Question: I saw a Neurologist last week who recommended a Head MRI

Since then I have had intense pain in my neck and hand problems, like today, my hand was really heavy and I felt like I wanted to shake it or throw it and it felt shaky.

My question I guess is do I need to keep appearing to doctors, or since a test is in place already, shall I just leave it. I don't think the Neurologist had the full picture of my health but then she must have picked up a little.

I am also unsure what constitutes hand weakness, I am having trouble moving my hand - if I spread my hand out the middle finger moves from left to right. Two of my knuckles look bigger than normal and am getting shooting pains at times. Plus trouble moving my fingers as if playing a piano.

A month ago I had stroke like symptoms but am 33.

That would make sense as my neck causes me alot of trouble which is unexplained at present.

Could this cause tingling in face too. There was one incident where I had vision problems and then the heavy hand also and neck problems. I was seeing big blocks of colour rather than clearly and then had trouble controlling my hand.

Whenever I see a doctor they say possible stroke or too young to have a stroke, can the neck compression cause those kinds of sensations also? and possibly confusion?

My mum says that neck problems can cause Migraines and so on, which would explain why I have the symptoms at the same time. I have had them in the past put everything down to Migraines, but I know that it is at least muscular.

I have had varied other symptoms over two years like confusion and sickness and frozen shoulder, tight muscles. I saw a very good physio said I had tightness all over my spine from my pelvis to loose scapula. They did athroscope on my shoulder but nothing on my spine.

It would be a relief if it was something they could find through the MRI. Very good too as I keep having problems but no firm diagnosis, except for a Migraine.

I did have an incident in a car years ago where the car went over a bridge and suddenly dropped, my mum hadn't seen the 5mph warning and my neck went back and forth. Possibly whiplash but never had it checked, then a couple of years after that I was on a rollercoaster and it seemed to flare up again and about two years ago with a chiropractor who crunched my neck and then I was sick after.

Before he the chiroprator had done that he had taken an xray which he said showed I had stiff neck like a soldier, and that he can't see if there is anything else going on but would tell my doctor. But the doctor said he was probably trying to get money.

Many thanks for your time. It helps being able to be prepared before seeing a doctor as I can be clearer that I do have a problem which needs addressing.