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BuSpar's (buspirone hydrochloride's) Side Effects
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BuSpar's common side effects:
BuSpar's less common side effects:
BuSpar's freaky rare side effects:
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BuSpar's Suicide Risk: As all neurological / psychiatric meds carry a suicide risk of some form, but I couldn't find a single reference to BuSpar among them. There is nothing in an English-language PI sheet from anywhere, there is nothing in the literature, there is nothing on a legitimate website. BuSpar helps to prevent suicide, there has yet to be a published report of BuSpar making anyone in the least bit suicidal.
Weight gain with BuSpar: What weight gain? Unless you were too anxious or depressed to eat and started to eat again.
BuSpar's sexual side effects: As BuSpar is odd in its working with serotonin and dopamine this is a real coin toss, if anything happens at all. Taken by itself the PI sheet / PDR tell us BuSpar has a small, but greater than zero chance of either increasing or decreasing your libido, and very rare chance of causing guys to take forever to come (which could be good or bad) or become impotent. In a review of the side effects taken from the clinical trials there was nothing in the way of sexual side effects. As mentioned on other pages, when taken with an SSRI, BuSpar is more likely than not able to help counter the sexual dysfunction one has from the SSRI.
BuSpar's pregnancy risk: The PI sheet / PDR, tell us that BuSpar is pregnancy category B, which means that they pumped critters (in this case rats and rabbits) with 30 times the maximum recommended amount, and those damn rodents still wouldn't give birth to mutant offspring. So as far as anyone knows BuSpar is safe to take when pregnant, but it's still up to you to consult with every doctor you've ever seen because there is no guarantee as no one has collected all the data from every pregnant woman who took BuSpar during her entire term. No one knows if BuSpar or its metabolites get into human breast milk. They do get into rat breast milk, so you'll have to either stop taking it while nursing or the kid gets formula, or the kid is way super mellow.
BuSpar's seizure risk: The US PI sheet / PDR show seizures as a rare event. Overseas BuSpar is contraindicated for people with seizures. Our opinion is: it depends on how low your seizure threshold is. If the least little thing is likely to set off a seizure, avoid BuSpar. If the anticonvulsants you take allow you to watch the entire Adult Swim line up, the opening Dr. Who sequence, and listen to trance music without any problems, then BuSpar shouldn't bother you.
For all side effects, including the ones you've probably experienced but we didn't list here, check the PI sheet. / PDR It might be written in doctorese, so you'll have to look up a $5 synonym.
Interesting Stuff Your Doctor Probably Won't Tell You About BuSpar: Per the the PI sheet. / PDR if you take BuSpar with aspirin will give you a 23% increase in BuSpar's plasma levels. Now combine that with the increase you get with taking BuSpar on an empty stomach and you get a significant boost. Provided you don't puke it all up.
Click on these links to learn more about BuSpar:
BuSpar's Approved and Off-label Uses BuSpar's Pros and Cons BuSpar's Side Effects How to Take and Stop Taking BuSpar BuSpar's Effectiveness and Comparisons with Other Meds How BuSpar Works Buying BuSpar Global BuSpar PI Sheets and Other Links for BuSpar Comments
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Physicians' Desk Reference Edition 60 Lori Murray Senior Editor, Michael DeLuca, PharmD Drug
Information Specialist, et al. © 2006. Published by Thomson PDR. End of books used for this article. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Created Wednesday, June 13 2007
Last updated
Saturday, December 05, 2009
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