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 |
| 2 | to lessen my need for xanax | Started off great with food. My shrink screwed up my prescription writing other than what he told me to do so I ran out and he was out of town. So I had to quit. Then a few days later I started again without food and got akathisia. Switched back to with food and improved, cut back on my xanax and antidepressant (clomipramine) but started having bad, vivid dreams, not quite nightmares but very unpleasant. In the morning I couldn't get out of bed; felt like I weighed 800 lbs. Quit for a while. Started again and got same side effects plus even worse, horrible aching in my bones and muscles and when I'd lie down I'd punch the bed and walls and twist and kick my feet. Just quit. | Certainly didn't help my sexual dysfunction like some people say. Maybe, maybe is the cause behind my recent nausea with coffee and cigarettes. If I conclude it is I may try to go back on a really low dose (I had been on 15-30 mg. daily) so that I can see if I can quit smoking after 46 years, cuz nothing else has worked. | M | 62 | 6 months | 11/10/2009 | 2 | F | 38 | 6 months | 6/3/2008 | 2 | Anxiety | Emotional numbness, severe headaches, chest pains, disorientation, felt like not being myself,panic attacks, insomnia | Was prescribed for anxiety, but ended up with panic attacks while on it, plus could not sleep for few couple of weeks due to racing thoughts. Chest pains started that felt like heart attack. Had to go to EE. Could not cry or be emotionally excited. Felt like zombie. When switched to celexa felt so much better. | F | 35 | 6 months | 3/22/2017 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Anxiety | dizziness, and severe weight gain. 40 lbs in 6 months! | Helped with anxiety but made me gain an absurd amount of weight | M | 39 | 6 months 15 2X day | 9/11/2020 | 1 | anxiety, migraine | Light headed shortly after ingestion which lasted about an hour. Sleep disturbances. | Did almost nothing for anxiety, made migraine frequency a bit less. But I had to stop because of the terrible dreams at night which woke me up. Sometimes I could get back to sleep, other times no. This happened almost every night - sometimes twice per night if I could get back to sleep. The only thing that is effective for me is diazapam and the docs are afraid to prescribe it nowadays even though it worked for me for years. | M | 50 | 6 months 10 2X day | 3/16/2019 | 1 | anxiety | initially mild muscle pain in legs - after about a month had occasional severe headaches that would keep me awake - after about 3 months had events of insomnia, insomnia became severe after using for six months, worst of all - no relief of anxiety | would not recommend this product or any daily medication, especially one that changes your brain chemistry. Downsizing our business to reduce stress, more activity such as running/walking with dog helped in a more natural way. Occasionally take a sleeping pill if travelling or during holidays, if well rested can handle anxiety and stress better. | F | 42 | 6 months | 11/4/2004 | 1 | depression | anger, anger and more anger. I am now off and should feel I should never have been on it. | Don't use this drug | F | 58 | 6 months | 12/13/2007 | 5 | PTSD (post-combat) with Anxiety | Severe side effects at first, including severe grogginess, involuntary teeth grinding (bruxism), stomach knotting up, mental fogginess. However, I vowed to stay on it long enough to get through the initial side effects, and they faded after several days. Now, I experience only an intense desire to eat and eat the first hour or two after taking it. Avoiding weight gain because of this requires good discipline -- drinking lots of water when I get that feeling helps. The benefits of having most of my anxiety symptoms entirely relieved, getting good sleep, and feeling calm and clear-headed far outweigh the minor side effect of occasional, very slight stomach discomfort and having to be disciplined when the eating urges come (which again last only an hour, or two at most). | I'm happy that I can now avoid taking Xanax (alprazolam) almost entirely -- I hated the side effects and addictive qualities of even very low-dose Xanax. | M | 39 | 5 months | 11/23/2008 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety/Borderline | None after 2 weeks; Diarrhea, fatigue, euphoria in the beginning 1-2 first weeks, decreased appetite and weight loss (a good thing) the first month. | I'm taking generic pro-buspirone as an augmentation to Prozac 40 mg, Wellbutrin XL 300mg, Adderall XR 40 mg and Lamictal 200 mg, for treatment resistant depression with borderline personality disorder, social anxiety, panick attacks and ADHD. It took about 1 week before I saw some benefits especially for the anxiety, 2 weeks for improved mood and concentration and 1 month for decreased agressivity, impulsivity, irritability and panick attacks. I take buspirone 10 mg at breakfast and 10 mg at 4 pm and I can tell that I am more productive at work, with better interpersonal relationships with co-workers and family, I have a better quality of life. I have more energy and I have a more proctive life. I dont understand the reviews that didn't try buspirone for at least one month. It's not a benzo, you dont feel a buzz and sedation. I was on klonopin before, and after valium to be able to get off that addictive dirty drug that cause strong physical and psychological addiction, that even increased anxiety when your body needs it. I do some group and individual psychotherapy for borderline personality and