A day after my dog had TPLO surgery on his right hind leg, the vet said they noticed some facial paralysis on the right side of his face (can’t close eyelid, droopy lip). He’s never had this before, does anyone know of any similar experiences? I was trying to search for info but there is not much, is there anyway the facial nerve could have been damaged during the anesthetic process?
I had surgery done on the 19th of June and I am now 6 weeks post op. My surgery corrected an underbite (not sure how long but I could easily stick my tongue through the gap between my front teeth). My surgeon not only moved the bottom jaw back, but brought my top jaw forward as well as widened and centred it. Recovery has been a little frustrating but mostly easy.
However the entire left side of my face is paralysed which my surgeon has put down to bruising. I can feel myself touching my face but cannot blink my left eye, raise my eye brows, smile etc and it looks like it's drooping downward a little bit. My surgeon was highly recommended and states that the way she broke the bone and placed it next to each other meant the movement nerve isn't being crushed or was severed, however six weeks on I'm getting worried.
I have to bandage my eye everyday to prevent it getting irritated and suffering permeant corneal damage. And my face is completely unsymmetrical, even my nostrils are sitting differently from each other. Surgeon hasn't mentioned I won't get 100% movement back, but I'm at six weeks now, with zero improvement. I understand this was a massive surgery and recovery takes time, I've been pretty understanding about this the entire time.
Has anyone else experience this and did you get full recovery of your facial nerves back? Was it a gradual process or once it started was quite quick? Did the nerve only recover partially?
TLDR: Left side of my face is paralysed (can't blink or smile) but I am able to feel touch in the area at six weeks. Is this normal and how long is recovery?
Hi y’all! I have recently been diagnosed with an AN sized 3.1cm x 2.8cm x 2.3cm on my left side. I am completely deaf in my left ear so the doctor I have spoken to has recommended the trans lab surgical approach. My AN is pushing on my brain stem a lot (to the point the doc said he wants it out within a month).
With that being said, have any of y’all had an AN situation/placement/etc similar this and can shed some light on the facial paralysis piece post surgery? I am only 26 and am quite scared about facial paralysis at such a young age.
Thank you in advance!
Hey all. Vaxed and boosted. My daughter brought home what is likely Omicron from daycare. She tested positive, we ran out of tests but I got symptoms 2 days after she did so it's almost certainly covid.
General symptoms - I started getting symptoms 5 days ago. At first it was mild sore throat and runny nose. Then progressed to slight fever and general stuffiness and wet cough. The fever seems to have gone but now I feel generally stuffed up and wet cough comes and goes. I also generally feel "foggy". Think of how it feels trying to type with gloves on - that's how my brain feels all the time. I can get through the day but it's severely exhausting. Kind of like having a bad head cold and the flu at the same time.
Anyhow I'm posting about another weird symptoms that I assume is due to covid. When I touch my right eyebrow, I can feel sensation in my upper scalp on the right side. It feels like someone has draped a single long hair from my scalp to my eyebrow and when I touch my eyebrow it tugs on the hair. There is no hair there (my head is shaved, and I looked in the mirror). I assume this is a nerve issue. It started up today - it's not hurting me but it is unsettling. It's also worth noting I had shingles in this location maybe 7 months ago.
Does this ring a bell for anyone? Anything I should watch out for?
UPDATE: The doctor agreed with most of the responses, it sounds like shingles wanting to return because it sees my immune system is preoccupied. I'm starting to get the beginning of little white painful bumps on my scalp, which I know from experience are the start of blisters. I'm starting a week of Valtrex, which last time helped me out a lot. Hope this post is useful to someone in the future who has a shingles recurrence due to a temporary immune system vulnerability.
UPDATE 2: One day after starting Valtrex and things are feeling much better. No more tingling in my scalp. The weird nerve interaction between my eyebrows and scalp is still there but in general I'm feeling greatly reduced shingles symptoms. So thankful for people on this forum who pushed me to talk to a doctor soon and catch this early, you saved me a world of misery.
The five branches of the facial nerve are responsible for the functions of the eyes and face. Each of them carries a variety of different types of nerve fibers. Most contain motor fibers, but some contain a mixture of both types. The five CNs, T, I, III, IV, V, and X, are essential for the function of the nose and the external auditory meatus. They are also the primary source of pain and numbness in the face.
The motor part of the facial nerve arises from the pons, and the sensory part of the nerve comes from the intermediate nerve and the parotid gland. The two parts of the nerve merge at the brain stem. Then, the entire nervous system travels through the posterior cranial fossa and the petrous temporal bone. The facial canal is a large, tortuous structure that separates the two parts of the facial nerve.
