My dog woke me this morning around 4am. I noticed the left side of my face felt stiff / tight. I looked in the mirror, check my pupils, stuck my tongue out and everything seemed normal. I put an icepack neck to my ear because sometimes when I was opening my mouth it felt like the left jaw joint was popping. It wasn't painful but annoying. I started having back and neck problems earlier this year too but my OCD makes my fixate on it and think its something serious. Sometimes the headaches and neck pain effects my vision, thinking, concentration, facial tightness or dullness. I'm wondering if maybe its all related to my neck and back (pinched or inflamed nerves), TMJ, or chronic headaches / migraines. My father suffer from chronic headaches. I also wonder if this is all just part of anxiety. My OCD has been bad the last few months, and I'm having anxiety symptoms returning. I went through anxiety a few years ago, then I was fixated on my heart which turned out to be fine.
I'm 28 years old, normal blood pressure, not diabetic, normal cholesterol, work out 5 days a week, walk often, try to eat balanced diet. I feel like statistically my odds of having a stoke are very low, but if I google what I'm experiencing stroke keeps popping up. There is no family history of strokes or blood clots in my line either.