Pos. Lyme test for my daughter Sarah plus she complained of facial numbness...

dancergirl587

I'm so sorry! I had the "Bell's palsey" also, Mine lasted a few hours and basiclly cleared up minus my eye kinda droops some still. If Sarah ever wants to chat lemme know! I know it helps to talk to ppl going through the same thing! And im sure it helps her to be able to talk to you about it. Goodluck! And if you need to take some time when you're aloan and let yourself cry.it can be good for ya! I know sometimes it helps me!

velvet48

hi, i also had bells palsey. mine lasted 7 weeks. my lyme test back then came back negative, so i was oly treated for the bells palsey and not the lyme until 6 years later. i know how scarey the bells palsey can be. good luck and hopefully your daughter will not get any more numbness or tingling in her face.
karen

Komondor

Hi Lupieone,
I get the tingling and numbness in my face but it has never progressed to bells palsey. I have had this for a few years... and many others have this too so hopefully it will go away soon. I also get twitching around my chin and mouth area.

Try not to worry. I know that is difficult especially for a mom... but numbness and tingling does not necessarily mean Sarah will experience bells palsey.

Good luck with your move and I hope Sarah is feeling better very soon.
Stacey

timlea

I was 29 when I got lymes . . . My wife insisted I go to the emergency room when the left side of my face started drooping . . . and I lost feeling. The nurse was a Mayo 1 nurse (there between helicopter flights between mayo in Rochester MN, and the occassional bad accident), he looked at me and said after squeezing my hands "You have bells paulsy, and you are too young to have it normally, you probably have lymes disease."

I got on the table . . . the doctor said the same thing (first he thought I was having a stroke). They took blood . . and a few days later . . . sure enough . . . I had enough spyrocetes in my system to more than likely kill me without treatment.

Bells can be permanent . . . I was lucky . . . it only lasted a few months. The longer it goes undiagnosed the worse it gets.

Good luck . . . get her back in if they don't give her more antibiotics . . . if they refuse to . . . get another doctor. Seriously . . . this is bad stuff if she has lymes, she could be dissfigured for life by Bells if not treated.