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What if any side effects are people experiencing on viibryd

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My Viibryd dose was increased to 40 MG and it has took a couple of months to reach therapeutic levels. Once it did, I began to experience very, very dark thoughts, with a few risky behaviors. This is totally out of character and has never happened previously, even without an antidepressant. My physician did not appear concerned, and did not even have me come in for office visit. The nurse was permitted to return my call and basically just agreed with me to titrate the dose. More research needs to be revealed on this drug.

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I'm so glad you posted this! I've been taking Viibryd for over year now and I had to have 2 teeth extracted and my TMJ is so bad, I have to hold and press my jaw for hours sometimes. When I try to taper off this I can't get up for anything in the morning. I sleep right through my alarms and my son has been late to school on several occasions. I also have missed many days of work. I become even more introverted than I was before, and I find getting out of the house at all to be a real challenge. I take Wellbutrin, Dexedrine, and Klonopin as well, and have pretty much tried every medication out there. I have had strong, healthy, straight white teeth my whole life. Now I'm a single mom with an autistic kid and I can't possibly afford dental implants. Now tonight the pain moved to my upper jaw from where it was a couple of days ago. The pain radiates from my top left teeth straight up the mandipular nerve into my ear causing severe ear pain. I've also developed hypothyroidism from this, and have had to start medication for that. Idk, my Drs always talking about the mood, "well how's the mood?" So I turned around and told him "it's going to be pretty damn dark if I continue to have to remove my teeth and have to live looking like that." And then, of course he mentions the darn benefits outweighing the costs. Yeah, idk, I disagree.

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I have been taking Vybriid for over a year. I changed dosage between 40 and 20. On 20 I don't feel as well and at 40 I cannot stand the hallucinations, night terrors, night sweats, dizziness.
I just started to realize my monthly menstrual issues started about the same time as I started this medication. My OB/BYN has not been able to figure out the cause for the ups and downs with continuous bleeding and clots to no period at all.
Has anyone else made this connection or had these side effects. Sadly, this is the first anti-depressant that really worked for me at all but the side effects are terrible!

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This medication began like a lifesaver for me. I had more energy, though it did allow me to sleep less. But after a year I started to plateau with it -it felt less effective, but the side effects were increasing. I started to get really bad jaw pain and I have always had very strong teeth. Within 9 months my teeth had ulcerated and became infected after I had a root canal. Long story-i ended up having to extract 3 teeth!! My jaw pain didn't get better until I finally got off of it-and that took f-o-r-e-v-e-r!! The only drug I ever had this much difficulty getting off of was klonopin. It took me over 7 months to get off of this. I had to finally start on Lexapro half tab to substitute and wane through the side effects. The worst side effect was that I was SO SO exhausted-despite the 5 alarms I set-I'd sleep until 2 in the afternoon. It was terrible. The anxiety increased getting off of it and it changed my thyroid, so now I have to take something for that everyday (hence the exhaustion). Was it worth it? Idk. Teeth implants are so much and I feel awful with out those teeth when I smile. And the migraines from withdrawl were pretty tenuous. If I knew then what I know now? I likely would not have stayed on this. I've never had a drug change my body chemistry so much-albeit, the Drs do not agree that the drug is solely responsible. I know my body. Good luck!!

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For those of you who experienced joint pain on Viibryd, has your pain gone away since weaning from the drug? I am dealing with that now and slowly weaning off. I'm hoping to be pain free again soon!

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I have been on 40mg of viibryd for about a month. My anxiety was gone after the jump to 40mg. But each day is getting worse and stranger. I don't feel like myself. I am edgy and disconnected. I am having horrible dreams. I will go to sleep and have dreams and I will wake up like every ten min. And be almost paralyzed like I can't get up and the dreams start back up where they left off. My mood after I finally can get up is so weird. I am disconnected and depressed. I wake up sweating and i havent moved but im really cold i have been very dizzy and I get brain zaps. I have cramps in
my legs especially my knees. I thought it was working now I can't stand how hopeless and strange I feel. I am weaning off and starting Paxil. I was on lexapro for 7 years and it just stopped working after I took a few months of the generic.

