For me GEODON has worked miricles! It is the first mood stabilize...

For me GEODON has worked miricles! It is the first mood stabilizer that has actually worked. I started with 40 mg twice a day for a week, then 60 mg and on up to 80 mg x2 daily. The morning geodon seems to make me feel alive. Before Geodon I ALWAYS felt tired with no motivation what so ever. Now I wake up around 7:30 am rather than 3 or 4 pm, I get up and get busy with household chores, running errands ect. ect. I feel energized. When I take the second pill around 8:30, within an hour I feel sleepy. I go to bed and actually sleep sound all night. Before Geodon I'd be up and down or toss and turn all night long. I wasn't getting much rest and always felt tired. I'd sleep a hour or so then be up for a couple hours before I could fall asleep again. That went on every night all night long. Usually around 5 or 6 am I'd get to sleep then I wouldn't want to get up. I was really bitchy and irritable. I had zero patience and was constantly snapping at people. I knew I was being a bitch but I didn't care...I just wanted to be left alone to drown in my own misery. Geodon changed all that! I feel like a new person. I just hope it lasts. A few years back I took Trazadone, it worked well for me for about 6 months then all at once it stopped working and I went into a deep depression for months. At one time I was taking 16 different psychotropic drugs for my bi-polar dissorder. What a nightmare that was! I didn't like ther person I was then at all. I was doing what my doctor told me to do without question. Then one day I WOKE UP...I realized that I DID have questions and I wanted answers. I was tired of feeling like a puppet so I decided to take control of my life. Since then I went through 8 different doctors before I found one who was willing to work WITH me, and listen to me instead of treating me like a pill popping lunatic. I'm bi polar but I'm NOT stupid, it has nothing to do with intelligence! Back to the point, even tho I am doing well on Geodon I have noticed a few side efects. I've developed a twich in my left eye and I constantly run my tongue over my teeth. both are a little bothersome, especially the tongue thing because it makes my tongue sore! =)~ But I'm hopeing it'll go away and if it don't, I'm willing to live with it. Seems a small price to pay in return for normalcy. Here's a great place to check for drug interactions if anyone is interested. I just finished running a check for my mother and was suprised by what I found out. Alot of doctors these days are just plain pill pushers. They get kick backs from the big pharmaceutical plants for prescribing their drugs. I don't want to get started on that...it's a huge pet peeve! Ok, here's the link...www.medscape.com