Hi, you didn't write what medication to take .25 of, but sometimes it's what is needed to break the anxiety-anticipation cycle.

I would also take the time to do keep some notes on how you are feeling, a journal, and do some breathing exercises. If you don't know how, there are some free apps available. Search for "guided meditation" on google play.

After keeping notes for a week or so, you could find out why your anxiety peaks at those times.

My anxiety hits at about the same times as yours does. I take a half pill of clonazepam twice a day. I have had an anxiety disorder for over 30 years.

I never, or rarely, have anxiety in the evening. Afternoons are my worst times. I have no idea why that is. Sorry you are having this trouble too.

Scootermom and Idajoy,

Thank you for your responses. Scootermom, brain fog :( It is Alprazalom .25 mg. I'll look up the breathing exercises.

I think it has to be part of the fibro because who is anxious at 8:00 in the morning - nothing has really happy by then except, my heart palpates and I just start to feel that horrible friend, anxiety.

Ida joy , appreciate you sharing you take the medication as well. I have been struggling with taking it daily but my doctor explained why it is a good idea because my anxiety makes everything else worse with my nervous system.

So appreciate you - and all my fibro friends !!!! Blessings, PJ

I take .25 - .5 of Klonopin for anxiety. Worst is usually in the morning till afternoon. No shame in taking meds if they help

I wake up every morning with high anxiety. I think it's b/c I wake up and realize I'm still in this nightmare and I still have people to take care of and lots to do despite how I feel. Unfortunately, anxiety meds hurt my stomach but I will occasionally take a Xanax.

I get anxious in workday mornings. I worry about what I would find when I open my emails in the mornings--often stressful stuff.

I find that my anxiety is much more frequent and over much smaller things ever since I got fibro. (I wasn't this way before fibro.) Is anxiety part of this disease??

I take Xanax (low dose) 2 to 3 times a day. It helps me.

Achybones it is my understanding that anxiety is common with people that have fibro but not a guarantee. I have thought about this and if the part of your nervous system that is the fight or flight response is in overdrive in fibro - then anxiety makes sense. My opinion.

Milily, I think you make a good point. I have always had trouble with anxiety (30+ yrs), but it seems to hit more frequently since getting fibro in 2006.

I never had anxiety until Fibro. I completely agree with what you guys said! Our bodies stay in a constant fight-or-flight response, it makes perfect sense that anything and everything would set me off.

Yes, and if we're in a prolong fight-or-flight mode, we develop a behavioral pattern---which, with the brain's neural-plasticity, it becomes automatic over a period of time. Our central nervous system becomes sensitized to this and would be in a heightened alert mode chronically.

We must calm our nerves. Avoid all toxic people and situations at all cost!

I have horrible morning anxiety along with many other CFS and FM symptoms. My anxiety gets worse with each year of having CFS and FM! After the first 6 months of not knowing why I was so fatigued, anxiety took over because I was scared. Getting diagnosed helped at first, but when symptom treatments failed over and over, anxiety took over again, and continues to be a problem because I WANT to do things, but pain, fatigue, brain fog, and other random symptoms have prevented me from living the life I had planned. No cure is discouraging, but I need some symptom relief! Has anyone tried Buspar (Busiprone)? I don't have many other options. I'm sorry that so many others are suffering!!!