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HI I am on Viibryd for 4 months now and i have these terrible horrific nightmares that i am dyng or sufficating a kind of sleep parasis and it happens a few times a night to where I am aware this drug is causing it. However it happens maybe once a week or once every otherweek so should i just stay on 20 mg i decided to bring it down and go on prozac but i want to make sure i am making the rght dec w doctor of course. I have been on cymbalta 2 years and ristiq 2 years prior and they were terrible to get off i notice that if i am 2 hours late for viibryd i have a night of hell with the nightmares. Does anyone else? Is viibryd going to be a nightmare to get off im very nervous. ;/

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I had a similar experience with crazy scary dreams! However, since I felt so much better on this drug, I kept taking it, and now I no longer have the nightmares. I've been in it for over a year and it's been worth it for me. I say just hang in there!

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Omg!! I wish I could say I don't understand, but I do. I felt like I was living in hell, I was afraid to sleep, when I did the terrifying demonic dreams took over. I got off the meds cold turkey, that was a terrible decision. I felt like a crazed zombie. I pray that you get help/freedom from this nightmarish drug!

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I've been on Viibryd for about one month now and it has made my life absolute hell. Before Viibryd I was on a different prescription but I can't remember the name of it....anyways that old one made me very suicidal and depressed and weepy so my doctor took me off of it without weening. I started Viibryd and thought "hey I feel good" and i was very productive in the day. I felt happy about myself and pleasant all day long. That lasted for maybe two weeks. Once I began the 40's, i literally cringed daily activities and going to bed. I take Viibryd in the later evening, with food on my stomach, right after I shower. I normally watch tv or study.... I started to get this loud, painful wave like sensation in my head and ears, and it wasn't a one time thing. It kept happening maybe like 5 times in a row or every hour. I actually hold my ears and head, it hurts that bad. Then, twice now, I experience sleep paralysis around the first hour i'm asleep. I fall asleep around midnight, so this isn't even stage 2 of the sleep cycle....During SP i experience terrifying, realistic, demonic, trippy night terrors to the point where I am screaming bloody murder and punching and slapping and kicking, etc. and that's when my mom has to come in and try to get me out of it. Once, i even punched her in the shoulder she told me, when she was trying to calm me down. I finally come out of it but when i wake up the next morning, i have dark circles and i'm in the weirdest mood ever. i have no emotion when i wake up. My mom thinks i'm exaggerating and being dramatic when i try to talk to her, but i'm not. I need off of this drug. The side effects are worse than my MDD symptoms. I'm calling my doctor tomorrow. This has happened too often to be normal. I'm glad that I'm not crazy and others experience this too, but im not glad that this drug has affected us all so traumatically.

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It does great with depression issues, just the side effects that come up if i miss a dose or are late taking it that are terrifying

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Jesus after reading the experiences of others on this site i feel like i am sane lol. I have been on this drug for 2 months and i have had at least 6-7 night terrors with the Jaw clenching sleep paralysis think you wake up but instead you have woken up just in your dream again type of stuff too. I have always been a hard sleeper i mean an earthquake could not wake me up. Since using this drug i feel a lot better depression wise as it has been lifted somewhat and it really does calm me down to a point where i feel almost immune and blah when situations arise to where before i would be losing my mind. It's the night terrors that frighten me the most. Yesterday i could not remember if i had taken my pill before i left the house or not and i did not want to just take another one if i had so i just said i will pick up where i left off tomorrow. VERY BAD IDEA. Last night i had three episodes and the last one being a jaw clenching back twisting sort of one in which today the pain from is still there. If i can give anyone any advice do not forget to take your meds not even for a day you will pay for it i promise you.

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I've been experiencing nightmares for about a week and I'm on 20 mgs. I'm also extremely irritable and tired a lot. I've noticed if I take 2 ibprofen before bed I don't have the nightmares......odd

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Amen, Maria. I hope things will improve for you, soon.

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Please be careful getting off the meds cold turkey. I did and It was awful

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Just an update, I discontinued the medication immediately after those horrific side effects and have had no further issues.

