My legs getting weaker and weaker

Posted by Nazir Khan @nukhan, Apr 21 5:18pm

I have literally experienced deterioration with weired sensations on daily basis. The SFN hit me 7 years ago initially with some burning sensations in my feet, then pain, then tingling, then numbness and now all the above but with more severity and indescribable sensations. I am wondering whether you have experienced something similar and did you subsequently see any improvement in symptoms at all?

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Many thanks for your comments and good wishes. Most of these antibiotics are quite harmful to health yet doctors prescribe them like candies. Their impact on body is long lasting. The irony is that doctors don't even know or acknowledge how harmful these antibiotics are.

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I recently read about Cipro and the symptoms you described. It was on an article about being "floxed" and it continued to talk about a treatment for this. You may want to Google information on this. I hope you find answers and feel better soon.

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@dlydailyhope

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You may want to consider researching and taking Alpha Lipoic Acid and Acetyl L Carnitine supplements for neuropathy symptoms and nerve health. I started taking them when I learned I had small fiber neuropathy and the burning and pins/needles in my feet improved. I am not diagnosed with diabetes but my mother had type 2 diabetes and I am sensitive to eating too much sugar.

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This sounds very similar to me. I have been pre-diabetic (blood tests) for years at 6.0-6.2. I will check with my doctor re Alpha Lipoic Acid and Acetyl L Carnitine to ask if it would be useful/ helpful for me to take. Thank you.

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Your title indicates weakness in legs. I think that requires further investigation if there’s weakness progressing along with the PN. An autoimmune disorder (rare) causes progressive weakness along with PN called CIDP. It should be considered by your neurologist as a possibility. Treatable, not curable, but essential to identify it early. An EMG will be needed for diagnosis. It’s disabling if not treated early. I hope you get answers and help soon.

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@normadela67

I recently read about Cipro and the symptoms you described. It was on an article about being "floxed" and it continued to talk about a treatment for this. You may want to Google information on this. I hope you find answers and feel better soon.

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I quit taking Cipro and A####### because i was reading about what they can do for walking,arms and talking.So i quit drinking alchohol altogether and 3 days later i was walking,talking and using arms and have ever since.Been 2 months now.You have to read up on all your scripts and maybe try not taking them for a few days.Help your Dr. out with info.I stay in touch with online messages with my Dr. all the time and it helps.

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@larry68

I quit taking Cipro and A####### because i was reading about what they can do for walking,arms and talking.So i quit drinking alchohol altogether and 3 days later i was walking,talking and using arms and have ever since.Been 2 months now.You have to read up on all your scripts and maybe try not taking them for a few days.Help your Dr. out with info.I stay in touch with online messages with my Dr. all the time and it helps.

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So happy to hear you are doing better!!

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@normadela67

So happy to hear you are doing better!!

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amiodarone was the main reason i could not do anything.Read the effects of it and you would get rid of it too.

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very sorry about the difficulties.

I really have no clue if this will help. But, I thought, might at least be worth talking with the doctor about.

In Hatha Yoga, one of the general exercises to help the legs is quite simple.

It is just elevating the legs.

So, that would be just lying down and putting a pillow under the legs to elevate them.

Now, in Hatha Yoga, they take it quite a bit farther, into shoulder stands and headstands - - - - - totally inverted postures.

I guess the theory is to make the blood vessels work against gravity to strength them? Something like that.

But thought I would mention it.

Again, I don't know if it would help (or make things worse). But I thought it might be worth bringing up to the doctor.

Take care all.

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