BUSPAR Reviews

Feeling of weakness, tremors, sleep issues, muscle stiffness.

Off and on with Buspar over long time to mitigate GAD. Not sure it works great, but need something to keep the demons at bay.

Weight loss (10 pounds)

I take Effexor XR 187.5 mg and Wellbutrin XL 300 mg for depression. I live in Canada, so the depression always come back in november until march because of the lack of sunlight. So we added Buspar and after 3 days, the depression went away and I feel so good, I have so much energy, more motivation and interest, I am back to work and to the gym. Also, I noticed that I have better cognitive functions. I will never go through another winter without Buspar.
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Prescribed 2x/daily but only take 1x/daily in the morning. Am feeling flat, more depressed, stressed, overwhelmed, short temper, terrible ringing in ears, dizziness/lightheaded, clumsy, no interest in hobbies, personal hygiene not what it once was, shower 2x week.

I understand there's a lot going on in the world and also was told about a month ago I should start looking for another job, partially due to downsizing and partially performance, so that didn't really help things. I just have no energy to take care of myself/husband/dog. Everything is a chore such as shopping, cooking, cleaning, I used to enjoy all of those things. The recent dizzy feeling finally helped me put it all together. I'll be cutting back my dose starting today.

I get brains zapps for a little while after taking each dose but they seem to go away

When I tried this 20 years ago it didn't work at all. For some reason now it's working and seems to be working really well. I have not taken my Klonopin regularly for a long time

Nightmares, disturbed sleep, racing heart, increased anxiety, feeling of doom, dark thoughts, dry mouth, no appetite, diarrhea.

What a mess. I began taking at night as suggested by doctor. I have history of anxiety but nothing serious. Never been treated. Woke with vivid nightmare that night. Upon getting up in the morning I had racing heart, racing thoughts, increased anxiety, dry mouth, feelings of not wanting to be alive. Took for 3 nights and each day was awful. Stopped for 1 day and then took 2 days of Zoloft. I got even worse. I'm down 10 pounds and fighting each day to get myself back. Been 8 days since buspar and 4 days since Zoloft. Now I require propranolol each day to get my resting heart rate down. Please reach out if you've had similar experience.
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Not experiencing any side effects. Medication seems to be working pretty well

Vibration sensations in leg and pelvic area. Hand, arm twitches. Bottom of foot is numb.

I am miserable and am weaning myself off. Anyone else have these symptoms? Especially vibrating pelvis. Please email me. Thanks
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Nearly ruined my life. Couldn't focus, no motivation, felt like life sucked, extreme suicidal ideations.

Couldn't put my finger on what was wrong as I had taken this med for several years. Finally put my finger on and realized the med was making it worse. Stopped it 2 wks and I have my life back.

No side effects, takes time work build up in body . Not fast acting. Have had no issues with it.

I only took it for 3 weeks. My anxiety was off the charts after the first week much worse than without the drug. Also had new depression and couldn't stop crying. Dizziness and insomnia too. Stopped taking it and took a month for me to feel normal again.

It started working right away for me. But after about 6 months I started getting real bad headaches. I stopped taking it and I still felt fine for a few months and then the anxiety came back. I'm getting ready to start it again and hopefully I can find something for the headaches.

Aniexty & Depression seemed to get a lot worse in the first 10 days then the tablets started working. Quite an incredible difference. It’s worth battling through the initial period, I nearly threw them in the bin, glad I stuck with them.

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

My nurse practitioner gave me this drug for my depression after my citalopram quit working i take it along with venlafaxine so far no side effects! I noticed after 8 days I'm a little more calmer than before!

I've only been on it for 4 days but I seriously think it's making me feel more depressed I don't seem to have any side effects except for nausea thus far. I am also on Lexapro and I read in places where they said that bus fare and Lexapro are not good together. It scares me just a little bit because I also have SVT and high blood pressure. I also have a Xanax that I've only taken when I have panic attacks which would be never more than two times a week 0.25 mg. I think I'm just going to ask my doctor to take me off of this because I already have enough anxiety and I don't need to add to it or have to wait a month for it to start working as I have just went through a series of months with getting the Lexapro on track I don't think I've given the Lexapro enough time I've only been on 20 mg for a month I started on 5 mg and 15 mg it's been a total of 3 months old together. Just reading these reviews give me nightmares and I don't need any more trouble than I already am in. So for me I think I'm going to get off of it before I'm on it too long and have a hard time getting off it.

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Depression suicide thought s excessive dark thought s Picked a tree where l was going to hung myself I thought l was going mad

The devil I. Disguise
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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

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This has really made me more anxious and scared than I've ever been in my life. Tried to quit cold turkey once, I have been having tingling, burning and zapping mostly in my feet but sometimes on my face and shins, weirdly sometimes genitals. I can be in a state of panic for hours just hearing the air purifier. Especially as the dose wears off I get so anxious and I haven't had this much anxiety even when I was loosing it over my moms cancer. It makes me dizzy and have heart palpitations. I've become way more obsessed with health concerns.

This works for many people but it didn't for me, and despite all the reviews about tingling, doctors treat it like it's an ultra rare reaction. I hope that I will go back to how I was before before I started taking this.
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Insomnia Increased heart rate Cold and Hot Increased fear Just felt off being in this Depression

I am not a fan at all of this medication. I was taking 10 mg twice a day and it did help panic attacks, but the side effects such as feeling overly depressed hit me out of no where and that felt worse than any panic attack or anxiety. Also I couldn't sleep , I am still having trouble sleeping and I've been off this medication for 6 days now. I've never had issues sleeping prior to this medication.

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
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