VIIBRYD Reviews (VILAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.6 (379 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare VIIBRYD with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR VIIBRYD | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | MDD/GAD | Within a few days of taking this drug, I started feeling severe depression, which led me to have suicidal ideations. My whole personality changed. I became agitated, extremely angry, crying constantly and episodes of rage. Everything and everyone got under my skin. I lashed out and had violent thoughts. I called my doctor immediately and stopped this drug. I never had such awful reactions/side effects to any other antidepressants I've taken in the past 30 years. I wouldn't recommend this drug to anyone. | F | 50 | 7 days 10 MG 1X day | 8/31/2023 | 1 | Depression; OCD | Had to stop because it caused frequent sleep paralysis | M | 59 | 10-40 mgs 1X day | 6/25/2023 Patient History | 1 | Depression, Anxiety | Where to start? If I miss a dose by 30 min I get brain zaps, I eat less than I used to yet over these 8 years have gained 50 lbs, sleep paralysis with awful tremors first, dizziness, fatigue, spend all day in the bathroom going and going and feel sick afterwards w/ stomach cramps, gas, hair loss to the point where I need a wig, when I try to get off of it by titrating down 10mg, the brain zaps and full body shocks were so bad I couldnt do it. I have not had an EEG yet but my doctor thinks I am also having seizures | This had just came out when I went on it. I cant believe how stupid i was to start taking it. After being on Paxil and Effexor XR for years each (Paxil from 9 to 23!) without them doing a thing for me and dealing with months and months of flu and depression (these meds dont help my depression, only cause it when detoxing) to get off of them, I should have known better when the psychiatrist told me that there were no withdrawal effects. PLEASE do not start this medication. Its not worth it. Not for anything. | F | 42 | 8 years 40mg 1X day | 3/21/2023 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | Hair loss, diarrhea | Hair is falling out in clumps. Have diarrhea at least 2-3 times per day. | F | 40 | 6 months 20 mg 1X day | 3/8/2023 | 1 | Anxiety | Insomnia, vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, chest pain, tachycardia, acid reflux, dizziness, felt I was going to pass out, profound fatigue, agitation. | Do not take this drug! Dangerous! | F | 56 | 0 days 5 1X day | 12/15/2022 | 1 | Depressed and anxiety | I have been throwing up very very very bad diarrhea. Just started this week I can't eat or I'll throw back up waiting on my doctor to call back I have never had any other meds I took in the past like this does to me I have kids I can't go on feeling like this!!!!! | F | 32 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 4/12/2022 | 1 | Major depression | It never helped. My feet and ankles swelled. 4 days after I stopped taking it I had a heart attack and was life flighted to a major hospital. I truly believe this rx caused my heart attack. I'm still recovering. It happened in Oct 2020. Don't try it. It is a dangerous drug. | F | 63 | 2 months 20 mg 1X day | 3/27/2022 | 1 | Depression and anxiety | Start it off at 10 MG, with a goal to increase slowly up to 40. Immediately began having diarrhea, every time I had a BM. As soon as I started taking a whole pill, I started vomiting and having diarrhea at the same time. I think coffee makes it worse. | If you begin to have any of these symptoms, I wouldn't recommend talking to your doctor immediately. I did not want to wait until I began having withdrawls | F | 35 | 2 days 20 1X day | 3/25/2022 | 1 | Bi-Polar 2 and Major Depression | When I first started taking this at 10mg, I didn't have a lot of issues with it other than the weight gain which my doctor completely ignored. Carb cravings are absolutely ridiculous! | At four months, I will no longer take this. It's expensive and has caused so many gastrointestinal issues, I am having to see a doctor to deal with them. Bloat, unable to pass gas, stomach cramps, stomach burns and non of this was happening until I started this stuff. | F | 49 | 4 months 20 1X day | 2/23/2022 | 1 | Major depression | Major weight gain!!!!! Stomach problems!! Sat on toilet half the day!!!! Ate anything I could get my hands on!!! Blurred vision. Makes me cross eyed. Can't afford the amount of toilet paper I go through a day or food. Cotton mouth, nonstop farting if you don't believe me go right ahead and try this medication and you'll see! | F | 46 | 30 days 20mg 1X day | 7/24/2021 | 1 | MMD, severe recurrent | Rhetorical, but who in their right mind would ever allow approval of this medication for treatment of depression. The serious medical contraindications and interactions alone should have stopped this drug from being approved | I would suggest that if the FDA even still exists as an agency that approves safe medication only. reconsider not only cost of mental health benefits over the contraindications. | F | 63 | 29 days 10 1X day | 5/16/2021 | 1 | Anxiety and mild depression | When I started viibryd I absolutely loved it! It stabilized my mood (no more anxiety, no more depression) everyone around me noticed a huge difference, I was back to my old happy self, I felt great!. Then the side effects started happening. I didn't know the brain zaps were a side-effect because it wasn't listed anywhere. My husband and my doctor thought I was crazy, heck I thought I was going crazy. I didn't know the brain zaps were a side effect until today reading other reviews on here. I would have nightmares that would cause me to cry and thrash around at night. My husband would tell me he would literally have to yell at me and grab me and shake me to wake me up. I could hear him during my nightmares calling my name but I couldn't wake myself. He said it was like my whole body was convulsing. After several years of taking the drug my insurance decided to no longer cover it and I ran out of the drug, don't ever stop this drug abruptly!!! I literally felt like a crazy person for days I wanted to run my car into a wall, I was super angry and hostile. I ended up confining myself to my room for days so I didn't hurt myself or others. I had to call into work. I felt like my body was detoxing from a powerful drug. And now I have memory loss which I also attribute to viibryd. I would not recommend this drug to