Anxiety and PMS, symptoms, etc. I really would appreciate it if you guys read this! Need reassurance

Hello, I think I may have found some connections to how I have been feeling. This may be a bit long, but I please ask that you read this to help me out! I will also note that I am 19 years old.

This has been going on now for 5 weeks. I had in recent days prior felt some SUPER mild tingling in my feet that would diminish so fast, It never really crossed my mind twice. However one day 5 weeks ago, when I felt it when waking up one morning, decided to google it, I just totally lost it when I saw the search results. From that moment on for the next couple weeks, I am certain that I was experiencing many panic attacks, I did not eat well, I was SUPER messed up, long story short.

I also in that process found myself just having TONS of crying spells, just super emotional, helpless feelings. Then one evening about a week after the initial freak, my period started, and all of that crying and super super anxiousness seemed to melt away.

Don't get me wrong, My worrying has not stopped by a long shot. It is always one of the main topics on my mind. "Why do I feel this pain? Why do I feel this tingling?" Etc, but the crying spells and the total meltdowns weren't occurring.

I still have felt tingling type sensations in my feet, and in my hands too at times (however I had never felt it in my hands until that first morning that I googled and freaked out) many times it seems to feel worse when being inactive and still for a very long time, but overall it is random and intermittent.

I get headaches too, but normally they are super mild and many times they just come and go (like today I really did not have one at all) I feel that many times it is just tension. I also get cold flashes, and I get goosebumps, they can be more intense some days compared to others as well. This is accompanied by overall tense muscles, occasional twitching, sore neck, etc.

Well, all of a sudden I woke up today, and I just felt way more anxious and panicky compared to how I had been. Then the crying spells started occurring again, and so has urges to google symptoms more than ever than in the past couple weeks.

Long story short, when I just started breaking down and told my mom how scared I was, she asked me if my period was coming again. I honestly had completely forgotten about it (shows where my mind has been lately) and it just seems to correlate that these crying spells and anxious thoughts intensify around my period. Also when I cried it out, a bunch of the symptoms I had been feeling seemed to disappear for the remainder of the evening, like what has happened before. Maybe not 100% vanished, but a heck of a lot better than it had been earlier.

I also suffer from TMJ issues, and many times if I experience ear ache or wooshing, it comes from the left side, where my jaw clicks and pops really badly. I swear sometimes too that I have felt times when I do things with my mouth, I can feel the pain travel from the jaw up to the top of my head.

I also went and saw a chiropractor a couple times, and he definitely felt around and could feel some deep muscle spasms, and noticed the TMJ issues.

I completely freak out and try to avoid anything on TV/online/etc that has to do with c****r, and I hate it because it seems like it is EVERYWHERE. For example, up until this, The Fault in our Stars was my go to movie, watched it so much, now, the thought of watching it just makes me cringe!

I go to the doctor in a week and a half, and I am already so anxious about that, in fear of what they may tell me! My mom and grandma and friends believe there is not anything serious, but I tend to freak out and think differently many times!

Do y'all notice Anxiety getting worse with PMS? Am I totally going crazy?

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