User Reviews for BuSpar oral

I started taking 30mg of Buspar for generalized anxiety and for panic attacks. Adusting to this medication was difficult. I felt manic and had a huge increase in anxiety and panic attacks. I was told that I am very sensitive to it. This lasted for about 2 1/2 weeks then I felt great. Xanax helped me cope during that time. Without it I probably would have gone insane. I have been taking Buspar for 1 1/2 years. At about the 1 year mark I began having a slight increase in anxiety and was advised to increase to 45mg. Over the next three months my anxiety kept getting worse and I ended up taking 60mg (which I split up into six 10mg pills because taking more than that at once makes me extremely dizzy and foggy). Still my anxiety worsened and I have started taking 20mg. Celexa along with the Buspar. I have not completely adjusted to the Celexa (hello, Xanax) so do not know the outcome as of now. I think the Buspar has just stopped working for me. I am sad, besides having to remember to take 6 pills throughout the day that made me dizzy and tired for a while, Buspar worked really well.Read More Read Less

IT HAS WORKED FOR ME I DID EXPIEIENCE SLIGHT ANXIETY, BUT IT PASSED QUICKLY

i was prescribed lexapro after being diagnosed with depression and anxiety. the lexapro killed my sex drive and ability to achieve erections and my dr. suggested the buspar. i took it but didnt find it that helpful. after being off all meds for over five months and determined not to go back on anything, i was getting depressed all over again and hadnt had an erection in maybe two months... not that i was really missing it but thought, 'what the hell... might as well try that buspar.' i am quite shocked that within thirty minutes i could feel my libido lift and achieve an erection. i noticed in many of the reviews of this drug it takes perhaps up to six weeks to notice an effect but for now, this is really the only thing i can remember that has gotten me to a point that im interested in sex again. i notice that about 5 to 10 minutes after taking a 10mg dose that my head tingles for a couple minutes... feels like mild electrical branches going off, not painful, just a bit weird.Read More Read Less

i have taken this for a few months and i stopped it once because it made my hands soo shaky. ARPN suggested taking it at night. I only take one 15mg. I dont think it has helped at all. Drs just make me think i'm crazy and prescribe antidepressants. I also take 300mg of wellbutrin which i think has worked. i took lexapro with no change and celexa with no change. I think if i stop the Buspar, i might get the steady back in my hands. i cant type or paint my fingernails. I am afraid to stop it cause it might mess with me even more. At the time it was prescribed, i was having a terrible time with my GI. I had to deal with feeling bad everyday, not knowing if what i ate was going to make me sick, and i had diarrea so bad that i wouldnt even leave town. I lost friends who dont understand. Since i had a EGD/Colonoscopy and was put on hyoscyamine and prevacid, i am doing much better. I look at all the bottles in my cabinet and thing to myself, I am 25 i should be living it up instead of sleeping or being alone. I have noticed that too, i used to be really outgoing and fun and now i would rather stay home. Mood wise the Wellbutrin has helped. i think i will stop the Buspar. Seems like a waste of money.Read More Read Less

I've had anxiety so awful I could barely leave the house, I've taken many other drugs and had this with the best result. Barely any side effects with great results - the worst side effect for me is I get hungry after taking it.

I was taking an antidepressant by itself for 3 years when the effectiveness began to decrease. I added a low dose of Buspar and am feeling like a million bucks without all the funky side effects & withdrawal symptoms.

Medication makes me feel very lightheaded when taken with food. Has completely stopped my night sweats and sleeplessness. Has helped tremendously with anxiety and being startled so easily.

I cannot understand that people benefit from yhis drug for anxiety it is like becksthegazza sais the mosthorrible drug ever inventid if you are not anxious you will become it if you take it and if you have a history of drugabuse they(Docters) rather let you commit suicide then prescibe you benzodiazepines the only drug that realy helps with anxietyproblems they even said that if I wanted benzo's I should buy them on the street(unexplaineble) so you get back to the drugscene and when you cannot find any benzo's your tempted to buy other drugs or by high quantities of alcohol wich in my country(the Netherlands) is not that difficult and also very cheap(for 6 euro's you can buy 8 liters of brandname beer and also highv percentage alcohol is very cheap and availeble in supermarkets and in my time there where you could buy it at any age even if you wher about 10 years old, know you have to be 16)so you understand that I resorted to alcohol anddrank for a while about 6 liters of beer a day with a few glasses of pernod(40% alcohol, only availeble in liquerstores but there the prices are not that high and you only have to be 18 to buy it and even when you are younger you get it because they don't ask you about your age)then after awhile I reduced my intake to about 1 liter of beer and I got to a psychiatrist that gave me time after time SSRI's wich also worsend the situation again then the gave me anti-psychotics wich gave me TD for wich she descriped me Akineton(anti-cholernica for parkinsons decease)wich worsend my TD, then Itook a look at the informationguide of Akineton wichv stated that you may not take this medice if you suffer from TD I started to learn more about the guidelines for anxietydisorders made up by the goverment and confronted my psychiatrist with them and now after years of suffering and putting me on the most horrible meds I finally got clonazepam wich werk good with little to almost no tolerance(I sometimes even forget to take them).ThankgodforinternetRead More Read Less

