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 |
| 3 | anxiety/depression | hot flashes, sweating, shortness of breath, really calmed/sedated, and like i was really baked and had the munchies, but it wasnt a good baked, it was a kind of a sick-y baked. | i take it 3 times a day; 15 mg in the morning and before i go to bed, and 7.5 in the middle of the day. i take it with 300 mg of trileptal in the morning and before bed. | F | 17 | 4 months | 7/11/2009 | 3 | Will always make me lightheaded and dizzy after i take it whether i have eaten or not. A good way to do it is wake up earlier then when you have to go to work or school take the meds and go back to sleep. I have taken this a drug a very long time at a high dose at first i was in love with it, it was the first drug to "cure" my anxiety. After 8 months or so of taking the drug i started to become extremely emotionless and distant. Im a cold person by nature but this just made me an arsehole. I'm not sure if it was caused by the buspar but my memory and my mind in general feels like it has a blanket or a fog over it all the time and my imagination which used to be so great is gone. I would never reccomend anyone taking more than a small dose of this med. I thought it was a miracle drug now I'm getting off of it as fast as i can. | M | 17 | 1 years 40 mg 2X day | 9/6/2011 | 2 | axiety ocd symptomatic disorder | More heart pounding non stop worry alot more expecially at night think im dying nausea and lightheadedness | F | 17 | 5 weeks 10 | 9/3/2013 | 2 | depression , anxiety | Dizzines, lightheaded, nausea, bad depression, and worse anxiety, loss of apitite, bad headaches, super superrrrr iritable to the point you snap at someone for the littlest things, not wanting to be touched, get annoyed by someone just trying to talk to you, really good sleep, | F | 17 | 2 months 30 mg | 12/28/2013 | 2 | Social and Generalized Anxiety | for the first three weeks: Insomnia like no other. Shaking/trembling in my hands shortly after taking it. headaches. extreme nausea. no appetite whatsoever. For the next 5 1/2 months: terrible headaches, dizziness, and nausea 30 minutes after taking it. Headaches lasted nearly all day. dizziness and nausea would fade after about 6 hours. | I know i was on a low dose, but i really felt that buspar did not help much with my anxiety. i still had lots of panic attacks and nearly went to the hospital on multiple occasions. i just stopped taking it about a week and a half ago because i couldnt bear the headaches. i get migraines easily, so these headaches morphed into migraines a lot. it may be a good medicine for others, but it just did not sit well with my body. my body is very sensitive to side effects in general, and its normal to have headaches and nausea the first 2-3 weeks taking it, but 6 months in, that should all be long gone. sorry, buspar. didn't help much for me. | F | 17 | 6 months 20mg 1X day | 7/14/2015 | 5 | Anxiety/depression | At first I had diarrhea and extreme dry mouth | My anxiety was very severe and my depression was also horrible. Bad enough to the point where I was hospitalized twice and sent to psych wards twice. However sense being put in psych wards and starting this medication my anxiety is very contra label and nearly gone. I'm no longer dipressed and finally feel like I used to before my horrible twist with anxiety and depression. | M | 16 | 3 months 100mg | 8/13/2015 | 4 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Headaches, dizzyness | I have been on 4 meds before this. None have worked this well. The side effects stink, but I take it at night so I fall asleep and don't experience them as bad or often. | F | 16 | 3 weeks 15 | 12/4/2015 | 3 | GAD, Social Anxiety, Bulimia | For the first 30 days I was prescribed 7.5mg of Buspar twice daily. This had no effect, no side effects. Over the last week I have been taking 10mg twice daily. My Psych said she wants to begin aggressively treating my eating disorder as well and added zoloft 50 mg daily. (I cannot take amphetamines for my eating disorder due to previous addiction) I'm not 100% sure if it's the zoloft or the increased Buspar but I have had EXCRUCIATING headaches, vivid dreams (which don't particularly bother me), sleeplessness, nausea, diarrhea which only lasted one day, extreme irritability, and increased purging. | My anxiety is slowly beginning to ease. After reading 500+ reviews, I'm going to stick with it and hope for the best. Most reviews said that the side effects lessen after a few weeks. I