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 | Panic attacks | Headaches around the eyes, nausea, fatigue, weakness, brain fog. | This drug literally made me feel like I had some type of flu. | F | 41 | 60 days 10 2X day | 11/11/2021 | 1 | Anxiety | Muscle pain in legs and chest. Feel very stiff and sore. Ironically the chest pain makes the anxiety worse. | F | 50 | 60 days 5mg 1X day | 8/1/2022 | 1 | Anxiety | Extreme weight gain | F | 19 | 60 days 1X day | 12/19/2020 | 1 | anxiety symptoms | After being on it for 2 1/2 months, I began getting more anxious, finally culimnating in panic attacks. That's when I read this site and saw descriptions of all the experiences I was having. | Increased anxiety, casued insomnia as I got to full dose of 15 mg b.i.d. , I felt extreme fear and disorientation, cold intolerance, with sweating hands and feet, on verge of tears all the time, noise intolerance, trembling arms and legs, leg jerks. It was frightening. I called my psychiatrist and he said discontinue immediately and to take lorazapam until buspar was out of my system. By the next day 80% of symptoms were gone. Use with caution, and monitor these symptoms! | M | 60 | 60 days | 3/15/2007 | 1 | anxiety disorder | I was on Buspar for about 2 months. I was taking 15mg in the morning and 15mg in the evening. I would get a buzzing sensation in my head for about 15 minutes after taking Buspar. This went away after about 3 weeks and it did seem to help the tension I was feeling from anxiety. After about 3 to 4 weeks my anxiety actually increased, my mind was racing most of the time and I had insomnia 2 to 3 times a week. These symptoms increased until I finally had to get off Buspar. I feel 100% better now and I wished I never had taking it. | M | 52 | 60 days | 11/10/2006 | 1 | anxiety | No side effects occured. | Several Drs. I've had spoken how great Buspar is for anxiety. Not for me. Absolutely no change in anxiety level. No decrease, even after 2 months. Finally a new psychiatrist said stop the Klonopin and take 1mg twice a day. And I feel calmer and more relaxed. Yes it might be addicting but I can live my life again and after a brief period of tiredness it passes. | M | 41 | 60 days 3X day | 7/28/2012 | 3 | GAD | night sweats, mood swings, "zaps" 20-30 minutes after taking pill, nausea, insomnia, restlessness (especially at night) | I take Lexapro for depression and Buspar for GAD. My Dr started me out with 10mg 3x/day the anxiety got better the first 3 1/2 weeks but then the attacks became more frequent and more intese I spoke with my Dr about this and he suggested to increase the dose to 20mg 3x a day. I just started the increased dose yesterday so we'll see how it goes. | F | 35 | 59 days 20mg 3X day | 9/28/2010 | 1 | Anxiety Axis I, PTSD Axis II, Bi-Po | Horrible headache, stomach, muscle cramps and stomach aches with nausea, euphoric paranoia, severe trembling. I have Tourettes syndrome, tourettic and epileptic seizures, they replaced my Xanax with atuvan then buspar to go with my keppra and zinegram, hydroxyzine and trazadone. Bug Mistake. Better hope I don't grand mal!! | People are better off with ativan | F | 62 | 50 days 7.5 | 5/19/2017 | 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 | 4 | Anxiety/Panic Attacks | Dizziness | It took about a month to notice the effect but well worth it. Had been taking fluoxetine for 7 years but I would still get panic attacks when I went out in public. This helps me feel not so nervous to drive in my car and go grocery shopping. | F | 46 | 45 days 10 x 2 day 2X day | 7/5/2021 | 4 | GAD | Little buzz in the AM, but that was mixing 15 mg Buspar with 50 mg Atenolol. Have not taken it without any other med. Initial starting dose was 10 mg, stepped up to 15 a week later, then 25, and now 30 mg a day. | Anxiety is almost non existent. Feel more confident in dealing with daily activities and people. Works for me but everyone has a different metabolism. I have read that eating Grapefruit/drinking the juice can have detrimental effects on how it works in your system. Worth checking on if you include this in your diet. | M | 45 | 45 days | 4/11/2007 | 1 | insomnia | forgetfulness, lack of focus and concentration. Still unable to sleep well. Bad headache when I forgot to take one. | I'm going to taper off by cutting them in half. Going to see a pyschologist and considering natural remedies to my insomnia instead. | F | 42 | 45 