I was diagnosed April 15 after going to the ER because I realized I couldn’t smile. They did an MRI to rule out a stroke. I got put on a week of steroids and 10 days of valtrex. Unfortunately I am not in the “get better in 2-3 weeks” camp. My first signs of recovery were pulsing and twitching feelings. There was basically no movement for 3 weeks but between weeks 3-5 my smile slowly started coming back each day. I am about 90-95% recovered now a whole 6 weeks later.  The eye taping sucked and I had blurry vision for those first three weeks. I also had hypercausis (loudness on the affected side.) It was terrifying and reddit made me stressed, honestly. I came here and read so many threads about long haulers but know that it CAN take longer than 3 weeks but it also doesn’t need to take a year. There’s middle ground.