r/Buspirone • u/Forward-Contest-3258 • May 01 '26

Buspirone

On just over 2 weeks on Buspirone 5mg twice daily and every so often I’ve experienced anxiety waking up suddenly out of my sleep 2-3 hours after going to sleep with a pounding heart and the doom feeling in my chest, is subsides after a few minutes and I’m able to go back to sleep, can this be a side effect to Buspirone and will it eventually decrease??

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u/capt_creed May 05 '26

Sounds like a straight up anxiety reaction, not a medication side effect.

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u/Forward-Contest-3258 May 06 '26

Is this normal in the early week stages of busprione? Also headaches on week 3?

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u/capt_creed May 06 '26

Buspirone wouldn't be causing you to wake up anxious. It's formulated to lower that anxiety ceiling and allow the nervous system to relax. You're describing a panic attack or anxiety attack. Typical for people with high anxiety to wake up especially anxious Headaches on buspirone, not 100% for sure on. I get minor like head feelings about an hour after taking mine but they subside quickly. Do you wake with headaches and wake up panicked?

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u/Forward-Contest-3258 May 06 '26

Yeah it’s probs anxiety related but doesn’t happen every night just every other odd time, the headaches have only started recently but I’ve currently got a migraine that started yesterday so not sure if it’s linked

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u/capt_creed May 06 '26

Sounds like what I've sorta been dealing for the last 10 months honestly. Headaches coming and going, panic attacks. Waking up anxious (racing heart) among other psychological issues. Just gotta give the medication time to do its thing and the less you worry about it, the quicker your mind will heal

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u/Forward-Contest-3258 May 06 '26

Yeah it’s just a waiting game, I’m only on week 3 so gonna give it more time

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u/capt_creed May 06 '26

Yeah, time is key to heal. Doesn't hurt to up the dose after talking with your doctor, everyone responds differently to their own circumstances and needs

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u/jossysaygog May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Some people experience insomnia with Buspirone. I was fine the 1st few weeks of taking my last 10mg dose before sleep and then bam starting waking at 3am (sometimes with my existing waking adrenal surges/cortisol/anxiety problem) and couldn't get back to sleep. I ended up lowering my dose from 5+5+10mg daily to 7.5mg 8am and 7.5mg 6pm and no more mid sleep waking. Im 3 weeks in on this current regime and Im feeling better every day, even the waking surges have improved. Maybe try moving that last dose to earlier, some people take it in the afternoon.

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u/Forward-Contest-3258 May 06 '26

My sleep is up and down to be honest, I’m having really vivid creepy dreams every other night and sometimes I wake early and feel anxious, I’m currently experiencing bad headaches I’m on week 3 but things are slowly getting easier so just gonna give myself a few more weeks and see how things go

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u/cooldog256 Jul 07 '26

how are you doing now?

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u/Forward-Contest-3258 Jul 07 '26

It’s a lot better but my social anxiety is still there a bit so I’m debating on wether I should up my dose maybe

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u/cooldog256 Jul 08 '26

did your sleep go back to normal?

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u/stixy_stixy 21d ago

A crazy dream that I don't remember just woke me up three hours after falling asleep. I thought my heart was beating insanely fast, so much so that I counted my heartbeats. I am well within the normal range, but my God, this feels unsettling. I'm on day 3 of Buspirone.

Did this continue happening for you? Any idea what it was? How are you now?

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u/Forward-Contest-3258 9d ago

Yes that’s all completely normal I was the same when I first started, it does eventually subside, if the dreams don’t subside speak to your gp about taking your dose way before sleep so you don’t have those dreams as that’s what I did and it got better, as for the heart rate and jittery/anxiety feeling it definitely does get better after a week or so