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kaliope
Legendary
Registered: June 2011
Location: Western USA
Posts: 11120
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Thu May 2, 2013
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 10
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works great for my anxiety
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none
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this med works great at controlling my anxiety with no side effects
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sorta_fairytale
Veteran Member
Registered: April 2013
Location: Lost
Posts: 383
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Thu May 2, 2013
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: $10.00| Rating: 2
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does nothing for anxiety
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Does zero for anxiety.
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RedBarchetta
Member
Registered: March 2013
Location: Moonachie, NJ
Posts: 172
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Wed May 1, 2013
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: $1.10| Rating: 7
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Keeps you calm without causing drowsiness
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After talking it a while, large doses may be required
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I have been using it for 25 years, had to increase the dose a few times, but it's still working.
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unstuckintime
New Member
Registered: May 2012
Location: Tralfamadore
Posts: 2
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Sun June 17, 2012
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 3
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increases anxiety, causes drowsiness, doesn't work
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My GP prescribed buspar PRN for anxiety. It didn't help. After taking it I would feel even more nervous. I would take it sometimes to help me fall asleep, but I stopped doing that when the anxiety it caused became too great.
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hobgoblins
New Member
Registered: November 2008
Location: Sacramento
Posts: 3
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Sat April 14, 2012
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: $5.00| Rating: 10
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Makes me happier
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Tolerance kind of builds
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Very helpful for general anxiety as well as mood!
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Lacelly
Member
Registered: October 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 199
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Sat March 31, 2012
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 2
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None that I noticed
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CONS:
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Gave me gas
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Didn't do anything for my anxiety, just made me fart all the time.
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minaque
New Member
Registered: February 2009
Location: NH
Posts: 4
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Fri April 29, 2011
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 9
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works great for me as an antidepressant .
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slight effects on sleep patterns
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1st antideppresant of many that worked for me.
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PaulsonLaw
Member
Registered: October 2009
Posts: 63
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Sun October 25, 2009
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: $3.00| Rating: 3
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none towards anziety
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memory loss, not able to muti task
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Not able to muti task & severe loss of memory. Of course maybe this is a good thing for OCD or Abused person. Not for me.
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tigerm
Newly Joined
Registered: August 2009
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Sun August 23, 2009
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: $7.00| Rating: 10
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PROS:
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It works
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CONS:
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drowsiness
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Good anxiolitic.
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tigerm
Newly Joined
Registered: August 2009
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Sun August 23, 2009
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: $7.00| Rating: 9
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Antianxiety/sleep
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CONS:
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drowsiness
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Primary use of this drug is for antianxiety, not as a sedative/hypnotic. It is an anxiolitic that is commonly used in place of ativan as a non addictive med. I'm not sure why they have it listed as sedative/hypnotic. Even the manufacturer has a different take on the med. Regardless, I have found it quite helpful in alleviating my panic attacks and PTSD symptoms.
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ks5891
Newly Joined
Registered: March 2009
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Sat March 7, 2009
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 9
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PROS:
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sense of wellbeing, reduced anxiety over little things
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bit of too much chillout
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Wow! Buspirone has so far been a great help to me. I have been taking fluoxetine (Prozac) for 2 years and well lately it has lost all of its inital benefits. My doc recommended giving Buspar a try. I do not know if it's Prozac-back-online or buspirone alone, but I definately feel like something has pressed the right buttons in my brain and my anxiety is withdrawing. I've understood that many people find buspirone useless which is a shame. It might be that buspirone needs an SSRI in order to exert any effect, on the other hand I have generalized anxiety and buspirone works the best against this ailment. Seriously people this drug is highly selective and working in the field of molecular biology I must admit that this thing by mechanism is just made for killing anxiety (even the slight D2 antagonism is necessary IMO).
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HALLIEBETH87
Poohbah
Registered: October 2004
Location: usa
Posts: 1394
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Wed August 20, 2008
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: $40.00| Rating: 7
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PROS:
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0 panic attacks
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memory loss
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I was shocked that it actually helped me. I take the 15 mg 4x a day...that might be why. I cannot remember my last panic attack.
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lv701
Newly Joined
Registered: March 2008
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Tue June 24, 2008
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 5
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PROS:
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helped wiyh anxiety
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CONS:
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none
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helped me with my anxiety
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psychydoc
New Member
Registered: June 2008
Posts: 2
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Tue June 3, 2008
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 1
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Placebo effect maybe???
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Didn't work
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I was on this medication for about 6 months and I still am not sure if it worked, don't believe so.I eventually got on
Klonopin for anxiety because my panic attacks were too severe and buspirone didn't work immediatley to help anxiety attacks.
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sunshinesqrrl
New Member
Registered: April 2007
Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE
Posts: 1
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Fri April 4, 2008
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: $3.00| Rating: 3
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PROS:
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made me a little high
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CONS:
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shakes, no real relief
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it was not sufficient to control my anxiety and I had some memory loss and insomnia
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kabluie
Junior Member
Registered: January 2008
Location: East Coast, U.S.
