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 |
| 2 | Anxiety attacks | First few days I was Ok with it. Soon after I have difficulty thinking and remembering things. Cordination is non-existant and could not perform my job at work well. My blood pressure is higher, my anxiety has been worse and my heart has been racing more. | I think it is probably one of those medications that work for some and not others. Just have to be aware of the side effects and notify your doctor if you experience these things. | M | 37 | 3 months | 8/2/2006 | 5 | anxiety | Like others have noted here, I get a little "spacey" for about an hour after I take it. This doesn't happen often. I've taken buspar twice before for the agitation/anxiety caused by antidepressants. This is my third time taking buspar-now with wellbutrin. This combo really seems to work well. | I took prozac for ten years off and on. When I would go back on it would give me quite a bit of anxiety. I would only be on it for a short period of time (4-6 weeks) and ween off it. I'm now taking 5mg buspar twice daily along with 150 mg Wellbutrin XL. Only taking the buspar for the bit of agitation from the wellbutrin. As with other AD's, buspar works great w/Wellbutrin. Helps with the negative effects of anxiety along with helping the Wellbutrin work better. I would highly recommend it. | M | 34 | 2 weeks | 7/26/2006 | 1 | Panic/social phobia/depression | Tingling/numbness/parethesia in my feet. | I had to stop taking it because the side effects were (and still are) driving me crazy. I've been off it completely for 3 days now, and I've only had minimal feeling return to my feet. It's causing me difficulty walking and moving my toes. Can't wait to get this stuff out of my system. | F | 36 | 2 weeks | 7/25/2006 | 3 | Post Partum Anxiety | About an hour after taking it, I felt "high"--tingling feeling in the head, dizziness, cloudy thoughts. I also felt so fatigued and had such an overwhelming deisre to sleep that sometimes I would collapse into bed (fortunately, I am a teacher and it is summer break, so I have that luxury). Every night for the last two weeks I have been suffering through terrible tension headaches that only Ativan will relieve. The doctor wants me to take 10 mg/3 times a day, but that would mean I can't function for half of my day. I also cannot lose my pregnancy weight (in fact I gained more!) but the doctor thinks this isn't an issue to be dealt with. | Originally, within the first week I felt a lightening of my mood and I also noticed increased sex drive. But after a month, I no longer felt the drug was helping. And after further investigation into family history and my own symptoms, I am more inclined to thing I have a thyroid imbalance than an anxiety disorder. | F | 31 | 3 months | 7/22/2006 | 5 | anxiety / depression | sleeplessness, a bit of memory loss, increased sex drive | Buspar has helped me a great deal. I take 45 mg/day along with 300 mg Zoloft. I've been so incorrectly medicated for years now, and now I'm on a combo that BAM! My mind is quiet, I can focus and have rational thoughts. But just the fact that my head is quiet makes all the difference in the world to me. I've read some bad experiences here; but maybe this needs to be prescribed with the correct combo, and any psych patient knows you guinea pig it before you find the perfect combo. I love it, my life is different and I have a positive outlook on life now. | F | 25 | 1 months | 7/21/2006 | 1 | GAD | Dizzyness, insomnia, panic attacks, hyper restlessnless, muscle pain in calf, on and off tingling and numbness in fore arm | Many books describe this drug as effective and very safe without mentioning potential side effects or the fact that this drug only works for 40% of the folks who take it. I startd with high hopes. In total I took only 5 doses of .10 dosage. I felt like I was on speed, wired. I never felt tired or yawned once in 2 1/2 days. Awoke with panic attacks 3 times in one night. Also felt stange muscle pain in calf, felt like dead muscle. The very very sad fact is that a patient with GAD is left with 3 choices as I see it, suffering, benzos (which are addictive, but work) or the SSR's which have horrible side effects Pick your poison and hope science can come up with something better soon! | M | 55 | 2 days | 7/15/2006 | 5 | Chronic acute anxiety, moodswings | I have had no side effects at all, much to my surprise. | I have always been suspicious and skeptical about prescription meds. In fact, for years I tried every homeopathic/natural/herbal treatment i could find to treat my reoccuring anxiety/depression. I had also