BUSPAR Reviews (BUSPIRONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (961 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BUSPAR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BUSPAR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | complex post traumatic stress disor | None | It's a miracle. Intrusive thoughts are stopped cold, I can actually feel it working. I was able to cut back on the Xanax I was taking and will eventually eliminate it, in the future. I suffer from (diagnosed) cptsd due to extreme trauma and was at a point where I could barely function and was actually considering the possibility that I would not be able to continue living this way. It can't erase the cause of this horror in my life, but so far it has certainly eased the effects. | F | 65 | 7 days 10 MG 2X day | 2/25/2013 | 3 | Psych added to the mix for depression | Not 100% sure if it is the buspar but after I take it in the morning and with dinner, I play this droning music in my head and I get the hot flash as well. | F | 65 | 8 months 10mg x2 | 5/1/2016 | 2 | panic attacks | Big weight gain, could not stop eating, +25 lbs. | F | 65 | 6 days 30 1X day | 6/28/2021 | 1 | Anxiety | Extreme hunger 30 min after taking. Quit 3 days ago, waves of hunger and nausea, insomnia, flu like symptoms, terrible anxiety and restlessness | How long do withdrawal side effects last- awful! | F | 65 | 40 days 5 mg 2X day | 3/29/2022 | 1 | REM Sleep Behavior Disorder | .25mg cured the vilont sleep movement after a week. This dose made me tired all day and lack of alertness. It also caused vivid dreams that woke me every morning at 4:30. I could not go back to sleep. So I am not sure if the cure for RBD was the Klonopin or the lack of sleep. | I felt sick for two days after I stopped taking it. | M | 65 | 21 days | 9/2/2005 | 5 | schizoaffective disorder, anxiety | some dizziness, some sedation, some insomnia if taken later than 2:30 p.m. | This is going to be a miracle drug for me! I take antipsychotic medications, and I have taken Valium for years (5 mg. X 3). My psychiatrist knows that the Valium is no longer very effective, and so prescribed Buspar. I fully expect the side effects to go away in a few days, and I am very, very pleased to have taken this drug, after resisting it for several years. | F | 64 | 10 days 5 mg 3X day | 4/14/2011 | 5 | Anxiety | It started working right away for me. But after about 6 months I started getting real bad headaches. I stopped taking it and I still felt fine for a few months and then the anxiety came back. I'm getting ready to start it again and hopefully I can find something for the headaches. | M | 64 | 6 months 10 mg 2X day | 8/6/2023 | 5 | Anxiety | None that I'm sure of (see comments) | I've recently noticed broken capillaries in my face and they may be from a blood cancer from which I suffer (Polycythemia Vera) which causes face flushing, but Buspar also has a side effect of flushing so I am not sure. I thought it worth mentioning so that others were aware. That said, Buspar has been a wonder drug for my anxiety. I don't think I could do without it. | F | 64 | 1 years 15 2X day | 3/4/2017 | 4 | anxiety | i haven't experienced any side effects. the only thing i cannot take the generic brand of buspar. | i really feel that buspar is a mild anti anxiety medication | F | 64 | 12 days | 11/2/2006 | 2 | Anxiety | My first month I really didn't notice much! I think it took the edge off of my anxiety issues. The past two weeks however I have bee feeling tired, irritable, depressed, my legs feel heavy and my head feels funny!! I think it might be from the Buspar! I am going to stop taking it and see how I feel!! | F | 64 | 2 months 10mg | 3/9/2015 | 1 | Help with my anxiety... | I am experiencing chills a lot, then it goes to hot flashes! It's worse than menopause ever was with me!!! My anxiety still hits me right out of the blue, anywhere, anytime! I do not drive or even leave my house unless I have to go to the Dr. I hate this feeling of being in prison in my own home because of depression and anxiety!!! I also have nausea, heartburn, extreme tiredness but my mind is still racing so therefore I can't sleep and I'm up most every night all night long... Now I nap during the day a couple of times and when I wake up I've slept almost 3-4 hours!!!! My joints especially my knees are so painful and