Well, my neurologist is kinda in the dark about all this. The MRI results will be sent to him. I'm sure he's going to soon know that I'm going FOR the MRI, but it's the GP who's ordering it.

The headaches are not new, but since they're almost daily, along with the burning pain (heck, burning mouth since June or July of 2007) they want to explore the brain stem area. It was never imaged originally.

I don't know what they'll find there. In a way part of me is hoping "oh, a mass that they can remove maybe!!" and symptoms will go away. But a mass of whatever can also be very bad, and if it's in the brain stem, perhaps inoperable.

In any event... we've pretty much ruled out a blood disease/anything to be detected in the blood. Now we move on to other areas I guess .