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 | Nightmares. Extreme and rapid weight gain. Intense drowsiness with loss of motor control. | I stopped taking BuSpar because of the side effects, especially the drowsiness/dizziness and loss of motor control. I wouldn't recommend this medication, especially if you experience any panic, depression, or OCD symptoms. Try an SSRI and/or a benzo, if applicable and if you can actually get someone to prescribe them (I have severe anxiety and panic, and no doctor I have met will prescribe Xanax because of its potential for abuse and addiction). Take meds in combination with therapy and, possibly, some lifestyle changes. When I took this medication (1999-2000 - I have adjusted age for that time - I am 29 now) it was unreasonably expensive, as well. | F | 24 | 9 months | 5/24/2005 | 3 | panic attacks | i usually get really light headed, feel really dizzy at times, restless, vivid dreams | i wonder why one must take something like this to curb anxiety....i wish i was given a placebo instead....how is being dependant on a certain drug/medicine good for your mental health??? if the side effects do not stop, i will not be taking this anymore....it might be too soon to tell....but i do not like the feeling i get from taking the pills | M | 24 | 5 days | 5/16/2005 | 4 | Anxiety | Electric shocks, dizzyness, chest pain, headache, sweating. Still experience electric shocks, but they are milder. | Seem to work, some of my symptoms of anxiety are gone some are not, some are milder. Had a worsening the first 2 weeks. | M | 23 | 5 weeks | 4/28/2005 | 2 | anxiety/depression | light-headedness, nausea at first. After several months, un-explained generalized itching. | F | 37 | 6 months | 4/21/2005 | 1 | anxiety | sleep disturbances, often woke up abruptly in a panic; chest pain | dont use this if your anxious; use something else like lexapro or klonopin; or something else that actually works. | M | 34 | 3 weeks | 4/13/2005 | 5 | anxiety and depression | dizziness only in the morning time, when i split the doses, now i take one tablet at night before bedtime and it works just as good, without the dizziness. sometimes i get an overwhelmed feeling right after I take it, but it goes away after a little while. | I have been on buspar on and off for about 10 years and it's the only thing that works. | F | 28 | 10 years | 4/12/2005 | 5 | anxiety | None | F | 66 | 10 weeks | 4/11/2005 | 3 | Anxiety | Electric shock feeling | Did not notice a huge benefit from this drug. It seemed to improve the higher the dosage but I could not tolerate the electric shock feelings that occurred every time I moved my head slightly, or every time someone coughed. | M | 35 | 2 months | 3/31/2005 | 3 | anxiety/bruxism | M | 29 | 20 days | 2/13/2005 | 4 | fgjfdjdfgjh | fgjfgjgfjfgj | gfjjfgjfgj | | 2/12/2005 | 3 | teeth grinding | bad dizziness | took it for teeth grinding caused by SSRIs. Helped a bit, but finally quit due to the dizziness | M | 38 | 2 years | 2/10/2005 | 4 | anxiety assc. w/ depr. & hypomania | I had no side effects other than a little dizziness until I started taking Lamictal. Then I experienced headaches, constant nausea and neurological side effects like numb hands and face. I had been taking 30 mg. in the morning and 30 mg. at night for about two years when this happened. | I determined it was the Buspar that was causing my side effects after eliminating various pills systematically. It was very strange because the nighttime dose did not cause the side effects, but the morning one did. So now I am taking 30 mg. at night and not taking the daytime dose. I have been doing this for a week and a half, and the side effects are gone--but the anxiety is back. Lesser of two evils??? | F | 33 | 2 years | 2/3/2005 | 3 | | 2/1/2005 | 4 | anxiety | weight gain, dry mouth, May have aggravated or caused arthritis in my hip. | Buspar worked great for me the first time I took it. It helped my career and made me feel much calmer in groups and in social situations. I am now taking it to ease anxiety during radiation treatments. It is okay, but I have headaches and feelings of depression which I think are from the buspar. | F | 57 | 1 days | 1/28/2005 | 2 | Anxiety | Very sleepy for about an hour. Grinding stomach pain. | Worked well for a while, not as many side effects for me as SSRIs. Then the stomach pain started and I got where I couldn't take it any more, with food or without. | F | 46 | 6 months | 1/26/2005 | 1 | Anxiety | Vivid nightmares laden with anxiety. I have now developed muscle twitches in my face. My skin is so dry it flakes off if I touch my face. | It was fantastic for the first two months. The anxiety relief was great. I could live with the dry skin. After a month the dreams started happening. I now can hardly sleep without having an anxiety nightmare. Now the muscles in my face have started twitching more and more every day. The anxiety is coming back and I am getting very worried. | 3 months | 1/19/2005 | 3 | social anxiety | Initial dizziness and disoriented whithin 10 minutes of taking then it went away. After that slightly calmed and kind of 'numb.' | After taking for a few weeks effects diminished, maybe immune to it later. | M | 26 | 3 months | 1/11/2005 | 4 | anxiety after 6 wk hospitalization | Been on medication for 18 months and it really worked well. Sleeping improved from 7 hours of sleep in 3 days to about three hours of sleep a day. At that time it was an improvement but after these many months insomnia is still a problem.............terrible weight gain...........and poor concentration...........This drug was a miracle drug for several months but because condtion was so bad, I did not realize the ongoing side effects. Other classification of drugs did not work.........I do not regret taking Buspar.............It was a life saver but now I have to address the weight gain and the insomnia....Periodically, I get sharp shooting pains in my head which I now wonder about.....The doctors were attributing these pains to arthritis in my neck which I questioned........ | F | 80 | 18 days | 1/9/2005 | 3 | anxiety | insomnia, blurred vision, confusion, high/coked up feeling | felt coked up first day i took it. i take 7.5mg twice daily in combination with paxil. paxil was ineffective for anxiety but helped post operative chronic leg pain better than narcos w/o side effects. i think combination of paxil and buspar caused insomnia, though my anxiety was almost gone. only slept ten hours total over four days. doctor now added 5mg of valium twice daily and i feel better than i have in at least 8 years. | M | 26 | 3 days | 1/6/2005 | 4 | anxiety and panic disorder | i didn't feel any side affects while taking the Buspar. But i was also on PAxil CR (12.5 mg) I do not suggest anyone taking the paxil because of the withdrawel symptoms. but i was cutting through on just the paxil and my doc at the E.R. suggested me to start taking the Buspar, so i did and it helped tremendously. | I think it helped me a lot. Good for anxiety and panic disorders, even though its not supposed to help treat every day anxiety like mine.. but it DOES HELP:) | F | 19 | 5 months | 1/2/2005 |