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 |
| 1 | anxiety, depression | suicidal actions, strange behavior,hyperactivity,depression, excessive talking, loss of memory. These side effects resulted in a near fatal incident. Took 60mg. last day (30mg per day normal dosage during period), along with 30mg. Toprol under doctors supervision. | I do not recommend it to anyone. | M | 57 | 6 weeks | 9/30/2001 | 5 | Anxiety, obsessive thoughts. | A little buzz in my head when I take the first one in the am. I tried to wean myself off but found I was getting obsessive thoughts and pretty severe anxiety. I'm afraid I may need to take it forever... | F | 56 | 10 years 20-30 mg | 7/22/2012 | 5 | anxiety | Don't remember any | Could never have gotten my masters degree without it. | F | 56 | 2 years | 7/19/2015 | 4 | Bipolar Disorder | When I first take it,I get dizzy and have hot flashes.I have felt less anxiety while taking BuSpar. | I had never done well on tradtional anti-depressants,they usually made me manic,or sick. Taking BuSpar has lowered my anxiety levels somewhat.I still feel very tired a lot,and emotionally flat. I have been taking BuSpar for 1 1/2 yrs. | F | 56 | 2 years | 2/16/2009 | 3 | bipolar anxiety/depression | It helps with anxiety, I've been pretty calm so far, but I'm moving very slow though and even talking slow. I hope this passes soon, I'm usually a very hyper person and I feel very drugged right now. | its inexpensive which is good | F | 56 | 8 days 10 3X day | 5/17/2014 | 2 | Anxiety | Dizziness and sadness, but I must admit I felt less anxious while taking it. Quit because I didn't like feeling drugged constantly. | Quit cold turkey and have struggled. Dizziness has gotten worse, and have severe pain in the back of my neck, radiating to my left shoulder. My legs feel very heavy and both calf muscles are twitching non-stop. I am in a bit of a fog most days. I can't wait until this is out of my system... | M | 56 | 25 days 5 MG's 2X day | 12/16/2020 | 2 | Triggered Anxiety after head injury | Week1: Headache, dizziness, fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, brain fog , bad dreams week2: headache subsided , minor dizziness, jittery increase, depression starting, zombie like, bad thoughts, grumpy all the time . Felt like I wanted to jump out of my skin. Discontinued after 12 days. | I was prescribed buspar for anxiety related to a brain injury . I was prescribed 5 mg morning and night. I cut the dose in half because I'm highly sensitive to medication. Thank goodness I did . This medication does not work for me although there are many people that seem to thrive on it. I have stopped taking it and have returned to feeling like myself not a crazy zombie as someone else reported. I think you have to try something to see how it works but to me it felt like being poisoned . Again , for some people it works So I can't say it's a terrible drug. Just that it is for me . | F | 56 | 12 days 5mg | 4/17/2020 | 2 | Depression | None | Prescribed to counter sexual side-effects of Zoloft. Had absolutely no effect at dosage of 10mg tid, so stopped taking it. | M | 56 | 20 days | 1/31/2006 | 1 | anxiety disorder | insomnia, sweats, paranoia, worsened anxiety, forgetfulness, loss of concentration, took about 2-3 months before these symptoms started; symptoms stopped about 1-2 weeks after stopping. | F | 56 | 2 months | 3/16/2002 | 1 | Anxiety | The first week I started to feel a little depressed but then thought maybe it was the anxiety. By day 13 I woke up and couldn't stop crying. I cried for 2 days. I quit taking it. I have been off it for 3 days and have no motivation. My depression is worse and i feel sad and panicky most of the day. I feel worse than I did before taking it. I hope I feel better in a couple days | F | 56 | 16 days 10mg 2X day | 5/17/2023 | 1 | Anxiety | After day 10 of taking buspirone..I broke out with hives really bad in my chest.I just couldn't stop.itching at all.My chest looks terrible ...hives all in my chest around my neck and over my breast.Its not a good feeling at all very tired of itching | F | 56 | 10 days 5 mg 2X day | 3/29/2023 | 1 | to get me off of Ativan | insomnia,major flatulence,nightmares,skin rash,red itchy eye lids,rectal bleeding,weight gain,spacey,out of sorts,blurred vision,leg muscle cramps,hair loss,easy brusing,bags under eyes from lack of sleep. | I am trying to decrease the dosage to get off of them, but its been HELL! My head literally feels like there is a concrete brick inside the middle of my brain. It's not a headache pain- it is like my brain is in a vice. It hurts sooooooo bad. | F | 56 | 6 months | 5/10/2008 | 4 | If you take too much, you can't sleep at night. You actually sleep better with less | M | 55 | | 