What Causes Pain In The Neck Radiating To The Lower Limbs?

Posted on Mon, 8 Aug 2016

Question: My husband has heavy legs and now he complains they are numb especially his Right one. He has been taking the same arthritics medicine for several years and had this same feeling in his feet when many years ago he took gagloseamine (sp). He had and electrical test to check for circulation and it came back ok, could he be having a reaction to medicine, he also takes high blood pressure meds

Answered by Dr. Aashish Raghu (38 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Could be a slip disc

Detailed Answer:
Hi there.

Thanks for the query.

Is he able to walk?

Does he have low back pain?

It is possible that he may have a slip disc that can cause numbness in the legs, especially if he has lots neck pain that radiates to the lower limbs.

Kindly list the blood pressure medications that he is on.

Kindly specify which electrical test was done.

I hope I have answered your query.

I will be available to answer your follow up queries.

Regards,

Dr. Aashish Raghu

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