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 |
| 4 | Anxiety and depression | Started with 10 for one week and did well but just started 20mg two days and not feeling well. Waking up at 3,4,5 etc | Would like to know how long it takes to feel good | F | 58 | 2 days 20 | 3/5/2020 | 2 | Anxiety and depression | Daily diarrhea, weight gain. | Despite a reduction in caloric intake and increased exercise, I gained 20 pounds while on Viibryd. The weight gain started around the time that I titrated up from 10 to 40 mgs. I began losing weight as soon as I started tapering off the medication. | F | 35 | 14 months 40 1X day | 2/26/2020 | 5 | Severe depression | Viibryd helped me with a week. Initially during the 10 mg phase I had some stomach issues. Once the dosage was 40 mg for a month or more these were gone. However once went on vacation and forgot my Viibryd. Felt dizzy with an out-of-body type of expert. | I would be very reluctant to stop taking because one missed dose made me so ill. | F | 65 | 7 years 40 mg | 1/28/2020 | 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 | 4 | Depression | Vivid dreams, unable to wake from nightmares | Medication has been a great fit for me, and has helped with Depression a lot. Cannot miss a dose, and if I do, my dreams are insane from the first missed dose. At first, needed to take with food or belly was liquid, but that has subsided. Reading reviews & cautionary tales about stopping medication very helpful. Had a terrible time getting of Cymbalta & will take everyone's advice if I ever decide to stop/switch from Viibryd. | 48 | 2 years 20 mg | 1/9/2020 | 4 | Depression | Bad withdrawal effects if miss doses | F | 38 | 10 years 40 | 12/16/2019 | 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 | 2 | Depression | Loose bowels. Gas. Horrible dreams. Eyes burning can’t sleep. Stomach aches | F | 58 | 1 days 10 mg | 12/8/2019 | 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 | 1 | Depression | Horrible Nightmares and felt electric shocks as I felt asleep. I thought it was part of my depression but ended in the ER and was told it was the pill. I stopped taking it two months ago and I am not feeling any of those things again. | F | 55 | 6 months 20 mg | 11/17/2019 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety | Really strange, vivid dreaming, and it started with the first 10mg pill in the starter pack and hasn’t stopped. Definitely not complaining though. It’s so hard to explain... I can’t recall any of the dream when I wake up.. but somehow I just know how action packed they were. These dreams are significantly different than my dreams prior to Viibyrd, in regards to vividness. No nightmares so far. | Tried Wellbutrin, Effexor, Prozac and did seem to kick my depression. Tried Viibryd and truly think this is a miracle drug for me. I have so much more energy and my relationship with my husband has drastically changed for the better and so has my academic experience. | F | 23 | 1 months 20mg | 10/4/2019 | 2 | Depression | Bizarre dreams in beginning, seemed to work when I started but doesn't seem to help depression. Unmotivated! | F | 66 | 55 days 15 mg | 8/13/2019 | 2 | Depression | Blurred vision, eye irritation, distended belly, some brain zaps which is usually reserved for discontinuing a drug, vivid strange dreams | I think I need to give up on this drug. I don't want to but I'm feeling worse. I am irritated, short tempered, disconnected, unhappy, discontent. | F | 45 | 4 weeks 40 mg | 8/11/2019 | 1 | Severe depression | Migraine accompanied by nausea plus sleepless nights (because of the migraine). Due to the migraine can’t hold anything in. Night sweats. Brain zaps. | Only 7 days and feel as if I’m on depression medication withdrawal. Stopped 2 days ago and side effects still present. Migraine. Increased night sweats. Nausea. Cant hold anything in due to the migraine. Could not sleep due to the migraine. Stopped taking it due to the migraine this morning. Yesterday besides the migraine, had some brain zaps and the base of the skull/ neck area. Today migraine still present with heavy non stop brain zaps. If you have never experienced these brain zaps, they are extremely annoying. Not painful, but continuously feeling these paralyzes you from being able to do anything else. Brain zaps are like uncomfortable sensations like sudden zaps, electrical