See Ted's Remedies, Natural Cures for Bell's Palsy (earthclinic.com)

Hi Natalie,

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.

If you go on Medical Medium - Anthony Williams site, he has info on Bell's Palsy. Hope this helps.

I had Bells Palsy. Caused by a hit on my head in my 20s and was treated with nicotinic acid which took care of it in a couple of weeks. Best wishes!

You may already be doing this, but if not it could help - switch off phone at night, sleep with it not near you and turn off router/wi-fi. It causes protests from family but it helped me (I used to sleep with my phone under my pillow switched on! )

I’ve read there can be a pathogen involved.. like a virus. Do stuff for virus n build ur immune system.

Hi, this sounds pretty hard, hope you feel better soon. This is worth considering and worth ruling out.

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.

I find that the most common cause of Bells Palsy, which is Lyme Disease, is missing in Earth Clinic's article about what causes it. I have Lyme Disease, and I ran a Lyme Disease support group in Northern California for many years, and Bells Palsy was a common symptom. Once on antibiotics for the Lyme bacteria, the palsy soon faded away for most patients.

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

I'm not sure how much this will help, but it has always been my understanding that B vitamins should never be taken solely by themselves but with a multi B complex. The reason as I have always understood it is that you can make yourself deficient in the other B vitamins if you only take individual B vitamins. It may be possible to do harm by taking just individual Bs. I personally take a multi B as well as Extra B-6 just to be certain.

So very sorry to hear this. I think the other comments about checking for Lyme are very good. Apparently BP will eventually go away on its own: let's hope. I intuitively feel that staying as calm as possible will help you, and that maybe cease the search for supplements and the massages and just let the area rest. I was also thinking that since this is a nerve issue, you might ask your MD if you could try a very low dose of an anti-convulsant med such as clonazepam (Klonopin). It is very calming to nerves and also calms anxiety. Very best wishes to you.

Thus far no one has mentioned Melissa officinalis, also known as lemon balm. It is well known as a gentle treatment for herpetic infections. Earth Clinic's wonderful guru, Ted, mentioned that most cases of Bells palsy are related to a herpes virus. You could try drinking lemon balm tea brewed strongly with a fresh teabag for each cup, three times daily for a month or two and see if that helps to heal your facial nerve and restore your normal facial expression. It's a very cheap, simple, pleasant and safe therapy. Good luck with that!

I would try a good traditional Osteopathic or Chiropractic doctor.

Lisa,

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.

My daughter went to get Acupuncture. After 1 treatment she was greatly improved and after 2 treatments was over it.

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!

Acupuncture worked for me when my doctor couldn't help.

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.

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.