Ziprasidone adverse event reports that FDA received

Name: Reaction terms in FDA adverse event reports that name Ziprasidone
Creator: Reported Reactions
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Name type: Generic name
Class: Atypical antipsychotic

What a report is

A report is not proof that the drug was the cause of the event.

FDA says:

Adverse event reports submitted to FDA do not undergo extensive validation or verification. Therefore, a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report. While a suspected relationship may exist, it is not medically validated and should not be the sole source of information for clinical decision making or other assumptions about the safety or efficacy of a product. Additionally, it is important to remember that adverse event reports represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product. Common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview, section "Responsible use of the data". The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026. The data have the reports that FDA received through 30 Jun 2026.

FDA also says:

There is no certainty that the reported event (adverse event or medication error) was actually due to the product. FDA does not require that a causal relationship between a product and event be proven, and reports do not always contain enough detail to properly evaluate an event. The information in these reports has not been scientifically or otherwise verified as to a cause and effect relationship and cannot be used to estimate the incidence of these events.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

Do not rely on openFDA to make decisions regarding medical care. While we make every effort to ensure that data is accurate, you should assume all results are unvalidated.
Source: openFDA, Response of the drug event API (meta.disclaimer). The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

Not medical advice. This site counts what was reported to FDA. Questions about a medicine or device belong with a pharmacist or clinician.

Drug reports received through 30 Jun 2026. Device reports have a separate cutoff, 30 Sep 2026. Why a report count is not a rate.

Reports on file

From January 2004 to June 2026, FDA received 2,434 adverse event reports that name Ziprasidone. In these reports the drug is a suspect or interacting product.

In the same period, 1,301 further reports name it only as a concomitant medicine. The counts on this page do not include these reports.

FDA received 141 reports in the 12 months to June 2026 and 83 in the 12 months before. FDA releases FAERS data every quarter, so the newest months are not complete. They grow in later releases.

Of the 1,332,454 drug reports that FDA received in the 12 months to June 2026, 141 (under 0.1%) name Ziprasidone. Reports from consumers or other non-health professionals were 13.1% of the reports that name Ziprasidone and 45.8% of all drug reports.

The number of people who use the product is not in the data. A count is not a rate. A count of reports is not a count of events or of patients, because one event can have more than one report.

There are many instances of duplicative reports and some reports do not contain all the necessary information.
Source: FDA, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) Public Dashboard. Content current as of 11 Mar 2026. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

Suspect product

FDA records each drug in a report as suspect, concomitant or interacting. This page counts the reports in which Ziprasidone is suspect or interacting. FDA says:

Any number of the drugs may be marked as suspect if thought to be responsible for one or more of the reactions, but that information is not validated.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

Data version

openFDA FAERS release of 29 Oct 2026. Reports received through 30 Jun 2026.

Since the last update

FDA says:

Many factors can influence whether or not an event will be reported, such as the time a product has been marketed and publicity about an event.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

The information in these reports cannot be used to estimate the incidence (occurrence rates) of the events reported.
Source: FDA, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) Public Dashboard. Content current as of 11 Mar 2026. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

The latest update of the FDA data, recorded on 28 Oct 2026, changed no count of this page.

In April to June 2026, FDA received 47 reports that name Ziprasidone.
In January to March 2026, FDA received 41.
In April to June 2025, FDA received 27.

April to June 2026 is the latest closed quarter in the data. A closed quarter is a quarter for which the FDA files have most of the reports.

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Reaction lookup

These are the reaction terms that the reports record, with the number of reports for each term. Type a term or a plain word to find its count.

What this list leaves out

The table lists the 288 reaction terms that 5 or more reports record. A term with fewer than 5 reports is not in the table.

The site keeps reaction terms for 2,422 of the 2,434 reports (99.5%).

The reports of the other years are not in the counts.

So a count in the table can be lower than the count of FDA.

Find a reaction term

The table shows the first 50 of 288 terms.

