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 |
| 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 | 1 | Anxiety | Dizziness, Panic Attacks, Disorientnesss, Nausea, Fatigue, Hot Flashes, Messed up thought!! | What a mistake this was!! I just needed something to take the edge off me... After 4 weeks I had enough of this drug. I'm running and hitting the Gym to help keep me balanced( no drugs for me). I was only taking 15 mg a day. Within 2 weeks I had tapered down to 5mg and got off it and thought this nightmare was now over! Not quite... Withdrawal set in next ! Constant dizziness, sweats, no appetite, nausea, and so on... 15 days later and its starting to get better, I had 3 good days in a row and today I felt like crap! I never expected all of this! It had been a test of my willpower for sure. Anyone thinking about taking this or any other brand name , be careful and think it through before getting on this stuff. Good Luck to All! I would like to hear more from people who have dealt with Withdrawal on Buspar... Please Email me back! | M | 42 | 30 days | 8/11/2007 | 4 | Anxiety, unwanted thoughts | Buzzy, light-headed, occasional brain zaps, nausea, sometimes to the point that I have to lay down for a little while. They vary, though...some days the side effects are pretty intense, some days I don't have any. Seem to be worse in the AM, I have coffee then, wonder if the caffeine affects it? I've also noticed that I have trouble sleeping if I take it too close to bedtime. | Buspar has helped me quite a bit, although it took a while to get the right dosage figured out. It has significantly reduced my anxiety and unwanted thoughts, allowing me to get back to living my life without worrying all the time. I can actually concentrate again! When I do get some anxiety, it passes fairly quickly, and if I have an unwanted thought it is usually fleeting and doesn't send me into an anxiety attack. The side effects are pretty intense, though - might be too much for some. I take 40 mg/day and had to split up my AM dose, taking 20 mgs. in the AM was making me pretty sick. Now I take 10 w/breakfast, 10 w/ lunch and 20 w/dinner and that seems to work. | F | 34 | 2.5 months | 8/3/2007 | 2 | anxiety | Light headedness, dizziness, brain zaps, weakness. These tended to be unpredictable, and I once had the brain zaps while driving several hours after taking it. | I had posted previously that it seemed to help with my anxiety. It would only do this for the first dose at a higher dosage, i.e. as I was titrating up, the first of the higher doses made me feel less anxious. However, it generally did not help for my anxiety, and the side effects were too much. It could be a home run for some people, but not for me. | M | 26 | 3.5 weeks | 7/25/2007 | 1 | anxiety disorder | extremely painful headaches requiring bedrest. Clamminess, shakiness, sweats, vertigo. | M | 37 | 4 days | 7/24/2007 | 4 | Panic attacks | some light headedness at the start of taking it, or if you miss any dosage it happens again for a few days, but not too troubling. Occasional dizziness about 3/10 scale. | It has been great, does what it is supposed to do. However if you miss a dose or take one with food when you normally dont take with food, or are extreemly late in taking your dose, it will take a few weeks to get back to normal. Also noticed when on anti-biotics, it has less of an effect. Finally lost the 75 pounds I gained from Zoloft. | M | 34 | 365 days | 7/10/2007 | 2 | GAD | Brain zaps, headaches, increased anxiety severe, irritable, shaky, nausea | I posted before on Buspar. Seems to me that many of us w/ GAD & panic don't get much if any relief from Buspar. I've tried buspar 2x's now in the last 7 yrs and no relief, only made me worse by day 4-5 in 2000 was on for months no relief. Anyone trying something that works? Love to hear from you. I've tried many & nothing helps but the anti-anxiety meds. | F | 38 | 5 days | 6/28/2007 | 1 | G.A.D | Dizzy to the extreme, more anxiety than normal, very lightheaded, felt in a dream like state most of the time, brain fog, waking very early like 4am started on the first day & stopped 3 days after taking it. | I really wanted this drug to help, but the side effects are worse than my anxiety, which is a little like treating my broken toe by cutting my leg off. It does seem to work for others i guess i'm just unlucky | M | 31 | 4 weeks | 6/22/2007 | 1 | anxiety | Lightheaded, DIZZY, Unbalanced, faint, nausea, and throbbing in my head. | This pill sucks!!! I can't believe they have it on the market. I started the pill at 15 mg 1x per day, and my DR. increased it to 60 mg a day. after the 1st month, I felt sooooo disorented, and dizzy I went to the Emergency room to see what was wrong with me. They said your fine U can go home, so