Someone posted on Geodon and panic attacks? - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

pferg101 · 04-04-2005, 10:11 AM

I found a post where someone replied about their wife having panic attacks & feelings of death. I can't find that post & wanted to keep up with it. I too was on Geodon. I started having severe panic attacks, thoughts that I would die too! I told my doc about this & he felt that it still wasn't the geodon. Still we agreed that I was to go off it. It's been three days & I am hoping my panic attacks will leave soon!

I ended up in the hospital as a result of "maybe" a major panic attack & am now seeing a neurologist!

My whole life has been one long panic attack & I had/have never felt like this!

Anyone have anything to add?

pferg

TLP53 · 04-04-2005, 10:46 AM

Hi Pferg,

I replied to your other post but wanted to let you know that Lamictal can speed some people up (as it does me). The wonderful benefits of having more stable moods is the dreaded anxiety/panic that tags along.

Alas, if it's not one thing it's another!
Who was it that said? "Buckle your seat belt honey, it's going to be a bumpy ride!"

Take care,
Terry

pferg101 · 04-04-2005, 11:26 AM

Thanks Terry,

I never had panic attacks before! My moods were always aggitated, nasty moods! My depression never was "poor me lows." Or can't get bed out of kind? I hope they leave when the Geodon is out of my syetem?

Someone else had posted that their wife had extreme panic attacks on Geodon? Grrrrrrr I hope this leaves, I don't need a new problem!

pferg

reesie · 04-04-2005, 11:39 AM

well I'm not sure what post you are talking about but I used to be on geodon and I had crazy anxiety and absolutely believed I was going to die if I fell asleep, which was scary because I would be stuck in this half sleep half awake state and desperately wanted to be one or other but knew eventually I would fall asleep and "die". The fear of death probably added panic the anxiety because I fought the "in the middle" state so hard instead of relaxing (which was impossible because I couldn't sit still, it took 2 xanax to sit me down for half a minute until it put me to sleep). my doc lowered my dose of geodon and switched xanax for klonpin and the anxiety went away but the geodon was too low to regulate my sleep or keep me from cycling wildly. I'm off geodon now and on seroquel. My entire world changed, I sleep, I feel normal, I roam the house like a caged lion, I don't wake up with numbing depression or go shopping for everything under the sun at super walmart at 3am.

pferg101 · 04-04-2005, 02:44 PM

Thanks Reesie,

Yeah, what I am trying to get at is if anyone had preiously had panic attacks or if the first time they ever had the attacks were after taking Geodon?

Thanks so much for all the input! It's so much more helpful getting the experience from people who have taken the meds! The docs can only go from what we say and experience. Sometimes I get the feeling that mentally he's adding something new to my mental list and not thinking it's really from the meds!

pferg