What is Buspirone?
Buspirone is an antianxiety agent used for the management of generalized anxiety disorder. Off label it is used for the management of aggression in mental retardation and secondary mental disorders; major depression; as a potential augmenting agent for antidepressants; and premenstrual syndrome.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Anxiety | 30 |
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6 | |
| Fatigue | 6 |
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2 | |||
| Other | 5 |
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1 | ||||
| Panic attacks | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Support another treatment | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Stress | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Buspirone. See all 11 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Doctor's advice
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4 | 33% |
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Did not seem to work
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3 | 25% |
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Side effects too severe
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2 | 17% |
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Other
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2 | 17% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 8% |
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Patient Evaluations
See all 8 patient evaluations
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- D'Anne
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- D'Anne
- daily
- since Aug 08, 2008
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Efficacy
None
for Fatigue
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips Check out possible contra-indications with other medications you may be taking. This Rx has worked great for some to combat fatigue, but I became almost sui... See full evaluation
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- rhonda1964
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: mild
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- rhonda1964
- since Sep 16, 2008
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Efficacy
Slight
for Anxiety
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips useless See full evaluation
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- Cyprian1
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Moderate
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- Cyprian1
- 60 mg daily
- since Sep 30, 2008
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Efficacy
None
for Anxiety
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips That it can cause a bloated feeling , it may also hieghten your anxiety , create more brain fog as well as the sensation of being outside of yourself .. plus... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 23, 2009.