Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, revealed a health scare involving facial paralysis.
Palin described the details in her Instagram stories.
“I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face,” she told her followers, according to the New York Post.
“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,'” she added.
“Palin said she went to the doctor and nothing showed up in the tests or the CT scan. The doctor told her it was likely a case of Bell’s Palsy, a temporary facial paralysis,” Collin Rugg wrote.
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NEW: Bristol Palin, the daughter of Sarah Palin, says she has been suffering from a neurological disorder that is "pulling her face" to the left.
Palin says the facial paralysis started over a week ago, making her face numb.
"Within a couple of hours, the entire left side of my… pic.twitter.com/nXBXFEupKi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 30, 2025
From the New York Post:
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 Palin reveals ‘crazy’ facial paralysis photos from neurological disorder https://t.co/aVEJFdYX6L pic.twitter.com/0y8ttzhRBj
— New York Post (@nypost) January 30, 2025
Daily Mail reports:
She said ‘nothing came back’ from the tests or CT scan and that her doctor ‘thinks it’s just a case of Bell’s palsy.’
Bell’s palsy, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine, ‘results from damage to the facial nerve’ and affects one side of the face or head. The paralysis is not permanent and usually goes away on its own.
ADVERTISEMENTThe temporary condition may have been ‘brought on by stress or lack of sleep’ — although Palin says she hasn’t been ‘super stressed’ lately.
‘I know I look crazy right now but this has been such an improvement from what I was looking like,’ Palin told viewers as she recorded herself on day nine.
‘I’m finally starting to get some sensation back. It’s been a little painful the last two days which is a good indication that it’s getting better.’
