Anyone have experience with Buspar?

I suffer from Severe Depression with GAD (Generalized Anxiety Dissorder)

Along with all my other meds I am taking Klonopin for the anxiety and it was really working great for about 4 months.
Unfortunatly as all benzos do, it is starting to fizzle out even at 2mgs a day. Thus my anxiety and trembling are returning.

(God I hate that temmor feeling in my body and head! It feels like being slowly electricuted) My freaking hands are starting to shake again also. Getting hard to write by pen. Before Klonopin it was so bad I could hardly type.

What about Buspar? It's not a Benzo so logic tells me it may work longer. Anyone have any luck with it?

I get so pissed off that there are so many antidepressants on the market to try, but so very few anti-anxiety meds on the market. My choices are pretty much a Benzo drug (they suck becuase tolerance is built so fast) or maybe Buspar which is not a benzo.

It really kills me that we live in the year 2009 and the best science can come up with for anxiety dissorders is damn Benzos. Oh sure they work great for a while, but a while is not what I want. One year might be nice.

Do you think it may be possible to pull the old switcharoo with Benzos? You know, I build up tolerance to Klonopin then switch back to Xanax, then when I build up tolerance to Xanax maybe switch to Ativan. Kind of keep tricking my body out of resistance to the same Benzo by changing it.

Unfortunatly I would guess that once your system has built a tolerance to one Benzo it will have resistance to them all. After all the class of drug is the same. I know if I stop Benzos completly that after about 3 months my resistance will lower, but after going back the tolerance will just slowly build again.

I happen to build tolerance to Benzos really fast and tend to need more and more just to do the same job. Can't do that because I don't want to get addicted.

[Hensley258]

Not one person has ever taken Buspar. It's a very comon drug used for anxiety dissorder.
Am I in the right place?

[butterfly84777]

I take buspar and I have very positive things to say about it!!!! I wanted to come off Xanax myself so the doc gave me that to start, and it works great... The only bad thing I can report is it a long term medicine not fast acting so it needs to be taken every daybor multiple times a day and that it takes several weeks to build up in your body and to take effect.. So you won't notice results right away, I almost quit it actually because I thought I was getting worse!!! But now I am really glad I didn't give up on it as I am now feeling so much better now even with so much stress in my life right now and the GAD only makes it worse so I would totally recomended this drug and just keep the benzo's for panic attacks or on an as needed basis :-)

[Hensley258]

It says Buspar is an anti-anxiety med, but upon reading about how it works, it really sounds exactly like an antidepressant.

[butterfly84777]

I think anxiety drugs and depression drugs can really mimic each other and you can use the same drugs to treat both disorders I think the way anxiety effects the brain is very similar to how depression does therefore a lot of docs can treat them as such together, If this makes since..  

[bosnianworrier]

why dont u visit askapatient.com and see what experience ppl had with buspar

[Jade59]

Hey Hensley, if you haven't already, you may want to "search this community" on Buspar.  It's been discussed off and on...

I know that "tremer" feeling you speak of.  I feel like that all the time.  Hate that.