had brief stints with antidepressants. So, it is no small thing for me to say that this medication has changed my life. I was very suspicious, looking for side effects (i'm normally quite sensitive to meds) and had ABSOLUTELY NONE. I feel like myself for the first time in my life. When i finally realize how hard i worked all those years to stay 'balanced' it makes me really sad because i could have felt like this sooner. It has helped with my obsessive thinking and my chest and stomach no longer feel tight all day long. I do not feel at all 'druggy'. My moods faciliate with what is going on in my life, but I don't feel anxious for no reason. It is easier for me to work through the problem of the moment because i'm not exhausting myself trying to interpret my feelings of anx | F | 31 | 4 months | 7/11/2006 | 5 | Chronic acute anxiety, moodswings | I wanted to add that, though i've had no side effects, i wanted to tell people that it is important to take it the same way every day (with or without food--one or the other). The package said this and i ignored it at first but i seemed to get very different amounts into my system if i took it on empty stomach and ate 20 minutes later vs. eating first. (i get more in my system on an empty stomach and so i have to take less of Buspar to get the benefit so I always take it on an empty stomach now.) | I'm adding more here too because this medication has really helped me and i resisted trying it for years because of certain tendencies that i think are common for people with anxiety or compulsive thinking. No doubt, this drug isn't for everyone. It's probably even bad for some people. But, after i got serious about trying this and found it helped me, something funny happened: i cleaned out my car and found an empty bottle of buspar, exact same dosage per pill, dated years earlier. I realized that during one of my desperate moments i must have taken the prescription and decided after 2 days that i was afraid of the side effects and tossed the rest of the pills in the trash. I mean, it was the exact same pill and dosage that has now changed my life. The point of the story is that we anxious people are very good at noticing changes in our bodies (this can be a positive or negative skill depending on the circumstances) and I think sometimes we falsely attribute our increased anxiety | F | 31 | 4 months | 7/11/2006 | 5 | withdrawal from clonazepam | I have noticed that my appetite can get out of control if I do not go to bed at a set time. Had major back surgery in March and got addicted to pain and muscle relaxer meds after 3 weeks. When discontinued pain meds , started having severe anxiety attacks and dizziness. Doctor prescribed clonazapam. Had some very severe side affects from clonazepam. Starting cutting pills into smaller and smaller pieces over a 2 month period and Dr. added buspar twice a day. Have been taking welbutrin xl for 1 year for SAD and to quit smoking. One month after having stopped clonazapam, I am feeling great, no anxiety, sleeping good. Buspar seems to work well with the Welbutrin. Have not felt this good emotionally and physically in 10 years. | I have noticed that My vision is not quite as good as it use to be. I have to have reading glasses handy at all times. | M | 53 | 3 months | 6/18/2006 | 5 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Approximately 30 minutes after taking a dose of either 10 mg or 15 mg, I feel some minor dizziness that goes away within 45 minutes. Sometimes this is helped by taking Buspar with food. I've also sometimes felt sleepy after taking Buspar; that could last for one or two hours, but it doesn't happen very often. | I've suffered with generalized anxiety disorder on and off since my early twenties. A few weeks ago (March 2006), I began experiencing excessive daily anxiety and my thoughts centered around irrational worries about my health. Within two weeks of starting Buspar--I specifically remember the exact moment, while I was talking with a friend online at night--the thoughts stopped. The physiological manifestations of anxiety (e.g. sweaty palms, an anxious feeling in the pit of my stomach) stopped. My affect changed from fearful to cheerful (normal, for me). Behaviorally, I went from avoiding some people and situations to behaving as I did without anxiety. I had read that many people had had a little relief from Buspar, some had had no relief at all, and a lucky few had their problem completely solved. I am one of those in the third category. I feel completely normal now. I only realize how much I had been suffering from the anxiety by knowing how I feel now