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 |
| 3 | Anxiety | Dizziness, leg muscle stiffness and cramping, fast weight gain. | I was on a very low dosage of 10mg/day. I felt dizzy every time I took the medication. I gained 20 pounds in the 3 months that I took Buspar. The leg muscle stiffness and cramping was terrible. I think that it helped my anxiety but also made me feel numb. I am very sensitive to medication so with only 10mg, I had these effects. | F | 52 | 3 months 10 1X day | 12/1/2011 | 1 | depression/anxiety | Depression/ panic attacks and extreme anxiety, stomach problems, dizzy. | this was one of the worst anti depressant ive taken. it gave me a panic attack about 30mins after taking it evertime. i stopped taking it and i was on a 7 hour trip from my grandmas house to home and i had a terrible panic attack for 6 hours straight, the worst longest one ive ever had. i almost went to the E.R. and honestly considered jumping out of the car and killing myself. this stuff sucks | M | 19 | 1 months ? 1X day | 11/29/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | My god I had problems from the beginning. Horrible vivid dreams, very lightheaded and dizzy and eventually panic attacks. Had to take Xanax just to take the edge off. While everyone is different, this drug did nothing for me. Perhaps I needed to give it more time but I'm not willing to go through the hell I've been in the last three days. Just my humble opinion. | M | 35 | 3 days 15 MG 2X day | 11/17/2011 | 4 | Severe Depression/Axiety & Panic | Slight pressure on the right side of my head when the dose was to high and a little bit of dizziness. Now that we have my dosage figured out i feel much better! | I love BUSPAR, I have taken Paxill, Zoloft, Xanax and Ativan for years trying to figure out the right thing for me and for the first time I can actually work and go out in public without freaking out and ending up in a hospital. My doctor told me that a lot of people dont have good luck with it but when all else fails try it, it was the only thing that worked for me. I later found out that it was the only medication that worked on my grandmother. I dont lay around sleeping and eating, in fact I work 60+ hours a week and still have energy to help remodel our home. My anxiety before Busbar left me in the ER at least twice a week with rapid heart beats, raised temperature, felling like I couldnt breath, choking and feeling like I was going to die. I used to lay around thinking that I was going to die of some stupid disease and was avoiding life all together. Now, Im not perfect but Im much better.....I love my life and I havent been in the ER in almost a year. Thank you Buspar! | F | 40 | 14 months 15mg 3X day | 11/12/2011 | 1 | GAD | Originally i had no problems, when i started getting my medicine schedule messed up, i started having extreme vertigo in the morning sometimes unbearable, and increased anxiety, along with even more depersonalization. | I wouldn't suggest anyone taking this unless you plan on keeping a straight schedule. Because even missing one day is really painful | F | 16 | 5 months 10 mg 2X day | 11/3/2011 | 1 | anxiety | I took this medication for my anxiety when I turned 19, and I was also living with my mom and dad and withdrawing from pain pills. This drug helped with my drug abuse problem at first, then after a while I felt so zombie like. I tried to stop taking the medication but 3 days later when it was all out of my system, my depression got even stronger. It was to much to bare; I would just lay in my bed and cry. So I started taking it again and went back to my emotionless feeling instead of crying all the time and not wanting to be around my friends and family. It was horrible.My doctor doesnt really seem like she cares. Its a free health clinic I pay 7.50 each time I go based on my income. It made me lay around and eat I went from 145-220 lbs in the two years I was taking it. I have no emotions, I couldnt feel anything. It was like I wasnt being myself., like I wasnt even human. I am now off the medication and taking Wellbutrin which helps keep me moving and to lose weight. (also good for de | Even though everyone is different and may have different side effects, I would not recommend this medication to anyone! | F | 20 | 2 years 20 mg 3X day | 10/16/2011 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | I remember I had taken this medication before back in 2007 but I've recently started taking it and this time I must say it has given me the adverse effect I feel all twichty and shakey I feel as if I'm getting ready to have an anxiety attack. It's given me crazy headaches I was way better off taking Klonopin! I don't recommend Buspar to anybody. I getting ready to see my DR I'm thinking maybe taking Lexapro and Buspar together isn't such a good idea but the dumbass put me on it now we got to figure it out cause this is a horrible feeling. | F | 24 | 5 days 30 MG 2X day | 10/13/2011 | 4 | Anxiety | Slight dizziness | I feel wonderful on this medicine..it has only been 3 weeks but I feel much less anxiety. I still take Xanax if things start to get out of control but notice I need it less and less not to mention I am actually smiling and enjoying life again. | F | 54 | 3 weeks 10MG 2X day | 10/10/2011 | 1 | feeling overwhelmed, anxiety | Had constant driving headache, my skull felt like it would burst. I got more depressed, and then just completely flat. I felt half dead, not like myself, and was sleeping 15-16 hours a day. Also had terrible body pains, leg cramping, almost unable to walk (I am a runner). I felt like a non-being. | Would never take it again. I'd rather be the way I was before starting it. At least I felt ALIVE!!Also, mystomach burned so intensely I could not put out the fire. My Nexium, Ranitidine and