Bell's Palsy: Facial Paralysis

[Shrimpo]

Hi, a couple days back... last Friday. I was sick but only for a day. Tueday, my friend noticed that my right eye only closes half-way. Later that day I noticed I couldn't curl my right upper lip or close my right eye by itself. Went to doctor's a day or two ago and turns out a virus, Bell's Palsy, is attacking my 7th nerve that spreads out into my face. So now, the right side of my face is paralyzd and motionless. I have to wear an eye-patch when i go to sleep so my eye doesn't dry up. I was prescribed antiviral steroids, Valtrex, which is used to treat HIV and Genital Herpes... It's oretty fucked up. I get pissed off at everything so far. On my Steam Client, people are talking to me so my start-up bar thing is blinking and I just want to hit my computer screen.

[poorfavor]

Bro, that's terrible. Is this permanent?

[Zukamimotu]

Found an article on PubMed. Read up, my half-faced friend. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001777/