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@jimlondon1 Hello Jim, and welcome to Connect. What I might suggest is to read about spine issues in the Spine Group. You can have stenosis or narrowing of the spinal canal without pain which can affect walking and cause weakness. I am a spine surgery patient for stenosis that happened in my neck, years later, as a result of a whiplash. I also had some issues with walking and weakness not just in legs, but in my arms as well.

Have you been examined by a neurologist? That might be a first step to diagnose a spine problem. If you do have central canal stenosis, one of the lesser involved surgeries that might treat it may be a laminectomy. My 80-year-old cousin had this and was pretty active again 2 weeks later and doing long walks. It can be diagnosed with imaging such as an MRI.

You can find a lot of discussions that mention stenosis if you use the search function at the top of the screen.

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Thanks for the reply, one of the Drs said to go to a research and teaching Hospital like Mayo and that's what I am doing and should have done long ago, what I wrote was pretty long, what happened to me 17 years ago was I went for a routine colonoscopy when I lived in Las Vegas..the antithesist that put me under used the needle and medicine on someone else first, then re-used the dirty needle on me! I got Hepatitis C and nearly died...to make a long story short..I have never been the same, that Dr killed 4 others and I am lucky to be alive! Thanks again for the reply and I'm going to hope Mayo finds what's wrong...what you said about you Cousin gave me hope! At 69, I am not ready to die! Thanks again! JS London..........