Having been lucky with my health for so long I think I began to take it for granted. Very little seemed to warrant a visit to a doctor and I was a healthy active 25 year old. I had travelled to many exotic countries and had no allergies or conditions at all.

My family is also generally healthy and normal although one thing that really intrigued me was that my mum had this strange thing she could do in a way of saying 'err' in like something was disgusting. She could lift her top lip up on one side, completely independent of the other side.

This was really familiar to me and I asked her how she could do it and she said it was from having Bells Palsy when she was in her teens. She told me she practically just woke up and half of her face couldn't move. Her younger brother had it too and being a brass player panicked that he'd never be able to play again. Both cases went in a couple of weeks. Both my mum and and uncle are 100% today. I believed this was some kind of prevalent condition in the early half of this century and didn't occur today...little did I know...

Here's my experience...