I wonder if food helps?

Anna · June 23, 2017, 3:55pm

When it comes to akathisia w geodon? Because I’m thinking what was different about yesterday is that I took my dose with very small meals. Last night I had a big dinner and took geodon with it then and had no akathisia! Weird…

anon51414962 · June 23, 2017, 4:14pm

“I wonder if food helps?”
Yes every time it works when i am hungry lol
But for akathisia i don’t know. You said:

Usually i have akathisia, i feel the need to walk and i am restless during day until about 6 or 7 PM, after this hour/time i am calmly and don’t feel the need to walk

Anna · June 23, 2017, 4:35pm

I get terrible anxiety. It feels like I’m falling off an endless cliff.

anon51414962 · June 23, 2017, 4:52pm

The best part from my akathisia is that i don’t have to stay all day in bed, i’m always thankful for that.

anon58900831 · June 23, 2017, 5:43pm

I got dyskinesia on Latuda … some weird stuff.
Now back on Geodon, I love it.

Anna · June 23, 2017, 6:50pm

It’s not good energy it’s bad. It’s like I’m so restless I can’t do anything at all because I can’t focus on anything.

Ninjastar · June 23, 2017, 7:24pm

YES! You need to eat at least 500 calories with Geodon! Otherwise, it all floods your system at once, then washes out.

Ninjastar · June 23, 2017, 7:24pm

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The impact of calories and fat content of meals on oral ziprasidone absorption: a randomized, open-label, crossover trial.

K Gandelman, JA Alderman, P Glue, I Lombardo, RR LaBadie, M Versavel and SH Preskorn, The Journal of clinical psychiatry, Jan 2009

Food is known to increase the bioavailability of ziprasidone. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of meals of differing caloric and fat content on steady-state ziprasidone exposure in a stable, treated group of subjects with DSM-IV diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or psychotic disorder (not otherwise specified) who were already receiving oral ziprasidone as their standard therapy.Patients took ziprasidone under 6 meal conditions in randomized sequences (fasted, low calorie/low fat, low calorie/high fat, medium calorie/high fat, high calorie/low fat, and high calorie/high fat); each crossover period was separated by at least 3 days for washout of the previous meal condition. Serial blood samples were obtained over the 12 hours postdose. The study was conducted from July 27 to September 28 of 2006.Maximum ziprasidone exposures in this study were observed with high-calorie meals (1000 kcal), which were nearly twice those observed under fasting conditions. The medium-calorie meal (500 kcal) was associated with exposures similar to the high-calorie meals. Low-calorie meals (250 kcal) were associated with exposures that were approximately 60% to 90% lower than those of medium- and high-calorie meals, and approached exposures seen under fasting conditions. Fat content of the meal had no significant effect on ziprasidone absorption. The ziprasidone exposures observed with medium- and high-calorie meals had less variability than those with low-calorie meals and under fasting conditions.These results confirm that ziprasidone should be taken with food and that a meal equal to or greater than 500 kcal, irrespective of fat content, is required for optimal and reproducible bioavailability of the administered dose.

Anna · June 23, 2017, 8:29pm

Thank you so much for this! I took it with a hearty meal today and no akathisia!

Ninjastar · June 23, 2017, 9:04pm

I use MyFitnessPal to make sure I’m eating enough calories with my med. taking Geodon on an empty stomach is just like missing a dose.

Anna · June 24, 2017, 12:50am

Well technically I wasn’t taking it on an empty stomach, just a small meal, so like a pumpkin loaf from Starbucks or a small frozen burrito. Definitely not 500 calories but I didn’t know I had to eat specifically that much since it just says take with food on the label