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This is a summary of the most important information about
Geodon. For details, talk to your healthcare professional.
What Is Geodon?
Geodon is an antipsychotic medicine. Antipsychotic medicines
are used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia that may include
hearing voices, seeing things, or sensing things that are
not there, mistaken beliefs, or unusual suspiciousness.
Geodon is used to treat mixed or manic episodes in adults
who have a condition called Bipolar I disorder. Bipolar
disorder is a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings.
Who Should Not Take Geodon?
Geodon can increase your chance of an abnormal heart rhythm
(the way your heart beats) if you have certain heart conditions
or take certain medicines. Therefore do not take Geodon
if you have the following heart conditions:
long QT syndrome (a specific heart rhythm problem)
a recent heart attack
severe heart failure
certain irregularities of heart rhythm (discuss the specifics
with your doctor)
What Are The Risks?
The following are the risks and potential side effects
of Geodon therapy. However, this list is not complete.
Geodon may cause dangerous problems with your heart rhythm
(the way your heart beats). Call your healthcare professional
right away if you:
Faint or lose consciousness
Feel a change in the way your heart normally beats (palpitations)
Increased chance of death in elderly persons. Elderly
patients treated with atypical antipsychotics, such as Geodon,
for dementia had a higher chance for death than patients
who did not take the medicine. Geodon is not approved for
dementia.
A life-threatening nervous system problem called neuroleptic
malignant syndrome (NMS). NMS can cause a high fever, stiff
muscles, sweating, a fast or irregular heart beat, change
in blood pressure, and confusion. NMS can affect your kidneys.
NMS is a medical emergency. Call your healthcare professional
right away if you experience these symptoms.
A movement problem called tardive dyskinesia (TD). Call
your healthcare professional right away if you get muscle
movements that cannot be stopped.
High blood sugar and diabetes. Patients with diabetes
or who have a higher chance for diabetes should have their
blood sugar checked often.
Other serious side effects with Geodon may include low
blood pressure seen as dizziness, increased heart beat and
possibly fainting, seizures, persistent erection), increase
or decrease in body temperature, and difficulty swallowing.
The most common side effects include feeling unusually tired
or sleepy, nausea or upset stomach, constipation, dizziness,
restlessness, diarrhea, rash, increased cough / runny nose.
What Should I Tell My Healthcare Professional?
Before you start taking Geodon, tell your healthcare professional
if you:
have or had heart problems
have or had seizures
have or had diabetes or increased blood sugar
are trying to become pregnant, are already pregnant, or
are breast-feeding.
have or had liver problems
drink alcohol
Are There Any Interactions With Drugs or Foods?
Because certain other medications can interact with Geodon
review all medications that you are taking with your healthcare
professional, including those that you take without a prescription.
Your healthcare professional may have to adjust your dose
or watch you more closely if you take the following:
dofetilide
sotalol
quinidine
certain medicines to control the way your heart beats
mesoridazine
thioridazine
chlorpromazine
droperidol
pimozide
sparfloxacin
gatifloxacin
moxifloxacin
halofantrine
mefloquine
pentamadine
levomethadyl acetate
dolasetron mesylate
probucol
certain medicines to treat high blood pressure
tacrolimus
Avoid drinking alcohol while taking Geodon.
Is There Anything Else I Need to Know?
Geodon may have a higher risk of heart problems than some
other medicines that are used to treat schizophrenia because
it may change the way the electrical current in the heart
works. We do not know whether this will be harmful, but
some other medicines that cause this kind of change have
sometimes caused rare dangerous heart rhythm problems. Because
of this possible risk, Geodon should be used only after
your doctor has considered this risk for Geodon against
the risks and benefits of other medicines available for
treating schizophrenia.
Dizziness, and sometimes fainting, caused by a drop in
blood pressure may happen with Geodon, especially when you
first start taking this medicine or when the dose is increased.
Geodon may impair judgment, thinking, or motor skills.
You should be careful in operating machinery, including
automobiles, until you know how Geodon affects you.
It is important to avoid overheating and dehydration while
taking Geodon. Geodon may make it harder to lower your body
temperature.
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