Vilazodone and Depression: What Users Say (Page 3)

• Jef...
• April 18, 2018

For Depression "I have tried a host of anti-depressants over the last decade with little or no effect. I was given Vilazodone (Viibryd) about 4 months ago and got positive results in the 1st 10 days. I had given up on believing that any medication could help me, but now look at life differently. My issues are mostly still there, but I look at them differently (without a sense of urgency), and for once... truly have some hope, at least. My symptoms were extreme depression, PTSD, obsessive-compulsive, anxiety, and more combined with total isolation. My situation has not changed, although I now have hopes and often the desire to do something about my situation while starting to believe that I can succeed. A couple of my ideas may seem a little grandiose, but I believe they are well-planned ideas that can work, which is yet to be seen, which is correct. Time will tell, but I do not think I could survive going back to the mental state I was lost in for so long."

• ANO...
• November 30, 2011

Vilazodone "I took Viibryd, and it made me feel worse than before! I took it for about 2 months. Everything seemed fine, but after 2 months, I felt these feelings of low self-esteem (because of another issue, but the Viibryd made the problem seem 20 times worse) and overall terrible. I was on Paxil before, and I think I was better off still on that! I take Effexor now and feel much better. Viibryd was not for me."

• A p...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• April 13, 2020

For Major Depressive Disorder "This is an update from a review I left at the end of December under the name DevastatedPenguin. Please check out that review! I am still more miserable than ever! I have not bounced out of the damage Viibryd has done to my life! Who knows if I will. I have had maybe like 10 functional days since. Anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and stress haunt me every day. I’ve tried psychotherapy and TMS lately, and I’m not responding to it. My life felt horrible before I tried Viibryd, but after the experience, I’m just afraid I’ll never stand a fighting chance. The next thing on my list is to check my testosterone levels and other hormones. I’ll never recommend this drug to anyone!!!! Be well and good luck."

• A p...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• April 13, 2020

For Major Depressive Disorder "This is an update from a review I left at the end of December under the name DevastatedPenguin. Please check out that review! I am still more miserable than ever! I have not bounced out of the damage Viibryd has done to my life! Who knows if I will. I have had maybe like 10 functional days since. Anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and stress haunt me every day. I’ve tried psychotherapy and TMS lately, and I’m not responding to it. My life felt horrible before I tried Viibryd, but after the experience, I’m just afraid I’ll never stand a fighting chance. The next thing on my list is to check my testosterone levels and other hormones. I’ll never recommend this drug to anyone!!!! Be well and good luck."

• Bam...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 25, 2020

Vilazodone for Major Depressive Disorder "This is a horrible medication. Within months of taking it, I became agitated and very depressed, and my anxiety level was definitely at the top level. Things didn't get better, the longer I was on it, the worse I felt. I had bad side effects: dizziness, diarrhea, nausea, jerking in my body. I started jerking one day and got dizzy and fell and broke my foot and dislocated my heel. It was a bad break, and it's a side effect from that medication. My life went from okay to bad, so after surgery is when I started putting it all together-the why everything started getting so bad. My health problems were so questionable, I didn't know what was going on with my life until I realized those pills. When I first started taking them, that's when one of my problems first began. I had bad nightmares, just things that seemed so real. I couldn't wait to wake up and dreaded falling asleep."

• Vyb...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 20, 2025

Vilazodone for Major Depressive Disorder "I switched from Celexa to Viibryd. I felt good on Celexa, but lower motivation and sex drive. Viibryd, I immediately felt a mental difference. Not a good one. I had intrusive thoughts that grew and grew. Even waking up in the night with them. Irritability, anxiety, and depression grew. I felt like I couldn't control my thinking. Constant crying and anger/edginess. I did have more of a sex drive, but my mood ruined that. Viibryd is a SPARI, not an SSRI. I have tapered off and started Celexa again, feeling better already."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 4, 2021

Vilazodone for Depression "Viibryd is god-awful. I started on 10 mg for a week, and it made my anxiety and depression so much worse. I constantly had racing thoughts, flu-like symptoms. Made me feel like a zombie, and I was up for 3 days before I switched to a new medicine. I am still having a little trouble sleeping, and I've been off it a week and a half. Please, if your doctor tells you about this medication, do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY!!!"

• lKI...
• January 29, 2016

For Major Depressive Disorder "I have been on Vybrid a week and a half. I have had a horrible experience with all side effects. It's making me sleep 14 hours with nightmares the whole time. In the starting dose of 10 mg. It helped for only two days. By the fifth day, I increased to 20 mg a day, and things are not getting better. I'm still anxious around people. I still get depression. And all it did was make me literally sick. I stopped it today, as I cannot take the side effects. Seems pointless to keep taking something that is just making me feel sick and not myself. I called my doc. I'm waiting on a call back. I am going to try Zoloft again. It has helped a few times in the past, and a few times it didn't help. But I'm at the point I just cannot deal with Vybrid anymore."

• Jac...
• January 28, 2012

Vilazodone for Depression "Been on 7 weeks now, feel amazing. Got sexual urges back, feel less depressive symptoms."

• ksa...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 25, 2019

Vilazodone for Depression "It just isn’t working. I am now taking it for 3 months, and for no reason, I am flooded with feelings of anguish and sadness as I write this."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 22, 2012

Vilazodone for Depression "I had decreased libido, problems with ejaculation, depression, thoughts of harming myself, thoughts of suicide, inability to think clearly or rationally, diarrhea, and upset stomach."

• 342...
• November 5, 2016

Vilazodone for Depression "The first four days I was almost euphoric, then it was like the bottom dropped out and depression, worse than when I started the medication, set in. I have stopped taking it."