Correct Hook/Filter to amend category choices on post edit page

I managed to solve this issue using pre_get_termsas an action and then updating the query_vars

$current_user = get_current_user_id();
$user_field = "user_".$current_user;

$user_categories = get_field('post_categories', $user_field);

if(in_array('category',$terms->query_vars['taxonomy'])){
     $terms->query_vars['include'] = $user_categories;
}

return $terms;