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What Causes Body Numbness?

I am having numbness in several areas of my body, I wake up and my arms and hands are numb. In my feet several toes and part of the pad behind the big toe are numb. Also both knees burn when I move them. Any idea;s as to what can be causing these symptoms. I ve lost 39 lbs since November by increasing my exercise and cutting down on portions
Wed, 30 Mar 2016
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hi,

thank you for providing a brief history of you. Since you mentioned you lost a lot of weight and you already do intense exercise the body metabolism is disturbed of time being which will get adapt as the time passes. if the numbrness in feet and hands is more than the nature of the pain is to be concerned if it it there. Meeting a physician for the same will be of definite help. If the symptoms of numbness thought out the body is the case than a neurologist is to be contacted. Also you need to understand that many a times we don't take consultation and get assessed by a specialist since we fear that problems will be big. but meeting a specialist and taking opinion actually will solve 99% of the problems and we get back to normal functionality soon. I hope this helps you.
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What Causes Body Numbness?

hi, thank you for providing a brief history of you. Since you mentioned you lost a lot of weight and you already do intense exercise the body metabolism is disturbed of time being which will get adapt as the time passes. if the numbrness in feet and hands is more than the nature of the pain is to be concerned if it it there. Meeting a physician for the same will be of definite help. If the symptoms of numbness thought out the body is the case than a neurologist is to be contacted. Also you need to understand that many a times we don t take consultation and get assessed by a specialist since we fear that problems will be big. but meeting a specialist and taking opinion actually will solve 99% of the problems and we get back to normal functionality soon. I hope this helps you.