User Reviews for ziprasidone oral

This medication gave me gastritis. I took for the first few days and I had the worst stomach pains EVER!!!! This drug scrapes your stomach and destroys its lining. Ever after I stopped taking it, my stomach still hurts :(( This drug is HELLISH!!!!

I was prescribed this medicine because I hear voices. It has worked very well, despite having a difficult time transitioning onto it. I have heard some voices, but they are minimal. However, we had to put me on such a high dosage that I was falling asleep in class. Even on a lower dosage, I had to take an hour to two-hour nap every day and could not stay awake for more than thirty minutes in the car. Then we switched to taking it all at night (another rough transition) but I was still low on energy, so we lowered it again. We are thinking of lowering the dosage once more, but it is incredibly scary gambling with mental illness, especially during the semester. I can only pray I will not hear voices again. This drug has the worst withdrawal out of every anti-psychotic I have taken. If I miss the time I'm supposed to take it by two hours, or even one, I begin to feel terrible. My pupils dilate significantly during withdrawals. If I miss taking it during a meal and take it on an empty stomach, it does not kick in for at least an hour. It keeps me awake when I have not taken it as well. Even talking about this medicine makes me feel terrible. I can only hope that I will eventually switch onto another medication without an episode.Read More Read Less

caused lots of weight gain tremors tempture problems mouth sores and made me extremely tired

Great med-only issue is I have developed twitching of my facial muscles...I don'/t notice it others do.

I seem to have lost my passion while on this medicine. I used to have a "perky" personality but now I have nothing and can't feel anything, happy, sad, mad, just nothing. My memory has gotten worse and my concentration is lacking.

should a male of 52 years old take this medication along with zoloft?

Im on 120mg and no side effects. This works better than any other meds I been on. You don't have to eat with this medicine all tho I eat off and on with it. This is a good pain relief med too.

I was on the medication for about 2 weeks when I started experiencing really bad side effects. I became extremely dizzy and couldn't stop sweating. My heart raced and I would fall asleep sometime for an entire day. It felt like I was coming down with the flu. I went to the doctor and had a number of test done and they finally determined it was the side effect of the medicine. I had to stop taking it and am really questioning continuing any medication. This has been very scary for me.

my treatment was excellent.. this is the most avangarde med. I've ever encountered in my twenty plus years of treating this debilitating disorder....................

I only had to take 1 dose of 60 MG at evening meal and in the middle of the night I awakened to go to the bathroom but not without knocking over a bookcase, falling into the corner of a wall (knot on my head and multiple bruised ribs, huge brusies on my back, bottom and legs). Crawled (somehow--don't remember) to bathroom and crawled back to bed--don't remember how. At 11am the next morning my Mother came to check on me because she'd called me several times w/no answer--I was completely dead drunk...and I don't drink alcohol. BUT I do take Mirapex and 2 MG of Klonopin and 600 MG of Gabapintin at night. These help me sleep, hold down the extreme anxiety after a manic period. Psych said this was a drug usually administered in the hospital where it could be watched--uh-huh....How I wish this would've worked. It took me 1 hour to eat one piece of toast at 12pm that 1st day because I kept going to sleep while I was eating it. Thank goodness for a Mother who has put up with the evil "Ms. Hyde" and still finds time to care for her daughter instead of deserving the daughter to take care of and enjoy time with her. This drug may help others, but it's not for me.Read More Read Less

I have been on Seroquel for 7 years it worked fine until my Dr raised it to 200 mg then I got severe muscle spasms. Now I can't sleep so she put me on this Medication, within 2 days I felt as if I was on a bad Acid trip. I had to go to the ER. Got off of it but took 3 days to get it out of my system. My Doctor looked up my medical records and found that I was prescribed this medication 9 years ago from another Dr. And had the same reaction but didn't recall taking it. I was desperate to sleep so I get a Cannabus card for eatables. Wow bad idea When your Bipolar!! Made it worse. A word to Parents who put there under age Childeren on these types of bipolar Medacations without knowing how it makes them feel. I took my daughters Medacations for a few days because she complained she felt nausea, and couldn't walk. I felt the same as her. I felt so bad that I had made her take it :(Read More Read Less

makes me sleep 17 hours

I am Bi-Polar, and am more prone to the depressive side of the infliction as to the manic side. Ziprasidone has made a HUGE difference in my being medicated. I don't have as many manic episodes as before this medication (racing thoughts, and the other popular side effects of being manic), and I can take it with/without food and it works the same. I wholeheartedly recommend this med. BTW, I take 80 in the am, and 80 in the pm. Good luck to you...

Usually take Geodon 40 TID and was substituted with this med for no apparent reason. Med made me manic, and for the first time in my life I wanted to self-harm

Trastically helps with my depression. Did not take med for few days and became depressed in matter or days. Began taking again, and now out of depressive state once again. Only problem, taking without prescription, get from friend that does not take correct dose and gives it to me. How do I tell my dr. I'm taking it without prescription and let him know how well it works if I'm not supposed to be taking in the first place? Other med taking is Wellbuterine.

I was on Seroquel XR 300mg. But gained 25 lbs. & asked for something else. My Dr. put me on Zaprisadone 40 & 80mg week later. I don't feel I'm Manic, I am on Seraquil for depression which works great. I use it for sleep.

I have been on Geodone for about 3 days.I am already on Lamictal. I just started 80mg,plus 300mg of Lamictal.The drugs combined seems to be helping.The Geodone makes me sleep,and drowsey the next morning.