Bristol Palin reveals crazy facial paralysis photos from neurological disorder

Bristol Palin is detailing a scary experience with facial paralysis.Sarah Palin’s daughter, 34, opened up about the health ordeal and road to recovery via her Instagram Stories on Wednesday.“I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face,” Bristol told her followers.“My mouth was pulling this way and it just felt a little off.

So I went, looked in the mirror.I’m like ‘Wow.

This is looking a little weird.’ ”The mom-of-three shared a series of videos showcasing the onset of her facial paralysis and the days following.One clip featured Bristol waking up and looking at herself in the mirror as she stated: “I feel like everything is pulling to the left.”The timestamp on the video read 10:30 a.m. Later in the day, at 5 p.m., the facial paralysis appeared to get worse, as Bristol showed followers footage of the left side of her face appearing to have a “delayed” reaction.

In the clip, the “Teen Mom OG” alum made several faces, explaining that the “entire” left side of her face was “just numb.”She added, “It’s so bad dude.”“Within a couple hours the entire left side of my face was numb and just paralyzed,” she recalled of the experience in her Instagram Story.“Couldn’t really blink my eye.

Definitely had no movement on [the left side] of my face.So crazy.”Bristol went to the doctor’s office and they “ran tests” and did a “CT scan,” which X-rayed her body to check for possible causes.

As she put it, “nothing came back in all the results,” and doctors put her on “steroids” and “other medications.” Bristol shared that doctors believed her facial paralysis could have been brought on by “a case of Bell’s palsy,” which is a temporary paralysis or weakness of the facial muscles on one side of the face.According to John Hopkins Medicine, it can be caused by several factors including an infection, high blood pressure, diabetes and other toxins.Bristol said doctors told her ...