Anyone been on Buspar?

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I was started on Buspar while in the psych ward this weekend. my chief anxiety problems are panic attacks and obsessive thoughts, but i only see buspar as being approved for GAD which i havent been diagnosed with. has anyone been on this? whats your experience/does it help your anxiety? They started me on a very low dose, 5mg three times a day and said the max was 60 per day so there was a lot of room to adjust it up.

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It didn’t help me at all, but my husband takes it and it works well for him.

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I’m on 30 mg a day and it helps.

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It helped my anxiety. But the anxiety was drug induced side effect.

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I tried to like it, but didn’t feel much and eventually quit. I think I might have a full bottle around here somewhere that I never touch. I believe it is a non-narcotic and that’s probably why they gave it to me because prior to that they had me on such anti-anxiety meds like klonopin, adavan, etc…now they give me baby stuff that doesn’t even work.

I have anxiety and a ton of intrusive thoughts, but buspar didn’t work, neither did hydroxyzine pam, a cousin of benadryl. Maybe ask your doctor what other options you have and tell him your concern?

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if the buspar doesn’t work along with my upped prozac to kill my anxiety some, i honestly dont even know what i could do. my nurse practitioner i see doesn’t seem interested in prescribing benzos, and i would NEVER bring it up because i dont want to look like im out to get high since a lot of people abuse them, plus the dependence they bring and ive heard they can be anxiogenic if used long term. ive tried like three ssri’s, they help some but only about like 20-30% or so honestly

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I tried it briefly years ago and it did absolutely nothing, according to pychiatrists it does not work very well.

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Dreamt of radioactivity.it made me sick. Stopped taking it

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I have pretty significant anxiety troubles and buspar did not even come close to handling it. I would rather just practice tolerating the anxiety and being detached from it than to take the buspar for no reason.

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how long did ya’ll try it for? i know its like antidepressants in that its suppose to take a nice period of time before it has any effect on you, like possibly over a month of time. my mom tried it for maybe a month and said she didnt notice any difference but maybe its because she wasn’t on it long enough? idk honestly though

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I took it for about six months to combat the sexual side effects of my other meds. It didn’t help me, but every brain is different. Any drug can be one person’s miracle cure and another person’s worst experience ever.

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Sexual side effects ? Would you care to elaborate?

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I couldn’t get wet to save my life. It was a combo of being on very high doses of meds and PTSD. Buspar is supposed to help counter the sexual side effects of meds, but it didn’t help me.

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Oh ok Gotcha !! Latuda decreased my sex drive dramatically…which I never thought could happen not to mention made my hallucinations and delusions 30 times worse… I quit that ■■■■ cold turkey… I had withdraws for 2 weeks ::: the first 8 days almost killed me but I made it through::: worse med I ever took

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The way I read it … it sounded super serious… so I had to ask …

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I abused the hell out of those lol

They didn’t fix my anxiety. They only made me think I did then when I decided to take a break the anxiety subsided lol

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But I did use … I actually used them when I was pregnant .:: they were safe and I loved them