Reaction terms in the reports that name Ziprasidone, most reports first
Reaction term (MedDRA) and plain meaning	Reports	Share of the 2,434 reports
Drug ineffectivethe medicine did not work as expected	452	18.6%
Completed suicidedeath by suicide	337	13.8%
Toxicity to various agentspoisoning or toxic effect of one or more substances	268	11%
Suicide attempta suicide attempt	234	9.6%
Weight increasedweight gain	205	8.4%
Sedationdrowsiness	159	6.5%
Dyskinesiainvoluntary movements	154	6.3%
Akathisiainner restlessness and an urge to move	142	5.8%
Neuroleptic malignant syndromea rare severe reaction with fever and rigidity	142	5.8%
Condition aggravatedthe condition being treated got worse	140	5.8%
Dystoniainvoluntary muscle contractions	135	5.5%
Drug interactionan interaction between medicines	126	5.2%
Off label useused for a purpose or in a way not on the label	125	5.1%
Suicidal ideationthoughts of suicide	121	5%
Sexual dysfunctiona sexual problem	114	4.7%
Blood prolactin abnormal	109	4.5%
Schizophrenia	107	4.4%
Anxiety	104	4.3%
Obesity	104	4.3%
Metabolic disorder	103	4.2%
Anosognosia	101	4.1%
Blood glucose increasedraised blood sugar reading	100	4.1%
Disturbance in social behaviour	97	4%
Insomniadifficulty sleeping	93	3.8%
Irritability	92	3.8%
Personality change	91	3.7%
Therapeutic product effect incomplete	88	3.6%
Dyslipidaemia	87	3.6%
Aggressionaggressive behaviour	86	3.5%
Product use in unapproved indicationused for a purpose not on the label	86	3.5%
Somnolencedrowsiness	84	3.5%
Electrocardiogram QT prolongeda QT prolongation on the ECG	83	3.4%
Euphoric mood	83	3.4%
Extrapyramidal disordermovement problems such as stiffness or tremor	82	3.4%
Increased appetite	82	3.4%
Hypertensionhigh blood pressure	81	3.3%
Leukopenialow white blood cells	81	3.3%
Obsessive-compulsive disorder	80	3.3%
Psychotic disordera loss of contact with reality	80	3.3%
Disinhibition	79	3.2%
Antipsychotic drug level below therapeutic	77	3.2%
Catatonia	74	3%
Therapeutic product effect variable	74	3%
Fatiguetiredness	72	3%
Coma	68	2.8%
Adverse drug reactiona harmful or unpleasant reaction (the term names a medicine)	67	2.8%
Cardio-respiratory arrestthe heart and breathing stopped	66	2.7%
Cardiac arrestthe heart stopped	65	2.7%
Prescribed overdose	63	2.6%
Depressionlow mood	62	2.5%

Download all 288 terms of Ziprasidone (CSV)

The counts add to more than 2,434 reports, because one report can record more than one term. FDA says:

No individual drug is connected to any individual reaction. When a report lists multiple drugs and multiple reactions, there is no way to conclude from the data therein that a given drug is responsible for a given reaction.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

The CSV file has the same rows and the same limits. Its last row is a note that says so.

MedDRA term

The person who codes a report selects the preferred term that agrees best with the description of the reporter. The words under a term are the plain meaning that this site gives.

Not the label

The FDA-approved label of a product lists its adverse reactions. See the official pages at the end of this page.

Same ingredient, other names

Reporters write a brand name or a generic name. Each name has its own page and its own count.

Names of Ziprasidone with a page, in the order generic names, brand names, names as reported
Name	Name type	Reports
Ziprasidone (this page)	Generic name	2,434
Ziprasidone hydrochloride	Generic name	1,010
Geodon	Brand name	8,566

Sum of the separately reported names: 12,010. A report that names two of these names is in the sum two times. The sum is not the number of reports for the ingredient.

