BUSPAR Reviews (BUSPIRONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (969 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BUSPAR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BUSPAR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 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 | 4 | GAD | the side effects were very mild. The first couple of days it was sort of like I'd had a lot of caffeine, but it wasn't enough to really be bad. I suggest taking it on a weekend to get over the side effects. After about the 3rd day I dont feel it at all | Its a great drug. I don't feel like I'm drugged, I have no side effects, I'm just normal. I never felt a moment where it just kicked in, its just like I never felt it.. never noticed that it worked specifically, except that now I just am ok with everything. I guess after about 2 weeks is when I realized I was not freaking out about every stupid little thing. I can sleep at night now, and its great. I didn't want a drug to make me feel drugged, I just wanted to feel like I should. Now I'm motivated, I can concentrate, I can focus at school.. i don't think of constant what if scenarios all the time anymore.. I think i feel for the first time what its like to be normal. I take 10 mgs twice a day, i initially was working up to 30 mgs, but when I got to 25 I noticed I got sort of depressed, and I went back to 20 mgs, and that is perfect for me. | F | 35 | 2 months | 4/9/2007 | 4 | anxiety | mild headache the first few days; harder to wake up in the morning | This drug does work gradually, but I can tell a difference. I am calmer, don't have racing thoughts or pounding heart in the middle of the night, and am sleeping much better. One major component of my anxiety was blushing furiously whenever I was addressed in a group or even just caught off guard with a question. Buspar has helped me stop worrying about it, which helps keep it from happening as often or as severely. Also, I don't have that tight, wound-up feeling that I used to carry around all day. | F | 33 | 2 weeks | 4/9/2007 | 1 | anxiety | electric shock feelings after taking it. | I think it is the worlds most expensive placebo. I have been on this drug for years and the doctors will not take me off of it. I feel no difference when I am on it and when I am off of it. I take 60 mg a day. It does nothing to control my anxiety and panic attacks. The psychiatrist in the hospital put me on klonopin which works but my current doctor does not "believe" in benzo type drugs for anyone, so I must suffer with being untreated, because doctors believe the hype that drug companies state that this drug works. It is totally worthless and I might as well be taking aspirin for my panic attacks. So basically I am living untreated for my disorder and it is like putting a band-aid on a broken leg. It is the most worthless drug for anxiety ever. | F | 42 | 5 years | 4/4/2007 | 5 | anxiety | A little 'spacey' for a few minutes, other than that NONE at all. | Also talking 150 effexor. Anxiety is a recent addition to my mix. Recovering alcoholic so very aware of risk of further addiction. So far, so good though it's early days | F | 43 | 4 days | 4/1/2007 | 4 | generized anxiety disorder | lighthead 30-60 min. after taking in the morning but oddly not at noon or night. Possibility that it has lessened my libido. | I have taken this for 10 months and feel that it is doing what it supposed to. I feel much calmer in general and can almost go into crowded places without panic. I am curious about those folks who have posted with just a few days use - my psychiatrist clearly stated that buspar takes at least three weeks before effects would be noticed. I found this to be true and am happy I stuck it out for a few months before deciding if it was really helping. Now at 10 mo. I am feeling the best I have felt for 20 years! For those who had extreme reactions immediatly - that sounds like an allergic reaction to the med. | F | 38 | 10 months | 3/29/2007 | 3 | Anxiety & depression | I still do experience dizziness a little, does make me a little ditsy but as far as the complete crazy anxious feelings and compulsive thoughts, well they are 90% better which is worth being a bit dizzy and ditsy. I take 10 mg. 3x/day along with 150mg of Effexor. The side effects were worse in the beginning weeks so my advise is to give it time. | I still feel alot of confusion and am unorganized, have a hard time concentrating but I think that has alot to do with the depression. | F | 44 | 1 months | 3/21/2007 | 2 | Anxiety | None whatsoever. | This seems like a pretty pointless drug. I took it before and by request from my doctor am trying it again but don't have my hopes up at all. No effect at all. | M | 30 | 7 months | 3/19/2007 | 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 | GAD, panic attacks | Feeling like I was coming out of my skin! Imagine yourself drinking 6 pots of very strong coffee, mixed with about a gallon of straight caffeine, and you might get an idea of how I felt.....shaky, jittery, nervous, anxious, AWFUL! | would never recommend it to anyone. I was taking tranxene and my dr wanted to switch me over to Buspar, I took a single tablet and it was horrible--- it actually CAUSED me to have panic attacks.....terrible. | F | 35 | 1 times | 3/13/2007 | 5 | GAD, Social Anxiety | No apparent side affects | I have been taking 5mg twice a day for 2 weeks and noticed a change within about 3 days. It has relieved my anxiety, almost a 100%, and I am now much more relaxed in large groups. I feel like myself again! John | M | 53 | 2 weeks | 3/11/2007 | 4 | Anxiety/counter sexual side effects | No side effects. | I have only been taking this medication for a short time, but it appears to be helping me. I take it in the evening before bed, along with some other medications. It has definitely helped my anxiety and it has also helped the sexual side effects that I was having from another medication. My orgasm is back! Yahoo! :-) Anyway, this medication has helped me. I would recommend people try it. I know everyone's physiology is different, but I have had no side effects from the medication at all and I am taking 45mg before going to bed (I think it is helping my insomnia as well). | F | 40 | 14 days | 3/11/2007 |