BuSpar and Panic Attacks: What Users Say (Page 2)

• Her...
• December 31, 2016

For Anxiety "I'm a 32-year-old male, and I've been taking BuSpar for about 10 months. At first, it did nothing but make my anxiety worse. I would wake up with full-blown panic attacks and have the worst nightmares ever. However, I'm now taking 40 mg of citalopram a day mixed with the BuSpar 15 mg and 1 mg of Xanax twice a day. And Xanax! I have insomnia mixed with deep anxiety issues. The problem that I have is the BuSpar makes me so fat! I'm literally considering stopping taking it and just see if the other meds can help. BuSpar alone is no substitution for an anxiety drug and wouldn't recommend it..."

• Kel...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• March 30, 2021

For Panic Disorder "Wouldn't recommend this to my worst enemy. Just wanted to share that I had the worst panic attacks of my life on this medicine. I would shake uncontrollably at random times, get extremely dizzy, and feel brain zaps throughout the day. I was on 5 mg, and this medicine had this much effect on me. Made me extremely depressed, and my doctor didn't even know it was the medicine that was causing these side effects. Please be careful when taking this medicine, it can be very dangerous."

• Anonymous
• February 6, 2012

For Anxiety "I have been taking Buspar for almost a year now, 15 mg, 3x daily. I think my anxiety is a bit more severe, but this medicine has worked wonders for the majority of last year for me - I had only a few times where I would have to take 1/2 of a 0.25 mg Xanax for breakthrough panic attacks. Lately, though, I've had a number of additional stressors added to my life and noticed a great deal of additional panic attacks, causing my doctor to request that I add an SSRI to my current Buspar intake. I haven't started the SSRI yet, and surprisingly today, since I kind of made a mental decision that I have absolutely no control over the things in my life that are stressing me out, and had a good cry yesterday, my anxiety level seems back down to normal."

• Air...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 1, 2022

For Anxiety "So far, so good. I've been on this drug for almost a month now, and I say it took a week and a half to kick in. I hit max dosage by the end of week 2, and I must say it's great. I take one when I wake up and another one 8 hours later. I wish they had an XR version of this baby, then I would give it a 10/10. FAIR WARNING: When I took this before, it gave me HORRIBLE NIGHTMARES and panic attacks in my sleep. My wife told me I was shaking in the middle of the night, and I told her I remembered everything, except I was too sleepy to do anything about it. Summary: Great drug! Take it upon wakeup, and don't take it right before bedtime, and you'll be good to go."

• Nad...
• September 2, 2016

For Anxiety "I was prescribed BuSpar for anxiety. If I knew that BuSpar had the side effects that I got, I would never drink it. I drank it for 4 days only, and it almost got me killed. I started having panic attacks, I could hardly breathe, I had electric shocks, brain zaps, horrible medicine. I quit right away. Little did I know that quitting even after 4 days would cause side effects. I could not sleep for 2 weeks afterwards, I thought I was dying. Horrible medicine. I will never drink any antidepressants or anti-anxiety medicine that is not natural!!!"

• Cle...
• October 19, 2010

For Panic Disorder "I take Xanax 1mg 4 times a day, but I didn't want to up the dose and was prescribed BuSpar; it saved my sanity. No more panic attacks and it made me focus and be able to function normally again."