Have a quick question on Bells Palsy and your shoe sizes.
did any of you have bells palsy, if so, how did it affect you. I know, it makes your face droop, but does it make the side of your face / etc look like it's lost muscle? Is that what the bells palsy does to you? Does it waste the muscle or give that appearance.
Also, did it affect your jaw and tongue.
How long did you have the palsy and how long for your face to recover.
Finally, did loosing weight with lyme, cause you to loose any shoe sizes and if so, did you get them back when in remission.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Wow, that's a topic title I won't soon forget!! Bells Palsy and Shoe Sizes!!
I don't know about the damage to muscles. It would seem to me that the nerve damage would eventually cause damage to the muscles....but I don't know for sure.
Why don't you Google that?
Shoe sizes?? I would think you could lose a shoe size if you lost a great deal of weight....and when you gain it back the size would go up again.
Seems like it would mostly affect the shoe width??
Posted by tailz (Member # 10014) on :
My Bell's Palsy affected my eyelids and cheeks and lips more than anything.
First it was only one-sided - my left eyelid not quite getting a strong enough 'signal' to hold the lid all the way open. My left upper lip and left cheek not quite getting the signal to hold the skin up. My usually gummy smile was less gummy, especially on the left side.
I think muscle is lost because if you aren't getting signal from the brain due to infection, the facial muscles don't get their 'workout', so muscle in the face eventually wastes away and you end up looking sucked-in or elderly, kind of like if you're a body builder and stop lifting weights.
Not sure about shoe sizes, except to say that my left foot is bigger than my right, I believe.
Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
Not Lyme related, but a few years ago I lost weight and my shoe size dropped. That's not abnormal to occur with weight loss.
Posted by Jamiet (Member # 11601) on :
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