FDA says:

Additionally, it is important to remember that adverse event reports represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product. Common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

Importantly, the AEMS data by themselves are not an indicator of the safety profile of the drug or biologic.
Source: FDA, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) Public Dashboard. Content current as of 11 Mar 2026. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

Outcomes by year

The table gives the outcomes that the reporters gave, in the terms of FDA.

Outcomes in the reports that name Ziprasidone, by the year of the openFDA file that holds the report

The table continues to the right.

Year of the openFDA file	Reports	Serious	Death	Life-threatening	Hospitalization (initial or prolonged)	Disability or Permanent Damage	Congenital Anomaly/Birth Defect	Other Serious (Important Medical Events)	Not serious
2004	60	55	9	7	33	0	0	17	5
2005	80	77	31	5	35	0	1	20	3
2006	15	14	6	3	6	0	0	6	1
2007	30	29	10	0	9	1	0	14	1
2008	24	22	6	3	9	0	0	10	2
2009	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	2	0
2010	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
2011	25	25	21	0	4	0	0	2	0
2012	28	24	4	1	11	0	0	13	4
2013	106	100	46	3	32	0	1	40	6
2014	136	127	46	8	60	4	1	49	9
2015	152	127	44	5	32	3	2	73	25
2016	131	109	12	1	33	4	16	85	22
2017	157	140	53	23	64	2	0	90	17
2018	144	128	28	28	79	1	0	87	16
2019	202	178	41	11	70	4	1	128	24
2020	226	208	41	7	81	1	14	160	18
2021	158	146	26	11	51	4	0	122	12
2022	222	204	35	24	95	2	1	146	18
2023	182	161	17	20	71	7	0	130	21
2024	113	92	12	3	59	10	1	67	21
2025	125	111	5	21	72	4	3	84	14
2026	106	93	29	7	40	2	0	68	13

An outcome in a report is not proof that the drug was the cause. The reporter gives the outcome, and FDA does not verify it. FDA says:

The information in these reports has not been scientifically or otherwise verified as to a cause and effect relationship and cannot be used to estimate the incidence of these events.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

The six headings with the names of FDA are the outcome terms of FDA. A report can have more than one outcome. The columns Serious and Not serious are the two values of the openFDA field serious. For the value serious, openFDA gives this description:

The adverse event resulted in death, a life threatening condition, hospitalization, disability, congenital anomaly, or other serious condition
Source: openFDA, Drug adverse event fields (YAML reference). The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

The year is the year of the openFDA file that holds the latest version of the report. It is not always the year in which FDA first received the report. The chart of the next section uses the year of first receipt. The latest year is not complete.

Reports by year and month

Reports that name Ziprasidone, by the year in which FDA received them

The column of 2026 has an outline, because the year is not complete. It has the reports that FDA received through June 2026 only.

Show the figures of the chart as a table

Reports that name Ziprasidone, by the year in which FDA received them
Year	Reports
2004	53
2005	85
2006	15
2007	27
2008	22
2009	7
2010	9
2011	30
2012	38
2013	100
2014	138
2015	155
2016	134
2017	165
2018	157
2019	241
2020	238
2021	164
2022	220
2023	161
2024	89
2025	98
2026	88

Reports that name Ziprasidone, by month, five years to June 2026

FDA releases FAERS data every quarter, so the newest months are not complete. They grow in later releases.

Why a count moves

A count moves for many reasons. The guide gives FDA's words about them.

Patients and reporters

Age of the patient in the reports that name Ziprasidone
Age	Reports	Share
Under 2	16	0.7%
2 to 11	38	1.6%
12 to 17	149	6.1%
18 to 44	986	40.5%
45 to 64	497	20.4%
65 to 74	128	5.3%
75 and over	54	2.2%
Age not given	566	23.3%

Sex of the patient in the reports that name Ziprasidone
Sex	Reports	Share
Female	1,112	45.7%
Male	955	39.2%
Unknown or not given	367	15.1%

Type of reporter in the reports that name Ziprasidone
Reporter	Reports	Share
Physician	812	33.4%
Pharmacist	242	9.9%
Other health professional	925	38%
Lawyer	5	0.2%
Consumer or non-health professional	320	13.1%
Not given	130	5.3%

Age and sex are as the report gives them. The reporter is the primary source in the report. 63.2% of the reports give the United States as the country.

