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by: k
on Tue, Jul 29 2008
last thrusday i was out with my family an my left eye began to twitch. i thought it was nothing because i have weak eyes an twitching is sumthin they just do. however that evening when i got home it wasnt just the twitchin tha came. my face felt like it was being streched. and my tongue was being twisted. i was very concerned especially since im studying pharmacy at uni, i knew this wasnt sumthin good. i thought that my nerves werent functionin properly and i had an inkling tha it might be due to bells palsy but i wasnt sure.
the next morning i woke up to feel so different. like part of my face was being pulled. i ran into the bathroom and looked into the mirror and was devastated to see tha when i smiled my face was bein pulled to the side. i started crying at once. it wasnt sumthin i could deal with. i found it hard to accept. i went to my Gp and she tried to reassure me givin me steroids, eyedrops, an telling me to do facial exercises. but it seems to be getting worse, at first i was able to frown slightly and smile a little but now the left side of my face just doesnt want to move.
im still young, just 19 and im really scared, nobody seems to understand how im feelin and i get the odd tease ! im scared of goin back to uni now and i think its goin to have a huge impact on my life. im REALLY scared. abnormality is sumthin we as humans find difficult to accept and we point out the obvious !
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Mon, Aug 25 2008
Hi there. I'm about a week behind you. Three weeks ago (8/4) I went to the doctor because I was having terrible terrible pain in the back of my hea...Read
July 2008
- BP - by k - (Tue, Jul 29 2008)
last thrusday i was out with my family an my left eye began to twitch. i thought it was nothing because i have weak eyes an twitching is sumthin they just do.
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- 2nd time around - by AJC - (Tue, Jul 29 2008)
July 4th 2007 my husband woke up to no facial movement on his right side of his face, as many due we went to the hospital they diagnoised him with Bell’s Palsy, gave him meds and sent us home.
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- MY POOR BABY - by ELISE K. - (Tue, Jul 29 2008)
My daughter got her first case of Bell’s Palsy when she was 2 years old. I was so scared that she had a stoke. Doctors told me that there was nothing I or they could do to help it.
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- Was it the blueberrie? - by Barbara - (Fri, Jul 25 2008)
Onset, July 18, 2008
My husband and I were out picking wild blueberries, I ate one, walked back to the cabin and thought there must have been a bug on the blueberrie and it bit me, the inside of my mouth felt numb.
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- Woke up with Bell’s Palsy - by Sylvia - (Wed, Jul 23 2008)
I woke up yesterday, on July 22 with BP, not that I knew what it was at the time. I’ve been promised that my case is mild and will go away in days or weeks.
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- My story….Bell Palsy 7/19/2008 - by Mari - (Tue, Jul 22 2008)
Hello, I too have been diagnosed with Bell’s, I am 58 years old, it all started with severe head pain like a headache, than an earache, when to see the Doctor on Thursday, thought I had an ear infection.
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- Bells Palsy Sufferer - by Bill - (Tue, Jul 22 2008)
I have had bells palsy for 13 months as of July 12th,’08. The entire summer after the onset my right ear was very sensitive to cold air (air conditioning in the house and in my car).
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- Ace.s story - by Abe A. - (Tue, Jul 22 2008)
Date July 2008
Thursday, after reading all day noticed a buring in my rt eye, thought eye strail.
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- i dont wish this on anyone…very Painful. - by Peggy - (Mon, Jul 21 2008)
On July 8th 2008 I was told I also have Bells Palsy and it is very painful,I have the headache,like pressure in the back of my head that wont go away,and all the rest of the reg.symptoms,I lost the whole rt.side of my face.
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- My Bells Paulsy has affected both sides of my face!!! - by AH - (Wed, Jul 16 2008)
I just had my son July 3rd and was getting together to take him to his first Dr appt 5 days after and noticed that when I was brushing my teeth I could not spit!
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- Morning Surprise. - by LM - (Wed, Jul 16 2008)
Hi, I woke up in the morning with the same sysptoms as many of you. First thought was “did I have a stroke?” Checked out everything and the thought of Bells Palsy came to mind.
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- My Bouts with Bell’s - by Linda - (Wed, Jul 16 2008)
In January, 2000 while visiting our daughter and family in Germany, I woke up with the left side of my face paralyzed. Frightened of what was happening we went to a German Emergency Room.
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- This is annoying - by JB - (Thu, Jul 10 2008)
So, after reading a couple of stories, I should probably back-up a few days on my situation. Some of this info may/may not be related to the Bell’s Palsy that I now have, but it’s worth noting because it’s been a crazy week and there seems to be a lot of unknowns about BP!
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- This is miserable - by Jason - (Wed, Jul 09 2008)
I woke up last Saturday morning with B.P. I thought I had a stroke and called 911. I had never heard of BP .
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- MY FACE FEELS FUNNY - by KATIE - (Tue, Jul 08 2008)
I THOUGHT I HAD BURNED MY TOUNGE ON TUE EVERYTHING TASTED FUNNY. THEN FRI THE FOURTH OF JULY MY FACE WAS PARALIZED!
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