Posted by med_empowered on May 15, 2005, at 21:12:51
In reply to Re: yeah, thats exactly it, posted by Iansf on May 14, 2005, at 23:07:10
hey! To understand how Buspar helped me, you should first know how my anxiety works: whether its social phobia, GAD, both, whatever, I usually have a constant level of low to midlevel anxiety, which then can be pushed up into panic attack levles or down to near normalcy. Now, when I was on Klonopin, the klonopin knocked down the anxiety a good bit, and also directly dealt with the physical symptoms of anxiety...and it did so within like 30minutes of taking a tablet. With Buspar, it took 3 weeks to get the full benefit, but when I did what happened was my previous level of constant, non-stop midlevel anxiety was pretty much eliminated and my reaction to other sources of anxiety was reduced (anti-depressants also helped here), so it wasn't so much that the Buspar directly relieved physical anxiety symptoms so much as it alleviated the underlying anxiety. See the distinction? Anyway, hope this helps a little.
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