Woke up with a terrible headache, and throbbing on the right side and behind my ear. Felt pretty miserable. It took a few hours, after taking the steroids and the tylenol, but it finally eased up and was just a slight headache. I took two more tylenol throughout the day, as well as my regular supplements, including multi-minerals, vitamins D3 and E, Agricept (which is antiviral, etc.) and oregano oil capsules (also anti-viral). Going to search for B vitamins tomorrow. Hopefully they're available here. Otherwise I'll just make sure I eat a lot of food rich in B vitamins - supposed to help with nerve re-growth. Food still tastes bland, strange, and it's very hard to not bite my tongue, or even protect it from the super sharp teeth I didn't realize I had, when I can't control it very well, at least the right side of it...I never knew my tongue had bilateral controls!
The paralysis doesn't seem any better but it's doesn't seem worse either, so that's good.
I worked a few hours midday, went to a restaurant to eat Friday Couscous (not a good idea with half your mouth not working!), and then was exhausted and slept all afternoon. Headache is worse again at night. I've been keeping the eye open when I'm home and just hydrating it with drops periodically. I've taped it shut for the night. Trying new methods, because the skin around my eye was getting super irritated from pulling the tape off. I need to search a few more pharmacies here to see if I can find ointment to use at night, rather than just the saline drops I've got.
Have been massaging my face with Aloe Vera gel, to prevent atrophy of the muscles and to stimulate the nerve regrowth, but then read about that potentially causing synkinesis, which is when the muscles and nerves are over stimulated and grow back incorrectly, so that the wrong parts of your face move when you're telling a different part to move. And that's permanent, whereas atrophy isn't. So I need to do some more research on that.
The paralysis doesn't seem any better but it's doesn't seem worse either, so that's good.
I worked a few hours midday, went to a restaurant to eat Friday Couscous (not a good idea with half your mouth not working!), and then was exhausted and slept all afternoon. Headache is worse again at night. I've been keeping the eye open when I'm home and just hydrating it with drops periodically. I've taped it shut for the night. Trying new methods, because the skin around my eye was getting super irritated from pulling the tape off. I need to search a few more pharmacies here to see if I can find ointment to use at night, rather than just the saline drops I've got.
Have been massaging my face with Aloe Vera gel, to prevent atrophy of the muscles and to stimulate the nerve regrowth, but then read about that potentially causing synkinesis, which is when the muscles and nerves are over stimulated and grow back incorrectly, so that the wrong parts of your face move when you're telling a different part to move. And that's permanent, whereas atrophy isn't. So I need to do some more research on that.
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