days | 5/8/2004 | 1 | Anxiety | Anxiety, depression, fearful, paranoid and intrusive thoughts | Initially after starting 5 mg if Buspirone I felt a relief. I didn't feel any severe side effects the first week or so. Around the second week I began to feel very paranoid, more anxious and just very nervous. I felt my throat swelling up. It felt like something was constantly stuck in my throat. My sense of smell was heightened. As more time passed i began to cry every single day and just felt an outer body experience. Beware of this medication especially if you are sensitive to medication. | F | 38 | 45 days 5 mg 3X day | 9/21/2020 | 4 | anxiety | definetly get light headaches and occational dizzyness. not enough to outweigh the benefits. | had noticed when first taking it a hard time to wake up in the morning, need to take second pill before 5pm.took 10mg twice a day for 30 days the Dr. increased to 15mgs twice a day. I thought the easy bruising was a coinsidence until I read others noticing it too. low sexual appitite but vivid sexual dreams instead. | F | 48 | 40 days | 2/12/2006 | 3 | anxiety | At first when i started this medication i was tired all the time esp when i first took the med.Well for the first hour i was very tired.then after about 1 month i started noticing major weight gain and noticed that i had gained 10lbs.i wasnt ok with that so i stopped the medication when i looked it up and saw that some poeple do gain weight from this medication.There isn't a high percent but there was some other poeple who had gained weight as well. | i just stopped taking it plus i was kind of still having too much anxiety. | F | 27 | 40 days | 2/1/2009 | 1 | anxiety | heat flushes through arms & legs, shakiness, all bodily fluids (saliva, mucus, tears) seemed to have decreased significantly, heart palpitations, cold hands & feet at times, ringing in ears, pressure in palate of mouth, pressure on top teeth, pressure behind nose, MAJOR throbbing head, constantly felt "out of body", nausea, major weight loss, swallowing was a chore, lots of insomnia, my basic anxiety turned in to MAJOR panic and fear. I strongly began to question my sanity. My anxiety was also turning into depression because I have felt so bad for so long, and nothing was changing. | I had an anxiety attack and was given lexapro for 3 days. I hated that. Then I was given Cymbalta for 11 days. I hated that. I asked my Dr to give me Buspar because I had taken it about 12 years ago, 5mg a day, and it worked fine just to take the edge off. I think I was on it for about a month at that time. My current Dr. was not real familiar with Buspar, but did it for me because I was so miserable on the other Rx's. 10mg two times a day was the current Rx. And this is where the nightmare begins. All those crazy symptoms I listed. 3 E.R. visits, tons of dr. visits, so much bloodwork. And everyone kept telling me, its just the anxiety. In my clear moments I knew it was NOT just the anxiety doing this. 3 days ago I hit my breaking point, either check into a mental facility or find the answer. I decided to ween myself off this drug because it seemed to be the common denominator to all these wacky symptoms. I did this very fast because I could not stand the feelings any longe | F | 37 | 40 days | 4/21/2008 | 1 | Anxiety | Extreme hunger 30 min after taking. Quit 3 days ago, waves of hunger and nausea, insomnia, flu like symptoms, terrible anxiety and restlessness | How long do withdrawal side effects last- awful! | F | 65 | 40 days 5 mg 2X day | 3/29/2022 | 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 | 5 | Anxiety, panic attacks, depression | At first feeling like a zombie, but this has gone away. Increased sex drive :) | Seems to be working good, I do feel less anxious and nervous. | F | 25 | 33 days | 1/13/2008 | 3 | Anxiety / Panic / OCD | Heart palps, dizziness & blurred vision an hour after taking it. Worsened anxiety first few days. | Titrated up to 20mg during a month. After reading many reviews and not seeing much improvement, changed to Mylan mfg from Teva. Noticed a change immediately but we shall see if it lasts.I’ve read it takes 4-6 wks to get full effectiveness. I’ll stick with it for 2 more weeks hoping for a good outcome. Else iI’ll quit it. Despite what the Med community, etc. tell us, I’ve read many consumers do indeed experience withdrawal. Not looking forward to that. | F | 62 | 31 days 10mg 2x /d | 11/11/2017 |