anyone ever!! It severely changed my life for the worst. | I should also mention I am very healthy individual who at the time only took a synthroid everyday and the occasional allergy pill. | F | 32 | 3 years 40mg 1X day | 2/28/2021 | 1 | Depression | Started with 10mg. And I felt good at first. But after I up the dose I began to have manic episodes, and sleep paralysis. And the hullucination. Also had stomach problems and heart palpitations. I would not ever take it again. | F | 56 | 1 months 30mg 1X day | 2/15/2021 | 1 | MDD | I started at 10 mg and felt ok the first few days and then started to feel incredibly restless and spacey, like an out of body feeling. night sweats and sleep paralysis immediately. stuck with it, trying melatonin to help with sleep. Stayed on the 10 for 14 days instead of the recommended 7 because I did not feel safe on the low dose and wanted to see if it would get better. Eventually, I felt depressed again even on the 10 mg of the Viibryd, so i took that as a sign to up the dose to 20mg. After only 1 day, I felt like i was crawling out of my own skin, so anxious and thoughts racing, questioning everything. Very out of it, feeling like I was observing myself and not actually being myself. Didn't feel safe to drive or operate machinery. Stuck that out for a few more days and then called the doctor because I couldn't take all of the side effects. Glad I did, was told to ween off the drug immediately. The only other time I felt such a quick and strong adverse reaction was w | F | 36 | 22 days 20 mg 1X day | 11/18/2020 | 1 | anxiety | made me so depressed. thinking horrible things. more irritated. i hate feeling this way | F | 19 | 1 months 10 1X day | 7/30/2020 | 1 | Major Depressive Disorder | It was like I was awake and living in a nightmare. I have taken almost every antidepressant on the market over the past 30 years, and I have NEVER had as horrible of a main side effect. Historically, antidepressants work well for me, but wear off after a few years. I was put on Viibryd after a failed attempt at an injected ketamine treatment, and after Trintellix wore off after being on it for 2 years. Viibryd worked well at first, as my depression symptoms seemed a lot better. I kept taking it and noticed after I took it in the morning, I'd need to go back to bed for a few hours. Also, I would feel terrifying anxiety until about noon each day. I'm not sure why I kept taking it but then I started having these horrible feelings of intense sadness/debilitating fear/darkness in a way that felt evil. These feelings would all at once take over my entire brain and I'd be suddenly debilitated and sent into this state of mind that was like nothing I had ever thought possible because it was almost like another plane of consciousness that was in one word: terrifying. I finally had an appointment with my psychiatrist and he switched me back to Zoloft, after a ten-year hiatus. Zoloft used to work really well for me with no known side effects. All side effects while taking Viibryd have subsided, after several months on Zoloft. I DO NOT WISH ON MY WORST ENEMY THE SIDE EFFECTS I HAD ON VIIBRYD. DO NOT TAKE IT!! | Worst experience of my life with ANY psychiatric medication, by far. I've taken: Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Zoloft, lexapro, Trintellix, Effexor, Pristiq, and Celexa. I owe my life to antidepressant medication that works well for me. Being on Viibryd was the scariest experience of my life. Please feel free to Email me if you also have experienced negative side effects such as mine. It would be nice to hear that I'm not the only "crazy" one! | F | 42 | 6 months 40 mg 1X day | 7/17/2020 | 1 | Severe depression, suicidal thought | Once dosage increased to 40 mg, within a few days became severely depressed with suicidal thoughts. Very bad drug. Would not recommend to anyone. | F | 44 | 4 weeks 40 MG 1X day | 1/10/2020 | 1 | Treatment resistant depression | Hypnogogic dreams (sorry about the spelling). I became very emotional, scary for someone with a generally even temperament. I stopped taking this in 2012. Its 2019 now. My brain changed DRAMATICALLY from this drug and I don't think I will ever get back to the old me. I am terrible at verbalizing things now, I used to be called eloquent regularly. I feel markedly less intelligent. It is frightening because I know my brain is not functioning in the manor I was accustomed to. I am grasping and forgetful and slow. I went through some heavy life crisis while taking this medication. Between the medicine and heavy emotional stress my brain has been "rewired". I used to read veraciously, I have read less than five books total since 2012. I also saw dramatic changes in my organizational abilities as well as a VERY steep decline in creativity. Although I dealt with some level of depression for the majority of my life, I was independent and very capable. This drug has left me handicapped and feeling helpless since 2012 despite consistent efforts to find my way back to the person I used to be. Besides the mental changes, my emotions were all over the place. I felt weepy and angry, sometimes manic. I could not regulate my emotional behavior even as I was aware of my emotional rollercoaster. I REALLY wanted this to help improve my life. I had been having vivid, unsettling dreams. After having what my doctor later explained as a Hypnogogic dream, or being in a hypnogogic state, | F | 35 | 0 months Don't reca | 12/16/2019 | 1 | Major depression anxiety | Severve headaches, anxiety , depression, | Was a horrible drug. Did not help. Changing medications now after 4 months of migraines. | 43 | 4 months 20 mg | 11/24/2019 | 1 | Depression | Horrible nausea. Felt like I had the flu. Light headed. Racing thoughts. | Not a good drug for me. It made me anxious and irritable. I could not relax. Worst feeling from a medication in my life. Stopped taking in less than a week because it made me feel like I wanted to jump out of my skin. | M | 52 | 7 days 10 mg | 11/17/2019 |
VIIBRYD (VILAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE): Vilazodone is used to treat depression. It is an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) and partial serotonin receptor agonist. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain (neurotransmitters such as serotonin). This medication may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. FDA Approval Date: 2011-01-21 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)