Posted by Elizabeth on July 18, 2001, at 9:26:58
In reply to Wanted: OPINIONS/EXPERIENCES w/ BUSPAR, please!, posted by Janelle on July 17, 2001, at 23:21:24
> I have to hone in and fine tune the anxiety/obsessive racing thoughts problem I am continuing to have and am considering Buspar.
I guess it's worth a try. I just posted about it to someone else, and I'll tell you the same thing I told them: it seems to me that although it does work for some people, quite often BuSpar just has no effect. Occasionally someone will get *more* anxious or jittery on it, but that's not as common as it is with, say, the SSRIs (Prozac, etc.). It takes quite a long time to work, and my opinion is that you should give it 8 weeks at a therapeutic dose (one big problem is that the "therapeutic dose" seems to vary widely from person to person: it would be nice if your doctor were willing to increase the dose as high as 90 mg if you tolerate that much, but it's probably not likely) before calling it a failure.
-elizabeth
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