Viibryd Side Effects (Page 3)

What if any side effects are people experiencing on viibryd

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Lorelei, I'm so sorry that your doctor dismissed you like that. I hope you've been able to find another, better one. And all you folks that suffered joint pain like me - mine still isn't completely gone (knees and knuckles). How crappy. The Viibryd energized me and worked good as an antidepressant, but the joint pain side effect was a deal breaker for me. I'm very glad that I didn't have the nightmares and hallucinations reported by other posters. Hope everyone is doing better :)

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I I have been on viibryd for a month now and I am having terrible anxiety. Only on 20 mg. I want to get off but am afraid of side effects. Any suggestions?

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Ray, talk to your dr. Don't do it by yourself. You'll have to wean off slowly to avoid withdrawls and adverse side effects. Its wicked stuff. Good luck.

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Ive been on vii fir about two months now. I had taken zoloft for yrs but just wasnt working anymore. Dr says because im nearing 40 my hormones are different and may need something else. About 10-12 days after i jumped to the 40 mg dose on the starter card... I started feeling really weird.... Dizzy, tingly, itchy face, headache, easily agitated, etc,... This would happen every other day... Oh and really HEAVY sleep like in a coma- like state.... Then the worst day EVER!!! I woke up with all the symptoms i mentioned but i had chills but sweating, couldnt stay awake.... I felt like i was walking around in a dream literally. I would touch something and think ' am i really touching this?'
It was bizarre.... Then i was losing time.... I took a bath couldnt remember if i washed.... Later that day i was like a rabid dog... Ready to pounce... I was so aggitated.... Then next minute i was balling!!!
I calked my doc and he said 'drop to 20mg' immediately and come in next day. He said i was experiencing 'seratonin poisoning' or seratonin syndrome. Its not the viibryd but the dosage.... I started feeling better the very next day!!! And havent felt like that since.
Although i have noticed lately my dreams arent 'scary' but they are VERY real feeling and it starts literally as soon as i close my eyes...and i cant breathe... Im eitger being crushed or strangled and i literally cant move cant talk to wake myself!!! That part is awful!!!!

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Viibryd is definitely a nasty drug. My doctor gave me a starter pack to begin with - went on this drug in January. I started with 10mg. Immediately, I became dizzy, lethargic, sick to my stomach, completely out of sorts. After a couple of days that equalized until I started 20mg. Same set of effects. 30mg was worse! By the time I got to 40mg, things seemed to get a bit better, but I was VERY leery of the stuff. Long story made short, my doctor ended up putting me on 10mg/day along with 150mg of Welbutrin. The combination is working, however as with so many others I have experienced a 25lb. weight gain. I am having some troubles sleeping for which he prescribed 0.5 Xanax which I take occasionally. No horrid, debilitating dreams as some have reported - in fact, I rarely have dreams to my knowledge. I have ZERO sex drive, but admittedly I've been that way since going into menopause. What IS scaring me is the awful pain in my hips - there are days I can barely walk. This has very recently begun, but is steadily worsening. No one warned me of this, but I note that others are having joint troubles as well. All in all, this nasty drug isn't worth the troubles.

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I a so grateful to have found this board and to be hearing everyone's side effects!! I'm calling my doctor right away - he wants to see me in a month, but I'm going ASAP. I'm scared to death that the horrific pain and decreased range of motion in my hips will never go away! This drug does not react well at all with many anti inflammatory drugs - BE CAREFUL!!! I hate this stuff!!

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Thank you. I'm still in my silent hell with coming off this drug on my own. I bought a pill splitter and weaned myself off it but I have no other meds. I'm starting to believe they are all poison and natural is the way to go. Do we really know what we're putting in our bodies?! Wake up call! I still don't have a new psych but with the little hutzpa that is in me still, I filed a grievance against BAD DOC!

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I've been on Viibryd now since feb of this year. Things were going well at first but I started having more anxiety I couldn't control and crying spells. I had a gloom and doom attiude about everything.The first time I had a hallucination scared the crap out of me. I was sleeping and saw myself get up out of bed and I started floating. When I opened my eyes, I was still in bed. I wanted to call for help, but I couldn't move. Then I started having brain zaps. Flashes of bright light when I started going to sleep. I hate this stuff. Never been so scared before of going crazy and even had suicidal thoughts. I dropped my dosage down to 10 mg and feel better but getting off this stuff asap. Seeing my doc tomorrow. Thank God I found this site. I thought I was going crazy!

