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 |
| 4 | Anxiety, unwanted thoughts | Buzzy, light-headed, occasional brain zaps, nausea, sometimes to the point that I have to lay down for a little while. They vary, though...some days the side effects are pretty intense, some days I don't have any. Seem to be worse in the AM, I have coffee then, wonder if the caffeine affects it? I've also noticed that I have trouble sleeping if I take it too close to bedtime. | Buspar has helped me quite a bit, although it took a while to get the right dosage figured out. It has significantly reduced my anxiety and unwanted thoughts, allowing me to get back to living my life without worrying all the time. I can actually concentrate again! When I do get some anxiety, it passes fairly quickly, and if I have an unwanted thought it is usually fleeting and doesn't send me into an anxiety attack. The side effects are pretty intense, though - might be too much for some. I take 40 mg/day and had to split up my AM dose, taking 20 mgs. in the AM was making me pretty sick. Now I take 10 w/breakfast, 10 w/ lunch and 20 w/dinner and that seems to work. | F | 34 | 2.5 months | 8/3/2007 | 3 | GAD | I feel disconnected; don't care about exercise even or that I seem to be gaining weight (egads). Dry mouth, more urination. | I'm still in my first week. The feelings of mental numbness may be due to the occasional use of Zyprexa for my GAD. I hope Buspar is the thing for me truly, I don't want to be relying on Xanax and Klonopin (and Celexa) for this, it had become unlivable. | F | 34 | 5 days | 11/2/2008 | 3 | For anxiety | I just started taking Buspar today. I'm feeling dizzy and lightheaded. Will the dizziness and lightheadness go away in time? | F | 34 | 1 days | 1/29/2009 | 3 | Anxiety | I take 1/2 pill 2 times a day. After I take my morning dosage I am extremely dizzy. It last for about an hour to an hour and a half. I've had some headaches more so then before on the medication. Vivid and Lucid dreams. | This medication has helped me so much. I use to feel like I was sinking onto the floor. Impending doom. Faint, sweaty, Dizzy(all day), fidgety, My Anxiety was always at a 10+. Now I can go weeks feeling alright. I do still have to take a Xanax .25mg every now and again. It did take about 2 months to feel this way. The only thing I don't like about it is the Dizziness I'm hoping it goes away with time. | F | 34 | 12 weeks 15mg 2X day | 9/27/2010 | 3 | anxiety | electric shock all over body, very vivid/realistic dreams although not bad, headaches, minor tremors, freaked out over loud noises tinnitus, very sarcastic behavior and short tempered, sore throat feeling, felt "out of it", had dizziness for the first few doses | i know that medication affects everybody a little different but Buspar did not work for me. the side effects outweighted the reduction in my anxiety. it did reduce, almost eliminate, my anxiety after 4-5 days but the side effects werent worth it. I had electic shock and burning pins and needle sensations a lot of the time on a 7.5 x2 daily dose. When I saw my doctor he said it was fine and to go up to a 15 x 2 dose. I took his advice and after the second increased dose the electric shock sensation was unbearable.Thankfully I had just started Atarax in conjunction with the Buspar which pretty much eliminated the feeling until it wore off, then if started again. I quit Buspar cold turkey on the second week and went up to Atarax 50mg 3x daily which has taken care of 95% of the electric shock. Although most sources say Buspar doenst have withdrawal symptoms, that is total BS. I have been off Buspar (but still on the Atarax) for 5 days now and have experienced flu-like symptoms, ach | M | 34 | 2 weeks | 9/13/2006 | 3 | Depression/Generalized Anxiety | Weight gain, insommnia (cleared after 3 days), mild manic feelings | I'd been taking 10 mg Prozac and 150 Wellbutrin SR for 2 months, and was afraid of eventual weight gain with Prozac, so I asked my doc to substitute Buspar for Prozac, thinking it had no side effects. WRONG! After only a week on Buspar I gained 3 lbs! I know it was the Buspar because it made me crave carbs like nobody's business, and I'd get these intense hunger pains. I'm going to stick to the Prozac 10 mg, because it's a low dose and hopefully with the Wellbutrin that will stave off weight gain. It's too bad though. | F | 34 | 7 days | 1/2/2006 | 3 | Social Anxiety / GAD | Brief dizziness and some light headedness. Both have faded. | I just started Buspar today. 15mg twice a day. I have tried most all of the SSRI's and I couldn't stand the sexual side effects. My Dr. even tried me on Zyprexa and Abilify saying that they can sometimes lessen anxiety. They didn't work. I'm crossing my fingers for Buspar... | M | 34 | 1 days | 3/2/2009 | 3 | Anxiety | Foggy brain, tired, body aches, irritated easily, no emotion | Day one I felt great had no side effects nothing, second and third day I felt terrible as if I had a bad flu. I tried to not take the medication but decided to anyways and made me feel worse. I have zero emotions, I feel like I'm in a constant daze and my anxiety is somewhat better but not sure if it's due to the fact I have zero emotion. | F | 34 | 3 days 5mg 1X day | 7/17/2020 | 2 | anxiety | No bothersome side effects. Stopped working after several months | F | 34 | 1 years 60 mg | 12/14/2012 | 2 | Anxiety | For the first two weeks only dizziness . After two weeks I would start getting really sick to my stomach for two hours . I feel lug headed through put the day and my anxiety seems worse now. I would not take this drug . Ibam calling the dr tomorrow to quit it. | F | 34 | 3 weeks 15 | 3/18/2012 | 2 | panic attacks and anxiety | horrible - well I guess I'm the 1% that is allergic to this medicine - after 4 days on this I developed rash/hives over my whole body | At first the doctors was like this dosen't cause rash or hives but I looked at my body looking like a frog with warts all over it and said heck yes it does...I went in on a walk in bases and showed them the hives - they figured out finally that it was the buspar and they took me off of it. I will never try again. However that was the only side effect but hey that's enough. Can you imagine the panic of seeing hives all over your body when you never got hives before..benadryl became my best friend. I'm now on Klonopin and it's working better and no allergic reations. We are all different and if it works for you keep taking it. It just didn't work for me and made me have the worst allergic reation in my life. Thanks for listening and thanks for the creators of this website and all you bloggers - good luck and never give up hope there is something out their that will work for you. Peace and Blessings (oh it was 10mg twice a day) | F | 34 | 4 days | 3/20/2008 | 1 | anxiety | sleep disturbances, often woke up abruptly in a panic; chest pain | dont use this if your anxious; use something else like lexapro or klonopin; or something else that actually works. | M | 34 | 3 weeks | 4/13/2005 | 1 | anxiety | Insomnia to the extreme, severe facial twitching, tremors, motor problems. | Someone needs to investigate the FDA who approves these kinds of drugs, pronto. | F | 34 | 4 days | 10/13/2004 | 1 | chronic anxiety | insomnia, panic attacks, nervousness, muscle tension, twitching, difficulty swallowing | Who invented this horrible drug? When my doctor suggested it as an alternative to Clonazepam, I tried it for a week. I was optimistic knowing that Buspar was developed specifically for anxiety rather than depression, unlike other drugs like Paxil and Zoloft that have been developed to treat both at the same time. I'm not depressed and just want to shed anxiousness and feel normal so I can interact with my friends and function well at work. I cannot describe the horrific effects Buspar had on me. Rather than treating symptoms of anxiety, it intensified them. I found myself out for dinner but unable to eat because I couldn't swallow food normally. And denying lunch invitations because I didn't want good friends to ask why I wouldn't eat. Sleep? Fat chance. I got maybe a total of 1 night's sleep in 5 nights. I could not go to sleep for at least 6 hours after taking a 5-mg dose of Buspar. Never mind how long it took while on the higher dose the doctor prescribed. I agree w | F | 34 | 7 days | 8/20/2006 | 1 | anxiety | Extreme depression,anxiety,and as someone expressed t well - "You feel bizarre and crazy." (having not been that way previously). This is a drug to avoid and, of course,MD's hand it out in total ignorance of the efects. I had intense suicidal thoughts which I never had before or since. The thought that they are giving this drug to young,vulnerable,confused people is deeply disturbing. | It is tragic but so true -the drug companies can sell us anything and the MD's capitulate through ignorance or free resort vacations-whatever. It is essential to (despite depression et. al) investigate for oneself. This drug led me very close to suicide, the thought of which seems incomprehensible today. So just beware. | M | 34 | 1 years | 9/19/2005 | 1 | anxiety/panic | intensified nervousness, panic, insomnia, shakiness, difficulty swallowing, sweating | I do not recommend taking this drug under any circumstances. In the week I forced myself to be on it, instead of alleviating the chronic anxiety it was supposed to treat, it intensified the symptoms to the point I could hardly function. I could not sleep. I shook all the time. I felt like having panic attacks several times a day. I couldn't chew and swallow food without panicking and had to stay on a liquid diet. I tried going on a lower dose, but that didn't help. By the time day 8 rolled around, I was in such a bad state that I didn't know what day it was an missed a day of work. A small dose of Clonazepam does infinitely better for my anxiety troubles than Buspar does. | F | 34 | 8 days | 8/22/2006 | 1 | GAD | dizziness, headaches | have insomnia after stopping buspar | F | 34 | 1 months 20 MG 1X day | 2/24/2011 | 1 | GAD | Induced panic attacks; did not help with anxiety | Wish I could give this a zero, because it ruined my life for about six months. I was prescribed buspar for Generalized Anxiety Disorder that was troubling but not debilitating. After a couple of months, when nothing had improved, my doctor started raising the dosage. Shortly after, I began having panic attacks daily. I had never experienced a panic attack before the buspar. Doc told me to keep taking it, which I did for several more months, becoming agoraphobic and unable to eat in the process. Lost 15 pounds, rarely slept, and never left my house. An EMT who showed up at my house (I thought I was having a heart attack) told me buspar was bad news & I wasn't the first person he'd seen have panic attacks on it. Got off the buspar and the panic attacks slowly subsided. Worst medication I have ever been on. | F | 34 | 4 months 30mg 1X day | 2/10/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | I couldn’t sleep more than 2 hours without waking up, constantly felt on edge, no appetite, irritated feeling, blood pressure went up, made me extremely hot all the time | This drug is awful I will never take it again | F | 34 | 90 days 30 mg | 8/2/2019 | 1 | Anxiety | I got extreme muscle pain and it's been 5 months I still haven't gotten better. | If anyone else has this please let me know | F | 34 | 4 days 10 1X day | 12/17/2021 |