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'Hi Battlemedic. I'm so sorry to hear about your horrid nightmares, especially that you can remember them as though they actually happened. I've always had nightmares since I was a child, but the ones that I've been having during viibryd treatment are literally like I am awake, and someone tells me to do something, example: In the middle of last night, I have been suffering from severe spine/back pain, caused from the viibryd I firmly believe, had an MRI, results ok so told. Since May 19th I have weaned from 20 mg now to 5 mg. When I weaned from 20 to 10 the awful headaches, jaw aching/clenching, neck/muscle pain went away, but then after two days, all that pain dropped down to my lower spine, and it has been some of the worse pain I have ever experienced! I'd like to share a nightmare I had last night. After being told to "bend the right side of your body down to the top of your thigh, this will give your spine a "healthy" stretch, by a voice in brain, uh, freaky,right? I couldn't believe the excruciating pain when i woke & found I was trying to. I believe, deeply! that this medicine is poison to human beings. I strongly advise no one to take it!! There has only been one positive thing about it, and that is it lifted the darkness of my depression, but the addition of physical pain it has caused is not worth continuing treatment. At least when I was depressed badly, I could comfortably sleep for hours, without agonizing physical pain. This has given me a whole new perspective on how well we can trust our physicians. I believe we are living in a world that is more concerned about making more money, "greed" despite the cost to human lives. We must all be more consistent in researching med's before we just become "guinea pigs". I hope things will work out better for you. I'm also seeking a new Psychiatrist, the one I've seen for a dozen years seems indifferent to my health anymore. I don't mean to slam bam him, but he negligently allowed me to get Lithium Toxicity last year, requiring ER admittance and flush system, put back on same mg that had poisoned me. He didn't listen to my symptoms that led up to the ER visit. He put me on Latuda, I kept telling him I felt like some people were standing on top of me holding me down under water, I was struggling to breathe, but would not die. I am now addicted to Alprazolam 2mgXR twice day, I have to remind him to order my Lithium Serum levels be checked. Anyway, this long----response seems to have been all about "me", I apologize for that, and truly wish not only you, but the rest of the viibryd community of sufferers healing and relief. I appreciate the support here. Vanessa.

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The dreams eventually fade away. I've been on 40mg of Viibryd for over a year now and the benefit far outweighs having to deal with the nightmares. Mine were also very scary and vivid, but I felt good otherwise and kept taking it. Glad I did since the dreams are now just normal ones. Hang in there!

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The 3 months I was on viibryd were among the worst I've ever felt on meds. I'm now happily on Cymbalta and will never recommend viibryd! Getting off wasn't as bad as I anticipated and I am so glad to be off!

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For me no they have been going on for a month or so but its not all the time. I am on 40mg and have been on it since March. Last nights was just the worst.

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Please don't miss another dose. I had to stop taking it. The demonic dreams were enough for me...I hope this helps you...
Is this your first time experiencing the dreams?
What dose are you taking?

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I have just had a dream like that. I am terrified to go back to sleep. The demon not only hurt me but my children and possessed my husband who in turn came after me. I kept crying out and couldnt wake up... i usually take it at around 5-6pm with dinner. Tonight i missed it and took it as soon as i remembered at 1:30am... i just woke up my husband with a blood curdling scream, i had tears streaming down my face couldnt catch my breath and it took me a while to realize i wasnt asleep anymore. On top of these horrible nightmares i also get the part where if im in a nightmare its hard to tell if im awake or still sleeping!
I will never miss another dose, this was awful!

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Omg,
I experienced the same Nellz. It was literally like I was in a hellish nightmare! !! Please know that it'll only get worse. I wish I could leave my personal email for you.

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I just started taking this medicine 12 days ago. I had not taken any prior anti-depressant meds. The 10 mg doseage was fine, but the 20 mg doseage started making me have scary, obsessive thoughts like falling down stairs. At night, when i close my eyes I see monsters and demons that are suffocating me. My skin crawls like an acid trip and I have a bad headache for days. Im done:(

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The sleep paralysis & nightmares started for me after 4-6 mos. and were not letting up. If Forest Lab came fwd & put a warning on this med about SP, seizures, exploding head syndrome, demonic dreams, etc. and said that in x amt. of cases, these symptoms went away after 12? mos. of continued treatment, then maybe some would consider sticking it out. But for many, the horrible memories made by this drug are enough to wean off & wait for a legal suit (per state).

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I have been taking for over a year now and also had insane nightmares in first few months of starting, but the nightmares do subside. This drug has helped me so much, I just kept taking and eventually the side effects do go away. It has really changed my life . I am taking for anxiety.

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I also have had very vivid dreams on Viibryd. I've been a vivid dreamer my whole life, but these are something else! A couple times, I have had dreams within dreams within dreams -- and then I realize (while asleep, within the dream!) that I'm three levels down and could be incepted at any moment! And I wake up, terrified. Lol! In general my dreams feel like action movies, and even when they are scary, they're more like horror novels than nightmares - they're not about me, just something I'm watching happen in my brain? If that makes sense? Anyway, I used to kinda of like the dreams, but I recently went back on Adderall and now the dreams are even more tiring and restless. I'd like to just sleep all night for once.

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned visions, sounds, and falling/spinning sensations before sleeping. These aren't anything to worry about, they aren't crazy. I've had them my whole life. I think they just go along with being a vivid dreamer.

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