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 | PTSD | Heart palpitations, short term memory loss, increased anxiety the first two weeks. Very vivid dreams. | I started taking 5mg 2 x a day and experienced constant heart palpitations and a feeling of fogginess I couldn't shake. My Dr. suggested I go up to 10mg 2 x a day-after a few days of this I experienced what I like to call loss of impulse control-after having a few drinks in a nightclub I punched a woman in the face for disrespecting me. I went back down to 5mg 2 x a day, and have had no problems since. My anxiety is at a record low, I sleep through the night, I wake up in the morning singing-this medication changed my life. I highly recommend it to those suffering from PTSD. I do have some short term memory loss and very vivid dreams, but I am happy than I have ever been. A fair trade! | F | 44 | 90 days 5 mg 2X day | 3/22/2013 | 5 | anxiety/depression | I have been taking 'psyche' medications for 28 of my 54 years. I am all too aware of the overly negative side effects that certain meds have caused me over the years. At this time in my life, Buspar is a fantastic med for me. I always comment that if a medication of this sort is working, but causing you some libido issues, and you choose to discontinue then you do not truly appreciate life stopping anxiety/depression. This med is a wonderful adjunct with my antidepressant Effexor. | This medication is a wonderful adjunct to my main antidepressant, Effexor. I take 5 mgs/t.i.d., usually, and I am learn to relax through any situation that previously, would have made me feel so anxious and inadequate that I would just dwell on what a failure I was. My encouragement for any one who truly has any issue of this kind, is to realize that the process of finding what 'works' for you may take awhile. If a medication isn't working within a few days, please do not assume that it is useless or a 'spawn' of the devil. If you think that you truly need to find a doctor that will listen to you, and help you, overtime, find a Med or meds that help you. I can't tell you how many times I felt that a certain med regimen was useless. Sometimes it was. You are the one ultimately responsible for finding what works for you:) Research on your own is key. No what the hell you are dealing with, and find a decent physician. I all to well understand how difficult this is, but please keep working at it. It is your life after all:) | M | 54 | 90 days 5 3X day | 10/10/2012 | 4 | Waking up with panic attacks | Occasional dizziness. Have gained 2lbs...cannot directly attribute to drug. Higher libido. | Out of the blue started waking up with panic attacks. Never had them before. Under a great deal of stress at the moment...sick parents, etc....I guess life. Have been on antidepressants in the past. (1st. Depression from divorce.) (2nd. Depression after really bad relationship after the original divorce) (3rd. Depression from coping with second failed marriage, PTSD from the abuse of a cheating spouse, and a failed reconciliation) Celexa royally screwed me up. Most recently...1.5 years ago generic Effexor. Had no emotion when my grandmother died. Dropped it cold turkey and regret the three weeks of hell I went through. Out of the blue started waking up with panic attacks, went to the Dr. and we settled on this due to the multiple stresses in my life. Got to the point I would wake up around 3am and not go back to sleep. This resolved the issue...except when a new stress was added I had sleeping issues for several days. Was at the Dr. today and we agreed to try 12.5 as opposed to the 10 mg. per dose. Will see what happens... | M | 47 | 90 days 10mg 2X day | 1/20/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | The first week did not feel much of anything other than really sleepy with the AM dosage of 7.5mg. The second week I experienced dizziness, lightheadedness, jitters, trouble falling asleep as I entered into week three I felt a lot better. My thoughts have lessened although I am waiting to see the doctor so he can raise my dosage I feel I need a bit more since at times when my time of the month is approaching I get a bit agitated physically and emotionally. Weight gain has been an issue I have to watch what I eat while taking this med but for me its worth it since I do feel better. I can actually go to the doctor now and take my BP whereas before just the site of the BP machine would make my BP go through the roof. I took this med for severe anxiety whereas I was feeling weak, palpitations all day every day and the constant worrying would not allow me to function. In the last few years I went through a lot with family issues and loss of home and this last year my Dad has been sick and I | It has worked for me. | F | 49 | 90 days 7.5 1X day | 12/28/2014 | 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 | 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 | 2 | anxiety | sweating, mental fogginess, loss of emotion, poor concentration, loss of short and long-term memory | helped with my anxiety but at price that just wasn't worth it. no continuity of thought and a feeling of detachment to everything - present, past, future. if i had life-threatening anxiety, i might make that sacrifice but buspar has been something of chemical lobotomy. i used to be mentally sharp and my profession requires me to be at the top of my game - not possible on this medication. i had my first car accident two weeks after starting this - first thing that clued me into something gone wrong. i tapered off fast and feel about the same after a week. everything takes twice as long to process, always "double-checking" thoughts and perceptions (is it a green traffic light? is this the right word to use?, etc.) hoping i get my old self back soon. didn't realize how much i liked it. | 41 | 70 days 5 2X day | 9/9/2012 | 2 | Gad | Pressure in my head difficulty falling asleep gave me the classic SSRI FEELING that's what I was hoping to avoid.... recently been getting Xanax off the street I've been taking .25 mg of that and it works better than any other thing I've been prescribed dr won't give it to me | M | 35 | 62 days 7.5 2X day | 3/28/2021 | 5 | Severe Panic Attacks & GAD | Felt just a little foggy for the for the first few days just after taking. | GIVE IT TIME! I have never any health issues in my life & I started having panic attacks (out of the blue) so bad I thought I was going out of my freakin mind. I would get them mainly while driving it was getting to the point that I was afraid to drive. I am a very healthy male that doesn't take any kind of meds. I did a lot of research & didn't