Is this a serious side effect of Buspirone?

[Alexander1245]

I was only on this side effect for 3 days, and it was making me feel like I was hyperventilating a lot. Like I was taking shallow breaths but more rapidly. My mo, called the doctor and I got off it and inhale been off it for a week now, and it's not any better. I feel like I'm hyperventilating a lot, but also taking deep breaths and my chest feels congested whenever I go through these 'episodes' as I call them. I also feel lightheaded when I stand up after and during one but it usually does away. Is this bad? My chest now feels really congested as if there's something in it, I don't really know how to explain it. But it's weird because if I can take my mind off it I don't feel it. Am I ever going to get better, am I going to die? Should I see a doctor or go to the ER? I'm so scared and I'm only a 15 year old male and any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[Paxiled]

Drugs can cause many side effects and they differ by individual.  This drug isn't known to work very well but if the side effects you describe only started after taking the drug, it's the most likely culprit.  On the other hand, they don't sound like common side effects -- I assume you're an anxiety sufferer because of the drug you were trying and being on this forum -- they sound more like anxiety attack symptoms or not related to anxiety at all or the drug but from some kind of congestion in your chest.  Were you anxious about going on the med?  My suggestion is, see a doctor to check if you have lung congestion or something like it, and if you're still functioning okay see a therapist and see if you can work out your anxiety problems.  If your life is so severely disrupted you can't function well and believe drugs are necessary, see a psychiatrist, not a regular doc.  But if you can fix this without medication, it's better.  If you can't, then you have to do what you have to do.  But again, this particular med doesn't have a particularly good clinical record especially as a stand-alone drug.

[AnxiousNoMore]

How long were you on it? You said the side effect only appeared for the last 3 days?

If you have been off it 2 days then most of the med would clear your system so being a week makes my high probability GUESS that it is all in your mind, which anxiety does to people. So if you can't relax after thinking about that, take Paxiled's advice about seeing a lung congestion doctor and/or psychiatrist.

Many people find that anxiety problems disappear if you stop focusing on them because focusing while fearful makes you sweat and tense up while you overanalyze your body - but some can never get relaxed and always have to suffer as a result.

Perhaps some of the below is relevant background to your situation.

A lot of hyperventilating in fear would lead to faintness from CO2 imbalance, which works to make you more afraid and hyperventilating in fear, so it may be a vicious circle that can be broken if you relax.
One night, I was in extended extreme pain (because the puny painkiller my day doc had given me had no effect) in ER once, begging for a powerful painkiller that the docs naturally refused since they didn't know me, and suddenly hyperventilated before their eyes.  So the doc made me breathe in a paper bag to restore my CO2 levels to normal and gave me a day's worth of painkiller.