodon much more. I’ve been on it for a month now, so far, I’ve lost five pounds by just starving myself as usual. It works for my voices, but I can’t even get off the stuff if I wanted to because the withdrawal gives me terrible insomnia. So, basically, they’ve got you for life and you're going to be fat."

• Anonymous
• July 2, 2008

"I've only been on this for a day or so now (40 mg twice a day), but I can already tell that it's helping to control my anxiety and delusional thoughts. I've been very tired, and everything has a fuzzy/dreamy/dopey feeling, but I'm hoping these side effects subside with time."

• Nab...
• December 20, 2016

"All I can say, don't miss a dose or take it without food. Also, do not take it with alcohol. If I do any of the above, I don't sleep at all. Then when I take it on the following morning, I fall asleep at work, which is saying something because I have a very active job. This medicine seems to have a very short half-life, and I feel symptoms even if I go one hour without it. That being said, it is by far the best medicine I have been on. It is very effective when taken at the same time every day with just enough food. No weight gain, and a big drop in positive symptoms. It even brings back my determination and zest for life. As long as I take it exactly as directed, it is a lifesaver."

• Mic...
• April 24, 2020

"My doctor put me on Geodon 3 days before I got out of the hospital for mental health. 3 days later I was back in the hospital because that medication gave me so many side effects: shakiness, in and out of consciousness, blurred vision, seeing things that are not there (i.e., it the clown and other things), sweating, feeling like I can’t calm down, swelling of throat and lips, etc. I’m still dealing with them. If anyone is taking this, I tell you, please, please, please be careful! I don’t want any of that happening to you!!!!"