Posted by sptx2001 on May 9, 2001, at 10:46:14
In reply to Re: BuSpar Luvox, posted by Crystal on May 7, 2001, at 15:00:06
I take 150mg of Luvox and, after having taken it for a couple of months, I don't feel like I am taking anything. I feel really good, though, but I don't know if I can contribute that to the SSRI effects. I had taken Luvox once before, altough a lower dosage, for a number of years. Same sort of results. It's a good drug.
Also, I took BuSpar back in 1995 or 1996, but had a pretty bad allergic reaction to it. Actually, I never really could tell that I was having a reaction, until I had gone to the emergency room for a bleeding ulcer, and the doctor wanted to know if I had Lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis because I had a strange blood count result. It turns out that the BuSpar had given me "Eosinophilia", which is a massive increase in the Eosinophil cell component of white blood cells, and apparently characteristic of allergic reactions and autoimmune diseases! My eosinophil count went back to normal a week after discontinuing the BuSpar. I read the "side effects" literature accompanying BuSpar and it said that Eosinophila was possible, but extremely rare.
BTW, I was on it for a few weeks before the above happened, without knowing of course that I was allergic to it. It did NOTHING to help my anxiety, either, and I consider it a dangerous substance! Not recommended (at least by me!)
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