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Anxiety or ms

carolinagirl123
carolinagirl123
I've been feeling what seems like anxiety at night right before I go to bed/sleep. I feel so tense and my whole body feels tingling and stings. I have to take ambien to sleep. What does this sound like?
MSInterrupted
MSInterrupted
The feelings may be physical effects from anxiety, but usually I think of anxiety as feeling extremely overwhelmed or having a sense of impending "doom". The tingling and stinging sound like MS or nerve pain.

Do you take any meds for nerve pain?

Best wishes.
timetraveler
timetraveler
I get anxiety from interferon and have know others who get it. When I took my shot of Rebif it was almost instant anxiety. I stopped it for a while and found that it went away.

So in case you are taking any of the interferons, it is a symptoms and it took my years to make the connection between anxiety and interferon because Rebif only talks about depression. But a few of us get the anxiety. I have to take anti-anxiety meds for it because the interferon helps my MS.