About a month ago my pdoc started me on Buspar to help with the anxiety that dealing with my daughter’s situation was causing. I honestly totally forgot she even started it. It just blended in with the handful of meds in my box that I get from mental health. Anyway at that time my difficulty swallowing started getting worse and worse till finally I was eating only soft food and even having difficulty with that. I was starving. I lost 18 pounds in a month.
I saw her last week and told her about my trouble and she suspected it was the Buspar and told me to discontinue immediately. Within a few days my swallowing started to improve and I could eat again. It’s been six days and I’m swallowing almost back to normal, just with the little difficulty that I had before. The last two days I’ve been eating everything in my path making up for what I missed lol.
In a way it’s like an allergic reaction. It’s just for some people they will have this effect. It works well and doesn’t do this for a lot of people. It’s like Abilify gave me TD and Codeine makes me psychotic. I just get weird side effects. I’m too sensitive.
What kind of symptom is the swallowing problem you think, leafy? I have it right now but I try to get used to the food again… I am subscribed to zyprexa, but maybe it puts me quite down too, that’s why… or now I am low too in general… I’ve tried the uppering aps, they made my paranoia worse…
I have one healthy friend , who had the swallowing problem too and she was diagnosed with anxiety disorder though…
It was just a side effect of the medicine having to do with the muscle in the throat or the nrves maybe. I couldn’t get the food to move down and it was scary. I thought I was going to choke even on soup and it’s soft bits. I was also sugar free and all I was getting down was sugar free pudding and jello, yogurt, applesauce, a little soup carefully, a bite or two of other food but it would get too scary and nachos with refried bean, sour cream, salsa, and cheese sauce once the chips got soft.