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SOUTH FLORIDA- I forgot all about the horibble taste in my mouth! Each of us is right...Viibryd causes horrible dream but for me, this only happened if I did not take the dose on time. Today my doctor chuckled at my having nightmares, after one waking up thinking someone was in the house. I'm grateful for this forum. Dreams and the mouth taste were the only negatives for me, enough to stop. When I did take it I was actually energized, I excercised, my fibromyalgia hurt less and generally I was positive. I hope this new medication, Savella, works. Has anyone had any experience?

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Guys, I stopped taking the vii cold turkey on my own. Do not do this!! I ended up in the hospital for 3 days with unexplained palpitations and horrendous dizzy spells. My new and awesome pcp sid that the withdrawls from vii includes dizzy spells and that the palps may have been from the anxiety of all they symptoms I was having. Its bad news. Im now on 40mgs of prozac...no problems. Yet. Lol. Good luck!

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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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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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I have been on Viibryd a month now. 10mg for a week, 20mg for a week and two weeks now of the 40mg. I was on Zoloft before this but did not feel it was working. So I took both meds at the same time, weanin myself off to Zoloft while getting use to the Viibryd. I noticed a little anxiety with 20mg and a lot more of it with the 40mg. I take 1mg Xanax for anxiety and feel like it does not touch my anxiety at times. I have had many symptoms which include: elevated blood pressure, anxiety, heart racing, diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness and blurred vision and horrible life like dreams. I have never experienced anything like this before. First time I felt like was going to die--all these lights around and I'd try to move and couldn't. My eyelids were heavy. It was like I was going u see anesthesia and had no control. I felt I was talking and screaming for help and the words wouldn't come out. My husband said I slept all night. My arms are all tingly wen I wake up and I'm still tired. I have had face swelling and redness on my cheeks and arms. Almost sunburn like. Last night it started again-(first time was two nights ago). I was able to sit up and make it to the bathroom to vomit. My heart was racing and I was dizzy. I ended up falling and cutting my arm. What a long night. I was afraid to go to sleep because its torture and scary!! I called my dr this morning who prescribed it and she said to stop it immediately. After reading all these posts before calling her, I asked If cold turkey was safe. She then said maybe just take 20 mg for 3-4 days and then 10 mg for 3-4 days since I have only been on it a month. I'm terrified of this drug and don't want to take even one more pill but I'm terrified of more pro lens so I believe I better go the weaning route and just pray it works. If u are prescribed this drug, I would strongly reconsider. These are not fun trips it takes you on-they are horrible!!! It takes your breath away and you feel you are close to death. I hope everyone who takes it and is getting off it is doing better. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy-really! Those of you that weaned from 40-20-10mg...how was your weaning process? Did the side effects go away fast?

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I just found this thread. Back to the "Brain Zaps, I found 5 post that mention them but without any detail. I know that they begin 5-10 after taking Viibryd so I take the pill right before passing out Excedrein PM and a Ambian. I take lomitil to control diarrhea another side effect. I feel that right now it is the brain zaps that makes me worry about the drug as it is not mentioned in any literature by the company that makes Viibryd. I have not experienced nightmares or joint pain as others have described, but will continue to post should somthing change.

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My suggestion? DO NOT start this drug. Ask your doctor to out a little more thought and effort into something that has far fewer side effects!!!

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I'm going to call my doctor tomorrow and find out how to wean off this drug. It is awful. I did the starter pack and just started the 40 mg dosage. I haven't slept through the night; I have splitting headaches; nausea and knee pain. I've been on many different types of drugs and this is almost as bad as Effexor, which caused blurry vision. Like others on here, I felt great at 10 mg with just side effects of loss of appetite and a little diarreha. The scariest thing is that I keep losing words or mixing them up in a sentence. I am going back to Zoloft. Yes, I was still experiencing some depression but this is NOT worth it.

