Viibryd Side Effects
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What if any side effects are people experiencing on viibryd

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Re: Joe Cool (# 20)

Thought I was on the verge of demential like my aunt

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Re: Amy (# 17)

So glad it works for you.

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Re: ncc369 (# 16)

Me too!!! I can't get enough sugar and have gained 9 lbs in the last six weeks. I am not overeating!

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Re: Ruth in CO (# 11)

Some Doctors do not know what you actually feel like inside. Sometimes I feel that they just don't understand and that they just put you on all different meds to see which ones you can TOLERATE. This doesn't help me at all. Referred me to a therapist where I had to fill out the same forms 4 times and asked by her the same questions. She is a 32 yr. old who has never experiences anxiety. The people that help you should have experienced what we feel!!!!!

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Also..I cannot sleep and come to think of it my knees are killing me!

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Went up to 40 3 weeks ago and I feel like I am speeding uncontrollable. I am angry Not to mention the constant stomach aches and diarrhea...Also headaches.. Went down to 20 two days ago. Going to get off it totally.

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Weight gain! Daughter: Forty five pounds in 10 months.

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Severe seratonin syndrome.Started with both knees then both quadriceps.Treatment still on going.Diagnosed by prescribing psychiatrist after going to several different types of doctors trying to stop such severe pain.AVOID VIIBRYD.

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im still snappy at people and poop like running water i only took 2 so far dont know if i take anymore

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I began a starter pack of Viibryd 3 days ago. I feel “loopy” within a few minutes of each dose and less inhibited in my self-destructive/suicidal thinking. Part of me wants to continue taking the remaining 500mg doses as I'm prescribed, but I wonder if it's safe and whether the side effects will continue to outweigh the benefits of taking it? Has anyone else had a similar experience with Viibryd?

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I'm a 49 year old male. Started Viibryd after others screwed with my libido.. that was fixed within the first few days.. and I've been on it for 3 months and it was good at first but now I have the long nightmares and depression. I just had a long weekend where I thought I was truly going mad... the dreams went on for hours and I slept over 16 hrs. When I woke I spent most of the day in a zombie like state. My entire body was exhausted and I was dizzy and spent. I cried at lord of the rings! When the trees fought the orcs and then when Spock died in st2. The dreams I can’t even describe, intense and so real... what I imagine an insane person's night is like. It was twin peaks crossed with apocalypse now with lots more acid. I took it mainly for irritability and depression... I was still an irritable prick and oh well... you get it... it’s messed up.

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Re: me (# 599)

That's great! It possibly helps more people than not. Cool. Keep us posted on how you're doing.

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Re: Holly (# 6)

I am having terrible nightmares and hallucinations..sleep with a night light or my daughter is sleeping with me.

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Symptom/medication history:
Current age: 25. Male. Been on Adderall on/off since I was 12. Mostly on, except for summers. Started Accutane in 2008 and stopped 6 months later. Developed major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder somewhere around 2009-2010. Started medication in 2011. I started taking Remeron/Mirtazapine 15mg to help with sleep in 2011. Began to have severe panic attacks and depressive episodes. Started Cymbalta 60mg which helped with the depression and anxiety. Been on Adderall/SSRI/Mirtazapine ever since. I was on Cymbalta for about three years.

Cymbalta Symptoms:
- helped with the depression/anxiety, but made me aggressive.
- reduced my libido. Strangely enough, the Remeron would often counter it, though only briefly before bed (also made me really tired/hungry. Helped balance the Adderall's appetite suppression).

Switched to 20mg Lexapro in 2014. Was on that for 3 years:
- Had about the same effect on my libido as the Cymbalta.
- constant fatigue: always felt tired if I wasn't on the Adderall.
- no aggression, kinda neat.
- Pleasant sleep/dreams.

Last week, I switched to Viibryd 20mg. I think I'm still going through the transition phase/detox of the Lexapro (I swapped in a single day to the Viibryd).

Viibryd side effects so far:
- libido elimination is basically null. As a matter of fact, I think I'm even more motivated than before.
- strange dreams every night, very vivid and mostly unpleasant. Not nightmares, but there's a constant feeling of dread. I'm also sleeping more heavily than on the Lexapro. These bad dreams could just be a result of the Lexapro detox. Will update more in a few weeks.

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Re: Kristina (# 598)

Actually, I think the dizzy spell gave me an anxiety attack that lasted a few weeks. Made my dizzy and hyperventilate. Nothing to do with the meds. Everything calmed down now and Im just taking some Klonopin as needed. The hyperventilation made me dizzy for those weeks. Now that I am not hyperventilating, I'm good!

