Facial numbness
 

Yesterday I woke up, and the entire right side of my face was numb. Ive never had that before. Couldn't feel anything... half my nose was gone, my lips, eye and even my ear! I was too afraid to try to talk for fear I wouldn't be able to talk. I decided to just roll over and go back to sleep. When I woke again, all the numbness was gone. I guess part of the scare was I was home alone. My dh works midnights and when this happend he hadn't gotten home yet. Im glad it went away tho. Anybody else have a symptom just appear and is gone within a few hours? This is a first for me. New stuff usually takes a few weeks to go away for me, thats IF they go away.

Facial numbness was one of my first symptoms of MS. I thought it was a stroke. It went away too, only not all at once like yours. Maybe you had a nightmare..:eek::D

I wish I was dreaming!! LOL... Im use to my legs being numb, but the face scared me.

Believe me, with MS, anything..ANYTHING can go numb..:eek:

My face goes numb (left side) very often. Can come and go.

If you have this come back again and it lasts for 24 hours or more, get in contact with your neurologist asap, or if this becomes more common/frequent in days ahead, be sure to mention it next appointment.

Numbness on the left side of my face comes and goes too.

Sometimes I don't realize it's happening unless I look in the mirror and find the whole left side of my face drooping and my left eye veering off to the outside.

Other times I'm aware of it. My speech is "funny," and I drool. Not pretty.

Joan, that sounds more like Bells Palsy, than just a little numbness. I had that once, about 10 yrs ago and it scared the H out of me. I was relieved to find out it was not a stroke.:eek: Mine went away with no lasting SX.

This has been happening off and on for over 25 years. It would be nice if it went away.:)

My left side's kinda droopy as well. SallyC's not too far off with her Bells Palsy assessment though... when I was super super duper affected at one time by twitching on the right (everything pulling 'up') and numb on the left, the left DID look like Bells Palsy.

I was looked at by a neurologist at the time (pre-MS diagnosis) who didn't believe anything was amiss (Bells Palsy that is... he was completely ignorant to the MS but that's a whole other chapter lol).

Wouldn't it be nice if it went away?! Sigh... I can't imagine 25 years! :hug:

Left side facial numbness is one of the first major symptoms that I had that drove me to get medication for the first time. Neurotin makes it bearable; and it's one of the most noticible symptoms that comes back, when the Neurotin wears off.

Do you notice any "itchy" feeling with it also? Mine is along the hairline & my left ear.

Not itchy, I get a 'crawly' sensation though, or 'twingy' feeling at times, zaps of sharpness or sharp stabbing throbs of pain at it's worst on the left side.

I can experience some pretty severe attacks of pain (Trigeminal Neuralgia) down the left side of the head/face.

No itchiness here either. For me it may be part of a general left-sided weakness. When I'm tired my whole left side droops.

My left arm and leg and the left side of my face have a more "wasted" look than the right. Recently I developed a hollow place in my left cheek but no hollow in my right cheek.

One of my earliest symptoms--in fact, it was several years before we knew it was a symptom of something and connected it with my search for a diagnosis. One day at work I noticed that a spot that included my right upper lip, the corner of my nose, and a portion of my inner cheek about the size of a half dollar was numb. Like light novocaine. It puzzled me, but didn't really scare me.

When it continued a few (?) days, I made an appointment. By the time I got to the PCP, it was pretty much over. It lasted maybe a week, 10 days. The doctor diagnosed it as likely "a mild neuritis" and asked if I wanted to be referred to a neurologist.

I didn't. I went home and researched neuritis a little, and decided I wouldn't worry about it until/unless it happened again or grew worse, which it never did.

That's funny, because, even though my weakness is on my left side, my Bells Palsey was on the right side of my face. What can I tell ya, I'm weird.:D