What are common side effects of buspirone?
While adverse reactions to buspirone are rare, some patients may experience mild side effects, including dizziness, drowsiness, headache, nausea, nervousness, lightheadedness, restlessness, blurred vision, fatigue, and insomnia.
Rare, more serious adverse events have been known to occur, including rash; hives; itching; swelling of the face, eyes, mouth, throat, tongue, or lips; fast or irregular heartbeat; blurred vision; uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body; and agitation, fever, sweating, dizziness, confusion, fast or irregular heartbeat, shivering, severe muscle stiffness or twitching, seizures, hallucinations, loss of coordination, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.
This is not a complete list of side effects. To learn more about adverse reactions you may experience while taking buspirone, please visit the National Institutes of Health’s DailyMed webpage.