Thread:JenniferLNW/@comment-27860632-20160527042550/@comment-27334049-20160527102221

Thanks! 😊 His shingles actually healed up right away. (They were inside his ear.) He took a prescription that helped. Shingles follows a nerve and if it comes up in your 7th cranial nerve, it's called Ramsay Hunt syndrome. It's rare, can cause vision loss, hearing loss, and facial paralysis. It also only has a recovery rate of 50% or less. The shingles damages the nerve, and then you just have to hope the nerve will heal.

Luckily, he's a nurse practitioner, and was seeing patients in the ER when he started to notice the facial paralysis. He's seeing a neurologist and is on steroids. As of this morning, he seems to have more movement on his left side. For the last week, he couldn't blink or move the left side, and had ringing in his left ear. This morning, he's having a nerve stimulation test, so the neurologist can gauge the extent of the damage to that nerve, and hopefully provide some insight into the likelihood of full recovery.

He's lucky that the shingles wasn't worse. I wondered if the severity is tied to how severe your chicken pox were. His chicken pox weren't bad, but mine were horrendous.....but they always say....blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin...and you'll have them the worst.🙋 Why are those always the three things that predict something bad happening to you? LOL. 😜