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I posted much earlier in this forum about my experience with Viibryd. Since then I have weaned off the medication. A week to the day after being off of it completely, I became very manic, hallucinating and suicidal. I HATE THIS MEDICATION!! This medication sent me to a mental hospital for many days. My system was poisoned with serotonin and I have never attempted suicide ever! I am now on Lexapro and feel much better and all the side effects of the Viibryd are gone except the muscle/joint pain and it is a daily hell. I feel like I need oiled. I have been off this med completely for a month now and it is still as bad as it was then. I do not understand why this medicine is still on the market. Every medicine is not for every person, but this medicine has a lot of problems for the short time it has been available to the public. I suggest anyone that begins this drug to take all precautions and if you start to see ANY problems, please contact someone ASAP-because this drug is the work of the devil and it does not do some people well.

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Yes.it is good to hear positive results.especially since so many posts are so negative.before I started viibryd,I read such awful posts about it I was terrified of even starting viibryd, but after trying out other meds that didn't work for me, my physicist wanted me to try it, and I'm so happy I did. I had awful side effects, but they are all gone. I find it very important to take my pill within a of my usual time.twice I was late and had brain zaps and sleep paralysis,very scarry. But I take it when im supposed to,and it's awesome. No sexual side effects at all,in fact, my drive increased dramatically,and I have more energy,and im happy most of the time, and NO panic attacks!

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Demonic nightmares along with sleep paralysis. Nothing else. Do not skip a dose at all!!

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ISABELLE - THE POISON PILL.

over 5 months on it with side effects I could handle but slowly muscle/bone/joints became worse. FROM ONE HOUR TO THE NEXT while outside walking my dogs I had to yell for help, I fell, I was in pain severe pain all over and could barely move. This was 3 days ago. Immediately I quit this medication as the first thought is oh my God I am poisoned. I am not coming off it slowly it has to stop immediately or it can kill me. Read all my posts they were all how happy I was with Viibryd, the point here is that changed from one second to the next.

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I do not have arthritis but now I know what a severe case feels like. I had to stop from one day to the next as an emergency or that is where I would have wound up in the emergency room. If you are really in pain, stop cold turkey I say. The side effects while on the medication Viibryd where out of control horrible, while stopping immediately started to decrease these intense side effects but it took nearly 5 days to actually feel as if its totally out of my system.

Brain zaps are feelings of electrical shocks in your brain and come with a loud humming sound, some are so intense and strong my vision would see a bright blue and/or white flash of light. I first got them when I started Viibryd and then as long as I took Viibryd for a couple of weeks they became less frequent. By the 5th month on Viibryd they started happening again at a more intense shock almost to make you feel like you might short circuit and die on the spot and they were occuring with more frequency.

5 days ago while still on Viibryd for 5 months I was becoming crippled, I could barely walk normal every bone and joint became painful even at rest.

I immediately 5 days ago got my wake up call to bail out before I die. I felt poisoned.

I will be contacting Viibryd to see how I can get my money back for many pills I still have that cost a ton of money.

I will be seeing my primary physican soon to see if there are any physical damages.

I believe any psychiatrist/psychologist that prescribes this is not aware of how dangerous this medication is. We are guinea pigs. I was happy because it made my depression go away but I believe being alive with depression is much better than being dead or a permanent vegetable.

My psychiatrist has been instantly fired and depending on what the near future holds may hear from me again.

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Hi, I've been on Viibryd for 5 months now and slowly weaning myself off with my docs blessing. I'm sorry to say this drug really sucks for me. I've posted my side effects before and nothing's really changed maybe just a bit worse. Good luck to all who remain on it but my gut feeling is telling me this stuff is bad news.

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