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No way are you going crazy! I saw my doctor on Monday, and he's taking me off this stuff slowly. I can't wait to be done with it! I'e had none of the symptoms you've had, but I do know enough that I don't want to take this drug any longer. Good luck to you!

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I filed a grievance as well. I'm coming to strongly believe that most doctors really don't know all that much about Viibryd. I learned more about it from speaking with my pharmacist and sites such as this one than I did from my doctor. I almost believe HE learned about it from ME!!

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I'm just putting this idea out there.Knowing there is power in numbers and with the belief in accountability; I was thinking that we might mull around the idea of moving on from being victims of our doctors' and the big Pharma and actually take action so that nobody else has to suffer in the way we did. I know that after the hell I went through with this drug (and am still going through) I believe that we have a responsibility to stop this liberal pill disbursement just so that a pharmaceutical company can make their numbers. Psychiatrists can no longer be their drug runners.

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There's an awful lot to be said for taking charge of one's life. It's your health - don't just take a "professional's" word for everything - in the end, we have the responsibility for ourselves.

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I was put on viibryd approximately 4 months ago and weaned off prozac to eliminate the extremely frustrating sexual side effects caused by prozac. I just started weaning myself off viibryd today. No difference with the sexual side effects on viibryd than the prozac. I cut my 40 mg pills in half and will take 20 mg for 5 days. Then i will cut the half pills again to have 10 mg pills for 5 days. Is that similar to how you weaned yourself off viibryd? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. I cant afford a doctor appointment right now and then a follow up appointment again one month later as is the norm when i change/add/discontinue medications.

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That's pretty much what my doctor advised I do, however I am no doctor and I'd never suggest you do that without consulting with him/her first. Can you leave a message to have your doctor call you? Viibryd is a drug deserving of a bit of fear - personally, I can't wait to be rid of it - now taking 5mg/day to wean off. Good luck - don't hesitate to get to a medical professional if you have any further adverse reactions.

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I decided to just take St John's Wart and go as natural as you can. Taking the Viibryd was a nightmare that I NEVER want to go through again! I now list it as something I am allergic to so I won't have to worry about the dangers of this drug ever again!

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I was a huge advocate until my stomach issues from getting used to viibryd returned and I literally had an accident in my pants. I thought my period came early because I didn't even feel what happened. But no, to my surprise I had shat myself, at work, with no car to get me home because it was in the shop. I tell my dr and he says this is unheard of (stomach issues) I continue to tell him it has screwed up my cycles, he never heard of that either but I have been regular my whole life and Im not preggars. Lastly I tell him it has caused anorgasmia.. he insists I switch to celexa. Funny what his priorities were.

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I want to add the my dr told me to take viibryd for the first two days of celexa. No weaning off besides that.

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I started Viibryd a week ago. by day 3 I was a hot mess! If I ate something I had to run to the bathroom. Then it got worse. by day 4 my stomach started cramping up, Nashau, joints hurt me, I felt like I had the flu or a bad stomach virus. by day 6 I was like WTF?!?! A stomach virus usually last 24-48 hours so now I knew it wasn't that. My doctor beside putting me on Viibryd started me on Lamictal 3 weeks ago. So I said well if it were the Lamictal it would have happen sooner. So I read the blogs on this site and new right away it was the Viibryd! Omg the worst side effects I have ever had from an antidepressent and I have tried pretty much all of them. If your doctor suggests Viiybrd just say NO!!!

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DIABETES??? I have been on Viibryd for about four months. I have not had the terrible side-effects reported here. However, at about the same time as I reached the maintenance dose of 40mg, my blood sugar went up, despite changing nothing in my life, and now I am diabetic (Type II) and taking Janumet. Has anyone else experienced this kind of issue? I'm 65 and I've been obese all my life, and diabetes runs in my family, but until I began the Viibryd, my typical blood sugar was around 122. Emes!

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at 10 mg. more energy,very little anxiety. Halfway through my 20mg. Starter pack, had 2 panic attacks. One in the middle of the night,the other grocery shopping. Nausea started, some diareah, and dizziness. Now at the end of my 20Mg. Starter,very bad dizziness,and nausea. But a huge increase in my sexdrive

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