Hi,
I was taking Buspirone for several months because I heard that it would take 6 - 8 weeks for some people feel the effect. The medicine had little effect on me and I also noticed it made me very drowsy about half an hour after taking it. I was given 5 MG, two times a day. I took one at 6.30 am and the other at 5.00 pm. I started having very vivid and constant unpleasant dreams after I was on Buspirone. It worsened my anxiety disorder and woke me up with panic attacks. I tried to stay on it because I wanted to wait until it became effective. I talked to doctor and he pumped it to 5 mg, 3 times a day because he thought the dose might not be sufficient. Right on that night, unpleasant dreams turned into nightmares. I stayed on for several days but the dreams were too frightening so I went to the initial dose. I talked to the doctor again he told me to try to stay on it longer. I did again and the nightmares returned. I finally decided to taper it down and stopped taking it. It’s been 5 months since I stopped, I have still had very vivid and bizarre dreams constantly every night and throughout my sleep. I woke up feeling very tired like I didn’t sleep at all. I wish I had stop right away after the first day I was on it, after it gave me those vivid and unpleasant dreams.
Yes! Vivid visions of the realm of hell! Bizarre sexual experiences, demonic activity, etc.! Been off Buspirone for over a week and things are finally getting back to normal!
I've been taking buspirone along with alprazolam for anxiety attacks and generalized anxiety for a little over 2 weeks now. My buspirone was initially prescribed as follows: (5mg) Take 1/2 to 1 pill, 1 to 3 times daily as needed for anxiety. Take 1 to 2 pills at night. The alprazolam was prescribed as follows: (.5mg) Take 1 to 3 pills daily as needed for anxiety. I would normally take the buspirone throughout the day without taking them at night for a few days and the one day that I took one before bed, it literally made my night terrible. I couldn't sleep more than an hour and it was not restful at all...It was like my sub-conscious was assaulting me with negative dreams...so I stopped taking it at night. I did a follow-up with my doctor a week after starting the meds said that she had not heard of it causing bad dreams (which I find odd because it's all over the internet and it's a documented possible side-effect) and she thought that it may be me just adjusting to the medicine. She upped my buspirone dose to 10mg, 2 to 3 times a day and I've been adjusting okay...when I'm awake...I took one 5mg pill before bed and couldn't fall asleep even though I was tired, but when I fell "asleep" it was an absolute nightmare. I would have terrible dreams of relatives and constantly being in bad and frightening situations that seemed incredibly real, even when I'd regularly awake from these bad dreams, it was as if I was in a wakeful nightmare...I finally had my last nightmare in the morning and it sent me into a panic attack which mad the situation 10x worse. I felt like killing myself just to be able to get away from this wakeful nightmarish feeling...I'm going to talk to my doctor about this, but the ONLY relief I've had from anxiety that has had zero side-effects is the alprazolam. It brings me back to being a normal person. I understand that it is not meant to be taken long-term, but if it's the only thing that ACTUALLY WORKS, why would I continue with a medicine that affects me so negatively like buspirone. I'm literally taking the alprazolam in order to counter the side-effects of the buspirone...
Vivid Dreams, More Like Vivid Nightmares! I wasn’t on any other medication other than Amlodipine for prehypertension and I’ve been on Buspar for one week now. The past two nights I’ve had really bad nightmares that woke me up. I don’t usually dream or remember dreaming when I’m sleep and I certainly don’t have nightmares but now I am having them. I take one 7.5mg Buspar in the morning and one at night and it seems to have helped with my anxiety some but I will be discontinuing my use.
Ive been on buspar for headaches after a concussion. Its been 4 months now. Since our car accident. The headaches remain. Nothing gets rid of them. The Dr. Upped my dosage of buspar and now I am unable to sleep. I am having very vivid grotesque dreams. Monster and demons type stuff. The most sleep I get is roughly an hour at a time due to them. As I write this I have been up for almost 40 hours as the pain in my head is so bad. Most of my dreams start with these demon things and end in me being electrocuted or burned alive. I thought these pills were supposed to help. Oh and lets not forget the fact that they make you so light headed you have to lay down for a half hour after taking them. I dont have many options on meds as I refuae to take anything addicting.
I have never taken any Benzo's and when I started buspar I had such terrible nightmares I had to start taking antidepressants because I started dreaming about past issues that troubled me and I thought I had been over. I cried almost every day and had to stop taking it. I just klonopin now at night at it usually lasts me through the next day unless I have a stressful situation then I will take it. Buspar helped the anxiety but the dreams were too much. I guess it's just up to you if the benefits outweigh the risks. In my case it did not.
This is a really old thread, if you want to start a new thread, you'll get more input. I just wanted to say that some of what you're experiencing could be from the benzo taper. How long were you taking benzos, which one(s), and how were you taking it?
This is exactly what is happening to me, I have been taking Benzo family scripts for years now, and with my new doctor I am being tapered off and switching to Buspar. Literally, every single night since I began taking Buspar daily, I have been having VERY vivid and almost always extremely unpleasant dreams, causing me to wake up usually a couple times in a night and am so disgusted by my nightmares that it's hard to fall asleep again. The odd thing about this is prior to beginning this medication, it was extremely rare for me to dream, and I would always sleep through the entire night undisturbed (heavy sleeper). I feel reassured knowing that I am not the only one experiencing this.
I have noticed that while taking BuSpar I have extremely vivid dreams, that are almost always unpleasant. Its not an every once in a while thing either. I just got back on BuSpar and the dreams have started again. These wild dreams are EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, and are so disturbing it takes me at least an hour to get back to sleep. With so many people commenting about this same specific side effect it does make me feel better that I'm not the only one.
Yes Buspar made me have vivid dreams about the very thing I didnt want to think about - the husband who left me!!! Id have dreams where he would make me cry and say how much he didnt care about me...I couldnt sleep after that....I prefer xanax. I asked the Dr for xanax but they say benzos are additctive...i say: ALL DRUGS are addictive...And if Im prescribed Buspar 3x/day vs Xanax PRN, which is REALLY making you worse? Doctors are not God. You know your body ...fight for what works.had to goto a therapist, and 3 Drs before my therapist saw I was under hih stress and needed the xanax for my panic attacks. None of the other stuff is fast acting. Guess the saleforce doesnt psuh as much sincebenzos speak for themselves.THEY WORK FOR PANIC AND ANXIETY!!!!
Buspar is considered NON addictive in the sense that it wont kill you while going through "withdraws"
Its NOT addictive like Heroin, Benzos, Opiates, Coke, etc...
Its actually prefered to try for anxiety before a Doc puts a person on a Benzodiazapine.
Now, just like any other Physc med...they all have disountinuation syndrome, but Buspar is a non narcotic, so its not like if you take it for a week or so like your going to go through bad withdraws
It has been approved for long term use........but I myself dont trust the FDA
The Doc made a good choice trying you on that before he put you on a benzo."Benzos are highly addictive"
Ive noticed myself all Physc meds give me crazy dreams, sometimes I kinda like em, lol
Yes. I was on Buspar for a couple of weeks and I had vivid dreams to the point that I couldn't get back to sleep. I also had several other side effects that I just couldn't take so I quit taking it.
Yes, I was on Buspar for a few days, and it made me really groggy, so i started taking it at night to sleep through the side effects, and it made me have so very intense life like dreams that woke me up alot. Also, you need to be careful because you may become dependent on the Buspar. It had withdraw effects, and it's only supposed to be used short-term. Good luck!!!