"i was prescribed buspar a few months ago after consistent failures with various benzos. i took 10mg x day for a while and felt nothing, went up to 20mg x day and kind of felt something, and basically i am now on 40mg x day and i can finally feel it working. it has helped significantly with my anxiety and has relieved the sexual side effects from prozac. i take my second dose of the day at night with my trazodone, and it has completely eradicated my fluctuating tolerancy issues with the trazodone. i never got the brain zaps, but i occasionally get long-lasting headaches, bouts of anger, and fairly awful nightmares. other than that, it has helped with my gad quite a bit and is generally more helpful than not."