Bristol Palin Says She’s Tried ‘Everything Imaginable’ to Fix Her Facial Paralysis but 'Nothing Has Helped'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Bristol Palinisn’t having any luck finding a solution to her recent facial paralysis.

On Feb. 24, the 34-year-old daughter of former Alaskan governorSarah Palinposted a Q&A on her Instagram Stories where she shared an update on her health.

“If I just keep my mouth shut, it’s not as noticeable. We are day 35, officially 5 weeks, since the left side of my face went paralyzed,” she said. “I still have no muscle movement on the left side. I don’t really feel much.”

“I’ve done everything imaginable to resolve this,” she continued. “I’m not sure what else I should do. But I’ve spent the last 35 days doing something every single day to try and fix this and nothing has helped so far. So, I’m not sure what the future holds.”

In another post, one follower asked Palin if she’s tried acupuncture. The mom of three replied with a photo of herself doing so, sharing that she’s been getting acupuncture in her face four times a week.

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Palin first revealed her struggle with facial paralysis in a Jan. 29 post on Instagram.

“I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face,” she recalled. “My mouth was pulling this way and it just felt a little off. So I went, looked in the mirror. I’m like ‘Wow. This is looking a little weird.’ ”

“I feel like everything is pulling to the left,” she said in the clip. Hours later, Palin said her condition got worse and the left side of her fave was having a “delayed” reaction.

“Within a couple hours the entire left side of my face was numb and just paralyzed,” she said at the time. “Couldn’t really blink my eye. Definitely had no movement on [the left side] of my face. So crazy.”

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Palin said she went to the doctor’s office and they ran tests and did a CT scan. However, “nothing came back in all the results” and doctors put her on “steroids” and “other medications.”

In another clip, Palin detailed her other symptoms, which included a “dry” eye because she was unable to blink her right eye as easily and a painful nose.

“The next time that I look in the mirror and I pick myself apart where it’s like, ‘Oh my nose is long. I want a nose job. I want to do this. I want to do that,’ I am going to remember this and I am just going to be so thankful for a normal functioning face cause this has been wild,” she added.

source: people.com