u/Anonym_Talker

Hi guys, I am entering the very last stage of this tapering.

I've been on 50mg for the last 3 days, so far its manageable. I was taking it every 20h because its was starting to get very uncomfortable around that time frame.

Today I was able to though it out, and now I have passed the 32h with any dose. I started crying earlier, but I was ok and didn't take anything.

Now I am starting to be shaky internally, but its manageable...

should I just thought it out and stop entirely, or start a 25mg tapering... or continue at 50mg?

I can't wait to be off this med... :(

I need to take a small dose right now, so I'll take 25mg. but then what, I thought it out and stick to 25mg? or take 25mg 2 times a day from now on!?

Thanks in advance. any input is welcome.

since I started TTFD, I react so BAD to high histamine food.

One night it was a left over (3-5 days) and last night it was parmesan cheese...

I gets weird leg crawling feelings and nerve pain its crazy... (and high HR...)

If I take a anti-histamine it calms everything, vut I do not sleep super well... IDK if its a paradoxical reaction to the TTFD...

Anyone had that? Will it pass!? how long, when!?

I am at the hospital right now, my blood test came back "normal". they test the basic stuff only here...

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Anyone here have had something like that!? I am using such a small dose of TTFD, for weeks, this morning I've increased to 50/3mg instead of 50/4.

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I can't imagine that's why!?

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Still waiting to see the Doc, but they are pretty clueless.

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Right now I can't walk, I start to be super dizzy if I stand up for more than 5min.

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TL;DR Buspirone make you sad at lower doses, but motivated at higher dosages? like, 2.5 makes you sad, 5mg -> motivated?

Me again... I am still trying to improve my medication. long story short, I was on a bunch of medication, and I was able to stop all of them. I do not have the need for them anymore. (sleep aid, nerve pain killer)

I stopped them because I started to be super sad after taking my morning dose of buspirone.
Since I was also tapering down gabapentin, and stoping other med, I decided to stop all my meds to see where my baseline was at now. So far, so good, I have improved my condition a lot. A LOT.

I needed to start medication because I started to do panic attack almost a year ago. My panic attack are gone, I mostly just have autonomic disfonction right now, due to covid I got last winter... (working on that, but with food adjustment and sport)

That aside, during the 6 months I was medicated, the buspirone gave me so much motivation, I actually started to feel "normal" and I started to understand how people can actually do it in like. I always had to push myself WAY more than anyone else. Hearing "you just have to force youself and go" kind of thing was making me laught at the end. I tried that, but tbh, I needed to force WAY MORE than the average person. Taking buspirone actually prove this to me. I was actually going to the gym almost everyday, on days I felt like not going, I was actually able to "kick myself in the butt" and go, or, I decided not to go because I legitimately needed to rest. (not because of the old constant low motivation I was having...)

Anyway, after a week without meds, (and back to my old, life is so hard situation) I decided to restart buspirone. I started at 2.5mg morning, and 2.5mg mid afternoon.
(when it was working best for me, I was taking 5mg 2 times a day)
I then lowered it to 2.5+2.5 in 2 separate dose, morning and mid afternoon, so I didn't get the dizziness when it kicks in. This is when I started to feel super sad, or depress with the medication.

Today, the same sadness happened after my second dose of 2.5mg. I wonder, is the sadness dose dependant? is going backup to 5mg (one shot dose) morning and mid afternoon might prevent the "sadness" to occur?

I really liked how this medication helped me in my life. I talk about that to my doctor and he says that there is no other med, that could work for me (and I've tried a lot of them...)

Anythough on this? Anyone here on buspirone and also experience something like that while tapering off gabapentin? (I am still tapering gabapentin, 50mg before bed...) The odd thing is that, if its the tapering of gabapentin, the sadness is much worst after taking buspirone...

Doctors don't need reddit and people experiences on meds. Reddit comments are fake. The big pharma study are good. They are paired reviewed by an other big pharma study, so they know its true. Big pharma study are better than real world, real human experience. everyone knows that.

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Trust your doctor when they say the opposite of what your body is telling you. Ignore your body. take more meds. The best is when you add more meds to counteract the side effects of the other medd you take. That's how you know its working.

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The more meds you take, the best you are going to feel. Trust me, that's what big pharma study shows.

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When you have so many side effect that you forget why you are taking those meds in the first place, that's when you know they worked. Don't say that the med didn't help you, its a lie and you know it. If they didn't work, you would not stop them. Everyone knows that.

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I've stopped all my meds once, and felt so good, I felt like myself again. That was a terrible experience, I hope one day I can go back on buspirone, gabapentin, propranolol, sertraline, Vyvanse, Cymbalta, Prazosin, hydroxyzine, Lisinopril, Lemborexant, Daridorexant.

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I miss how they were making me feel anxious, depressed, numb, in pain, the headache, the silent headache, the band headache, the seizure like headache, the nausea, the constipation, the diarhea from the med I added to fix the constipation.

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Always trust your doctor, they know their stuff. You don't need reddit. Reddit is not real.

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Doctors don't need reddit and people experiences on meds. Reddit comments are fake. The big pharma study are good. They are paired reviewed by an other big pharma study, so they know its true. Big pharma study are better than real world, real human experience. everyone knows that.

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Trust your doctor when they say the opposite of what your body is telling you. Ignore your body. take more meds. The best is when you add more meds to counteract the side effects of the other medd you take. That's how you know its working.

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The more meds you take, the best you are going to feel. Trust me, that's what big pharma study shows.

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When you have so many side effect that you forget why you are taking those meds in the first place, that's when you know they worked. Don't say that the med didn't help you, its a lie and you know it. If they didn't work, you would not stop them. Everyone knows that.

