Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin reveals health scare: 'The left side of my face was numb '
Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin has revealed her doctors believe she has Bell's palsy.
Bristol, 34, shared a series of videos on Instagram with her more than 551,000 followers showing her face and revealing one side felt "numb and paralysed".
She explained that she's been suffering with odd symptoms for days and after a series of tests, doctors think it's Bell's palsy from stress.
Watch the video above.
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Bristol Palin has revealed her health scare – doctors think she has Bell's palsy. bsmp2/instagram
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According to the Mayo Clinic, the condition "causes sudden weakness in the muscles on one side of the face" which "makes half of the face appear to droop".
It is often short-term.
"I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face," Bristol began.
"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 said with a laugh.
Bristol showed footage and pictures of her face and revealed one side felt "numb and paralysed". bsmp2/instagram
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"Within a couple of hours, the left side of my face was numb and just paralysed, couldn't really blink my eye, had no movement on this side of my face, so crazy."
She explained she went and had some tests at the doctors and they think it's Bell's palsy.
"They think it's just a case of Bell's palsy, maybe bought on my stress or lack of sleep... I think it was bought on by stress," she explained.
She said she has improved a lot and has started to get "sensation" back.
"It's been wild," she said.
Bristol is the daughter of Todd and Sarah Palin, with Sarah having been the governor of Alaska and a vice president nominee.
Bristol is the daughter of Todd and Sarah Palin, with Sarah having been the governor of Alaska. AP
In 2023, mother-of-three Bristol revealed she had her ninth breast reconstruction.
"All stemming from a botched breast reduction I had when I was 19," she wrote online at the time.
"I've had previous surgeries trying to correct the initial damage of muscle tissue and terrible scaring."
In an emergency, call triple zero (000).
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