I'm not familiar w/buspirone. Does it help you walk?

that is for anixiety so I can leave the house.

This is a very long time fact for anyone, healthy or not. The less you use your muscles, the less you CAN use them. Have you ever been sick, and lain in bed for 3 or more days? Bet when you got better you felt very weak. Takes much longer to build up muscle than lose it. But remember to be kind to yourself, we do have MS.

I have MS to.

its hard to leave the House

I'm on Buspirone for anxiety and it has worked wonders for me. It's taken my anxiety from a five to a one or two most days. I hope it helps you!

I take Xanax for anxiety. For some reason, I guess because it makes my heart stop racing, it allows me to walk easier. I'm going to look into possibly switching to Buspirone.

I have anxiety too. I have been taking buspirone for years. I found out about it on the internet. No doctor told me about it. It is an old drug and is cheap. I asked for it from the doctor and they were happy to give it out. It is relatively less harmful than the other drugs for anxiety. They consider it like less hazardous than drugs like valium -- more like antidepressants in regards to their addictive nature. I take it because I cannot tolerate any of the antidepressants and I had anxiety from taking interferon.

I started getting phobic about certain things like if I expected bad news, I didn't want to open mail. Buspirone definitely helped me. A new doctor said that I wasn't on a therapeutic dose and tried to increase my dose, but I found that it can affect your balance if it is too high. I only take about 7.5 mg 4 times a day. But this doctor said that I needed more like at least 40 mg. a day. That was too much for me. I changed doctors.

Another therapist told me that buspirone doesn't work for a lot of people and that I was the first one that she knew that it worked for. But the antidepressants do not work for me so everyone is different. I cannot tolerate the side effects of antidepressants. But buspirone is great and helps my anxiety. My phobic problems have gone away.

GeminiAmy, I hope that it works for you. It works for me. Thanks for the topic.

Wow does this post come at a good time for me cause I have anxiety and really bad muscle spasms and my doc has me on Diazepam. I have trouble getting my meds on time from the VA and have had to go through withdrawl from not getting the Valium on time...I hate it but I have tried antidepressants without good results and a long time ago Busiprone also without good results. I take the minimal amount of meds I have to and have now learned to not go without and how to taper it just in case. It does help me so much so it's a double edged sword. I am down today but I normally walk and swim to stay mobile. I am an avid gardener and I am now paying for overdoing canning and entertaining over the past two weeks. I can't seem to find the right balance sometimes so please when you get mobile do it slowly and keep track of how much you walk and how you feel. There MUST be a balance and I constantly try to find it. I really hope you do well Amy...I will tell you I was in a w/c for almost 10yrs and finally got motivated to work with a PT/Fitness trainer and it took 5 years to get fully mobile but I am...use a cane/hubby's shoulder,hand to walk at times.