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I've stopped all my meds once, and felt so good, I felt like myself again. That was a terrible experience, I hope one day I can go back on buspirone, gabapentin, propranolol, sertraline, Vyvanse, Cymbalta, Prazosin, hydroxyzine, Lisinopril, Lemborexant, Daridorexant.

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I miss how they were making me feel anxious, depressed, numb, in pain, the headache, the silent headache, the band headache, the seizure like headache, the nausea, the constipation, the diarhea from the med I added to fix the constipation.

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Always trust your doctor, they know their stuff. You don't need reddit. Reddit is not real.

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Hi! I've been posting in other threads, (gabapentin, buspirone, Lemborexant, Daridorexant, Propranolol...)

Because I thought it was related to my medication, but now I am off everything and its still happening.

I use to be able to nap in the afternoon, and it was the most refreshing sleep I was able to get.

Now, in the afternoon, if I ataet to fall asleep, I come so close to "switch off" but I don't. I kinda feel that "stuff" is moving in me, and my brain kinda wake me up. it can happens 5-6 times, until I finally give up and wake up.

It rarely happens at night.

I think all of that started when I started buspirone. I adjusted my schedule so I don't take it before bed and it was fine. the med also helped me not tonhave to nap in the afternoon, so it was ok.

The problem now, is that since I've stopped all my meds, I can barely sleep 5-6 ours per night and I am exhausted. I really need to nap...

Is anyone here know what I am talking about? I have to tell, I do feel sleepy, I do start to fall asleep. its not at all a problem with that part. its the "transition switch" that seems to be broken. I wake up with the worst headache in the middle of my brain... What is that? a med side effect?

I think I had that all my life, maybe due to hyper arousal because of a C-PTSD, but now it is so bad that even if I stay in bed and keep trying, it won't work.

Any help of any kind in welcomed.

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Anyone here (Male) has lost his sex life with low doses of gabapentin?

I was on buspirone and propranolol (10mg before bed) and I thought it was that. but I've stopped them and still, my libido didn't return.

I thought it was after taking Sertraline for 2 weeks, that killed that. but bow I am considering that it was the gabapentin all along... I mean, I started Gabapentin at 300-400 mg before bed, right after the sertraline cessation.

I am at 100mg, before bed and 100mg in the mid afternoon. I am planing to stop them. An I wonder, what are the side effects to whats!? can I just stop them cold turkey? I had tapered from 400 to 200mg in 3 months, the 300 to 200 felt easier than 400 to 300... I don't feel that its doing anything below 400...

I am Afraid to do a panick attack if I just stop. what's your thoughts ?!

Hi guys. Inam in contact with my doctor, he'll call me later today. I am writing here because he as no idea what is going on with me, (and its not helping with the anxiety...)

the story is that I had to stop asap my buspirone because it was giving me sudden feeling of doom and crying, and or intense headache.

I think the combination of Lemborexant for sleep, then buspirone in the morning was the problem. anyway, I had to stop both at the same time, my head is killing me if I take either of them.

When I say stopping them, I mean, tapering them, but rapidly. so I've switched back to Daridorexant instead of Lemborexant, it helped for the crying and depress situation. and taking 15mg instead of 50... I might just stop it tonight. idk.

for buspirone, I was at 2.5, 2-3 times a day for a week or two. (I had slowly reduced my dosage over the last 4 months, because after a month it felt too strong or I started to have side effects. but now, I've reduced again to 1.25mg 2-3 time a day, but I can't reach the 3rd dose because my head is killing me.

For the last 3 days, I've been taking 1.25, single dose per day in the afternoon, where my anxiety start to raise... and today, that anxiety feel even stronger. but I don't want to take it anymore and have a Terrible headache for the rest of the day.

is it "ok" to just thought it out? or I should do 1 week at 1.25 per day and endure the headache!?

I'll confirm with my doctor, but to be honest, he is clueless and has no idea, he just say that this is not really a side effect of these medications, and wants to put me on an other one instead, (amitriptyline) to treat my headache. (but I don't have headache if I do not take buspirone...)

I feel like they just has no idea of what they are doing.

Anyone can help here?

I do have gabapentin PRN and propranolol PRN....

I also have hydroxyzine from a last trial, that I might take for now... But its not "prescribed" to me right now, so I don't know if its a good idea or not... (I've stopped it because it made me gain weight...) I would not mind to take it for a few day until my buspirone rebound anxiety pass...

HELP!

I started buspirone 6 Months ago, 10mg, 3 times a day. It what working well, except, I needed to stop it every 5 days, it was way to strong for me. I reduced to 7.5mg 3 time a day, worked for a month, they again, started to be just a little too much, so I've reduced to 5mg, 3 time a day.

And now, I am at 2.5mg, 3 times a day, and if I take my second dose too close to the first one, I start to have the same side effect I was having before with the higher doses.

I liked the effect of this med on my motivation, but now, I pass all my afternoon in bed because of the brain fog, fatigue, headache it gives me.

is this how this med works!? you have to decrease it until you no longer need it!?

When do you know that you no longer need it? I mean, I am spliting my 10mg pill in 4 and its starting to be a too much even at 2.5mg now. do I cut the 2.5mg in half and take 1/8, 3 times a day!?

I am asking here because my doctor wants me on pills, so she want to try an other one if I stop this one... I just feel like stopping all my med instead. It feels like I am having way more side effect than the reason I started them to start with.

what's your thoughts? can I be "fixed" can it my body way to tell me it doesn't need the med anymore?!?