and remembering what it was li | M | 36 | 23 days | 6/17/2006 | 2 | Anxiety Disorder | The first day I had insomnia on 5mg 2x's a day; so doc said to take it once a day at 5mg. I had the worst headaches for 3 weeks and started getting depressed and angry. Also I would have highs and lows all day like a roller coaster...one minute hyper then tired as could be..I only recommend it to people that have severe anxiety and even then I don't know. I'm just gonna go back to my xanax when needed:) | Anyone that stopped taking it feel free to email me...was just wondering what side effects you had? | F | 25 | 3 weeks | 6/14/2006 | 1 | insomnia | I thought I had insomnia before I started on buspar, and since buspar, I have serious anxiety folks. On those nights that I do manage to fall asleep, and those nights are few and far inbetween, I wake up feeling unrested, but not just unrested, I feel as though I had run a race all night long. I went to the doctor with no other complaints besides insomnia, and now I have symptoms from hell. If I manage to forget to take a dose of this stuff, the withdrawals are brutal, and those of you who have ever had to wean off paxil know what I am talking about. My doctor's explanation to all of this was "if your body didn't need it, nothing would happen, pos or neg". BULLSHIT! no more buspar for me! I'd rather shake til I die before staying on this stuff. | F | 37 | 3 months | 5/30/2006 | 5 | anxiety | none, love it!!Works great with no side effects | M | 36 | 2 days | 5/15/2006 | 1 | | 5/3/2006 | 3 | anxiety | Some joint pain and slightly light-headed after taking it. Sometimes a bit dizzy. Pretty bad insomnia! | I have been taking it for about 2 weeks now, and it is helping the anxiety, which I am very happy about! Most people take it 2-3 times a day, but I am extremely sensitive to meds so I only take it in the morning. I will have to take sleeping pills though, as the insomnia I get from it is pretty bad... | F | 27 | 2 weeks | 4/25/2006 | 1 | complained of lightheadedness | ANXIETY that I never had at this level before. Feeling weird after only 3 days @5mg/2 a day I stopped taking pills and 2 days later was hit like a train wreck with constant generalized anxiety. After getting back on meds (10mg/2 daily) to relieve symptoms continued gen. anxiety as well as a couple of pretty bad panick attacks. Have cut back meds 25% at a time allowing 3 weeks between reductions. I am in my final five weeks and am starting to feel some what normal again. I sincerely hope that I do not end up with any serious/perminent side effects from this medication. | Although this medication seems to work for many it had opposite the effect it was suppose to have on me. My mother also bought a program from the midwest center for anxiety and depression and I have experienced great relief from following their advice. | M | 33 | 3 months | 4/23/2006 | 3 | Anxiety | None | Felt like I wasn't taking anything at all, like a sugar pill. Still needed Xanax for attacks. | F | 28 | 9 months | 4/20/2006 | 5 | for my anxiety | i was on remron with buspar but had to stop takeing the remron because all thw weight gain and bad back promblems that came with it so im only takeing buspar bye its self and works wounderful bye its self no promblem with my anxiety | F | 37 | 1 years | 4/19/2006 | 1 | panic attacks | nervousness, odd chest sensation that I hesitate to classify as pain, 20 minutes of ecstacy followed by feeling like I was on speed. Numbness in my extremities, vivid and enjoyable sexual dreams, waking up feeling like I'd been awake for days, general confusion and inability to pay attention, flight of thought, quite sarcastic first three days, anxiety though not the typical type. Wild blood pressure and mood fluctuations, dizzy, felt like I was passing out. | Well, I never did have a panic attack on this drug, but it wasn't worth the trade! It is day 5 and I am never taking it again though. I just got back from the emergency room. My blood pressure was 102/54, and I felt like I was gonna pass out, at the ER I was 160/77. The first three days were extremely fun with this drug- like something illicit. Yesterday was touch and go. Today I ended up in the ER. Who paid off the FDA to put this garbage on the market? Never again. Never ever again. | M | 26 | 5 days | 4/10/2006 | 1 | Constant anxiety | The mother of all anxiety attacks! | Wow, was this a mistake. It made my anxiety so much worse that I can't even stick it out past a day and a half to see if the side effects go away. Usually I can do that. If I could give Buspar a negative 5 I would. | F | 40 | 1.5 days | 3/31/2006 |