Tums all were completely inffective. | F | 68 | 3 weeks 15mgX2 2X day | 10/7/2011 | 2 | Anxiety | extreme nausea and chronic headache | I quit after a month....it actually made me depressed. the side effects were brutal as well. | F | 42 | 30 days 20 mg 1X day | 9/18/2011 | 3 | Will always make me lightheaded and dizzy after i take it whether i have eaten or not. A good way to do it is wake up earlier then when you have to go to work or school take the meds and go back to sleep. I have taken this a drug a very long time at a high dose at first i was in love with it, it was the first drug to "cure" my anxiety. After 8 months or so of taking the drug i started to become extremely emotionless and distant. Im a cold person by nature but this just made me an arsehole. I'm not sure if it was caused by the buspar but my memory and my mind in general feels like it has a blanket or a fog over it all the time and my imagination which used to be so great is gone. I would never reccomend anyone taking more than a small dose of this med. I thought it was a miracle drug now I'm getting off of it as fast as i can. | M | 17 | 1 years 40 mg 2X day | 9/6/2011 | 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 | 4 | Anxiety Disorder | Vertigo like dizziness, dry mouth. | Had very few side effects, but the dizziness is what made me stop taking Buspar. It seemed like it may have helped me a little bit, but I did not find the dizziness to be worth continuing it. Other people I know said it works great without side effects. So maybe it was just me. | M | 21 | 7 days 5mg 3X day | 8/13/2011 | 1 | Severe Acute Anxiety Disorder | This is a horrible medication. I started it for the first couple days without any side effects, coming out of a hospital ward where they prescribed it to me ( I have almost paralyzing social phobia), after I was on it though, they discharged me and all was well, until the side effects set in. It began as tremors, just slight ones, a headache; and a kind of drunk feeling that I couldn't shake. Then things progressed from bad to worse, my anxiety went through the roof, I was shaky, eating everything in sight but unable to stop feeling hungry; to the point where I would literally vomit. After that, I got a fever, and started having strange insomnia/ temperature flashes; it was like living in hell; literally. First I couldn't sleep, then I couldn't wake up, I thought it was going to kill me. This drug, this thing; its not good, I don't care what "long term" studies they have done. this medication is akin to poison that I have never experienced before in my life (and I have been p | Eight days in I stopped taking it completely, cold turkey, day two of being off it, and I feel worlds better than before, honestly; if going through hell is a good fix for anxiety, by all means; pop the pill. But if you are like me, and have a brain, stay away from Buspar, it is a horrible horrible treatment option, you are much better of with effexor celexa, prozac, zoloft, ect. medications that have been tested for half a century rather than a decade, please; trust me on this. Buspirone is not safe, in any way shape or form. Also, Tardive Diskenisia (uncontrolable facial twitching and jerking) can and does happen far more often than the 'test results' say, and is most often permanent. Stay away from this poison, I am begging you. Email me if you need any more details about this medication or alternatives to it that work far better. | M | 23 | 8 days 5Mg 3X day | 8/8/2011 | 2 | Anxiety and Depression | Possibly a slight increase in sexual functioning, aside from that it was impossible to tell that I was taking it, no matter what the dose. | I don't want to discourage anybody but at least in my case this drug was as close to a sugar pill as anything I've ever taken. I know it helps some people but it didn't seem to do anything for me. On the plus side I went up to 60mgs a day with no bad side effects (or any effect for that matter) so try it if your doctor suggests it. | M | 43 | 3 months 2X day | 8/4/2011 | 1 | anxiety | it did NOTHING for me, an absoluely worthless drug | pick something else please | M | 29 | 3 months 30 2X day | 7/25/2011 | 2 | Anxiety | Early on: transient dizziness after taking medicine. With increased dosage: extreme restlessness at night, increased anxiety. | I was thrilled with this medicine the first few months - I felt that I was 'normal' for the first time in many years. My anxiety was immediately calmed, and besides the brief burst of dizziness after first taking the meds, the side affects were nothing like the exhaustion which comes with benzos. Suddenly, however, the drugs stopped working and my anxiety returned full-force. My doctor increased my dosage to 30 mg/2 x per day, and I have never felt worse - extreme anxiety is constant, I have extreme leg restlessness at night despite regular exercise, and I have problems regulating my breathing. I'm a mess. I'm going to go off the Buspar, but am very frightened of the side affects. I'd suggest this to people: If you love buspar because it really works for you, and then it suddenly stops working at all, think twice before upping your dosage to the maximum; for me, when it stopped, it stopped, and now things are only worse for me. | F | 47 | 6 months 30 mg 2X day | 7/21/2011 | 4 | Anxiety | F | 28 | 4 months 15 3X day | 7/19/2011 | 2 | Anxiety | Extreme dizziness in the morning and doesn't seem to help anxiety that much. It also makes me feel emotionless sometimes and if I take it in the afternoon it messes up my sleep. | M | 60 | 1 years 10 2X day | 7/11/2011 | 1 | libido issues | made me horribly depressed and withdrawn from others | i dont like this med, i was hoping it would help with libido issues caused by effexor, but no. | M | 22 | 7 days 5 mgs 1X day | 7/11/2011 |