Bristol Palin Says Her Facial Paralysis Struck 'completely Out Of The Blue' With No Warning Signs

Bristol Palin is giving fans an update connected her ongoing wellness struggle.

During an Instagram Q&A, Palin was asked circumstantial questions astir really she is dealing pinch her conflict pinch facial paralysis and what circumstantial symptoms she felt anterior to experiencing nan weakness successful her facial muscles.

"I woke up and it was paralyzed wholly retired of nan bluish – nary warning, wasn’t sick didn’t get nan v@x, nary caller Botox ... conscionable paralyzed," she said successful consequence to 1 mobility asking astir what symptoms she felt.

The reply was posted complete a video of herself showing nan quality betwixt nan near and correct sides of her face, adding a timestamp of January 20, 2025.

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Bristol Palin shared an update connected her facial paralysis pinch her followers. (Bristol Palin/Instagram; Getty Images)

The erstwhile reality TV prima was later asked really she is handling nan test emotionally, to which she replied she thinks she is "handling it well," but admitted "I can't look astatine pictures of myself rn." Palin besides shared her paralysis is "probably 70% backmost to normal."

Other fans shared interest that nan paralysis could beryllium permanent, to which Palin replied location is simply a possibility, "but I don't deliberation it will be."

Bristol Palin shared what symptoms she felt earlier experiencing facial paralysis. (Bristol Palin/Instagram)

Palin shared she is astir 70% backmost to normal. (Bristol Palin Instagram)

"It is slow improving," she wrote successful her response. "My expert thinks it will beryllium different 3 months earlier I'm *hopefully* backmost to normal." 

Palin first announced she was experiencing sudden facial paralysis connected her Instagram stories successful January. In nan story, she recalled waking up 1 greeting "with a small weird sensation successful my face," and aft only a fewer hours, "the full near broadside of my look was numb and conscionable paralyzed."

Palin shared her doctors judge she will beryllium backmost to normal successful astir 3 months. (Bristol Palin Instagram)

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After seeing a expert and undergoing aggregate tests, "nothing came backmost successful each nan results" and she was prescribed "steroids" and "other medications" astatine nan time.  One of nan imaginable causes could beryllium "a lawsuit of Bell’s palsy," which doctors noted could person been brought connected by accent aliases deficiency of sleep.

Bell's palsy is simply a information that causes "sudden weakness successful nan muscles connected 1 broadside of nan face," according to nan Mayo Clinic. The weakness is typically short-term, and nan nonstop origin is unknown.

A fewer months aft sharing her struggles pinch facial paralysis, Palin took to societal media successful April 2025 to stock that she was 1 twelvemonth sober.

"365 days without alcohol.. *which sounds melodramatic because I've ne'er been a large ‘drinker,’" she wrote connected her Instagram story, per nan Daily Mail. 

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Palin shared she was 1 twelvemonth sober a fewer months aft revealing she was suffering from facial paralysis. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

"But this twelvemonth of having a wholly sober mind has allowed maine to reevaluate a lot," she continued. "I don't want to change nan authorities of my mind, and don't want to 'take nan separator off' of anything. 10/10 would recommend."

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