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No Remedies Helping Bells Palsy, Please Help!Posted By Lisa T (Knoxville ) on 01/26/2021
I had 2 sets of steroids and I take B6, B12, and Zinc.
I've been applying moist heat, and massaging. I've been using Arnica Cream and massaging face. Nothing has helped. My next step is going to a Chiropractor (1/28/21) Praying this works.
If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know.
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I have read some good feedback using fascia release tools for Bell Palsy. Just do a search for fascia blasting and you will find the woman who is successfully selling many different tools. There is one specifically for the face. Hope this helps you.
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Here's a check list of symptoms
https://lymediseaseassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/DrB_SymptomList2005Pdf.pdf
If you have enough symptoms, I would suggest getting an accurate Lyme Disease test from Blue Labs in California. Bells Palsy can be a symptom of Lyme Disease and is common among those infected.
Most tests aren't accurate, but this lab is. You can also consider Igenix or DNA connexions.
Best wishes.
Replied by Lynn (Sonora, Mexico) on 01/28/2021
Being in Tennessee, which is a highly endemic area for Lyme, I would suggest the person with Bells Palsy get tested for Lyme Disease. The best lab in the country is IGENIX in Palo Alto, California. Very few labs know how to test properly.
And the reason why is once a person is bit by a tick, mosquito, flea etc carrying the bacteria, the corkscrew shaped bacteria burrows thru your skin into your blood. But it doesn't stay in your blood, but burrows into the muscle and tissue mass and into your organs, even into your bone marrow. For this reason a Western blot blood test or an Elisa blood test are useless, and most of the time will come back negative, (because the organism has already left the blood and burrowed into new parts unknown), yet a person can have Lyme raging in their body. Then they are sent out the door and told they are negative for Lyme when it is going full boar in their body. So they go untreated, get worse, become cripple or die. Lyme untreated can be lethal.
Lyme Disease is also a political hotbed, and the CDC and insurance companies have conspired together for years to keep people from getting treatment for Lyme with antibiotics for more than 6 weeks. It takes longer to treat Lyme than 6 weeks as this organism can sequester itself within our own cells, go into a bleb form that lasts about 6 weeks (antibiotics are unable to penetrate it during this stage), releases decoys called blebs to confuse our immune system, gets into every system of our body and becomes a nightmare for patient and physician to diagnose and treat.
It also is usually accompanied by a host of Co-infections that contribute to the nightmare of treating it. I had a bulls eye rash from a dog tick that was attached to my stomach. Only about 30% have a bulls eye rash. This tick also deposited not only the Lyme bacteria, but Erlichiosis, Babesia, acute EBV, and Parvo B-19 into my unsuspecting system! (And later discovered most of this is biowarfare.)
To add to the problem, insurance companies for years destroyed doctors by sueing them, having their licenses taken away, etc for treating more than 6 weeks with antibiotics. Most Lyme patients need IV therapy for awhile to knock it down and that is highly expensive. Lyme was breaking the bank! It was at pandemic level and they had known it for years. Unfortunately it is misdiagnosed as ALS, Altzheimers, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and Parkinson's Disease and other sundry ailments.
I spent years giving talks to people in these support groups, and always about 50 or so people from these other support groups would get tested, and most would turn up positive for Lyme, join my support group, get on antibiotics for a season along with a complex health regimen, and they would get their lives back.
Dr. Bill Rawls is the best physician I know of currently, who also has Lyme Disease himself, and has come up with a great regimen for treating Lyme and all the co-infections. I think he is still at www.rawlsmd.com
Peace and Love,
Lynn
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There is not quick fix. I would also do my own facial massage to retrain the muscles up side of face... I would try CBD oil for the pain...it's not psychoactive.- no high is stripped of THC.
For the nerve healing, I would try what worked for my family member... Lions Mane mushroom and one of the adaptogens... he is on astralagus..has an effect on protecting the myelin sheath. You need to do some research on adaptogens.. there is no one size fits all -all people can/or should take that one.
