Posted by JTDC on December 10, 2011, at 7:57:01
In reply to Re: Viibryd day 150+, giving up on it » joe schmoe, posted by Phillipa on December 8, 2011, at 19:04:04
Would like to give everyone an update on my experience with Viibryd.
I'm back down to 40 mg and have been there for about two months. Viibryd was such a tease in the beginning -- felt really, really well on it. But the "trippy" effects eventually crept in.
For me the trippy effects are NOT visuals or distorted sounds/images. I want to be clear on that. What I mean by trippy is that there is this weird sense of surrealism, accompanied by this sense of dread. Never have felt this before on any AD. Waking up was hard to do, compared to Pristiq where I usually bound right out of bed.
So how do I cope? My doctor has me on T3/Cytomel. I've been taking the path to clear my reverse T3 dominance. I advise many of you to google it, especially if you have chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia symptoms with your depression.
For the most part I am now 90% symptom free thanks to the T3. I slowly increase my dose until all my reverse T3 receptors are cleared. Here is the link of the regimen I found online and that my psychiatrist encouraged me to try: http://thyroid-rt3.com/
I hope this can help others. There is a risk of going hyperthyroid once all your reverse T3 clears, but you then immediately lower your T3 dose for a few days and then slowly maintain a dose at 1/3 of what you were taking over the previous 12 weeks.
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