Ringing Bells and Screamy Nerves
Alarm. Snooze. Alarm. Shower. Dress-up. Go... to... work...
Typical wake up, office job, come home, catch up with long distance boyfriend, sleep. Repeat the S.O.P. the next day and/or until life is sorted.
Not so for the past two weeks 'cause I woke up and went to work with half my face being paralysed and did not realized until afer lunch. Since I am oh-so-good with attracting weird crap, my auto-brain just processed with it's another allergy episode. No fret. The antihistamines can wait. No panic buttons, no emergency sirens, don't dramatize your life, you don't need it.
Well done. I did not freak out but others did. Symptoms of strokes!!! GO TO THE DOC NOW! So I went. As I pre-diagnosed; allergy. It didn't subside overnight, ok maybe I should start panicking. God of all information, I seek ye; GOOGLE.
Search: half face paralysis
Finding: Bell's Palsy
Personal finding: I'm awesome like that
Went to the doc again 'cause obviously it's no allergy. Felt smart when he told me it's Bell's Palsy 'cause I figured it out through great G. So here comes 60 mg of steroids and Acyclovirs. Medical leave, drugged, mobile internet. Life was spent as such. Weekend over; back to work, still disfigured.
Everything got worse, added two pounds of swell and a dozen of numbness, also it's follow up day. Got a referral letter to seek specialist's opinion.
Specialist opinion: Bell's Palsy + do an MRI to ensure no hanky panky = Admission
Thus, MRI after a long day spent at the hospital, no brain weirdness. Just go electrocute your face and get some facexercise and load up on drugs.
However, I am getting a lot of "nerves" as in pain.
Here's the souvenir of part of my undamaged brain scan.
Typical wake up, office job, come home, catch up with long distance boyfriend, sleep. Repeat the S.O.P. the next day and/or until life is sorted.
Not so for the past two weeks 'cause I woke up and went to work with half my face being paralysed and did not realized until afer lunch. Since I am oh-so-good with attracting weird crap, my auto-brain just processed with it's another allergy episode. No fret. The antihistamines can wait. No panic buttons, no emergency sirens, don't dramatize your life, you don't need it.
Well done. I did not freak out but others did. Symptoms of strokes!!! GO TO THE DOC NOW! So I went. As I pre-diagnosed; allergy. It didn't subside overnight, ok maybe I should start panicking. God of all information, I seek ye; GOOGLE.
Search: half face paralysis
Finding: Bell's Palsy
Personal finding: I'm awesome like that
Went to the doc again 'cause obviously it's no allergy. Felt smart when he told me it's Bell's Palsy 'cause I figured it out through great G. So here comes 60 mg of steroids and Acyclovirs. Medical leave, drugged, mobile internet. Life was spent as such. Weekend over; back to work, still disfigured.
Everything got worse, added two pounds of swell and a dozen of numbness, also it's follow up day. Got a referral letter to seek specialist's opinion.
Specialist opinion: Bell's Palsy + do an MRI to ensure no hanky panky = Admission
Thus, MRI after a long day spent at the hospital, no brain weirdness. Just go electrocute your face and get some facexercise and load up on drugs.
However, I am getting a lot of "nerves" as in pain.
Here's the souvenir of part of my undamaged brain scan.
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