Anyone experience more anxiety the first week on this medicine ? If so did it subside and what did you take to help it? I noticed it’s helping the thought intensity but the chest tightness is killing me !
Yes! I’ve noticed about 45 minutes after my morning dose I feel really weird and anxious and I guess disconnected. I haven’t talked to my provider about it yet, but yes, very unpleasant. I’ve been on it for a while, but we did just adjust my dosage.
@Anonymous I might ask them if I can just take it at night, since I usually take it and go right to bed and sleep through the weird side effect. By the time I wake up in the morning I feel fine.
@Anonymous Mine is opposite … I take it at night and still feel and still get tight chest anxiousness
@kaymart I’m sorry! That sounds super unpleasant! I am glad you posted. I’ve been wondering if I was just imagining the side effect, but now I don’t think I am.
@Anonymous Idk I decreased mine to 5mg because I was so nauseous and dizzy. I took a Hydroxyzine 25mg with it just now to help control the nausea and maybe it might help the anxiety with it idk …
I didn't feel like buspar helped me with ocd at all. Wellbutrin has been helping me.
@Easons Did it help with anxiety?
@kaymart Honestly not significantly for me. Maybe my dose was too low though. I think I was only taking 15mg twice a day.
Yes.
@Erin P Did it go away?!
@kaymart Yes
@Erin P How long after and what dose were you on ?
@kaymart Don’t know where my brain was - I haven’t tried this one. My apologies.
Buspar is an anxiety drug, not an ocd drug. It’s an anxiolytic to be exact. I’ve taken it for a long time now. Over 12 months. I like it a lot. It sometimes doesn’t help too much on really bad days unless I take extra or max dose. Talk to your doctor before doing that though.
@cprock17 Yes I’m taking it to control the anxiety but this is my first week on it and I feel the anxiety is amplified
