I am new here and I am going to start weaning off geodon today and I had bad withdrawals when I cut back. My dr told me to take 80 for 3 days then 60 for 3 days then 40 for 3 days then stop. Has anyone done this and made it through ok? She has put me on something else called invega and I would like to know if anyone had went through the same thing and had minimal withdrawals?
I have taken Geodon but had to go off of it because of extreme tremors and jittery feelings. I don't remember how fast I weaned off now, but I did some reading on Geodon on it's website. It said that Geodon reaches a steady state in 1 to 3 days. This was concerning how fast to increase the dosage, but maybe it is similar for weaning. The lowest dose is 20mg, so you might want to ask your pdoc (psychiatrist) about going to 20mg after the 40mg instead of quitting at that point. I don't remember having problems with the weaning, I believe it went smoothly. But if you have adverse side effects, you need to call your pdoc right away.
Meadhbh (Mave)
"Nothing is to be feared in life, it is only to be understood." Madame Curie
Geodon
Posted - 01/08/2009 : 12:25:18
