Four volunteers who got Pfizer's vaccine developed Bell's palsy

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[–]whistlepig 23 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

FTA: Bell's palsy can happen to anyone at any time, and its cause is unknown, though viral respiratory infections are considered a risk factor

False. It is caused by damage of the nerves in the temple area. Happened to me 20 years ago instigated by the flu. The virus got into the bony passage in that area that is basically a small tunnel not much bigger than the nerve that goes through it from your spine to the facial muscles that it controls, like the eyelids and lips and a few others. The infection caused that area of the nerve to inflame which caused it to expand, but since it can't expand beyond the bony canal it damages itself in that area. Each side affecting its side of the face. Only one side being affected is more common. No surprise it caused the worst headaches of my life that the most disgusting pharma painkillers didn't really help much. Happened to both sides of my face and I had to tape my eyes shut to sleep, add eye goo because they would dry out, I couldn't smile (and therefore it was impossible to be happy) and did I mention the constant headaches? Took about a year before most of the nerves grew back. Headaches went away and eyes could eventually close. One side of my smile still doesn't work as well, but as far as I am concerned I'm "fully" healed.

It was brutal and a person would have to be very evil and have caused wanton death of innocents for me to wish such a thing upon them.

My point being that I view such a risk to be a VERY BIG deal.

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That's terrifying, thanks for sharing.

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Very helpful information. This also helps to show that - among the hundreds of people in the vaccine trials, there is perhaps a 1% chance that this can happen (eg. 4 people out of 400), and there is the same potential for this for someone with the flu. And though extremely painful, there is no difference beween the potential to get this with a flu and with a vaccine. Thus the potential that the vaccine causes 'temporary facial paralysis' is no different than with the flu. Moreover, The Daily Mail is a propaganda rag that's famous for helping its fascist corporate supporters by spreading misleading information and lies. Thank you very much for sharing this story. I would agree it's terrifying, and wouldn't want even 1% of the people to get this. The association with the vaccine is however questionable, it would seem.

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

1% sounds incredibly high to me. If 1% of the time a person catches the flu or receives a flu vaccine they suffered from this potentially very very painful and scary affliction it would be a very big deal and talked about a lot more than it is. A lot of people get the flu vaccine once a year. 1% would be an extremely large number for something that happens so often. If I play russian roulette and there is a theoretical one round in a 100 round revolver.... my chances of having the worst headache ever keep going up each time I "play".

Also... there is a high chance that the paralysis is permanent. My doctor seemed to have been implying that it was much more likely that I wouldn't heal. In fact, I never did 100%. One side of my face still doesn't work completely. People can't tell I'm smiling if they're looking from the wrong side. Its been over two decades. It isn't getting better than it is. I'm ok with that because the way it was had been so very bad.

The fact that this happened more than once is extremely scary. Once could be considered an unfortunate aberration, not more than once.