Posted by zeugma on February 7, 2003, at 12:33:05
In reply to Re: buspirone and ssri's-not for everyone!, posted by hildi on February 7, 2003, at 0:24:36
> This is interesting. So some of you are having positive results from the combo of buspar and SSRI's I was on buspar many years ago, and although it did help a bit, it didn't really take care of the anxiety I have, nor did it touch the depression.
> Dr. insisted I go on prozac and finally I did, and I took the buspar/prozac combo for quite a while. After a while I got hypomanic and extremely sad. My sadness became constant and so did mania. Finally it turned into worse depression. I read many 'brain books' and med books, and came across information that said you shouldn't ever combine the two: prozac and Buspar. Well, by the time I came across this article I had been so depressed I was crying all the time and sexually obsessed- (not a good thing when it is an obsession) and I had already quite the buspar and was only taking prozac. After a while I felt good again.
> I never did make a copy of that article I read, but I do have another source of information from another book on meds that also states this: the combination of SSRI's and buspar can produce negative effects.
> This is definately what happened to me.
> The negative effects far outwieghed the positive.
> Hildi
The info I've come across states that Buspar and Prozac diminish each other's effects. Maybe that's why many find Buspar a paltry med? It also lowers serotonin levels, so that might explain your sadness (actually that is the diminishment effect). But it might interact more favorably with a more noradrenergic med (like the TCA I'm on).Strange as it it sounds, my depression doesn't take the form of excessive sadness- more of an 'out-of-it,' disjointed feeling (something like mild dissociation, which was extreme during adolescence) and the Buspar seems to partially counter that. My therapist thinks maybe I should go on a stimulant sometime- Provigil maybe? or if I can gain enough weight on my current meds, I might consider trying Ritalin again. Until then, I am dependent on caffeine for the alertness factor- my work suffers terribly when I don't have my cup of coffee.
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