[Leica] OT: Bell's Palsy

[Sonny Carter]

Kathy had it for a few months.  In her case it was not permanent, and that
is the case for many people, as I understand it.

We had a neighbor who had had it for many years, however.

There's really no treatment for it, the saddest thing is that it takes away
your smile, and as you know in Kathy's case that was a blow.

It also makes for a dry eye on the side affected, so you need to care for
the eye with drops and eye protection in the wind.

I don't know if they really know for sure what causes it,  virus is
suspected, or injury.

She had some jaw surgery a year or so before; that could have had something
to do with it, but no one would admit to that!

Remember, most  get over it with time, I understand.  Kathy fully recovered
in about six months.  She was really scared though until it started
improving.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Anybody ever had this and if so how long did it last? Sorry to fill the
> list
> with yet another OT email. I got a fright on Sunday morning at breakfast
> when part of one side of my tongue went numbish along with part of my
> cheek.
> That combined with a couple of headaches earlier in the week eventually
> prompted a TIA scare. As it was Sunday and all doctors in Ireland are on
> golf courses that day, a visit to the A&E was urged by SWMBO. I should have
> just driven to a golf course and hailed a man in plaid...
>
> Went to the public hospital at 9.00pm just in time to meet the early drunk.
> Nearly had a fight in the waiting room with one who was being aggressive to
> some poor woman - in pain - who also was queuing. What a hell hole! Drunk
> was removed by the Gardai. Never brought a camera.... After a lot of
> waiting, probing, and tests, it was determined that a TIA was not likely
> but
> it probably related to dental work last month, so I was discharged and hit
> my bed at 3.15am.
>
> The following day - Monday, my mouth still felt like someone else's, so I
> went to the dental surgeon who had removed the two awkward teeth for me
> last
> month, but he said jaw now fine, but it may be caused by me grinding my
> jaws
> at night. I have to get a guard from my ordinary dentist and speed up
> getting a cobalt denture. It also might be the sinal passages, as the root
> cavity was very messy on one of the removed teeth at the time.
>
> To eliminate the sinuses, I went to the doc that afternoon who put me on
> double strength penicillin and gave me a referral for a brain & sinuses MRI
> scan which is due tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday (Tues) the muscles on the
> left side of my face went partially on strike along with my left lower
> eyelid - a bit worrying. Ironically, I was dropping my wife in for her
> chemo - she has stage 4 cancer - at the adjoining private hospital and
> noticed my eye tearing up heavily on the drive in, and was tempted to try
> and see a specialist. I didn't.
>
> Today when I woke, my face was worse again so back to A&E in the public
> hospital again - no drunks this time - and got a different doctor. More
> tests, a paper review by a specialist, and the prognosis that it was most
> likely to be Bell's Palsy, but I'm also to have the MRI tomorrow to
> eliminate more terrifying possibilities.
>
> So, off list, please let me know if any of you have had any experience of
> it. I'd only heard of it from warnings from my father and mother never to
> go
> to bed with my hair wet!
>
> Douglas
>
>
>
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