If I thought it was viral related I would take either oil of organo capsules or ingest heavy natural, organic raw garlic.
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Replied by Dani (Calif) on 01/30/2021
I had good recovery from BP by going to a very experienced homeopath. He prescribed a remedy of Causticum for me, which firmed up my face immediately. Not all of the nerves bounced back, but I was thrilled with my face not sagging on one side. This may not be the particular remedy for you, and it would be in a dose not usually available in a store. I recommend seeing an actual homeopath.Replied by Kaaren (Wi) on 02/01/2021
Do you remember what the dose was?Replied by Alice (Oregon) on 01/30/2021
Do you have facial pain? I ask because I had horrible pain when I had bells palsy, then found out that was it actually trigeminal neuralgia. I tried medications, acupuncture (with one of the best acupuncturists there is), chiropractic adjustments, etc. with no luck. Finally I tried a chiropractor that's an upper cervical specialist (one with a ton of training and experience), and that's when I finally started healing. I don't know if this would work for you, but it might be worth asking around and getting an evaluation. Make sure it's someone who takes x-rays. Good luck!Replied by Patricia (Co) on 01/31/2021
Acupuncture worked for me when my doctor couldn't help.Replied by Frank Mclean (Thunder Bay, On, Ca) on 02/01/2021
According to Dr. Joel Wallach, Bell's Palsy is due to an inflammation, swelling or squeezing due to osteoporosis of the 'facial' nerve (the 7th cranial nerve as it passes through the Scull). He says treated properly, there can be as much as an 80% chance of significant recovery. He's just put out a new book you can buy online called, 'It's all in you head.' available here:http://www.drjwallach.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=163
In 'Dead Doctor's Don't Lie, ' Dr. Wallach prescribes vitamin B12 at 1000 mcg/day for a total of 20,000 mcg, Calcium/magnesium at 2,000 mg Ca and 800 mg/day Mg, EFAs at 5 grams three time per day. He also recommends Colloidal Minerals as useful and American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). Treat as osteoporosis.
Dr. Wallach has a call in line called 'Let's Play Doctor' at 4PM EST or 1PM PST. Call in number is 877-912-7529. It is suggested you start calling in about twenty minutes before air time.
I hope this helps.
Replied by Glenna (Uk) on 02/02/2021
Hi,I worked with a lady some time ago & once when I went to see her one side of her face was lopsided. At first I thought it was a stroke. Long story short, I accompanied her to see doctor & he said it was bacterial & she must have contracted it whilst holidaying on a farm. He prescribed Difflam Spray (can be purchased over the counter) & when I saw her the following week, her face was back to normal.
Don't know if this will help you or anyone else.
Replied by OLIVIA H (UNITED STATES) on 02/07/2021
Hello,I had Bells Palsy when I was in my late twenties, and had total paralysis on one side of my face. I went to the ER for possible stroke, was told it was Bells Palsy, and the doc said "we don't know what causes it, its nothing to worry about, it will eventually improve, probably take months or a year, here's a prescription for a neurological drug (that wasn't expected to make a difference, so why?), and I'll refer you to a specialist".
I didn't fill the prescription, went to my chiropractor the next day, was adjusted for cranial issues and told this: "it's an inflammation of the 7th cranial nerve going from the neck into the brain, caused by severe B Vitamin depletion, (I was under a lot of stress) and from having your neck out of alignment (for almost a year but I didn't stop to deal) - take BComplex and come back for several weekly adjustments.
Within 2 weeks, my face was no longer paralyzed and looked normal from the outside, although I felt some lingering affects internally.
Within a month I would say I was completely back to normal, and have been ever since. The onset of this involved severe neck pain running up into my head where the nerve was inflammed and swollen and obviously compressed.
Needless to say I do not neglect supplementation and keeping my body properly aligned, also, I only go to chiropractors who practice Kinesiology - it is amazing what they know about the body and how they can muscle test and the are ALWAYS ALWAYS right! Never a miss in 40 years.