I did, well the spells increased then a month later out of nowhere i felt so dizzzy that I went to the ER again, this time they said that It might be the buspar.. So when I walked into my DR.s office I told her to take me off the drug cuz I can't stand to be this dizzy. I don't recommend this drug to anyone out there... | F | 30 | 4 months | 6/18/2007 | 1 | Social anxiety disorder, GAD | Dizzy, lightheadedness, very spacey feeling, headaches, wierd shock feeling in my head, panic attacks, very shallow breathing, palpitations,chest pain | I am also taking 40mg of Prozac daily. Weird medicine, almost like having a bad trip, gave me headaches usually on only one side of my head, blurry vision and weird feeling in the middle of my chest like it wanted to explode. Feeling seems to last around 3-4 hrs then slowly dissapates. I would not recommend this drug to anyone that does not have experience with hallucinogens, may trip you out BAD. Give it a week, if the side effects outweigh the benefits definately discontinue it. | M | 27 | 3 days | 6/14/2007 | 5 | anxiety | none really....my dreams may be more vivid, but that is all...and not really a bad thing | I feel this med. has helped me tremendously. I take 10mg in am and 10 mg at night and have been taking it for about 5 weeks. I was having terrible anxiety and feelings of doom before I began this med. I only occasionally experience anything like that now and there is usually a trigger for the anxiety; whereas, before, I had the anxiety for no reason. I really recommend trying this. | F | 33 | 5 weeks | 6/8/2007 | 1 | anxiety | insomnia, increased anxiety, vomiting, diizy feeling for hours, fatigue, trembling, numbness, increased hreat rate, ans that is just to say the least. Be careful of this drug - of course reactions to drugs often differ - but this drug was a nightmare for me! | Do not take it. Especially from whatever Kaiser doctor was apparently given a degree online. | M | 35 | 30 days | 6/2/2007 | 1 | anxiety, panic attacks | increased anxiety and panic attacks, depresssion, not able to focus, loss any sense of time, and I think a blackout. Easily distracted, often forgetful. makes me feel like I have the flu. dr. is insisting that I stay on it, that the short term side effects are worth the long term results. Dr. is not the one experiencing this though! | do not give this medicine to an individual who is experiencing anxiety or a panic attack, cause it will not work. give them a xanax! If you give them BusPar, let them know the attack MAY end in 4 weeks, suffer until then. | F | 36 | 2 weeks | 5/31/2007 | 5 | GAD | none that I have noticed | I have been on this for at least 4-5 years. My anxiety was very great, to the point of paranoia. Recently I have decided to wean myself off of Buspar. I have gone from 90mg to 30 mg per day. I haven't noticed any difference. I get the feeling from my psychiatrist that it is almost a placebo. So this is why I decided to wean myself off of it. | F | 36 | 4.5 years | 5/27/2007 | 5 | GAD | Big woosyness until I figured out the dosage. Usually lasted about an hour after the morning dosage. Had to lay down sometimes. | I was taking 15 mg in the morning and 15 at night. After talking with my shrink I settled into 5 in the morning, 5 at noontime if I feel edgy, 5 at dinnertime and sometimes 5 around 9. Everything is great now. It really helped my condition. | M | 57 | 1.5 years | 5/25/2007 | 1 | GAD, Panic, Depression | Dizziness, complete inability to focus on anything, just moving my eyes gives me vertigo, sleeping 13-15 hours, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, nausea | Can't STAND this sensation! Just watching TV or reading makes me want to vomit, and the discomfort is making me panic. Not to mention the fact that my depression has worsened exponentially in only four days. | F | 37 | 4 days | 5/20/2007 | 4 | PTSD, OCD tendencies, anxiety | Electric zaps when moving my eyes. They last about 20 minutes and are bearable. A mildly high feeling for most of the day. | Seems to be working well for my anxiety. I look forward to increased improvement. I think the weird side effects might be too much for some people, though. | M | 26 | 3 days | 5/6/2007 | 5 | PTSD, anxiety, depression. | None. | I take 10mg, twice a day, along with 40mg of Paxil. After trying several other combinations, this one works like a charm. I've using both for approximately a year with tremendous success. | M | 51 | | 4/26/2007 | 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 | 3 | GAD | very bad dizziness and light headedness to where I sleep for 2-5 hours. makes me tired, short term memory loss, very irritable. Get angry easily, severe mood flucuations. | It does work but the side effects are overwhelming sometimes. | F | 19 | 11 months | 4/20/2007 |