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(Message started by: jangus on Dec 8^th, 2005, 5:38pm)

Title: Bell's Palsy
Post by jangus on Dec 8^th, 2005, 5:38pm

Ok folks... here's a new one for you all... I think.

Just got back from the ER here in Southern Humboldt...

I recently ended my last cycle which started on November 6. Was having GREAT success aborting hits with oxygen, Kudzu root, black coffee and Rescue Remedy under the tongue. Haven't had a hit in eight days. Yesterday afternoon I started to feel a numbing in my left jaw/chin and eye. Kind of a standard sinus or tension headache... NOT a cluster. While drinking some water, I noticed I was drooling and not able to control my left side. SHIT! What's wrong now?

While eating dinner, same thing... it felt like someone hit me with a hefty shot of novacaine while I wasn't looking. But I know that didn't happen. Can't close my left eye... it's drying up... no lubrication.

Do I have a blood clot? Am I having a stroke? Mild panic set in... THAT'S IT! I'm going to the ER!

They diagnos me with "Bells' Palsy".
http://www.webmd.com/hw/brain_nervous_system/hw179179.asp

Anybody out there ever have this happen? Just trying to find out if it's at all related to my recent cycle.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by Jonny on Dec 8^th, 2005, 5:44pm

Nope, never happen to me.

It would be cool if you would hit the "Remove" button on one of these double threads....seeing double is a trigger for me ;;D

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by thomas on Dec 8^th, 2005, 6:10pm

One of my roomates in the ARMY had Bells Palsy. It's treatable with steroids. Tape your eye shut at night so it doesn't dry up, until the meds start to work. Bell's Palsy is kinda like Horner's syndrome in appearence.

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by Jonny on Dec 8^th, 2005, 6:36pm

Thanks Dude ;)

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by jangus on Dec 8^th, 2005, 6:48pm

No problem... sorry about that... right now I'm seeing "single" as in "one eye". The left one is tapped shut.

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by cootie on Dec 9^th, 2005, 12:02am

It can also be caused by a bad case of shingles believe it or not.......on the face on the forehead too close to the eye. A friend of my mom's got shingles bad and ended up with severe nerve damage resembling a stroke victum called Bell's Palsy and not sure all is reverseable. Shingles starts at the nerve trunk out to the outer layer of skin and leaves extremly deep lesians. I have a terrible scare on my forehead from shingles years ago....lookes like someone took a small hatchet to my forehead. Luckily I didn't have any nerve damage cept for an eye that twitches from it. My scar is fineally startin to fill in a bit after about 7 years. Painful condition. Head blames Pam

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by Karla on Dec 9^th, 2005, 12:01pm

Sorry to hear of your diagnosis. I hope you find relief soon. I don't have it and haven't seen it mentioned on the board before either. I don't think there related.

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by floridian on Dec 10^th, 2005, 8:19pm

A number of studies have noted unusually high levels of antibodies to Herpes Simplex 1 or 2, or Epstein-Barr virus in clusterheads. One case report linked the begining of cluster headaches in one patient with recent ocular herpes.

Lysine is an amino acid that has been shown to help supress herpes infections (shingles, cold sores, etc). Not sure if it would help, but worth considering.

Title: Re: Bell's Palsy
Post by burnt-toast on Dec 10^th, 2005, 9:45pm

No never experienced Bell's Palsy but Horners Syndrone nearly constant - particularly when attacks are bad.
Everyone thinks I'm winking at em' ;)

Tom