1. Guillain-Barré syndrome
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare autoimmune disorder that happens when your immune system attacks your nerves, causing weakness and tingling that typically begins in the legs and feet. The weakness can spread quickly and eventually paralyze your entire body if not treated right away.
Aside from sudden leg weakness, other GBS symptoms include severe pain that worsens at night, prickling or needles or pins sensations in your fingers, ankles, wrists, and toes, problems controlling your bowels or bladder, and difficulty with eye or facial movements.
It’s still unknown what causes GBS, but an infection, such as respiratory or stomach flu, usually triggers it. See a doctor right away if you have any of these symptoms. While there’s no cure for Guillain-Barré syndrome, there are treatments that can relieve symptoms and reduce the duration of the illness.
2 thoughts on “10 Causes of Sudden Leg Weakness—No. 8 Is Very Common”
It just happened to me in the last I would say one month or one and a half month I just fell down first when I fell down I banged my head on the floor because I lose conscience for the 007 seconds and second time it just happened this morning when I went to washroom and going back to the bedroom my legs they just give up but nothing else this time I fell down between my bad this time I had a little problem to get up on my bed somehow I grab myself for one side of the bed and I manage to get up so I would like to know what really happening and I start to worry a little bit especially when I’m walking and going outside would you please let me know
My husband suddenly can’t walk. He is on hospice is that the problem