Buspar???

[tropicalsoul]

Hi,
My doctor has just given me a script for Buspar.  Does anyone have any experience with this med?  I would love to hear the good and bad from someone who has taken this.  Thanks in advance for any help.

[BreatheHopeInMe]

Yes I took it a year ago, personally it made me sick but I also had a very high dose.
This is a very good anxiety med when taken exactly as perscribed, it does no harm to you're body and it seems to work very well.

[MMahon]

I don't recall taking this drug but it has been around a while.
It does'nt have the quick action that xanax does for anxiety but it's not addictive.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buspirone

Unlike the benzodiazepines, buspirone shows no potential for addiction or dependence, and the development of tolerance has not been observed. Furthermore, cross-tolerance to benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and alcohol, as well as other GABAergics, is not present either.

[dnene79]

Hey, I suffer from anxiety as well since my senior year back in 1998 after a tramatic experience. the first med the doc put me on was buspar. not everyones body is not the same and take meds differently but this was the worst for me. i took myself off of it and never used it again. it made me so depressed and i would burst out crying for no reason. i was loosing control and didnt know what was suddenly happening to me. i was literally going crazy. then i had to think what started me acting this way because it was not me. then i thought...its this BUSPAR!!! and hurried up and got off that med and i never took it again. now my doc has me on xanax but i have not taken it. i havent taken anything after buspar. i dont want to get addicted to anxiety meds but if im under extreme conditions i will pop one but thank God i havent had to. i just avoid any situations that trigger my attacks but i know that is not the answer to overcoming anxiety. im still trying to face my fears and overcome this so i can enjoy life before it changed in 1998. hope this helps.