I know some of you have mentioned experience with anxiety and copaxone. (Dej?) What has been your experience? Did it start when you first started injections? Or did it "accumulate", so to speak? And are you pretty certain it was caused by the copaxone?

I had anxiety long before copaxone, but I am convinced that since starting it, i have had a harder time keeping a handle on it. My MD says that is baloney, but Im convinced.

In the past, I was able to put away my xanax and live life pill free. Today I cant get far without the xanax, and am always doing something to calm myself.

Anxiety is a listed side effect. I hate this disease.

Always been kind of uptight, worried, so I don't know if C is a culprit...

I started having panic attacks and anxiety shortly after starting C, but I thought it was from the MS itself, as I started the C shortly after being Dx.

But it was nothing compared to the emotional nutcase I became with Avonex. That was a combination of anxiety, panic attacks and severe depression all rolled into one combined with the flu like symptoms, night sweats, menopausal effects, and evenually the hives. I remember DH2B coming home early from work (he's in the Army!) because my panic attack had hit day three and I could not control my emotions. I cried uncontrollably for 3 days straight, he come home and HE called my neuro and told her she needed to see me that day and she needed to get me on an antidepressant.

It was scary. I wasn't suicidal, or homicidal. Just reached a point where it all collapsed and I couldn't stop it from coming out.

So YES I think the DMDs do cause anxiety.

I had anxiety for the shot because of my suceptibility for the IPIRs, but I did notice my fatigue was better on it. Had to do the shot in the morn since it gave me insomnia if I did it at night. So I would not be surprised at all if it caused anxiety.

Like Jenn, it made me anxious because I was experiencing IPIR's. I usually did my injection in mid afternoon. I actually think I was anxious the whole time I was on it (I thought it was due to IPIR's), but it could cause increased anxiety.