4 months aniversary of BP

[Pipite]

I was diagnose on 9 november 2019, so today 9 march 2020 make my 4 months of having this "frezzing face" I would like to call it. My mom and my dad they all started to frustated seeing there's no significant progess since month 3. I can smile today but not completly perfect like i used to to be, my ear dosen't hurt anymore when I heard what I like to called it "normal voice" before become really loud. There's still somepart of my face when I massage it that felt hurt, still can't move my eyebrow or blink, or close my eye properly.

But despite everything, I started to realize something from all of this. I before BP never ever appriciate little things in this life like blinking, raised my eyebrow or the one thing that I regret is that I never smile as much as I am today. At one point, I even practicaly begging to GOD to LET ME SMILE AGAIN.

So, this facial paralaysis teach me to appriciate even the most small thing in this life, I don't fell alone reading all of your stories in here, reading all of your stories in here is somewhat part of my healing proses too. I will and still be doing what my neuro doctor told me to do, and still be working hard to at least gain back 80% of my face function, and start taking my time to heal and not rush anything.

Thank you all.. I love you and I am glad that I found this forum.

[FLNJFL]

Thank you for your positive words. I understand what you mean by this helping you appreciate the little things. I also want to encourage you to give it time and allow your body to rest. I was very worried that I wouldn’t get my blink back after hearing that it “should” return in a month or two. My blink took almost 5 months to return. I am post BP 14 months and I’m not 100% but each month I see progress. Just know that some people take longer to heal.

[Pipite in reply to FLNJFL]

Thank you..i appriciate it. I hope I can gain back the rest of my face function over time. And yes, there's a lot of people who told me to take my time including my grandmother, so I will give it a time and give my body time to heal.

[DigitalWorld]

Hi there,

Thank you for sharing your story. Your words and attitude will be a great help to others struggling with BP. Also, glad to hear you are making slow and steady improvements. Give yourself time and don’t rush the healing process — stress makes it worse! And Remember, it could always be worse! Aleast it’s not life threatening.

Peace.