My neuropathy has now well and truely reached my face. Both cheeks (yesterday left cheek was new), chin and today across the forehead I developed an altered sensation. Does this mean that the 'cranial nerves' are involved or is there some other process happening? Does this arise in the brain? If so, is it something that could be detected on MRI (without contrast)? Yesterday I also had a couple of very brief bouts of tinnitus. It may have been entirely coincidental but could it be related?

As I'm going to my second only appointment next Wednesday with my neurologist to get results of all the tests done so far, I need to know if there are any vital questions I need to ask, if all the tests come up 'normal'.

Some of you who have been given the "we can't find anything abnormal" line, what has been done subsequently to get to the bottom of the problem or does the searching stop there, and you get given the 'idiopathic label'?