Healthy anxiety has convinced me I have MS

So Ive had anxiety for most of my my life, but this past year it has really kicked into high gear this past year. The scariest part of it are the physical symptoms, which causes me to Google, which is where I found MS. Now I absolutely cannot stop thinking about it. Literally 24/7. I just want someone to tell me my symptoms are severe anxiety, because living with MS absolutely terrifies me. The thoughts are taking over my life and I need to do something now.

Here are a few of my symptoms, just to see if anyone can relate and help me.

Symptoms appear without even feeling anxious, which fuels health anxiety.. but I am also always anxious.

Mouth movement- mouth feels like I’m not saying words as if I normally do, only happens when I think about it though and when I get distracted it goes away, hyper awareness.. this is the one that freaks me out the most.

Started around late September

Flashes of light- saw random flashes of light by every couple of days for about a week, until I went to eye doctor and found out it was nothing, then it magically disappeared

Started around late October

Constant higher heart rate than usual, convinced myself I have tachycardia of some sort

Sometimes I get feelings that aren’t really dizzy or spinny, just kind of out of my head, like depersonalization, had it forever

Ice pick headaches- random stabbing pains in left temple always, only once or twice at a time and has only happened twice, but hurts

First one around May/June, then about a week ago

Tuesday my right forearm had a weird burning sensation for about thirty/forty minutes and it felt kind of numb. It wasn’t red and didn’t feel warm

Sometimes my face randomly gets red and feels hot, but I’ve checked my blood pressure every time and it’s always been normal. Happened for a couple months

Irregular bowel movements- will use bathroom normally for 3/4 days, then go three days without using bathroom. No problems though

Wake up in middle of the night- with shortness of breath feeling, but I never remember it, almost like it’s just a dream, also could just be a stuffy nose

Face does weird thing where it feels tight or just weird but goes away really fast, common anxiety symptom

Memory- went for a few weeks with difficulty remembering short term things, not necessarily remembering them.. but I was focused so much on remembering things that I wasn’t living in the moment to where I could actually remember them. Now its fine.

Couple months ago

Nervous tics- head jerk upwards, squinting eyes, dry cough/clearing throat

Muscle twitch- when I would lift my heels up and if I sat only a certain way, my thigh would start doing a little twitch. It hasnt done it anymore.

Random difficulty swallowing

Always have lots of acid reflux

I’m never cold, can go out in 30 degree weather in short sleeves

I’ve never had numbness, tingling, vision problems other than bad eyesight, other than random short burning on forearm

I have every single symptom of an anxiety disorder but also have some symptoms of MS

No fatigue

Constant dissociated some days

Then I’ll go for two weeks at a time with no symptoms or worries

Physical symptoms trigger anxiety, not other way around

if anyone can relate or just tell me Im not dying.. please do. Thank you in advance lol.

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