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Reviewer: shorty, 35-44 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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makes me sleep 17 hours
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Reviewer: Schizobus, 25-34 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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I suffer schizoaffective disorder. I switched from Abilify to Geodon mostly because I could only tolerate a low dose of Abilify, which wasn't providing enough therapeutic value. I now take 60mg of Geodon in the morning with breakfast and 80mg of Geodon in the evening with dinner for a total of 140mg daily. I have been taking over 100mg of Geodon daily for about two years now. Geodon helps prev
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Reviewer: tammy, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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I started this drug after a brief stay in the hospital, it seems to help my schizophrnia, my symptoms have subsided tremndoulsy. i do have restless legs when i take it but overall doing good.
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Reviewer: OldArtistSoul, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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I've been on Geodon now for almost 9 years. I'm schizoaffective. This medication really helps with the psychotic symptoms of my disorder like the delusions and the hallucinations. It also helps me sleep at night since I take it in the evening. I get blood draws every 6 months to keep an eye on my blood sugar levels. Am taking Geodon with Depakote ER, and Zoloft. Works great together. Actua
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Reviewer: knife, 35-44 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I had years of ineffective meds. When prescribed geodon at a hospital it solved all of my diagnosis problems. I was raised to a place where negative thoughts didn't exist, I looked for fear and the resulting loss of control of thoughts and feelings and was glad to realize fear didn't come even when I was looking for it. Finally I felt pleasure which is hard to come by. It was my miracle dr
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