Coping With Bell's PalsyThis section is a place to share stories about Coping With Bell's Palsy Below are entries of those who have already shared their stories. We hope that you find their experiences helpful to your own situation. You may also Help others by sharing your story. To quickly access health information from your website's browser, download Thought I had a stroke…….. Sunday afternoon traveling in the car with my husband…my left eye felt as if it was twitching. I asked my husband if my eye looked unusual to him and he said no. However, my eye did not feel right. We stopped at a nursery and I still felt very uncomfortable. The next morning as I woke up, I did not feel very well. My face felt tight and rather unusual. As I looked in the bathroom mirror I noticed the drooping of the left corner of my mouth and both of my eyes did not look right. I panicked thinking I had experienced a stroke as my Mother did a few months prior to this incident. The only thing that settled my mind that it was not a stroke was that I had no paralysis in my hands, arms or legs and did not feel disoriented at all. I made an appointment with my eye doctor as the symptoms started with my left eye. He said that I definitely had facial paralysis and it was probably Bells Palsy He recommended that I get on an anti-viral medication as soon as possible. I got on the anti-viral medication (Valtrex) and found some excellent exercises for facial paralysis patients -especially Bells Palsy patients. The exercises were on the Hospital web site. I was also given B12 shots once a week for a month, and took multivitamins every day with a supplemental pill of B6. My paralysis disappeared within 3 weeks. I contribute the fast recovery to all of the above, and doing series of the facial exercises 2-3 times a day. Comments
May 2007
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