Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, Most people with a facial nerve palsy recover with time. Often it takes several months. One can give steroids within the first 72 hours. http://cks.nice.org.uk/bells-palsy#!scenariorecommendation:1 Best wishes, Charlie On 20 Aug 2014, at 21:41, Philip Leeson <leesonpj at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _ > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information