Viibryd Reviews (Page 42)

Going to start it tomorrow. Anyone else taking it, and if so, how do you like it?

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Since starting viibryd,my hair looks terrible...getting a bald spot in front. Hair is coming out at an alarming rate...also I am having significant blurring of my vision. Talk to me guys! How many of you out there are having these side effects with vii?

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viibryd for about 2 months I hate it, its makes me nausea all day long my stomach pains are insane and I cant sleep not to mention the headaches , hate the way I feel already called my dr they dont open till 9 uggh I did see another dr yesterday mine was not working she couldcareless she said just wait a few months the side offects will go away thats crazy !!

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I'm taking 40mg every morning. I have been since last summer. Every morning I still wake up blue. It eases about 1 hour after taking in the am. Is this normal? I was taking Cymbalta..............it's awful when you are coming off this drug. Don't take it.

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Tinki .all medications work different and if you were on another one that didn't have the sides. Why would you get off that. Guys you can't drink on this stuff like a glass of wine maybe one beer that's it. I was on lexapro two years and gained weight and had the hardest time climaxing. most of the time couldn't get it even going. I have been on this med for two weeks and my dr is holding me at the 20 mg and thinks that's all I will need already getting me out of the funk I have been in after major surges and getting off pain meds. Got to eat with viibryd and I take it at 6 pm. Anyway a lot less sides than lex.

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I have been on Vii since May. Best SSRI by far for me. Was on Pax, Lex and a couple of others. I am on 30 mg. That is working fine. Only gripe is that maybe it makes me less active or interested in certain things, that is, maybe too calming and downing for someone like me that had to deal with GAD as my main issue, That is Gen Anx Disorder. I really had minimal sides at begining and now. As for sex, age 63 and not sure what affect it has in final analysis for my age, except less motivated to seek it. Lex was a certain climax killer and never got over how it stopped that. I rx this drug to all that are needing help with an SSRI.

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I have had nightmares if I forgot a dose or if I napped and didn't take viibryd at the same time as the day before. There are some wicked side effects w/ Viibryd but I have to say that the positives outweigh the negative.

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Please hang in there. I had the same side effects but if you can hang in there for a about 3 more weeks, you will start to improve. I've been on Viibryd for about 5 months or so and feel better than I have in a very long time. The first 3 months were awful!! HANG IN THERE!

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i do not take wellbutrin--i do take 150mg. or seroquel at night (three hours before sleep), soon to be upped to 200mg. i was fine on the 10mg. and 20mg. of vybriid, but i did notice the first couple days of 40mg. i found myself a bit 'spacey feeling' which soon went away. i was switched from pristiq to vybriid recently as the pristiq was causing a slight but noticeable mania in the evening. now, i've been on 40mg. for over a month and it is fine...

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Okay, nice to hear you are falling into the normal response and effectiveness catagory with Vii. I am now 11 months and doing very well with 30mg of Vii. My shrink lately said to take extra Vit D and Bcomplex as those can help with depressions. Find out if that is a good idea for you to follow from your own doctor.

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Are you taking any other meds? Afew years ago the same thing happened to me. It ended up being caused from the Lexapro I was combined with an over the counter nasal decongestant.

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So I have been on Viibryd since last may. 10 to 20 to 40mg then down to 30 then 20mg. Have a life changing event in January and my anxiety was out of control for 6 weeks. Lost way too much weight too. My dr. Added Wellbutrin to my vi. After 8 days I hated the way I felt on the Wellbutrin. Stopped taking it and just up my dose of vi back to 40 for the 3rd time. Now I feel really great. Wish I did this back in January so I wasn't sick with anxiety for so long. Took 10 months of adjusting my dose and now I am doing very very well :)

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Barbie--may i ask how the wellbutrin made you feel?? I have never been on anything other than pristiq (which i've stopped) and seroquel (just upped from 150 to 200 mg.) and, now, for a few months, viibryd--10, 20, 40 and now steady on 40--which seems to be okay. This is the extent of my experience with antidepressants, which i was absolutely against until i felt i'd try ANYTHING that might help. Anyone else have a similar experience??

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I would say that when another second anti depressant is joined along with the first one, there can be some extra tricky symptoms that drs are not even able to fully evaluate. Normally, drugs are not tested very much with other drug interactions. It can be trial and error. It is usually much better to let one drug do its max best before jumping to a second one to take. Joe

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Is--i've been on viibryd for several months--a replacement for pristiq which i found kind of made me manic in the evening for some reason. I have stabilized on 40mg of viibryd, and the only adverse reaction i've had was i felt kind of 'spacey' for the first couple of days on the 40mg, as they build you up from 10mg. Sometimes, i will feel just a bit off, but the viibryd and seroquel seem to be okay. What is your antidepressant history to date??

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Hi Raven,

The only other drug I have taken is Lexapro....which I hated...I was taking it with Wellbutrin and I just got to the point that I had no feelings at all. (Sometimes that might seem great...!! But not all the time..lol!)

I am still taking Wellbutrin and 40 mg Vibryd and of course xanyx, .5 up to 3 times a day. I haven't tried to come off the Wellbutrin since the beginning. All my doc can say is try and see...lol...I hate to mess up a good thing.

Ha and I have taken part of a seroquel someome gave me to sleep....glad it was only a little of it....sleep I did!

Oh and have been able to go back on low carb, which is the only diet that half works for me and my thyroid....at least I am not gaining right now.... :)

Glad that the Viibryd is working for you!!!

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Raven the Wellbutrin made me feed really spacey and not able to concentrate. I took zyban years ago to quit smoking and was on it for 6 days and just gave up because of the concentration issues. When my dr. told me to add wellbutrin to the 20mg of Viibryd , I told her of my prior negative experience and she said to try it anyway. Not good for me. I decided to just not take the wellbutrin and try to take the full 40mg of Viibryd. Before Viibryd dr put me on Effexor. Took one pill in at 8am and by 4pm felt very ill and disorientated. By 6pm was vomiting so I never took any more of those either. The Viibryd makes me feel normal and confident with no anxiety which is my real problem.

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Raven I only stayed on the Wellbutrin for 8 days

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ls--the problem is that you took a PIECE of the seroquel. most folks are put on the XR (extended release) and if you break one it will hit you all at once, instead of spread across the 24 hours, which is what its meant to do. my husband took a piece of one by mistake once (he's not on antidepressants) and he slept for like 12 hours, lol.

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lolol!! me too!!

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I second your message. I find that being on Viibryd was like having a tiger by the tail. I watched myself be angry and could not wait to get off and get it out of my system. It really took me for a ride from which I have not been able to recover. I honestly did not have any cravings...and that is weak spot for me. But I was totally different...I had a few days of feeling good but as I increased the dose it was a nightmare...and it was as if I was observing myself do things that were not characteristic of me. I think I get a sense of what a manic phase must be like. I felt fabulous and then hit the floor with a resounding thud. You are not alone.

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