buzzes, tremors, shakes or jolts in the brain. Some people called them (or describe them as) brain shivers, brain shocks or head shocks. They are extremely unbearable. My honest opinion, STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT. I have tried countless of depression meds, non have caused these horrible side effects. Make sure you read all this reviews and talk to your dr. extensively before taking this medication. On the positive side, I'm glad these were samples and had yet fill the prescription. Asked for pricing, 90 day supply was $750 something copay!!!!!! With the “amazing” coupon from the maker, still $430. With so called coupon a 30 day supply $150 (according to the coupon could pay as little as $15, yeah sure!). | F | 56 | 7 days 10mg | 7/20/2019 | 1 | Depression | Manic episode accompanied by thoughts of harming others | When I first began this medication I was excited because I suddenly had lots of energy. I had a friend (a nurse who happens to work in mental health) warm me that this sometimes is the beginning of mania. I got up to the full dose and a few days after was actually thinking about going over to my neighbors to hurt them. I had not ever before nor since had anything like this happen to me. It was horrible. I would really recommend avoiding this drug. If you are starting it, make sure your doctor and loved ones are checking in on you regularly. | F | 37 | 25 days 40 mg 1X day | 7/19/2019 | 3 | Depression & Anxiety | Increased appetite, gas. | I have had success on other antidepressants (Prozac. Lexapro) but wanted to try Viibryd because it is newer and has the 5-HTP agonist. I felt good on the medication but felt like I wanted to eat all the time. I’m transitioning back to Prozac and my appetite was back to normal within days. People ask all the time if these medications cause weight gain. I think some drugs increase appetite in some people. Viibryd has this effect on me. Lexapro did too, but Prozac doesn’t. I wonder if it’s how much the serotonin level is impacted by the drug. | F | 49 | 1 months 20 mg | 7/5/2019 | 4 | Clinical depression | Starting out diarrhea was pretty bothersome for about a month. Other than that no clinically significant side effects...and had NO sexual side effects | Viibryd worked very well for me...and I've tried pretty much everything else...however when I decided to go off of it, it did cause (at least for me) a particularity severe and long lasting withdrawal syndrome even tapering down very slowly...I am getting through it but the withdrawal is pretty awful...anhedonia, severe fatigue, severe issues with being able to concentrate nightmares, extreme irritability and anxiety...and just generally feeling like crap like I was in a fog all the time...take this into consideration and discuss it with your doctor if you plan on taking it long term. | M | 30 | 8 years 40 mg | 6/13/2019 | 1 | Anxiety | Brain zaps, Horrible/Vivid Nightmares, Sleep Paralysis, Increased Anxiety, Paranoia, Suicidal Ideations | I was prescribed Viibryd for my anxiety. I started off with 10mg, then went up to 20mg, and eventually 40mg. That’s when it all went downhill. Before this drug, I had never been depressed before, let alone suicidal ideations. I felt more anxious than ever before. I was paranoid, and felt as if everyone was out to get me. I started experiencing ‘brain zaps’ where I literally felt as if my brain was getting electrocuted every time I laid down and sometimes when I was standing. I was forgetting little things. I had the most horrible vivid nightmares. Some nights I felt as if i was still half awake, but dreaming. I’d try to yell for help or get up and I couldn’t. I was scared to fall asleep and I woke up exhausted every morning. I slept in my mom’s room several nights, because i was terrified of being alone. I heard voices and saw horrible things. I was literally driving myself insane. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION. I would not wish this on my worst enemy | F | 26 | 60 days 40mg | 5/19/2019 | 1 | depression | This drug caused me to have what I believe to be a manic episode. I had never had one before and was unable to sleep for 4 days, I had brain zaps as well as panic attacks. I had never had a panic attack prior to using this med. | DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION! | F | 53 | 6 days 10 1X day | 4/23/2019 |