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Buspirone anxiety medication, what are the side effects?
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Buspar (buspirone): Buspar (buspirone) is a very well tolerated medication overall. Very few of my patients have experienced side effects. When seen they were most often headache, dizziness (usually when getting up from lying position) ; feeling tired.
Answered 6/24/2014
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