![]() (In chronic dosing this will be less of a problem, but 30-50% increased absorption with food is a good guideline.) In other words, if you dose your Geodon "all at night" (no food) then you're getting about half of what you thought you were. (120mg Geodon=10mg Zyprexa=3mg Risperdal.) This is amazingly hard for psychiatrists to appreciate ("there are equivalences? And those are the doses?") But it's even harder to get them to understand the relationship to food: Geodon needs fat to be absorbed.Ĩ0mg on an empty stomach (blue line) gets you the equivalent of 40mg if taken with food. ![]() You'll have to take my word for it right now that 120mg is the a base dose. But that's not to prevent nausea or protect the stomach lining, it's to get the drug to be absorbed. Probably everyone has heard Geodon must be taken with food. ![]() If it's never worked in your practice, how do you explain the numerous efficacy studies? All flukes? All of them? It couldn't be you? ![]() If one more person tells me Geodon "doesn't do anything," I'm going to choke them with the capsules. ![]()
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