Bell's Palseylets talk

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9. There's a nerve that goes through the base of your skull to your face muscles.

It gets inflamed - probably viral - and once it starts getting squeezed in the bone channel you get the paralysis.

Now, whenever I get that sore feeling behind my left ear I head to the doctor for a check-up. They put me on a steroid-antibiotic regimen to get things handled before it goes too far.