I had only taken Buspar for a few days on a low dose of 15 mg/day, when my eyelid began rapidly twitching after 45 minutes of ingestion of the first dose with food. This did not let up until about 24 hours later and STOPPING Buspar.

I have never had this experience before and let me tell you it is one of the WORST experiences I have had - I could not sleep or concentrate. I even put a bag of pennies, in an effort to sleep, on my eye to try to stop the twitching but the bag just bounced up and down!

One of the side effects of Buspar is involuntary movement / possible permanent tardive dyskinesia. Pain I can tolerate for some reason, but this CONSTANT and FREQUENT (3 twitches per second) sensation was driving me nuts!

Now several days later, I'm having occasional sharp shooting pains in the right side of head (is this a "brain zap"?).

Long story short I regret going on Buspar. Anyone had a similar experience on this "mild" drug?