The facial nerve begins in the brainstem pons, where it emerges as two separate roots. The first root reaches the inner ear and synapses on the geniculate ganglion. The second root, called the greater petrosal nerve, carries the sympathetic postganglionic fibers from the superior cervical ganglion. The third branch, the pterygoid canal, supplies innervation to the pharyngeal muscles of the face.
The fifth branch, the stylohyoid nerve, travels medial to the incus and connects to the geniculum, the chorda tympani, and the lacrimal gland. The vestibulocochlear nerve's fifth branch enters the skull and passes through the internal acoustic meatus. A portion of the auricular nerve branches is attached to the jugular foramen.
There are five branches of the facial nerve, each containing a combination of motor, sensory, and parasympathetic fibers. These limbs of the facial nerve are located in the face and head.
The most common branch, the cervical nerve, provides innervation to the lower part of the tongue. The fifth branch, the stylohyoid nerve, supplies sensation and movement to the facial muscles and glands.
Three branches of the facial nerve lead to the face's various parts, and The greater petrosal nerve gives rise to the motor and parasympathetic fibers of the stapedius muscle in the middle ear. The chorda tympani branch carries sensory fibers from the front part of the tongue and reaches the auricle. The three auricular branches of the facial nerve have one anastomosing arterial cascade. It also joins the facial nerve distal to the stapedius muscle.
The fifth and final branch of the facial nerve is the cervical nerve. It innervates the ear and most
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Has anyone got Acoustic Neuroma surgery impacting facial nerve and creating swallow issue requiring tracheotomy? Have an upcoming surgery and Doctor says there are high chances of paralysis on one side including issues in eye lid closure and possible swallow difficulties. If anyone has undergone this (really sorry for your state), can you tell me how the life is afterwards? Could he tumor be completely removed once and for all without requiring further radiation?
Hey guys,
A little while back someone made this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/k08suv/for_anyone_who_is_taking_3fpm/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Basically saying after taking 3-FPM he started to lose feeling in his toes and felt mild paralysis in his foot. He out this down to damage to the peroneal nerve and also thought these were early symptoms of vasculitis.
I reached out to him to have it NMR tested as I'm lucky enough to have access to a university lab with a chemist who's willing to analyse chemicals on the side (it's not cheap unfortunately).
These are the results: http://imgur.com/a/XPqeFBq
And here is the chemists analysis:
>FPM confirmed, estimated purity 98-99%. The sample was not fully soluble in CDCl3, even after dilution, so I remeasured in D2O where it was fully soluble. Both spectra are in the same pdf file (CDCl3 measurement is on page 3). As before, the possible reasons for the unexpected partial insolubility are that it's not the HCl salt (e.g. phosphate or something else) or that it contains inorganic salts, with the latter reason being more likely. Would you like me to investigate and perform some small experiments to exclude the presence of inorganic salts? Or is it known to be the salt of an acid other than HCl?
>I tried to dissolve roughly 100-150 mg 3-FPM in about 7 mL isopropanol, which should have been far beyond the maximum solubility, at least when hot. As I expected, there was a fine crystalline residue. I decanted most of the isopropanol solution and added fresh solvent to repeat the procedure. None or almost none of the residue dissolved upon heating. This lead me to conclude that my initial assessment was right and the sample contained an inorganic salt which was invisible in NMR. I cannot say much about the percentage of the salt because this would require to work more precisely, which is difficult under my work conditions. If required, it would be easier with more substance to analyze, 1 g at least, since I don't have an analytical balance at home, nor equipment to dry powders or glassware properly. My estimate is that the salt makes up less than 10% of the weight, but I might be off target there, so this needs to be verified. It can be done pretty much as I described above, so it's not exactly rocket science. Please let me know if your customer shows any interest in further investigating this issue.
I didn't follow up on his offer as honestly I didn't want to spen
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Hi all. I’ve been on Reddit ages and never thought that this sub existed. I should’ve looked ages ago.
Anyway. Hello. I’m over my surgery a few years and even had cyberknife this year for recurrence.
My question is around facial paralysis. After surgery I had a bad case of palsy but over time and therapy I regained a lot of symmetry and very minor movements.
I’m always massaging my face for tightness but over the last few weeks I’ve been wondering if things are changing. For the better. I can flare the nostril on the affected side. Not by much but visible to me when I look at it. Some slight movement around the orbit of my eye. Though I’ll continue to monitor and exercise it I’m wondering can this all fix over more time itself. My therapist at the time said that after a year of ‘no significant change’ then it doesn’t really get any better. Have any of you made as to imaging recovery for your face? I’d love to see my original smile back
And how are the nerves from a severed limb repaired/rejoined?