Posts: 8
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Thu January 17, 2008
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 8
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effective for me at higher doses
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CONS:
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nausea, dizziness (infrequent)
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I thought this med was worthless and my p-doc crazy (ha ha) until she boosted my dose up to the higher limits (above 50 mg/day). Bingo! I now take it in three doses a day, and am finding myself considerably less anxious. I've had anxiety problems--serious problems--for nearly 20 years and have only found this level of relief with benzos in the past, taken in a reactive sort of mode. The buspar, taken prophylactically, is doing very well for me. You MUST work with your doctor to ramp up to the effective dose.
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alwayseek208
Newly Joined
Registered: June 2007
Location: Mountain Time
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Wed July 4, 2007
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 2
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none
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Didn't wake up when my kid needed me to.
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I was prescribed this after having sudden 'anxiety attacks' for about a month. I took it for 5 days and really felt as though I was there but not there. Having two very small kids, I couldn't handle not being there for them. On the fifth night, my oldest woke during the night after an 'accident' (still learning) and I had no idea the next morning that my husband had gotten my child up, changed clothes, stripped the bed, and sprayed the mattress pad down outside with the hose. All at 3 in the morning! That scared me, so I stopped the med the next day. Oh, and I still got heart racing and sweats... so it did not really help the nerves to much.
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bopilar51
Junior Member
Registered: May 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 9
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Fri May 11, 2007
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 1
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less than none
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does absolutely nothing. I think it is a placebo
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was prescribed twice in a ten year period. first time I didn't notice any change after 6 mo. That was in 85. Was put on Ativan and noticed great positive difference. got taken off ativan by new pdoc who didnt like prescribing benzos. second time last year. now on klonipin. very good
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marshall
Newly Joined
Registered: April 2007
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Sun April 15, 2007
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 1
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does basically nothing
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nothing noticable
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I didn't notice any change from this medication.
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lunakit
Newly Joined
Registered: April 2007
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Thu April 12, 2007
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 2
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No side effects but didn't do anything positive for moods/anxiety either.
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grey
New Member
Registered: March 2007
Location: south of reason, ohio
Posts: 4
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Tue March 20, 2007
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 2
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none
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dizziness, weight gain,
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It had no effects on my anxiety. I think it actually made me more depressed.
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bipolargirl55
New Member
Registered: February 2007
Location: Michigan U.S.A.
Posts: 1
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Sun February 18, 2007
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 9
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I t helps me out alot since I've been on it.
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Thomi
Member
Registered: February 2007
Location: Maine
Posts: 31
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Fri February 16, 2007
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 2
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No side effects
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Didn't help anxiety or improve sleep
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Was on it to curb anxiety but there was no change after taking it for a few months.
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Direction
Magnate
Registered: December 2006
Location: Midwest, USA
Posts: 2704
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Fri January 12, 2007
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 7
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It works
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Had a tendency to overshoot (going beyond just being calm almost like too calm) in the first 1/2 hour and drop off and then come back up and then drop off too early
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Try it to see if it works for you if not clonzapam might work better
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mama2ak
New Member
Registered: December 2006
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4
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Sat December 30, 2006
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: $10.00| Rating: 1
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Price
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Does nothing!
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This did absolutely nothing for my anxiety symptoms on 3 different tries. I have a bottle full of it just sitting in my closet. Blah. It's like drinking water... no effect at all.
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Brookester
Member
Registered: December 2006
Location: California
Posts: 47
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Thu December 21, 2006
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 1
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NONE
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it doesn't do anything
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this is one of the more worthless meds on the market. It virtually does nothing to one's anxiety level.
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Sun September 24, 2006
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 1
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none
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didn't work at all--no effect
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Didn't work at all for me for depression or anxiety.
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eskielover
just me wantng to be free
Registered: October 2004
Location: Kentucky, USA
Posts: 9046
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Thu September 14, 2006
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: $20.00| Rating: 5
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PROS:
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no bad side effects
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no effect of anxiety
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Buspar was the first medication I was given for my anxiety attacks I started having in 1994. I found that is had no effect on my anxitey level & was like taking nothing. My anxiety level continued to worsen even with the use of buspar.
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DizzyLizzy
Junior Member
Registered: August 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 13
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Mon September 11, 2006
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 3
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PROS:
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it did help my generalized anxiety
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lots of side effects, the worst was a constant diziness
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Side effects were numerous and constant... and feeling dizzy 24/7 made it impossible to live a normal life.
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alisandria
Veteran Member
Registered: August 2006
Location: USA
Posts: 303
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Fri September 8, 2006
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Recommended? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 2
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PROS:
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n/a
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felt like I was in a fog, disorientated, agitated.
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I didn't care for this medication at all, even after being on it for close to a month, I never seemed to get out of the "cloud" I was in. I felt that side affect was worse than the initial anxiety.
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niko851
Member
Registered: March 2006
Location: Noblesville, IN USA
Posts: 75
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Tue July 25, 2006
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Recommended? No |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 1
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PROS:
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Unknown
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irritability, price, non-fast acting
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This med really did nothing for me. After the initial 'waiting' period for it to kick in, nothing ever happened. It seemed as if this medication was a placebo. About the only thing it did for me was make me more irritable.
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