will inform my psychiatrist when I see her next Wednesday. Fingers crossed! | F | 16 | 38 days 10 2X day | 4/8/2015 | 3 | anxiety/panic | slight dizziness, muscle twitches, stuffy nose | I've been taking Buspar for...about a week now, and even though it's not at "full potential" yet, I'm rather pleased with its outcome. I find it somewhat relaxing at such a low dose, and it doesn't effect me in the way Prozac did (which gave me headaches, insomnia, etc). At night more than in the morning I get dizzy from 30 minutes to an hour or two after taking it, but it usually isn't TOO bad if I just lay down and avoid thinking about it. I have noticed slight muscle twitches in my legs or a little shaking in the hands, but it's not very bad, and doesn't bother me much. I've started to sleep a LOT better lately, feeling more refreshed. Also my PMS symptoms (which Buspar is also prescribed for) were almost nonexistant this month, when just a month ago, I couldn't get out of bed. I find Buspar to be pretty good. | F | 16 | 1 weeks 5 2X day | 1/29/2011 | 1 | GAD | Originally i had no problems, when i started getting my medicine schedule messed up, i started having extreme vertigo in the morning sometimes unbearable, and increased anxiety, along with even more depersonalization. | I wouldn't suggest anyone taking this unless you plan on keeping a straight schedule. Because even missing one day is really painful | F | 16 | 5 months 10 mg 2X day | 11/3/2011 | 1 | i realized that about 20 minutes after i take my pill of 30mg buspar i get body zaps very bad, and have very bad headaches and it makes me extreamly tired. I DO NOT LIKE THIS AT ALL | i do not like buspar. ive been taking the max dosage which is 60mg a day, and all i can say is... its worthless. i had some hopes for this drug at first, but now after taking it for about 3 good months it is not helping me at all. I was put on 4mg a day valium which seemed to do the trick for me, but my doctor hasnt precribed me the valium anymore, which now leaves me with constant anxiety attacks and panic. | M | 16 | 2X day | 5/18/2011 | 4 | xanax addiction | None I have noticed yet | M | 15 | 3 weeks 20mg | 8/27/2013 | 4 | panic attacks, anxiety | feeling | Works wonders on curbing panic attacks and anxiety, however has left me feeling mildly depressed. | F | 15 | 2 weeks | 6/9/2004 | 5 | | 10/6/2007 | 5 | Anxiety, Panic Attacks | Slight drowseyness | Buspar has helped me for years with anxiety. I take 20mg at night because of the sleep inducing effects. Other than asprin, this is the most important drug I take. | M | 3 years | 9/9/2007 | 5 | | 4/20/2001 | 5 | Anxiety | After switching doctors, I had my new doctor to try me out on this medication. As, I wanted to taper off of taking Xanax (which was prescribed for me to take 4 times a day) and only begin taking it as needed. I have been taking this medication for a month and half thus far. I am on the lowest dosage that they offer, as I consider myself to have a sensitive stomach and alot of pills don't sit well with my stomach at all. I do take this medication with food, just like I do with most pills that I take. When I first started taking these pills, I did get these random bouts of dizziness, it would actually cause my body to suddenly start feeling anxious for no reason.And, I did experience bouts of nausea as well. Because I regularly take Phenergan (Promethazine Syrup), for the motion sickness and vertigo that I suffer from, I was able to take that and it really helped with alleviating the nausea and dizziness.The longer that I have been taking these pills, the more the side effects have real | F | 46 days 5mg 2X day | 10/16/2014 | 5 | Anxiety attacks | No side effects. Doctor started me on Lexapro which was horrible and I still had anxiety attacks. Buspar helped within 48 hours. Could not believe. Fantastic medication. And you do not feel like you are taking anything. | Fantastic drug. Immediately helped anxiety within 2 days. Felt like myself again | F | 30 days 5 mg 3X day | 1/13/2016 | 4 | 1 days | 1/10/2016 | 4 | Anxiety | Headaches, dizziness | It seems to be working. I feel more "levelheaded". I don't dread everything from morning til night like I've been doing all of my life. The anxiety about everyday things has lessened....work and all it involves, the kids , money, asteroids falling from the sky. The headaches are bad but I've had a mild to moderate headache everyday since I can remember so.........I'll stick with Buspar. It can only get better. | F | 1 months | 8/30/2009 |