Personal Stories

Emma says it has taken ten years to finally start to get some movement back in her face.

Previously a league badminton player, Chris’s acoustic neuroma diagnosis changed her life.

Becki’s Bell’s palsy diagnosis turned into an acoustic neuroma diagnosis seven years later!

Ollie wants patients with facial palsy to have access to more support and treatment.

Jeanette describes how her life was turned upside down by her diagnosis.

Anne describes the many months she spent searching in vain for answers and for support.

SarahA lost her hearing and developed facial palsy more than twenty years ago.

Alex has an amazing ability to make others smile.

Aged 12, Richard woke up from a coma after an accident, to find he was partially paralysed.

Martin’s facial palsy arrived one week after a head trauma suffered during a night out.

Douglas was left with a facial palsy after an accident in Easter 2015.

A car accident left Bethan with a rare form of bilateral facial paralysis.