stiff and sore that I cry sometimes! This is crazy! I also have hypothyroidism... And clinical depression.... I can't win...no matter what I do.... I also crave carbs and sweets like never before and I've gained a lot of weight which makes me feel even worse.... Nightmares are guaranteed when I do sleep!!! I hate it!!! | F | 64 | 90 days 0.5mg. 1X day | 4/2/2022 | 5 | ANXIETY | NONE | This medication changed my life for the better. I never realized that anxiety was the basis for my depression. After being on the medication for seven days, I woke up thinking "this is what most people feel like everyday". Anxiety disappeared and the resulting depression did also. I stopped taking it for a week at 2 different times just to see if I still needed it. I did - anxiety reappeared. | M | 63 | 19 years 15 MG 1X day | 10/8/2016 | 5 | Hard to describe, but a head pressure, almost a dizzy feeling during the first month. | I'd say if you want to get (at all) a high from a drug, this would not the one you would want to take. On the other hand if you want to be relieved of chronic anxiety without being on something addictive, this is exactly the drug that you'd want to take. I've struggled with debilitating anxiety all my long life and have tried everything! I had stopped everything a few years ago concluding that there were some people who did not ever fit in. Still felt somewhat blessed - had a wife that accepted me and a couple good friends. BUt I was still stuck in the prison of this disease. Decided to go back to those old habit formers and even the new anti depressants - but shoot, my old body was not able to take the abuse. Decided, although my Dr. and a large number of those on this list did not think very highly of it, to try Buspirone. What's prescribed for me is 10mg x 3. What I actually take is 5mg x 3, and split a 5 into two 2.5mg parts to take in the evening if things get a little off. For the first time in my I guess 50 years of this (I call it definitely) disease, I feel completely normal. Not high in any way, but NORMAL. Took about a month to really kick in, but actually felt some relief in the second week. | M | 63 | 1 years | 9/30/2009 | 4 | Anxiety | the only side effect I noticed after about 3 or 4 months on the medication was hair loss and LOTS of it. Has anyone else experienced hair loss on this medicine? | I'm currently taking about 5 mg. once a day in an effort to get off this medicine due to such a severe amount of hair loss especially this past 8 months or so. | F | 63 | 2 years 10 mg 1X day | 11/30/2010 | 2 | anxiety | hair loss and itching all over | F | 63 | 1 days 20mgs 2X day | 5/7/2018 | 1 | Anxiety | I broke out in a rash stomach painfully my throat and chest burning sensation felt crippled I stopped it and waiting for this to get out of my system | I had to use an epi pen and still feel horrible | F | 63 | 2 weeks 10 | 4/4/2017 | 1 | OCDchild,then pot,LSD=high anxiety | akathisia, tense throughout body, have to bounce legs, clench hands, punch walls. very intense and unpleasant dreams causing insomnia. very disturbing loss of memory. feeling of not being myself. | I'm very glad this med works so well for so many people on this site. I can also really empathize with those who have found it awful. Cliché: we all have different biochemisty. Very low doses of 5 mg seem to help somewhat lower my need for xanax, concern about which led me to try buspar. But even 10 mg buspar can trigger the above symptoms. | M | 63 | 4 months 5-30 mg 1X day | 4/6/2010 | 3 | Anxiety / Panic / OCD | Heart palps, dizziness & blurred vision an hour after taking it. Worsened anxiety first few days. | Titrated up to 20mg during a month. After reading many reviews and not seeing much improvement, changed to Mylan mfg from Teva. Noticed a change immediately but we shall see if it lasts.I’ve read it takes 4-6 wks to get full effectiveness. I’ll stick with it for 2 more weeks hoping for a good outcome. Else iI’ll quit it. Despite what the Med community, etc. tell us, I’ve read many consumers do indeed experience withdrawal. Not looking forward to that. | F | 62 | 31 days 10mg 2x /d | 11/11/2017 | 3 | anxiety | F | 62 | | 5/12/2002 | 3 | only weight loss | After reading MANY comments fearful of this med. Perscribed for binging as already take Klonopin. Many comments of weight gain?! | F | 62 | 2 days 10 3X day | 8/1/2014 |