Hi beauty
Welcome to this board! I'm so glad you are here. I just joined about a week ago. I am also newly diagnosed (about 6 months now or 3 months, depending on how you want to count it). I hear you on the anxiety about every little thing going wrong in your body. Now that you have the MS diagnosis you start to panic and think every little twinge or sensation in you body is from the MS. I know it happened to me A LOT...especially in the beginning. I started getting intensely panicked that I couldn't recall words or freaked out if the wrong word came out of my mouth. I was convinced I had tingling in my hands and feet even though I only started with optic neuritis. I was sure I was feeling dizzy. I was almost convinced my vision was coming and going. You become so hyper focused on your body because of the nature of this disease--esp. in the beginning when everything is new and you just don't know what to expect. I can tell you that this problem has subsided quite a lot for me. I started seeing a therapist whose clientele is mainly MS patients. She gave me a piece of advice that really helped. She believes that the mind has a strong connection to the body and that you can just about bring on all sorts of things if you fixate too much. But it is more than fixation. Her suggestion was if this happens again, don't give the feeling or "symptom" an interpretation. She said that what I was doing when I felt something in my body was telling myself it was definitely MS (my interpretation of the situation). She said there could be alternative reasons why something was going on -- Maybe I was just tired from work. Or maybe I didn't eat enough that day. Or maybe I didn't get enough sleep. Or maybe I was freaked out by the diagnosis. Or whatever. Her advice: DON'T give it any interpretation. Just observe it. Practice sitting with it and saying "okay, I feel like muscle is twitching right now" but I'm not going to give it an interpretation. Again you are just observing what is going on. If you start giving it an interpretation, move your mind back to just noticing it. I swear to god it worked!v A lot of the things began to go away. Now this is not to say that your symptoms are not from MS. But it's a strategy to use to try to keep down the anxiety, especially when everything is so new. It turns out for me that a lot of the physical things going on in the beginning (once I had the IV steroids and cleared up the initial flare) was anxiety. Anxiety or panic can actually cause all sorts of physical and mental symptoms!!! The tingling in my hands and feet, the dizziness, the problems breathing, the word recall issues....all turned out to be anxiety because of the shock of the diagnosis.
I'll be thinking about you. Just know that the first couple of months are so hard but it does get much better. I promise.

Warmly,
Natalie