Maybe I am wrong about anxiety

I get very similar symptoms, i’ve not been treating because I was in remission in april 2018. I do “treat” with diet lifestyle and supportive supplements. I know life will never be the same if I wish to contain my health. and that’s okay.

but sometimes I get the shaking, tremors, teeth chattering, as if freezing cold, but usually i’m hot; and feeling of impending doom or ridiculous amounts of panic/anxiety. this is always after a lymphatic drainage session and/or a major event that was intensely overstimulating.

it’s bad enough I don’t like to be alone when it’s happening.

i’ve wondered if I didn’t “get it all” (is that even possible?) in treatment. but I can’t treat for a while anyways because i’m pregnant.

I don’t really have an answer for you but at least you know you’re not alone

I would assume it's a surge of morning cortisol. Cortisol tends to be highest in the morning to get people going for their days and wake them up. When someone has some degree of adrenal fatigue, their body is hyper-reactive to a normal morning burst of cortisol. (So even if your cortisol does not test higher than average, you could be hypersensitive to it.) I experienced the symptoms you describe in times of adrenal fatigue, and it's AWFUL and I dreaded it every day.

(I know that "adrenal fatigue" is a controversial term, but I use it because most people know what I mean by it: HPA axis dysfunction, adrenal insufficiency, hormonal imbalances, etc.)

Another thought on cortisol tests: It's possible to make a normal amount of cortisol but not have it function as cortisol should. For example, if you make normal cortisol but no progesterone, then your cortisol does double-duty substituting for progesterone's jobs, effectively giving you a cortisol deficit that you can't find on a test. This is why treating the whole HPA axis is so important.

I still get a morning “pang” of anxiety as I’m waking (most days) and some light sweating.
It’s before I even know I’m awake - so it’s not like I am thinking about something stressful that’s causing it.