Who is taking Buspar?

[amyrw]

 Who else is taking buspar for their anxiety?  What side effects do you get from it?  I've been on buspar since about May of this year, was previously on xanex but couldn't handle the effects.  My doctor started me out on 10mg in the am and 10mg at night before bed.  Well that was apparently WAY too much for me to handle because I actually started having the OD effects of it.  I was so dizzy that I couldn't even sit up straight let alone walk, my vision was blurred, my eyes were darting back and forth, I felt nauseous.  So he told me to go down to 5mg a day and work my way up to as high as I could up to 20mg a day.  Well I'm only up to 10mg a day, 5mg am and 5mg pm.  For some reason I cannot do 10mg at a time or I get those effects again.  Even with the 5mg I feel a little dizzy and I feel like I have a haze in my brain.  Not sure how to describe it, like I can't think clearly and I can't remember what I said 2 seconds before.  And I've noticed in the past few weeks I've become extremely photophobic.  All forms of light are killing me.  I've always been sensitive to the sunlight (I have blue eyes so I always contributed it to that) but now even the light the TV gives off hurts.  I don't know if this is a side effect of the medication or not.  I know some antianxiety meds can cause pupil dialation which will cause a sensitivity to light but it wasn't listed as a side effect of buspar.  I'm in the process of establishing myself with a psychaitrist because I just don't think a family doctor can help me anymore.  I haven't gone to work in a week because of my fear of driving and my fear of having an attack at work.  I'm on the verge of getting fired, even with my FMLA because my frequency of attacks are so high.  I'm hoping they can find a medication that helps me and maybe some sort of therapy that helps.  I just hope I don't have to go through a bunch of different drugs, I know that it is a possibility, because I'm scared to take medications I've never taken before (another part of my anxiety)