I'm not familiar with this, but am so sorry you are experiencing it. I wish you a full and speedy recovery. I hope and pray it is not a stroke. hugs

I hope he did a full brain scan and checked for encephalitis.

Gosh, that doesn't sound like fms. I think I would get a second opinion. I've had short spells like that, but not the freezing of the facial muscles, throat or the drooling. Does kinda sound like a stroke..

Was it a Hemorrhagic Stroke? An aneurysm? or maybe even Bell's palsy?

Here's a list I found of possible reasons for facial paralysis, is it one of these?

Bell's palsy
Stroke
Transient ischemic attack
Tumor
Facial injury (see Face symptoms)
Poliomyelitis
Herpes virus infection
Guillaine Barre syndrome
Motor neurone diseases
Facial tumor
Vascular accidents
Neoplasm
Cerebral contusion
Degenerative cerebral disease
Trauma
Infectious mononucleosis
Polyneuritis cranialis
Polyneuritis of Guillain Barr type
Gummatous meningitis
Leprosy
Uveoparotid polyneuritis
Geniculate herpes
Neurofibroma of the 8th cranial nerve
Tumor of the petrous bone
Congenital bilateral facial paralysis
Myopathy
Heredofamilial dystrophy
Myotonic dystrophy
Myathenia gravis
Facial hemi-atrophy

thanks for your support everyone sorry non of those things seem to ring a bell and i would have had a second opinun if the hosp would actuly treat me other than just say acctully they are busy with people that are actully sick and ask me if im drunk and how much i have had to drink even though i did tell them twice that i dont drink so after 5 hrs in the waiting room i just had brad carry me back to the car to take me home cos oveasly they were just gona ignor me even though i had major symptoms of a stroke:( lol

Oh man thats a terrible way to treat ppl, and I thought our hospitals were bad, 5 hours is way too long to wait. have you seen your gp? it doesnt sound like fibro symptoms to me

yeah the gp was the one who siad it could be to do with the fibro and i fully intend to do the staff in the ed for neglagence as i gave up and left even though i was presenting with stroke symptoms

This really sounds like more the Fibro. Did they do any tests to really determine whether it was a stroke or FM? I am worried for you and hope you are doing better today. Prayers and hugs.

I too had a strange thing happen one day a few years ago....tho I never brought it up to my Dr....and would Not allow my friend to take me to the ER...I was just to freaked...
One day while walking into the badlands...it was a beautiful clear spring day..we had gone about a mile when all the sudden it was like the clouds covered the sun...and i felt it rain on me....I turned to run back to the car...but hit the ground instead....my right leg simply forgot how to move...i kinda remember just laying there in shock...my friend was in shock as well...

the sky was still clear...there was no rain...
she had no clue what I was talking about...

she said i laid there about 3-5 minutes and she just stood stareing at me as I babbled on

she thought for sure I had just had a stroke...but then I seemed to "Snap out of it"...

I do not know if my face froze up or not...or if I lost vision...in one eye...I get occular migrains so loss of vision temporarily is common for me.....just a strange thing I thought I would share with you...

Bonnie

About two years ago, I awoke one morning, unable to move my legs and in terrible pain. Long story short, we call an ambulance, go to the ER, scan, tests, mri, tests, shoot me full of dilaudid, eventually I am moving again and after hours of this......we can't find anything wrong with you, it must be the fibro. Follow up with my GP, more tests, tests, and more tests, and "nothing we see could cause this", it must be the Fibro.
I would like to hear what explanation you get if you get one though.

I had the same thing happen before the fm diagnosis. Sat in the er in Jacksonville FL the entire day while they ran tests. Not to scare you but this is how they found my brain tumor. Get them to do a brain MRI just to be on the safe side.


(((HUGS)))
Raven

This was the first thing that put me in the hospital. I was driving and blacked out. When I came to I was in a yard with EMTs all around me. I could not move my right side or really speak. My vision was blurred and I had numbness and tingling. The kept saying stroke and TIA to themselves. I was in the hospital for 4 days while they ran every test imaginable. Everything came back negative. they spent a year considering MS (and still haven't totally ruled it out). Three years later, I was diagnosed with FMS. Of course thru all of this I had the pain and fatigue. I still get the weakness, numbness and tingling on bad days. I am sorry you are dealing with this. Hope your doctor keeps looking into reasons for you.

It sounds like a stroke to me and that er needs to be sued especially if you lasting problems.They should have done a brain scan there and then.I wonder if your Dr. told them a head of time that he thought it was "just fibro". I lost all move ment in both legs for two hours one morning but it whent away completly.Was scary though.You should be demanding a brain scan just in case!! marilyn

the doc didnt findout till i went on the mon after the sat night in the er waiting room so it wasnt him if my problems contiune i entend to blow some docs s**t out of the water thank you all for your support and i will def talk to the doc about a brain scan as it is now late on thusday still having problems with the side and talking proply