Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good info here: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/bells/detail_bells.htm Phil On Aug 20, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> _