Reason for use

Reason for use (indication) that the reports of Ziprasidone record
Indication as recorded (MedDRA)	Reports	Share
Schizophrenia	385	15.8%
Bipolar disorder	115	4.7%
Psychotic disorder	108	4.4%
Schizoaffective disorder	46	1.9%
Bipolar i disorder	36	1.5%
Ill-defined disorder	34	1.4%

The reporter fills in the indication, and the field is often empty. Each share is of all 2,434 reports.

Drugs in the same reports

Other drugs that the reports of Ziprasidone name, in any role, in order of name
Drug	Reports that name the two
Aripiprazole	476
Clonazepam	263
Clozapine	395
Haloperidol	321
Lamotrigine	226
Lithium	276
Olanzapine	572
Quetiapine	560
Quetiapine fumarate	227
Risperidone	538

The table has the 10 drug names that these reports name most. Two names in one report says only that the report recorded the two. It says nothing about the part of a product in the event.

FDA says:

Additionally, it is important to remember that adverse event reports represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product. Common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

Importantly, the AEMS data by themselves are not an indicator of the safety profile of the drug or biologic.
Source: FDA, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) Public Dashboard. Content current as of 11 Mar 2026. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

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Official pages

DailyMed labels for ZiprasidoneThe labels (prescribing information) that have this name, at the National Library of Medicine.
MedWatch Online Voluntary Reporting FormThe online form of FDA for a voluntary report.
MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting ProgramThe page of the FDA program that receives reports about drugs and devices.
FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) Public DashboardThe public dashboard of FDA for adverse event reports on drugs and biologics.

The site checked these addresses on 2 Oct 2026. The links open in a new tab.

Cite this page

Reported Reactions. Ziprasidone: adverse event reports that FDA received. https://reportedreactions.com/drug/ziprasidone/ Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA Drug Adverse Event (FAERS) files, release of 29 Oct 2026. Reports received through 30 Jun 2026.

Where the data come from

The counts come from the openFDA Drug Adverse Event (FAERS) bulk files, release of 29 Oct 2026. The files have the reports that FDA received through 30 Jun 2026. A drug name is the name on the report. The site matches it to a brand name or a generic name of the National Drug Code Directory of 2 Nov 2026. A class is the pharmacologic class (EPC) of the FDA label.

A report is in the count when it names Ziprasidone as a suspect or interacting product. The 1,301 reports that name it only as a concomitant medicine are not in the count. The site does not publish a report narrative, a lot number, a detail of a patient or the identity of a reporter. The record of FDA is the authority. See how the site counts reports, the data sources and the corrections page.

Questions

Do these reports show that Ziprasidone was responsible for the reactions?

No. FDA says:

For any given report, there is no certainty that a suspected drug caused the event.
Source: FDA, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) Public Dashboard. Content current as of 11 Mar 2026. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

A reaction can relate to the condition that the drug treats, to other medicines, or to something else.

Is this the list of reactions on the label of Ziprasidone?

No. It is a count of what people reported to FDA: 2,434 reports from January 2004 to June 2026. The FDA-approved label of a product lists its adverse reactions. The official pages at the end of this page link to the labels.

Who sent these reports?

Other health professional (38%), physician (33.4%) and consumer or non-health professional (13.1%). These are the types of reporter for the reports that name this drug.

If a manufacturer receives an adverse event report, it is normally required to send the report to FDA.
Source: openFDA, Drug Adverse Event Overview. The site read the page on 2 Oct 2026.

How does a person report an adverse event?

FDA runs MedWatch, a program that takes voluntary reports from health professionals, patients and consumers. The guide on how to report has the links.

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