Bristol Palin took to Instagram on Saturday to give her 549,000 followers an update on her facial paralysis ordeal.
The 34-year-old mother-of-three announced in a reel, ‘My face is slowly getting better.’
She estimated that it has been ‘200 days’ since she was first plagued with the mystery condition, but made a correction, writing that she was actually at day 194.
Bristol — who recently talked about her 16-year-old son Tripp’s academic future — was clad in a black T-shirt, skirt, aviator-style sunglasses, and a trucker hat from her brand Boyhart in the clip.
She appeared to have gained mobility and improved symmetry in the brief snippet.
The media personality, who is the daughter of Alaskan politician Sarah Palin, first revealed the condition in January.
Bristol Palin took to Instagram on Saturday to give her 549,000 followers an update on her facial paralysis ordeal
The 34-year-old mother-of-three announced in a reel, ‘My face is slowly getting better’
And in mid July she posted photos of her lopsided visage and took questions from curious online fans.
She said to one follower, ‘I woke up and it was paralyzed, completely out of the blue – no warning, wasn’t sick, didn’t get the v@x, no recent Botox… just paralyzed.’
Another person asked how she was handling the situation on an emotional level, to which Bristol replied, ‘I feel like I’m handling it well. I can’t look at pictures of myself right now.’
She estimated her face was ‘probably like 70% back to normal.’
At the beginning of the year Bristol said her doctor believed she has a case of Bell’s palsy — which is temporary paralysis or weakness of the facial muscles — as the tests she’d undergone had turned up ‘nothing.’
Just weeks later she said she’d seen very little improvement as the health crisis went past the three-week mark.
‘We’re on day 23 of this, which is absolutely insane,’ she said in February. ‘Can’t move the left side of my face at all. It’s really hard to blink. I can’t blow out a candle. My sisters makes so much fun of me because I look crazy.’
In an attempt to correct the condition, she said she’d undergone acupuncture, massage therapy, oxygen chamber treatment and red light therapy, as well as cutting out ‘most of the processed foods’ in her diet.
Bristol spoke about her ongoing bout with facial paralysis in series of posts Thursday on her Instagram Stories. The media personality, who is the daughter of Alaskan politician Sarah Palin, first revealed the condition in January
When asked how she was handling the situation on an emotional level, Bristol replied, ‘I feel like I’m handling it well. I can’t look at pictures of myself right now’; pictured in January
She added that she was ‘eliminating most caffeine’ in her daily regimen.
In July a social media user asked Bristol why she hasn’t been spending much time on Instagram lately.
‘Maybe it’s just me – but IG feels self absorbed the older I get,’ Bristol explained. ‘I LOVE connecting with y’all and having friends on here but I don’t love posting a whole lot.’
She said she would try to share more with her followers if there was a purpose-driven opportunity.
‘Maybe when I have more house projects and I’m playing bob the builder – I want to show you guys but right now I enjoy an offline quiet little life,’ she said.
In addition to Tripp, she is mom to two daughters: Sailor, nine, and Atlee, eight.
She shares the girls with ex-husband Dakota Meyer.
