thanx for both your responses, Maria! Maria! and BL.
hmmm. other than her ibs, i may have to start calling BL 'iron guts' re: no nausea with buspar.
BL another thing i found in all the posts reading i did on bupsar was that - after a while on benzos - buspar will not touch anxiety. but, ya know how we want to remain ever hopeful re: new options, even when they make no good sense (for us)!
Maria! Maria! take heart. my mind still feels like i'm 20-something at 53, but my bod has felt like a little old lady off & on for the last 8 years due to ibs-c and/or gerd.
maybe we should all just throw up our hands and wear purple.