She could be correct. I too have face, eye, ear, jaw and throat problems on the left side of my face (along with burning symptoms body wide). Nothing showed up in my MRI so I have not had any definitive answers. The left side of my face flares when my body flares and burns, so I'm thinking that it is small fiber neuropathy. Even my darn left eye burns. These things are just hard to diagnose. The onset of my symptoms was fairly acute. At the peak of my situation, I woke up one morning feeling paralyzed and was needles from behind my left eyeball, back of throat and all the way down the left side of my body. Scary stuff.