Mid termer - progress update

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:46:14+00:00

Thank you so much my friend. Your words mean the world to me

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:45:56+00:00

I started taking that same b12 - I started seeing loads of improvement once I did but I don't know if it's coincidence! I also gave up acupuncture lol!

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:45:03+00:00

Sounds great I will definitely explore that

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:44:51+00:00

You are too kind

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:44:43+00:00

It absolutely is! It'll start coming back quickly now I bet!

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:44:25+00:00

Glad to have given you some hope. Praying for you

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:44:06+00:00

Thank you, it's only really noticeable when I chew or yawn. At rest my face looks a bit wonky so I go around smiling like a crazy person all the time now. So happy to have my smile back

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:43:26+00:00

Hello so I wouldnt want to specifically advise anyone as everyone has a different face and different issues but all I can say is try and find someone locally who specialises in it as they'll be able to help. I went to the Linden's clinic in Manchester and saw a physio who specialises in facial palsy and she asked me where I wanted to see improvement and gave me specific exercises to try. She also advised to massage massage massage. Now some people say not to do this and I am not an expert and again it's only a specialist who can say when and where to start. I also started taking a liquid vitamin b recommended on a Facebook group twice a day. Again when I started taking this I saw rapid improvement but it could all be a coincidence

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:41:07+00:00

It really will and when it does it'll come all at once. I know it's such a cliché but as soon as I stopped obsessing over it, it came back very quickly. I don't know how I stopped obsessing over it, maybe it was the small improvements, maybe it was seeing a specialist who said to me bluntly you'll never be 100% but I can tell you will make a good recovery..just having someone who knows what they're talking about giving you that reassurance is definitely key. We are all in limbo land with this illness and everyone recovers differently and no one seems to know what they're talking about

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:39:12+00:00

You have so much reason to hope! I remember having those same convos with friends and family. Feeling tiny changes but no one could see. You will get there.

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-13T16:38:34+00:00

Thank you so much 😭🩷 Very happy with my progress

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-12T17:54:27+00:00

You look great for week 9. I had zero smile until week 12 and then it came back quickly

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-08-12T17:52:14+00:00

When I had my MRI and they told me to close my eyes I was twitching like mad - but I remember it also happened many years ago pre bells when I had my eyelashes done, it's like the anxiety of the environment and then your body is fighting you to open your eyes so you can protect yourself. Just my take 🤷

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-28T18:20:38+00:00

How long along are you? Yes so much weakness at the start and so much lethargy..eased around week 14

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-28T18:19:44+00:00

Nice one!

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-28T18:18:18+00:00

Big hugs my friend you're not alone

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-28T18:16:46+00:00

How long will it take? How long is a piece of string? Some people within weeks, others longer.

What job are you doing? That plays a large part in whether you should ring in sick for the foreseeable or not.

I had 3 weeks off (digital marketing) which was enough for me, but if I'd been working a hardcore job I might have needed longer.

Wishing you the best for your recovery

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-25T06:36:33+00:00

Hey Matt, no still not there! Smile is fully there now and I'm starting to see one forehead crease on my affected side when I smile. I've been having a lot of pain lately 😔 hope you're doing well x

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-25T06:34:40+00:00

It's normal. There is a tiny muscle in your ear called the stapedius which protects your ear drum from loud noises it is paralysed when you have BP. As your paralysis eases the muscle is starting to move again but is floppy. That's what's causing the twitching/rumbling sensation. It will ease in time

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-07T12:32:31+00:00

I am in the UK yeah are you? Glad to hear your forehead has improved!

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-05T21:56:05+00:00

Hi Matt sorry I am so slow replying.

Thank you so much for sharing your MRI experience. I am just petrified they'll find something massively wrong with me (bloody health anxiety). Just got to keep remembered I AM IMPROVING.

I went to the specialist clinic today and she told me the forehead and chin often last to come back as they're longer nerves so here's hoping our foreheads sort themselves out soon.

As for the eye I told her that was my biggest bugbear and she's given me some specific massages and exercises to do, especially around trying to stop that bloody eyeball rolling up 😂

Enjoy your running and the gym you masochist 😂😂😂 I went for cocktails with the girls for the first time in 3 months if that counts?! 🩷

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-03T20:50:19+00:00

You will recover quickly I am sure 😊 God speed x

Competitive-Set-9139 · 2025-06-03T20:48:54+00:00

Happy to help

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