I went to bed Saturday night with strange pulling sensation of my eye.  As I suffer with hey fever and allergies and get very itchy eyes I thought it was just a bad case of this.  Then yesterday morning while brushing my teeth I  noticed my mouth was not opening properlyon one side and then I tried to smile and couldnt on my right side.  I called my husband who immediately said we should go to the Clinic.  I wasnt overly concernerd as I didnt feel ill at all but by the time we reached the clinic 30 minutes later I was feel more numbness and pain and not feeling well.

They diagnosed my almost straight away and called for the Neurologist who confirmed it.  He has given me 60 mg Prednisolone for 5 days and 10 mg for 5 days.  I was concerned about putting weight on and now am concerned that this does is not enough to be of any help because he reduced it because of my fear of the weight gain.

I have also got eye drops and artificial tears.  Tomorrow I go to the eye specialist and the Neurologist just for a quick check.

Am so self conscious about this, am embarrassed to tell people and certainly dont want to see anyone.  I feel ill but am not sure if that is with the worry.  I have head pain, pain in my cheek bone and in my mouth my teeth hurt.  Food tastes horrible I have a strange taste in my mouth and find it hard to get the food into my mouth. 

At the moment we are in Singapore, we have lived here 5 and half years but in 3 weeks time we are returning to the UK permanently so I have the stress of packing up our house and moving everything back home.

My husbnad is working from home to be with me and says we should go out for a walk but I just wnat to lay on the sofa and do nothing.  Should I get out and about and do some exercise.  I usually go on the treadmill for 45 minutes every morning but wonder if I should once I feel up to it.  Will it do any harm.  When people say do facial massage can this be done my my husband our does it need to be a specialist.

I am so frightened and very weepy.  I know I should feel positive but am finding it very hard right now and all I feel is worry.