want to take any type of Benzo's, so I tried Buspar. Because of the side effects I had read about, I told my doc I wanted to start at a very low dosage & see how it goes. Yes, I did feel a bit foggy for a few days just after taking it, but, NO MORE PANIC ATTACKS! I also found that taking it with food negated any stomach issues. I now experience no side effects at all & am panic free. For you that have panic attacks, I know the misery. Please give this med a try starting at a very low dosage & GIVE IT SOME TIME! I would happily be foggy minded for a few minutes a day, for a few days, to not have panic attacks again. I see a lot of people give this med a bad rap. They seem to be from people that never take it past day one because of side effects. Personally, I think prescribed dosage amounts are possibly too high. I think many people give up after a day or two because of negative side effects. I take just 5MG twice a day & all is good. It is also on most $4.00 generic lists that use a normal dose as 30MG a day, so one $4.00 prescription will last me 3 months. | M | 52 | 60 days 5MG 2X day | 5/10/2011 | 4 | GAD | occasional dizziness | i am a doctor myself, but my advice to people in this case is basically common sense. I started at 7.5mg first dose, and it increased my anxiety, gave me a neck ache and overall bad experience.However, instead of just giving up on it, i decided to wait until a weekend when i was off and could deal with a side effect and to start back at 5mg instead of 7.5. This worked well and i have been able to titrate up slowly with fairly good results. To those who started with 15mg and then freaked out and gave up, i recommend to be reasonable and start slowly. Also, it is NOT for acute anxiety,everyone should know that. You can use a benzo for the short term until it starts to work. | M | 30 | 60 days | 8/11/2007 | 4 | GAD | I started with 5mg at night and I would automatically wake up every night around 4am. I think it was "wearing off" around that time. Now I take 5mg at night and 5mg in the morning. Whatever side effect I was experiencing is gone. This medication is really working for me. I feel less anxious, less negative and have better concentration. I also am not experiencing the sexual flatness I have on other SSRIs. Yeah! | F | 46 | 60 days | 6/4/2009 | 4 | bipolar I, anxiety, social anxiety | None I think- I am on Seroquel and Paxil and all side effects I do have can be related to them | I was on Buspar awhile ago during a manic episode and I would feel my muscles relax when I took it. The Dr's were afraid to give it to me again because they were afraid of triggering another manic episode butafter being on Paxil and Seroquel for awhile (I took Paxil only after calming down with seroquel- I can't take buspar or anti depressants without seroquel or I get mania and mixed state episodes)Anyway, Paxil was giving me too many side effects so I got back on Buspar so I could lower the Paxil dose and still get the anti anxiety and anti depressive effects. Buspar heightens the effect of SSRI's and Im glad I can have the benefit of of a high dose of Paxil by only taking a small amount of Paxil and Buspar each. | F | 32 | 60 days | 12/19/2009 | 3 | Depression/anxiety | Initial insomnia | On for 2 months 10mg twice daily. Sleep well after initial side effects. Some tingling/electric shock feelings now and then. Increased libido and concentration I feel better but still have bouts of anxiety and depression. I am stopping as it is making me crave alcohol and I've been sober for 6 years... | M | 48 | 60 days | 5/25/2009 | 3 | Anxiety | Dizziness, headache, insomnia, emotional numbness, increased anxiety. Most side effects gone after a few weeks with the exception of the emotional numbness. | Helped my mental anxiety slightly, but did not help my physical anxiety at all. Felt my physical anxiety was worse on buspar rather than off. | M | 32 | 60 days 10 mg 2X day | 12/30/2015 | 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 | 3 | Anxiety | Nausea, upset stomach, dizziness, heartburn, headache, tired, sinus problems, nipple discharge, irregular periods. | Although this helped a bit with my anxiety, I will have to stop taking it since it is causing high prolactin (causing nipple discharge and irregular periods). | F | 29 | 60 days 15mg 2X day | 9/1/2011 | 2 | GAD-Depression | EXTREME Anger and Hostility | My Psychiatrist put me on Buspar when I was going through a difficult divorce. After a few weeks, I was at a friends house and started using a punching bag and it felt great! A few days later, I was putting holes in our walls at the house. What was next my family? I called the doctor, and he apologized and called my wife and apologized. I was taken off Buspar immediately. This medicine made me psychotic. | M | 38 | 60 days | 4/23/2007 | 2 | depression slight anxiety PMDD | weight gain, increased appetite, forgetfulness...I mean I forgot about an entire day?!!! headache | I think it's a good alternative to benzos. I don't really have a lot of anxiety so my DR. I are just doing the"Let's try this" routine.. blech! human guinea pig. Man, people who talk about being "addicted'" to antidepressants and how "painful" it is to withdrawl from them, apparently have not ever been really addicted to drugs. Sorry, I'm a recovering addict so I can't help it. I'm just on Wellbutrin now... good for sex life. hee hee | F | 36 | 60 days | 12/29/2005 | 2 | GAD/Panic Attacks | Anxiety/leg pain/face numbness/vivid, bad dreams | I was initially on a low dose and it was recently increased. I have been feeling edgy, anxious, and uncomfortable since the increase. It was not until I goodled Buspar and found this site that I put one and one together. It certainly has not made me feel better. | M | 32 | 60 days | 1/27/2009 | 2 | Anxiety | I am very sensitive to medicine, so take that under consideration. That being said, 5mg didn't have much of an affect on me, but didn't help with Anxiety. With 10mg, I would be fine for an hour or so, but then I would get dizzy and the sweats. It would go away after another 90 min or so. It seemed like it stopped working completely after about 60 days. Now I feel my Anxiety is worse. Also, I feel like I am "Less sharp" than I used to be in terms of general cognitive performance and short term memory. | Buspar helped (As with other antidepressants) with my chronic back pain. It did not have sexual side effects like other meds did. It was cheap. If I could, I would rate it "2.5" If you have not had success with ssri's or ssnri's it's worth a shot. At the very least, you won't have sexual side effects. | M | 32 | 60 days | 10/2/2009 |