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Buspirone good or bad? Please help, toiling in panic here

Postby RiceBall » Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:02 am

I'm Bipolar, along with anxiety, bpd.. & other conditions. My anxiety is so bad lately.. well, for an example i had an extremely difficult time to even know what to put for a subject name, have sat here for over an hour toiling over what to say/if even bother posting. Also rapidly contemplating whether this should actually go under the bipolar section, or if i should post in anxiety. Probably over analyizing things as usual... This is my first post, but i've read around for about a month and some of what i've seen has been comforting & i've been able to relate to. Btw, still toiling over that subject title/category appropriateness here. I have anxiety about my anxiety, which escalates things. Would turn into a novel here if i start going into everything behind all this, so i guess i'll get to the point.. feeling bad it took me that long to do so already. SO, I've been on many many medications & combinations over the past 5 years. I've been taking lamictal for a while and it's worked the best for me thus far, but my anxiety seems to be a stagnant issue. however, pretty much any meds for anxiety/panic attacks make me pass out. This doesn't help as sleeping 4 to 6 hours creates another panic spiral on a "wasted time" issue i won't go into. So anyway, my doc wrote me a script for buspirone, and i had several call backs to him concerning reservations on taking a permanent medication through out the day vs when needed. <--- which after the calls, i feel a bit better, but i was out of town this weekend and didn't start the meds cause i didn't know how they'd affect me... I already have to take pills at day and night as it is. I know everyone's experiences are different, and i've spent probably 4 hours researching this online to get a better grasp. Have the bottle right here, and am SCARED to start taking it. Don't get the whole "no grapejuice" thing, and am concerned w/ the label on the bottle "may cause dizziness" etc. In kinda a panic attack right now, and i know the best thing to do again will be try to get a hold of my doctor yet again, just don't really know where else to go at the moment so i'm reaching out to the internet. I have anxiety a lot, but it's not necessarily 24-7, and there's a day here or there where i'm fine. i do suffer from at least mild panic attacks at least a couple times a week, sometimes more frequent and more severe. But i also deal with being over tired with the depression at times. Kinda a dice roll. So i'm super concerned about taking something permanently daily that is for quelling anxiety, if i'm not in a panic attack state. I've seen mixed good & bad tales from other sites, where the good helped, and the bad has worsened my current panic. Also concerned about weight gain as i have history/current battle with "eating issues"... so any weight gain is going to bring all that right back up and worsen things.. i saw a few accounts where people claimed they gained 30+ lbs because of it?? Didn't see many on the weight, so not sure if their gain is attributed to something else and assuming it was the pills... Hopefully i've said enough to help, i feel like i've written too much and no one will read or respond. Anxious about even posting, fighting with just deleting right now and forget about it, --thus i'm writing as such so hopefully my mind shuts the hell up about it to let me finish. ok, i'm just going to hit submit now cause i'm really fighting with just exiting the screen and not posting any of this, but part of my brain is saying that it can't hurt to post & i just need to do so. I do plan to call my doctor, i'm just not sure he's in tomorrow, so i would just feel better & greatly appreciate if anyone can help me out here in any way/share experiences with Buspirone?
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Re: Buspirone good or bad? Please help, toiling in panic her

Postby Oliveira » Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:30 pm

Hello RiceBall,

do not worry about whether you post at appropriate place -- in fact you can post both at bipolar and anxiety to get more responses, possibly it helps. We only lock double posts if you post twice in the same forum by accident.

I haven't taken BuSpar myself, but I can explain the juice -- it's grapefruit, not grape. Grapefruit juice seems to affect plasma availability in the blood of medication, I googled and buspirone is one of those that are affected. This means that you might take one pill, but if you drink grapefruit juice, your body will suddenly be able to process much more of the substance (instead of peeing it out) and the effect will be as if you took five.

The "may cause dizziness" labels may or may not be true in your case. I take three meds now, which used to be four, all of which have this label. I was dizzy from one of them for about three days a year ago, then the feeling passed. Others have caused nothing of the sort. While you might experience those side effects, you also might not have them.

I hope this has helped at least a bit and remember, we are here to help -- feel free to ask any questions you like and don't worry :) Big hugs.
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Re: Buspirone good or bad? Please help, toiling in panic her

Postby RiceBall » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:08 pm

Thank you for replying. It was comforting and i think also getting my concerns out of my head and onto the interwebs helped alleviate the craziness in my head. -Although since this was my first post and it had to be approved, i was obsessively refreshing & checking to see if it had cleared til i passed out asleep last night, but saw your reply this morning before i was able to call my dr. and it helped. (and i totally understand cause of stupid spammers why you guys have an initial approval policy in place). I should have thought about that and posted something prior to me having a possible crisis lol. I was so hesitant to even post something, have never participated in an online support community before & admittedly, since i joined there were several occasions where i did try to reach out -and then ended up deleting before i posted. I must say, i'm so glad i finally had the guts last night. It's also a lot easier participating now that i "popped my forum cherry". Hopefully i'll be able to help some people as well. I was just so scared to initially reach out. And oh the time i had even picking a user name or whether to even register!

but yea, feel better now that i was able to reach the dr's office, and took my first dose a few minutes ago. Hopefully it works out for me. I just want to say, that i feel so relieved i came across this site last month - and i actually found it by accident while researching a question regarding something & one of the forum posts came up on google. It's like there's one less weight on my chest and i don't feel completely alone in what i'm going through. Whoever started this site, & all the admins who volunteer deserve some kind of medal or lavish banquet in their honor!
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