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I am over 2 years post op, and have been maintaining for quite awhile. I have recently felt my old major depressive disorder creeping back in and am looking for an AD. I have heard a lot from my therapist about Viibryd and how she has seen good results with her binge eating disorder clients because it acts as an appetite suppressant. I was wondering if anyone here has had experience with Viibryd?

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I am a psychiatric nurse practitioner and prescribe medications and have used Viibryd with lots of my patients. I have never found it to be an appetite suppressant. Some people get some nausea, diarrhea and other GI distress with it, maybe that is part of it. It needs to be taken with food to help with adsorption.

According to the trials about 3% had increased appetite and 2% had increased weight. About 29% had diarrhea. They did not list weight loss as a side effect at all in the research trials. Maybe the diarrhea and nausea is where the "weight loss" comes from that your therapist had noted.

Viibryd is a good medication but not all anti-depressants are created equal and you should see your psychiatric provider to have him or her assess you for the right one.

Starting on page 5 is the side effects.

http://www.allergan.com/assets/pdf/viibryd_pi

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