Anxiety
"I started taking buspar about 2 months ago. I started having &quot;brain zaps&quot; and I thought it was temporary. It was not. I started getting water retention and I wanted to eat more than usual. I also was extremely irritable constantly. 

I was told to take 5mg twice daily. I started with half a pill then after a week the whole pill 2x daily. 

I since then I decreased my dose to half. Now I&#039;m off completely.  All of the side effects have stopped almost immediately.  No brain zaps, irritability decreased slowly, and water retention stopped. 

This pill didn&#039;t do anything except all of the bad. On the positive side - getting off of it does not give you severe withdrawal."