5. Peripheral neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy is the damage to nerves in your body’s peripheral nervous system, which is a vast communication network that sends information from your brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. It can be caused by an infection, an injury, or several conditions, including hypothyroidism and diabetes.
Symptoms usually start with sudden leg weakness, but you can also feel tingling in your hands. The numbness can spread to other parts of your body. Other symptoms include sharp, lightning-like pain, pain that worsens at night, weakness, difficulty walking, and a burning or freezing sensation.
Treatment depends on the cause of the nerve damage and may start with treating an underlying condition. Different therapies and prescription medications are also available.
3 replies 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
When i was a sophomore in high school my legs would collapse on me. There was three floors and6 flights of stairs. I could get up the first set but after hitting the landing i could maybe do 6 steps before i was toast. I had yo sit down until feeling came back in my legs to support my weight. l was unbearably thin. The doctor told us that it was from my muscles atrophy during the summer. We were always walking and riding bikes so I was very confused. No blood work was done just a examination. There was never pain irritation tingling just refused to go any further.’