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14.10.2023 - 07:49 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman who thought she had a cold woke up fearing she had suffered a stroke. Caoimhe Reddy noticed her cheek felt a bit numb as she first woke up.
She thought she must have been 'sleeping funny' - but feared something more serious when she couldn't drink her coffee. Caoimhe looked in the mirror to discover half of her face was slumped, having become paralysed in the night.
The 26-year-old called NHS 111 and said she may have been having a stroke. But after seven weeks of tests, the cause of her paralysis remains a mystery.
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She said: “It is just so shocking - the universe has decided to freeze half my face. I’m still working on eating and drinking, and talking is really laboured.
“At first I was like, ‘okay, cool. It’ll go away after a couple of days.’ Then, when it got to two weeks and it still wasn’t better - it was almost like I had to keep learning how to deal with it.”
The best guess from medics is that Caoimhe is suffering inflamed facial nerves caused by an infection, and she needs to wait it out. But in the meantime, she is struggling to eat, drink and talk, and she has lost the use of the taste buds in half her tongue.
Caoimhe, an account manager originally from Smithfield, Ireland, says she felt like she had a mild head cold as she went to bed at her West London home on August 19. When she realised she couldn't hold coffee in her mouth the next morning she rushed to a mirror - and found her face was paralysed.
She said: “There was nothing really that started it. I wasn’t sick at the time - there was no indicator this was going to happen. I woke up in bed - my fiancé had
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