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I agree. 160 mg QD Geodon is unlikely to cause akathisia in most cases. Geodon gets a bad rap because it can actually be agitating at lower and sub-therapeutic doses and does not get absorbed well unless taken with a meal, preferably a meal with a decent amount of fat. I come across patients all the time who say, "you mean I need to take this with food?" and then can't stop commenting on how well it works when they take it with a meal.
My rapidly aging hippocampus makes recalling the dosage difficult given that this was over a year ago. It may have been that dosage TID rather than QD or it may have been a much higher dosage. My surprise came from the fact that this ER physician did not know what I was talking about.