Viibryd Side Effects (Page 22) (Top voted first)

What if any side effects are people experiencing on viibryd

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So I'm on 40mg now, 30 yo female. I've noticed if I miss a pill, I normally take mine at dinner, I'm having the hallucinations when I close my eyes trying to sleep. I can't open my eyes and I'm having visual and auditory hallucinations. And its like I can't get my body to move. Its soooo scary. When I finally can move I get up and take my pill. After an hour or so I'm fine. I know I'm not asleep when this happens. I need to go talk with my Dr but she is always so dismissive that I'm afraid that she won't care. I don't know what to do.

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I can relate. 40mg was too much for me. I always cut them in half. At first it was great. Then, I found this board and commiserated with the posters here, but it wasn't until I had a strange dream that I decided to try something else. I do sleep a lot also. Everyone's symptoms are different.

I cut my 20's in half, the in half after that and did 10's for about 2 weeks. I found some older Zoloft generica that I had and put myself back on 50mg of that. Doing OK, but not amazing. I'll see my Dr. later this week to let him know what the problems are.

You're not alone.

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Do you not know that this medication does not have a line on it and IS NOT suppose to be cut in any way? You will have horrible side effects cutting this medication and not taking it whole as directed. I tried to do that and my doctor got all over me about doing that. I was having terrible side effects. I can't believe your doctor allowed you to alter that medication. I was close to seizing due to that.

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Oh wow. That's a good point. I do think most of us are cutting our Viibryd in half due to the cost. I'm going to call the Manufacturer tomorrow, but having called them in the past, they are not the friendliest to have a conversation with. I'll post their answer. But that is a great point. You aren't supposed to cut anything with a split line.

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Good idea..I was doing that and I was getting the brain zaps extremely bad. I told my doctor about it and he that's when he told me about that. Then it kind of made sense to me. Those zaps are no fun at all. I was doing it for the same reason you were. Let me know what they say.

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I am 49 and I have been on Viibryd for 2 months now and have been having terrible feelings when I go to sleep. I feel like my heart is sinking and then wake up with rapid, irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath and fear. Just 2 nights ago I was jolted out of a sound sleep and I felt like I was having a stroke! My daughter called 911 and was told in the ER I had a panic attack. My pcp is now weening me off of the medication but I'm still scared to sleep. I hope no one ever experiences the side effects I have!

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Mario, I am wondering the same thing. Seems pointless to suffer through some of the above mentioned side effects only to have it stop working well in a year. I am on my 4th wk. Did a wk on 10, last 3 on 20. My doc told me to stop at 20. I have a really bad head-ake pretty much every morning and diarrhea. Had stomach cramps first wk but not so much now. I do feel this drug is helping lift my depression. I have been on all kinds of A.D. For 20+ yrs. I have high hopes that this drug will work well for a long time. I am waiting for the head -akes to stop! I take my pill every morning with peanuttbutter toast, milk, and an apple. I am having a little agitation from time to time but hoping it will pass also. I am going to continue this drug because for me the lift in depression out way the side effects. I have had no weight changes but have had an increses in libido, yea! Everyone's different, but I know from taking meds for as long as I have that you really have to give these drugs time and wait out the side effects, if there not to severe for you. The side effects have always past for me. Blessings to everyone in this battle we are all fighting together.

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Hi all! Male 32 - 3 weeks in- here is my experience so far. I have been on the starter pack, I tried the 40 last week but felt like I was high. Legs were like jelly and felt wired for about 3 hours ( I take it a few hours before bedtime). So I spoke to my dr and he gave more sample packs and said to stick to the 20s for now. I have had no noticible side effect, I clenched my jaw all day on Zoloft and lexapro and it seems to have gone away. Also have not had the diarrhea that others mentioned. Everything was mostly fine until tonight... I thought I had taken the pill and laid down for bed as usual and all of a sudden it felt like someone whacked me in the forehead with a pipe. It actually jolted me out of bed. I then had some smaller ones every few minutes and fell asleep. It was then that I proceeded to have the scariest nightmare of my life. It felt like a Freddy movie that you can't wake up, and the same horrible dream kept repeating like a filmstrip about 6 times before I was finally able to wake up approx 3 hours later. I then proceeded to cry like a baby for a few minutes once I saw my pill set on the table. Now I'm scared to go back to sleep, but even more scared what will come if I continue on viibryd. I welcome and appreciate any comments.

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I have been off of med since about 6 months and I am still in awful pain. The pain in my head the diagnosed me with Occipital Neuralgia . My legs and my my heels hurt constantly and my hands and my wrist. Well, they now want to send me to Mayo! This all started when I was was on the Viibryd. Please don't take that medicine. Ibuprofen 800mg I take for the head pain and and Lortab for all the other pains. The doctor just looks at me like I am crazy when I tell him I think the Viibryd is to blame. I hope this all goes away someday.

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I'm having the awful head zaps too. They are mostly @ night when I'm laying down. I'm afraid to sleep. These are terrible. I wondered if I was actually moving & spinning but my husband said "no." I feel like I've been electrocuted from inside my brain, swishes (sounds like a swoosh) around in my head, the weird sound gets loud & I feel as though I'm getting ready to go unconscious. When that feeling is gone my neck is weak & I feel wore out. I'm afraid to stop it because I don't want the zaps to get worse. I've noticed if I'm tired but awake ill get a lil light headed without the swooshing feeling, I keep my eyes wide open to try & avoid them.

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Viibryd is poison get off it cold turkey before you have permanent damage. I quit cold turkey and the zaps diminish day by day.

