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Facial nerve inflammation / Bell's Palsy help?

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Participants Michael Perez4Michael Williams70Ethan Garcia8Scott Allen10Keith MartinezSam Hall15Austin Sanders9Jason Gomez5Joseph Ward16brightpilot18
Michael Perez4 Michael Perez4 NewcomerOP
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joined Apr 2008
#21 ·
I'm skipping the acupuncture thing. I have zero interest in wasting money just to have someone poking my face with needles, and honestly, time is almost up anyway.😁
Today marks my sixth session, and it’s been 16 days since the paralysis started🙄 (between running from doctor to doctor, waiting on appointments, and dealing with holidays, the days just vanish...😳) ...but look, I can already move things pretty well. I'm just a tiny bit away from being totally back to normal. I still haven't figured out how to trigger the muscle for the bottom of my lip, and I can't really wrinkle my nose properly yet... but it's coming. It's such a relief seeing everything return to normal. I'm convinced all the exercises and electrical stim therapy actually did the trick!😉
Also, I absolutely hated that "Frank" nickname.🤣
Michael Williams70 Michael Williams70 Newcomer
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joined May 2008
#22 ·
Everything runs on fuel (or pretty much everything). Just don't go burning rubber on the highway trying to look cool...😁

Glad to hear things are moving in the right direction for you.👍
Michael Perez4 Michael Perez4 NewcomerOP
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joined Apr 2008
#23 ·
Alright, wrapping this thread up here. Maybe I can give someone some peace of mind by sharing my experience, just in case anyone else ends up hunting for info on this later.🙄

Therapy is officially done! Thirteen days of treatment—honestly, it wasn't even that bad. Obviously, everything is subjective, like we've been debating here, and everyone reacts differently, but I’m actually glad I was the last one to start (since there were three of us dealing with the same issue) and the first one out the door.😁
A ton of exercise (yeah, I was grinding through reps for both guys and girls just to get it over with😂), plus singing, laughing, and talking... and boom, there are the results🙂 without ever having to lie around doing nothing.😛

I definitely need to be careful and play it safe for a bit, but I'm getting back to my usual routine: skating, drinking, hitting the clubs (haha), and getting my scooter out of retirement after it's been sitting under a layer of dust.... so if I don't pop back into this thread, just know I turned out fine.🤣

Huge thanks to everyone for sharing your stories and advice; it really helps when you're actually going through it.😉

BIG SMILE FROM EAR TO EAR FOR EVERYONE!👍
Joseph Ward16 Joseph Ward16 Newcomer
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joined Jun 2008
#24 ·
Can someone please explain how facial nerve inflammation actually starts? What are the very first warning signs I should be looking for?
Ethan Garcia8 Ethan Garcia8 Active Member
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joined Sep 2017
#25 ·
Joseph Ward16 said:Can someone please tell me how facial nerve inflammation starts? What are the first warning signs?

Facial numbness. Honestly, trying to have sex is a pretty good litmus test—if things aren't working quite right, you'll know.😁
Michael Perez4 Michael Perez4 NewcomerOP
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joined Apr 2008
#26 ·
Joseph Ward16 said:Can someone please tell me what the early warning signs of facial nerve inflammation are? Like, how does it actually start?


For me, the first sign was losing all taste on the left side of my tongue a few days before everything hit.😲 Then, just a couple of days later, I woke up with the left side of my face completely numb.
brightpilot18 brightpilot18 Newcomer
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#27 ·
I’m running a bit behind on this thread...
I actually went through this twice myself. The first instance happened when I was twenty-two, and it honestly felt like it hit me out of nowhere in the middle of the night. It wasn't just one thing, either; I lost all sensation on the left side of my tongue, and then my entire left face started "freezing up," section by section. Does anyone else experience that creeping numbness? After a month of physical therapy and taking Medrol, everything eventually returned to normal, though it required an exhausting amount of facial exercises—constant grimacing and puffing my cheeks just to get things moving again. That first episode was a genuine shock to my system.
The second time occurred when I was twenty-eight, about three months after giving birth, right when my immune system had taken a massive hit. However, because I had experienced it before, I recognized those early warning signs immediately and managed to get ahead of the paralysis before it fully set in. There was hardly any visible impairment, perhaps just a slightly drooping eyelid and a slight sag at the corner of my mouth. Two weeks of treatment and I was back to my old self.
Thankfully, it hasn't happened since!

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