I've been tried on Geodon twice; the first time in the beginning of '08 (160mg/80mg twice a day) and the second time in the summer of '08 (120 mg/60mg twice a day). It seemed to alleviate the dysphoric irritable moods I'm bothered with. But despite that, Geodon was one of those meds that gave me a handful of side effects. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Geodon is SEDATION. Geodon was THE MOST SEDATING med I've ever been on. Anyway, it knocked me out like a light bulb for 12 hours with no wake up in between the sleep (that I can remember)...And I fell asleep sitting in during groups; the therapists/social workers had to wake me up at the end of the groups and when I woke up I noticed everyone left already without any of my notice beforehand...Also one time I had trouble driving home from church; I had such a hard time staying awake behind the wheel and it was so hard to keep my eyes open. Over time though, it's sedating effect wore off. Other side effects included that when I first started Geodon, shortly afterwards I started to talk funny and then my jaw started to stiffen, and ended up locking open into a very painful, awkward, rigid position and I couldn't close my mouth to chew my food during lunch (a dose of Cogentin eventually alleviated that). Also when I first started Geodon, it gave me farsightedness, where I couldn't read things at a regular distance from my eyes; I had to put text from a further-than-normal distance from my face so that I could read. My eyesight eventually recovered after a little while. However, after a while of being on Geodon, I started to get some sort of tardive dyskinesia where my tounge involuntarily thrusted forward, so I stopped Geodon.

EDIT: By the way, I don't think Geodon contributed to any weight gain, which Seroquel seemed to have later apparently done so.