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I'm off now. Just started on Zoloft 2 days ago. My chest is tight, my body is sore and I just don't feel good. I hope the symptoms go away. I felt great before I started this drug. I have started having a bad backache, possibly acid reflux when I go to sleep. This could be because, as I understand it, Viibryd deposits seratonin into your stomach? Forget call their corporate offices for information. They are very rude.

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I came on here to find out if anyone has had a similar experience... was on the 20 mg per day for about 8 days...i felt an amazing lift of my depression thats plagued me for years. i was having a pretty normal day... running errands and bringing my son to the park, well we got to the park and as soon as i got out of the car i could tell i was off... felt dizzy and like i was going to fall asleep. asked my son to get back in and i called my mom, apparently i told her i was going to fall asleep then started to not make sense. she called 911 and i went by ambulance to the hospital. i had an mri, ekg, ct scan and a ton of lab work- in which i mostly slept throufh--for the brief times i did wake up i was slurring my speech, and not making any sense (i somewhat remember trying to talk and being panicked that no one could understand me). well, all my tests were normal- i wasnt coherent til 930 am (was kept in the hospital overnight) the Dr gave me a rule-out diagnosis of narcolepsy, but cant confirm it w/out a sleep study. this was such a scary situation and even tho the Dr doesnt think it is a side effect- i stopped viibrid. day 3 of not being on it. the ambulance and er people thought i was either wasted or overdosed. please let me know if anyone has experienced anything similar.

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I started taking this viibryd medicine for anxiety and have never been on any other medicine before other than for my gallbladder disease. I felt great after 2 weeks, but I have mild osteoarthritis and it seemed to increase after those first weeks to almost debilitating pain. I was always tired and then one night I was laying in bed and was scrolling through Facebook and felt this awful electrical like jolt through my head that shot through my arms and my vision went white and My eyes began to "twitch." All of this lasting only 2 seconds or so. Followed by a few smaller rushes. I thought I was dying!!! It's like the feeling when your a kid and you wake up from a dream and your still only half awake and you get that rush that leaves you paralyzed like "something's gonna get you" but goes away quickly. I didn't get the paralyzed feeling however. (Best way I can describe it) I took another pill the next day and did some research online and could only find info about nocturnal panic attacks... Etc and if you have ms and or Lyme disease it causes similar problems but I started having these during the day too. I would take a drink of a cold drink and get a small one or hear an annoying sound and have a few rushes of these, and it seems like your hypersensitive to sounds, smells, tastes, and temperature which can all cause these to worsen. My skin would also"crawl" and I would itch all over constantly like a drug user withdrawal symptom (and no I do not use drugs of any kind) I have stopped viibryd cold turkey for the past 36 hours and all of these side effects have lessened drastically and almost diminished. These brain zaps are extremely scary and even more so if you do not know about them before taking the medicine. It was the worst day of my life It felt like! i was taking this for anxiety not depression and at this same time I began getting severe panic and anxiety attacks. I would not recommend this for anxiety AT ALL!!

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It sounds like your having nocturnal panic attacks.

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I started taking this med on Friday...by Monday I noticed some ringing in my ears and a quick flash of pain in my left temple. Tuesday I had to call off sick to work, feeling dizzy, fluish. Wednesday I made myself go to work, by noon I was throwing up and then diarrhea and stomach cramps...still feeling I had the flu. Went home a little early from work, 4 hours later, I'm taken to the ER in SEVERE pain. Felt like every nerve in my body was on fire. Nausea, dizziness, vomitting, diarrhea, ears ringing horribly, pain in every single inch of my body... After running tests, they concluded I had a severe reaction to this med. I was practically hallucinating. The Dr. told me I am fortunate I was only in the 1s week of the 10mg, because on the 20 mg or 40 mg, I would've needed to be titrated off and would've been sick the entire time. He took me off work for Thurs/Friday, giving me the entire weekend to recup... I really thought I was dying.

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I've been forced to miss only 3 days of work, but I dont have the PTO to cover it, so I had to file FMLA. I've never had such a reaction to a drug before. I still have spots in front of my eyes and occasional flashes of pains in my head. my speech is slurred somewhat, and I fumble for words. This is a dangerous drug that needs to be taken off the market

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I stopped the drug 6 months ago. I still have ringing in my ears.

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So I started viibryd in june after being on Cymbalta for almost 9 years and then getting off Cymbalta last November only to have each new med fail (prozac, lexapro, cymbalta again). I really didn't have any issues with sick feelings or diarrhea. About 2 weeks ago i started experiencing horrible Parkinson-like symptoms such as my arms, legs twitching then everything tensing and shaking as i tried to fall asleep. Then a few days ago my jaw has been tensing and stiffening in the middle of the day. About a week ago right as my brain went to shut off for sleep, a huge zap and jolt went through me with a bright flash and instant massive panic attack which i had to take a .5mG of xanax. It is happening Everytime i try to sleep now so I'm actually affraid to sleep unless i take a xanax first (which i don't want to have to do). It just feels horrible and that feeling where you just KNOW something is wrong and your body is saying “HEY! THIS ISNT NORMAL!”. I cant get into my doctor until the 29th. I was seeing the nurse practitioner and shes the one who tried me on all this but told me after a certain amount of tries she HAS to refer me to a psychiatrist which i cant get in until the 10th of September because I'm a new patient. I need to get off this junk it's not for me. Seems it's helped alot of people i guess i must just be in that 2-3% that its no good for side effects-wise. I will be getting off this though. Also added i dont take this for depression i take it for severe panic and anxiety. Seems like nothing is even touching them.... :(

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On a SUPER positive note... My sex drive is amazing and I haven't felt like this since i was a teenager (Cymbalta really destroyed my labido for so many years).

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