Since beginning this medication I have had only one episode of anxiousness. The best side effect it I have no more heart burn!

Since beginning to take BuSpar my anxiety is practically non-existent and the best side effect is no more heartburn!

This IS without a doubt the WORST medication EVER made, it's HORRIBLE in that it CAUSES THREE TIMES as MUCH anxiety as the actual syndrome, yet, certain physician's call to arms? " Just give it time, it takes awhile" and, GOD FORBID, you say your an alcoholic and need help with anxiety YOU WILL NOT get it,ergo, I stopped telling Drs about my recovery except for the pain clinic (BLESS THEIR PROGRESSIVE, UNDERSTANDING YETCAREFUL HEARTS!), which told me so what if I'm a recovering alcoholic, that DOES NOT MEAN Ihave to LIVE WITH PAIN. HOWEVER< it does mean that one usually has to live with anxiety because MOST Dr.'s WILL NOT PRESCRIBE THE BEST HELP..BENZODIAZEPEINES, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE ARE LONGER ACTING BENZOS WITH LESSOF A HISTORY IF DEPENDENCE..KLONOPIN! THANK GOD FOR A VERY UNDERSTANDING PSYCHAIRTRIST WHO MONITORS MY MEDS VERY CAREFULLY JUSTASTHEPAI CLINIC DOES, AS I HAVE TO USE OPIODs at home,PLUS I have a morphine PUMP, BUT, Because ofKlonopin and thepain meds,I have a LIFE TODAY, something I would not have had I stayed with Dr. P. H. ,and other TOLEDO HACKS who made my life a LIVING HELL, or whose non-prescribing OR prescribing utterly ancient Tricyclates for anxiety, etc made me MORE NERVOUS and MADE IT HARDER TO CONCENTRATE and HARDER to SLEEP, EAT, and FUNCTION. IT, all told TOOK 8 YEARS oF HORROR TO FINALLY GET SOMEONE TO LISTEN, so the pain clinic came up with a combination of meds that literally sent my back painfrom a 11 toa4, AND DR.P.H. of TOLEDO,wanted IMMEDIATELY TO CHANGE IT,it wasatthispoint we parted ways, as I wanted someone who cared, not someone with MIOPIC, almost AUTISTICvisionon theETOH abuse,which was so far BACK in my past anyway!Read More Read Less

This medication gave me horrible side effects.I had some of the worse panic attacks Ive ever had.I laid in the fetal position and shook for hours and could not sleep.It does not work for me and made my phychotic.

at first i was scared to take this medication. i never experience this feeling. I been taking 5mg 3 times a day for about 5 weeks now and i can say i feel alot better than i did. it really works.

I was suffering from major anxiety and panic attacks constantly and to the point where it started to take over my life. I was put on clonazipam, valium, and many types of anti-depressants over the years but nothing has been as effective. I don't feel groggy or tired and am able to deal with tough situations much better. The only thing it doesn't do is help the insomnia. My dose is 15 mg 3 times a day.

Helps me with irrational worries and being overwhelmed about the future.

before taking Buspar, I was tense, had trouble sitting still very long, crabby, and had a "knot" between my shoulder blades. After a few weeks on the medication my anxiety was greatly reduced and I am able to function more efficiently. Tense situations don't bother me nearly as much and I've had comments made to me about how calm I seem to be, but I'm never feeling like I'm over drugged.

Dizziness, muscle pain, headache, malaise were the most common side-effects that have occurred. No withdrawl reactions. Actually, I felt much better when stopping this medicine.

I take the smallest dose necessary to function. I still have panic attacks, but they are controlled and short lived. I can live with that. I have a life now!

i felt anxious all the time and worried about everything and felt really stressed out, now i think its working,im not worrying as much but i wonder about my dose, it seems small, 5mg 2 times daily, what are other peoples doses?