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 | 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 | 1 | stress | none that I related to the medicine at the time (1992-1997) | Don't take it!!! I am just beginning to see that Buspar is probably the cause of what has now been diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis! Sporadic numbness of limbs, etc. If anyone else has been diagnosed with MS, following Buspar, please e-mail me! | F | 45 | 5 years | 3/3/2007 | 4 | Anxiety | None | This medicine quite good at controling mild anxiety | F | 40 | 3 years | 2/24/2007 | 2 | anxiety | Well... I never had "panic" attacks before I started this stupid drug. | F | 22 | 2 months | 2/23/2007 | 3 | GAD, Panic Attacks | Brain zaps. Stomach hurts~nausea, lil spacy | I was scared to try this. Being a person w/ GAD since 1999 w/ non spec panic attacks off/on and someone who is afraid to take meds due to side effects. I'm hypersensitive to most meds. I've gone the homeo/natural/herb methods, support the approach but I have suffered alone silently for far too long. I have been on/off clonazepam since 1999. I have tried antidepressents off/on w/ frightening side effects for me. I know this is rare but I am already noticing "something" that this may be helping me~I'm still worrying but I'm already having hours in the day only 3 days into this where I'm "happy" and not aggitated. I know this seems way to soon based on all I've read. I am still on a very small dose of clonazepam at .25 mg a day. That is 1/2 of the .5 mg pill. My dr says to stay on this med and decrease off the benzo. I was on a higher dose benzo 2 yrs ago and w/d on my own, it was terrible. Was anyone able to get off a benzo and stay only on the buspar and notice the b | F | 37 | 3 days | 2/1/2007 | 5 | social anxiety, GAD, panic attacks | after 1 mo., hardly any but initially fatigue, spaciness, and the first few days, increased anxiety. | I want to tell any of you out there who are afraid to take Buspar that it's ok. I suffered nonstop for over a year, taking every natural remedy available, keeping tintures and supplements and teas in my purse and pocket everywhere I went. I did yoga, breathing excercises, acupunture, you name it. Still I was a trembling, palpitating wreck with bags under her eyes. I thought I'd failed and there was no hope. Buspar, a chemical, works! My life still isn't perfect but I now feel, finally, that I can go on living and making progress in my life. Do it for yourself. | F | 28 | 2 months | 1/31/2007 | 2 | SAD | Dizziness within an hour of taking. Decreased sex drive. Erectile dysfunction (have never had a problem maintaining an erection until this week). | I started with a 5mg twice a day. I don't really feel any change in anxiety. I did wake up for the first time with terrible anxiety that was seemingly related to absolutely nothing. My anxiety has traditionally been caused by events or situations, but this bout was over nothing. It is almost as if the drug created a problem to fix. I am the only person who has experienced the ED side effect that I have see. I did notice that less than 1/1000 experienced it with the trials. But, having never had a problem, I don't know what else to blame it on? Basically, I just feel numb down there. Hopefully, that will clear up, and the drug will start doing what it is supposed to. If not, I will just deal with the terrible anxiety. | M | 27 | 12 days | 1/30/2007 | 5 | GAD | Little "brain-zaps" when looking side to side, some lightheadedness & a nice "buzzed" feeling - all for about 1 hour after taking it (onset about 30 mins after dose) | Am looking forward to taking something that won't numb my personality. If you think this made you fat because it made you crave carbs - you put the carbs in your mouth - so you made u fat. I use this to address the pysical aspects of anxiety I can't otherwise address. I'm not looking for a multi-drug cocktail to solve all my problems. | M | 38 | 7 days | 1/27/2007 | 5 | Anxiety; Panic Disorder | Fatigue; headaches; dizziness | I previously attempted to use Buspar on 2 separate occasions but stopped after less than two weeks due to uncomfortable side effects. Given ongoing anxiety and less than desirable side effect profiles of other drug options decided to try a 3rd time. After 2 weeks of discomfort all side effects went away except some morning fatigue. Anxiety is completely under control and unexpected benefit of improved memory recall. Started at 2.5mg 3x/day and worked up to 4mg (I cut the pills) 3x/day. | M | 47 | 3 months | 1/23/2007 |