past drug addictions since 2 years. Drugs are not a cure to your problems, they help the symptoms, but you need to change your bad habits and the way you think to influence your emotions in a positive way. CBT therapy is helping me a great deal and you need alertness to follow it. | M | 39 | 5 months 10 MG 2X day | 1/22/2019 | 5 | anxiety depression | Dizziness at first, and mild nausea, possibly some mild insomnia. | I hate reading all the negative comments here because like many posters, this med has been great for me. I can't take SSRI or SSNI's and had almost given up when I was put on Buspar, 10 mg to begin; now 20 mg a day. The difference in anxiety is signficant and even more significant, it has cured med-resistant depression - serious, potentially life-threatening depression. If you can't take Wellbutrin or Efflexor or have anxiety-specific depression, I'd give Buspar a try. It hits the right brain cells and as far as I can see, has almost no side effects. I also have ADHD and no longer take Ritalin - apparently my attention deficit was related to anxiety. Worth a try as an add on, though I take it stand alone and it WORKS. | F | 47 | 5 months | 7/10/2008 | 4 | panic disorder, severe anxiety | brain "zaps", a little dizzy 30-45 minutes after taking dose | I've noticed that I no longer have a burning desire to just run out the door at any given moment anymore, and have far fewer panic attacks than I used to. I am also taking Klonopin. | F | 28 | 5 months | 12/21/2009 | 4 | anxiety and panic disorder | i didn't feel any side affects while taking the Buspar. But i was also on PAxil CR (12.5 mg) I do not suggest anyone taking the paxil because of the withdrawel symptoms. but i was cutting through on just the paxil and my doc at the E.R. suggested me to start taking the Buspar, so i did and it helped tremendously. | I think it helped me a lot. Good for anxiety and panic disorders, even though its not supposed to help treat every day anxiety like mine.. but it DOES HELP:) | F | 19 | 5 months | 1/2/2005 | 4 | GAD | Dry mouth and terrible hissing in my ears. I started experiencing it after 4 months probably because of the low dosage. | Made a big difference in my case especially when taken with Cipralex. | M | 39 | 5 months 5mg 1X day | 3/17/2012 | 2 | anxiety | I'm taking this medication with Prozac, so I am unaware of any side effects. | M | 38 | 5 months | 5/24/2001 | 2 | anxiety | didn't feel it helped at all and had headaches from taking it | F | 51 | 5 months | 7/3/2004 | 2 | Anxiety, PTSD | Yellow watery diarrhea, undigested food in stool, nausea, increased weight gain, loss of appetite, increased hunger, malnutrition, edema legs arms back shoulders, stiff tight muscles, fatigue, vision loss / degradation of visual focus acuity, mild dizziness. | Now, I know some of you will read my side effects and say, "Wow, what an idiot! Why didn't she stop taking the meds!??" Because onset was slow, and vaguely noticeable until I ran out of metamucil. Heh? See? Yep, missed the early signs until it was too late. 2 weeks after stopping buspar, am on blood pressure meds to induce excretion of liquid buildup/edema in muscles. I can move again and have energy. My anxiety is a little worse, but frankly I would rather be tightly wound and cognizant, than fatigued and apathetic. May work for some, not for me. Will be sticking to Wellbutrin until my current psych prescribes me something more effective. | F | 26 | 5 months 10mg 2/d | 7/23/2016 | 2 | GAD | Headache, nausea, vomiting, increased anxiety, depression | At times it felt like Buspar was working however it seemed to increase anxiety overall. Some days felt great but others I felt terrible, headache, nausea would get nauseated and vomit daily. Would get extremely tired and sleepy. Going through withdrawal after quitting cold turkey. Extreme headache for 4 weeks, panic attack that put me in the bed for four days. Absolutely miserable experience. Has impacted my ability to function at work. | M | 50 | 5 months 15 mg | 11/21/2018 | 1 | Generalized anxiety | To start off... in September of 2016 I was having inner ear issues which resulted in vertigo. My doctor informed me that it is also due to anxiety (I'm an anxious person). I've never had and physical symptoms of anxiety until After being on buspirone. A little less than a month of being on the med I had my first anxiety attack. That was at 7.5mg twice a day. I went to the ER and the doctor told me I should check with my doctor about it. I checked with my physician and he said to increase the dosage. I did so. 15mg 2 times a day. The attacks started to become more and more prevalent. I went on a trip for work and as soon as I got to the airport it felt like my sugars were going low (type 2 diabetes). I checked them and they were fine but the whole trip it felt as though my heart was going to pound out of my chest. When I returned home a week later I again met with my physician. I told him what has been happening and requested an EKG. Everything came back clear and (which was a relief). The doctor instructed me to continue with the higher dosage and we would speak again in a month at my regular check up. That whole time the symptoms continued as well as got worse. At my next appt my doctor told me to increase the dosage again. 30mg twice a day. I did this. Throughout the next 2 months my symptoms continued to worsen. (Literally felt like a 24/7 heart attack). I wasn't sleeping, I was irritated, and more anxious than I've ever been in my life! On February 10th I met with my physician | M | 30 | 5 months 60 | 3/16/2017 |