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What Causes Numbness In Foot Of A Type 2 Diabetic Patient?
Question: I have numbness in my right foot. I also have Type II Diabetes and Low Back Pain / Stenophis) Could either or both cause this?
Brief Answer:
Both can but diabetes more likely
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome to HCM and thanks for your query.
Diabetes causes peripheral neuropathy which is classically a glove and stocking type. It can start in one leg before the other but with time both legs develop the numbness.
The lumbar canal stenosis symptoms include pain, weakness, and tingling of the legs, which may radiate down the leg to the feet. Additional symptoms in the legs may be fatigue, heaviness, weakness, a sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness and leg cramps, as well as bladder symptoms. Symptoms are most commonly bilateral and symmetrical, but they may be unilateral; leg pain is usually more troubling than back pain.
If you do a nerve conduction study, it will be diagnostic.
Take care,
Both can but diabetes more likely
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome to HCM and thanks for your query.
Diabetes causes peripheral neuropathy which is classically a glove and stocking type. It can start in one leg before the other but with time both legs develop the numbness.
The lumbar canal stenosis symptoms include pain, weakness, and tingling of the legs, which may radiate down the leg to the feet. Additional symptoms in the legs may be fatigue, heaviness, weakness, a sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness and leg cramps, as well as bladder symptoms. Symptoms are most commonly bilateral and symmetrical, but they may be unilateral; leg pain is usually more troubling than back pain.
If you do a nerve conduction study, it will be diagnostic.
Take care,
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