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Taking Gedon
I went to the pdoc yesterday and he decided to put me on 40mg of Geodon to help with my racing thoughts and slight paranoia, as well as my concentration problem. I wanted to take everything I said back (I was hoping he would up my lithium since my levels are low.). I am scared of this medicine and I was wondering if anyone else has taken it and how did it work/not work for you?
Gedone was given to my by my doc for being bipolar and to help me sleep... it had a odd effect on me. I started moving my toung and jaw for no reason. my wife had me go back to my doc and he put me on something to stop it. I was taking 200MG of it to fall asleep.
Thanks for your answer, it was very helpful. I think that I was hoping I would never have to take an anti-psychotic and when he prescribed Geodon I felt like I was failing in a way...that I couldn't keep myself from having to take yet another medicine.I know that I am like 10x's better than what I was before, but I just had a few things that needed to be treated. I have been on Geodon for two days now and I am not finding anything horrible with it. I noticed the other day I was around a lot of people and having to deal with those people coming up to me and talking to me and I actually handled it really well. Hopefully Geodon just continues to help.
Geodon used to knock me out two hours after I took it, before it became activating and started giving me insomnia. Also, it did not work very well for my paranoia. As for concentration and racing thoughts, I don't have the latter and I don't know if it worked for the former.
I took Geodon at one point in time for the psychotic symptoms associated with the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. It worked pretty decently in some ways where other medications don't work so great but then the other medications work better in the ways it doesn't work so great.
I guess what scares me about it is that it will make me really sleepy, or that it will mess up the ways my medicines work now. I had a hard time accepting the fact I had to to Lithium, and now another medicine that scares me is prescribed. I know I can only hope for the best. I am at the moment in my acceptance of my Bipolar disorder that I want to say I don't have it, and I don't want to take the medication. But at the same time the rational side of my brain tells me that if I go off of them, I will end up back in the hospital. I am just kind of all over the place as of late.
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Geodone is not without its side effects but it helps me tremendously, especially with the racing thoughts. It does cause me agitation and I do believe has caused some weight loss (that was a good thing in my books - with portion control I went from a size 14 to a size 6 in a year and a half).
I wouldn't want to go back to how things were before taking it. It isn't as good as Ziprexa was at calming my brain (that stuff was awesome until my cholesterol hit the roof), but it helps a lot.
It is scary starting a new med. I know that when they said the word antipsychotic I wanted to run out of the office and bawl my eyes out. To me it seemed so much worse than just a mood stabilizer. Something about the word 'antipsychotic' freaked me out. I didn't want to admit that the issues I was having were psychotic symptoms. (I would be very scared to go out at night to let the dog out. I would see danger around every turn, it was horrible) What finally calmed me down is to realise it is just a name, not a statement on who I am. Sometimes it still bugs me. I wish I didn't have to take it. But compared to the alternative... It does really good things for my brain. I am happier on it.