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 5 months pregnant and had a ear ache So I went to the emergency room. The doctor look at me like I was crazy when I told her that my cheek kept twitching, and I had a really bad ear ache. She was asking questions about my pregnancy which seemed odd to me, and then she diagnosed me with swimmer’s ear. The next day I woke up and said to my boyfriend that my face was swollen, and he said back to me, that it wasn’t so I called my pcp who in turn told me to go to the ER, so I did. The doctor was laughing at me, and said that it wasn’t swimmer’s ear at all, it was Bell’s Palsy, I heard Palsy and I had tears in my eyes, the doctor laughing was making me even more upset. I finally told him to stop laughing at me, and I think that my self-esteem was ruined from that point. Here’s me, I can’t move my face, laugh with him, yell at him, nothing. I just thought to myself, will it go away? So far it hasn’t. I keep telling myself that it is getting better in hopes that it will. I had never even heard of such a thing before–Bells palsy. And what were people thinking when they names it that? You would think that they would make it a name that people with a half paralized face can tell other people. Don’t you? Instead, they would pick the two letters that are the hardest to say and put them together, B and P, so not only are you looking funny when you say it, you sound funny too. Real nice. I just really wish that it would go away so I can get on with my life. It is hard living like this. People look at you funny and make fun of you too. It isn’t fun. I mean it is hard enough getting used to yourself looking like this without people making it harder. I just wish that people would understand it a little better or do more research on it, so people like us can smile 100% again, like we want to. It does make you realize things that you didn’t appreciate before, that is for sure. I wish you all the best. Comments
July 2007
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