I wonder who comes on this site, or even monitors it recently? I recently got put on Geodon, 20mg/AM and 20mg/PM. Is anyone else walking around like a zombie and falling back to sleep around 10-11AM? Should I talk to my doctor about this, or save a copay and this is normal behavior for only being on this medication for a couple weeks?
I mean, I’m drinking a whole pot of coffee and still sedated. Unless my roommate pulled a cruel trick on me and put decaf coffee in my container? Also, I’m getting really bad reflux, dry mouth. And I’m still hallucinating visually and verbally. Does this take more time than usual to get used to? Will it even out and start working better? It’s real hard on me whenever they switch up my medications but since I’ve moved to a different state and doctor, he had said that I was already over-medicated, which I was, and put me on half doses of everything I was on. I do feel like a part of the world now except with this Geodon which I’ve been on for a week and a half/2 weeks. Can someone please calm my fears, and help me?
The sedation takes time to wear off. 20 mg is a low dose. If you are still hallucinating you can up it maybe. Geodon has been a good med for me. I have been on it for 9 years.
I was on my antipsychotic for 2-3 months before my hallucinations and delusions were all gone. I think typically they say they are meant to become effective by two months. Now I havent experienced any hallucinations delsuions for 1.5 years
When you take meds it can take upt to 6 months to realise fully. Thinking short term in days or weeks isn’t going tohelp you. I know you want immediate effect, but the meds don’t work like that.
The sedation weans in time, although the hallucinations need the same time to lessen.
These things are not immediate. When it comes to changing your brain workings, although recreational drugs can take seconds or minutes, aps and anti depressants take weeks and months.
Hang in there. the notion your room mate may change your coffee sounds like a paranoid delusion, so be hesitant to judge.
I’ve taken 80 mg x 2 daily Geodon for over ten years. For me, Geodon was a real Godsend. People respond differently to the med’s, though. I recommend that you give it time, but if it doesn’t work out you can try something elsee.
I have to say that after using the medication the auditory hallicunations disappeared. The delusions were also nipped in the bud. Only the social anxiety and sometimes agitation are still present but never to the extent that you can speak of a psychosis. I work like that.
Usually, after the outbreak of your first psychotic symptoms, psychiatrists try to treat you equally with a fairly high dose of antipsychotics. After which most symptoms will disappear. If there are any symptoms then you have two choices. whether you learn to live with it or you try other medications. That’s how I see it a bit.
Geodon is a great med. I’ve been on it for 22 years. It is VERY sedating at first when you first go on it. But, this effect wears off over time. Give it a few months. It can be very dangerous to drive while first starting on this med. at least until your brain gets used to it.
Yes geodon was HIGHLY sedating for me, more so than any other med. I was sleeping 13 to as much as 16 hours per day on it, (though I was on 40 mg twice a day) and actually could not drive because I couldn’t stay awake on the road.
My current psychiatrist said my old prescriber didn’t know what she was doing giving it to me in the morning because he knew how sedating it was. I mentioned the short half life but he said it was fine to take it all at night and a number of people do. I wonder if I would’ve stayed on it if that had been the case for me. I’m never going back on now though going off was WAY too hard.
It’s especially hard on me cause I have a frontal lobe brain injury that was acquired from years of abuse. The way my doctor explained it is, I have brain damage but I’m still alive. I can’t remember to do anything around the house. Learning new things take like 100 times for me to do it to get into the groove of things. I used to be somebody, really, I was. I was already 4 years in my dream jobs! I also can’t even drive anymore, which sucks.
On the other hand, I just heard from my newest doctor about vocational rehab, even if I can’t carry through with a job, it would at least teach me how to care for myself when others aren’t around to help me. So I have an appointment for Oct. 4th for my interview to see if they can help me or something. Fingers crossed!
Well, now I was on 40mg at night and 20mg in morning and it still didn’t work. So now I am on 60mg at night and 20mg in morning. I just started it like that so I’ll give it time, but these images that I keep seeing are crazy, and I feel like everyone’s talking about me and plotting something against me still. Like, there’s this car that belongs in my neighborhood and it looks exactly like my ex friend’s car and every time I see it go by my heart stops for a second. I still feel like I haven’t quite gotten over all the brain washing that was done to me as a child, and then now with my ex husband. I see myself doing the same stuff just on a different day and I’m stuck in a rut. I have an appointment Oct 4th with my trauma therapist for the first time, I hope to get some of this stuff off my shoulders. I am slowly learning how to think independently for myself and make my own choices. I also have a number of psychological issues plus Acquired Brain Injury so most of my memory is knocked out way in the left field, it’s like I only remember the bad trauma things that happened to me. Could anyone give me pointers on how to live with these things? Like other than a therapist, what other doctor/specialist should I go to to be able to find out the fine line of what’s causing what? Or do all my issues go hand in hand? TIA