3/3/2006 | 3 | anxiety | Felt wired, vivid dreams, weight gain | Did help anxiety level, but at expense of weight gain of 20 lbs. | 55 | 2 years | 1/15/2004 | 3 | GAD | Ringing in ears and upset stomach for a few days. | M | 55 | 5 weeks 20 mg | 9/1/2013 | 3 | ptsd and depression | Dizzyness at first. Later electical feelings in arms when breathing out. Stiff and painful leg and butt symptoms. Fast heart rate after first taking in the morning. The medication helped with anxious thoughts right away. Some help with depression. If i miss a dose. I feel very depressed though. It is great to not be contantly nervous. But i hate the other symptoms. | F | 55 | 1 months .25 mg | 5/11/2016 | 3 | GAD primarily | At start, or right after an increase... Nausea and possible vomit, increased anxiety, mild insomnia, headache. After about 10-14 days of stable dosage those effects go away or reduce. | I want to love it, but it is crazy hard to adapt to at the start and during titration. It also takes weeks for the change to show any positive or negative long term effects. Started at 7.5mg BID and had nausea/vomit/headache/MORE anxiety for abt 10 days then those bad things went away but I didn't feel much better anxiety wise - so it gets upped to 10mg BID and bad effects come back (but not as severe) for another week. That's when I started to notice "GOOD" days here and there but the bad days were not gone. After a month of SMALL overall improvement, I was raised to 10mg TID (30 total) per day. Bad effects were shorter but this time the random/constant anxiety is MUCH better. Triggered/acute attacks are slightly milder but still happen, this stuff only seems to keep you "level" when life is kinda normal. Problem is that after a few weeks of this dose I felt zombie-ish. Kinda how I felt on SSRI's many years ago. Little or no laughing/fun, but daily anxiety is very reduced. Libido and ability to get hard are very reduced and takes a lot of patience and 'handling' by my GF like once a week. Even then I might just lose it all in the middle. FInding a sweet spot with this is maddening because at every change you get side effects again AND you have to wait WEEKS to see the effect of the change! I will continue to bump it up/down to find a happy medium if possible. I'm currently dialing back from 10x3 per day to 7.5x3 per day. 3x a day is a P.I.T.A. b | M | 55 | 60 days 10mg 3X day | 12/13/2022 | 2 | depression | started 5 weeks ago 2.5 mg x 2 for 2 wks, then 5 mg x 2 for 2 wks, now 5 days ago on 10 mg x 2 (Dr making sure no side effects), but since starting 10 mg i have worse insomnia of whole life. but not sure if its the summer heat. usually i am sleepy 10:30pm, but last 5 days not sleepy and staying up until 1 and 2 am and eyes feel tired but when i go to bed dont feel sleepy and cant fall asleep. but i dont feel too bad next day but im not working. this insomnia would be bad if had a job which i just applied to. taking antidepressants dumb. since starting march 2014 i gained 10 lbs. buspar supposed to take that off but it hasnt. gaining weight is enough to make me depressed. but i also dont want to go back to crying none stop. | F | 55 | 5 days 10 2X day | 7/14/2014 | 2 | anxiety | Weight gain (last thing I needed), fluid retention/ increased blood pressure, twitchy eyelids | It worked fine at first-- I was able to function in extremely stressful situations without feeling drugged. Then I noticed increased appetite, and my weight crept up. In the last two weeks I've experienced puffiness (fluid retention), increased blood pressure, and annoying twitches in my eyelids. I only take 5 to 10 mg a day; when I stopped the drug for a few days, the twitching and fluid retention went away, then came back when I started the buspirone again. I'd recommend the drug only for short-term relief of acute anxiety, and even then it's not for everyone. | F | 55 | 4 months | 3/1/2006 | 1 | GAD | Dizzyness, insomnia, panic attacks, hyper restlessnless, muscle pain in calf, on and off tingling and numbness in fore arm | Many books describe this drug as effective and very safe without mentioning potential side effects or the fact that this drug only works for 40% of the folks who take it. I startd with high hopes. In total I took only 5 doses of .10 dosage. I felt like I was on speed, wired. I never felt tired or yawned once in 2 1/2 days. Awoke with panic attacks 3 times in one night. Also felt stange muscle pain in calf, felt like dead muscle. The very very sad fact is that a patient with GAD is left with 3 choices as I see it, suffering, benzos (which are addictive, but work) or the SSR's which have horrible side effects Pick your poison and hope science can come up with something better soon! | M | 55 | 2 days | 7/15/2006 |