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Re: Rob (# 594)


By now, you've been off of Viibryd for a couple weeks. How are you doing now? A good rule of thumb - my thumb, anyway, is to never withdraw from a medication cold, if possible. If you titrate up, then titrate down.
It took me almost 2 years to physically feel almost normal, but I also had a bunch of other physical issues to deal with.

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Okay. Wow. I can’t believe what I have read... I started taking Viibryd a few months ago. I have had mental health issues for as long as I can remember — have been on countless antidepressants (Prozac, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Lamictal, Lexapro, you name it..) and I am only 19 (female). I thought, as many of us did, Viibryd was this miracle, cure-all antidepressant... things went well. At first. Within the past month or so.. I have just not felt myself. Not felt... normal. One of the things that freaks me out the most is I will get red, but only on one side of my face. Almost like flushing out of embarrassment, but that is not the case. It seems to happen out of nowhere, and more frequently as the days go on. My whole outer part of my right ear (most of my entire ear, actually) will go absolutely BEET red, and will be incredibly hot to the touch. It has spread to my right cheek, but not much farther than that.. why on one side?

Has anyone else experienced this? I also have been having a lot of other ailments plague my body within the past few months.. I did not ever think they would, in any way, be related to each other. I have horrible orthostatic intolerance, which has also gotten worse with time. Especially if I am standing in line somewhere, or in the same spot for a prolonged period of time. My vision just goes black, and I’ll hit the ground if I am not able to stop myself. I also have had weird cramping, aches, and pains all over my body. My thighs, my palms, my back, neck, shoulders... Another thing that frightens me is the sudden “buzz” or electric-like feeling that usually manifests around (what feels like) where my brain stem is attached to my actual brain, at the top of my neck. I don’t know how else to explain that. My anxiety and paranoia has also skyrocketed, and for whatever reason, I get very frustrated with my fiancé easily. Over... nothing. I don’t just mean frustrated, either. I mean angry. I have also been having very weird dreams, and have found that going back to sleep after waking up only puts me back into that same exact dream.

Right now, actually.. I am experiencing extreme paranoia and the feeling that I am not alone in my house, even though I know for a fact that I am. I keep hearing things and looking in directions where there is absolutely nothing. But I can’t shake the feeling. The fatigue I experience as a 19 y/o female is absolutely and positively not normal. Neither are the chest pains I have experienced, or the weird pains/cramps in between each individual rib. Sometimes I feel as if I cannot even breathe like a normal human being should be able to... I take a deep, deep breath, only to be met with (what feels like) almost empty lungs regardless. My heart beat also goes all over the place. What is going on? This isn’t normal or right. I have heard of Sjögren’s Syndrome, and that is the only thing consistent with my symptoms, other than the possibility that Viibyrd caused all of this, which actually is not a far-fetched idea, now. Please help.

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44 yr old female...Oh my god...I thought this was a miracle med...Until I started reading this thread. I read me in most replies. The joint pain is worst! If I stop and relax at the end of a day at work on my feet, it's almost impossible for me to get moving again...Hips and knees and just in last couple days, my knee. I just thought (beating myself up) it was some slight weight gain and hard work at work-now I want to look at the bio. I've also been having reoccurring bad dreams about a specific event in my life that was horribly traumatic. I wake up sobbing. But- I felt that the depression was better. I've been on the drug rep. Sample as im between insurance and it's very expensive. I'm beginning to doubt now if I should rush to the dr and get back on my pill that was moderately working... I also just started seeing a therapist so I'm hoping I get some relief there...But now I'm terrified about the joint pain- why? What could this drug be doing to me? How are we all experiencing this joint pain and nightmares/bad dreams and "Seeing things"?...It takes me a cocktail of melatonin, benadryl and xanax to get to sleep and I haven't had a full night sleep in quite some time....Viibryd patient for 3 months.

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Re: Rob (# 594)

It’s been a year now since I got off vibryd and I’m still suffering the effects of it. I was on it for about 3 months and my anxiety got so high I felt I might explode. My joints ached so badly..... and my depression returned full force. I couldn’t eat or sleep and lost about 30 lbs. Now I take multiple meds to control the damage vibryd did to me.

I wish they’d take that med off the market.
I think it’s dangerous.

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I need help. I started Viibryd a month ago. No side effects. On the fourth week I started getting crazy dizzy spells. At 20mg. I got off immediately because I couldn’t handle it. Doc says I can stop cold so I did. It’s been 7 days and I’m still getting dizzy spells twice a day and I think hyperventilation. When will this stop? I taking klonopin as needed should I take more? How long will it take to all go away?

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