Treatment Experience
After being on Citalopram 60 mg/day for a while, I managed to convince my psychiatrist that my medication should be augmented with Buspirone, a Serotonine-1a receptor partial agonist, based on some sparse literature I found about the subject.I guess I was lucky, because it  basically got rid of all my anxiety related problems. I'm now down to 10 mg of Citalopram a day and I 'augment' with 45 mg of Buspirone.

Update:
Now stopped taking Citalopram and went down to 30mg/day of Buspirone.

Treatment Experience

 I've had social anxiety my entire life. I also have ADD, depression, and GAD.

 The 200mgs of Zoloft I was on was not helping much with my social anxiety so my pdoc added 60mgs of Buspirone. For some reason this combination seems to be working pretty well. I am curious as to whether the Buspirone would still be as effective without the Zoloft. I would recommend giving this drug a shot especially if you are relying on those highly addictive benzos. I've been Xanax free for over a week!

Treatment Experience
My therapist put me on this because he was against putting me on a benzo. Since it is an anxiolytic I thought it would at least do something to help.

I started taking it and over the course of about 3 months I got up to 50mg/a day. I didn't feel any noticeable relief of anxiety symptoms at all from the beginning, but my therapist just kept encouraging me to up the dosage and try to "believe" the medication was working.

I didn't notice any decrease in anxiety symptoms at any point during my treatment. In fact, if it hadn't been for the side effects, I wouldn't have been able to tell I'd taken it at all.


The side effects were few, but they got to be pretty bothersome at times. I often had sudden extreme dizziness, and strange jerky sensations in my neck and face. I've read that those involuntary "ticks" can become permanent when a person takes a high dosage over a long period of time. Also, when I was sitting in class, I would sometimes get these sudden bursts of what I can only describe as excited energy, but they weren't enjoyable or helpful. It was kind of an "I have to jump up and go somewhere or I'll scream in front of all these people" feeling....almost obsessive-compulsive.

So eventually I tapered off of them. I'm surprised at some of the higher ratings people have given this medication. By itself it does nothing, and I personally think any success acheived by augmenting an anti-depressant with this drug is more of a placebo effect than anything.

Sorry to be long-winded, but I just want to save other people the time and money and hope they might invest in this useless pill.

Treatment Experience
The only good thing I can say about Buspar is that it lacks any apparent side effects.

Treatment Experience
This was a waste of 4 dollars for me..
:( had no effect what so ever.