Question about Buspar?

Question

I've been having anxiety problems lately. I've been real shaky and I get nervous alot and I flip over things real easily. I was diagnosed with Anxiety Disorder when I was about 15 and took medicine until I turned 18 and no longer had insurance. I finally went to the doctor for it and they gave me a prescription for Buspar...Everytime I take it, I get sick to my stomach and can't eat so I stopped taking it until I can get back to the doctor. My dad btw has had 6 nervous breakdowns and they say this is genetic. Well, he is prescribed Xanax, which is about the only thing that I can seem to calm down on. Do you think I should tell the doctor this...or just keep trying whatever they give me? I'm sick of trying this and that and nothing working but I don't wanna go in there and say, "hey...give me this" ..Whatcha think??

Answer 1

I think that is a good idea. You should tell your doctor the symptoms that you have been having. If you don't speak the doctor will not know and will keep giving you that medicine that don't agree with you. Think of it this way; it's his job and that's what he get paid for. And it's your body, that you got to spend the rest of your life with.

Answer 2

its good for anxiety but if itsmakingn u sick..there are other meds better

Answer 3

Buspar didn't work for me either for anxiety.  All it did was to give me the sensation of electric shocks traveling from my head to my toes for about one hour after I took my dose.  The Dr. said this would go away in time but it never did.  I took Paxil for a while but that was h**l (now I know why they call it Pax-h**l).  I now take Klonopin for anxiety and that's much better than anything I've ever used.  Xanax is okay but it's pretty short acting and tends to sedate me too much.  I try to take just a little Klonopin as needed and I'm actually taking less now than when I started.  Klonopin is in the same class of drugs as Xanax but stays in the system a bit longer and from my experience has fewer side effects.

Answer 4

Buspar takes a while to work in terms of anxiety, but Xanax is a tranquilizer and it works pretty quickly.  I too am taking Buspar 2x a day for anxiety but it hasn't helped AT ALL and I've been taking it for 1 year.  I'm afraid to stop it in fear of getting worse.  What dosage Buspar are you on?  Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a long time and many medication changes before the correct balance has been found.  If you are having those side effects I would def tell your dr to get you on something else.