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Lower leg weakness

Lower leg weakness: Introduction

Lower leg weakness: Weakness of the lower leg muscles. See detailed information below for a list of 23 causes of Lower leg weakness, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes.

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Causes of Lower leg weakness:

The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Lower leg weakness. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

• Muscular dystrophy
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Upper motor neuron disease
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• more causes...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing and Lower leg weakness

Home medical tests possibly related to Lower leg weakness:

• Fatigue: Related Home Tests:
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  • Home Thyroid Gland Function Tests
  • Home Adrenal Gland Function Tests
  • Home Calcium Deficiency Tests
• more home tests...»

Lower leg weakness: Symptom Checker

Listed below are some combinations of symptoms associated with Lower leg weakness, as listed in our database. Visit the Symptom Checker, to add and remove symptoms and research your condition.

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• Lower leg weakness and Leg symptoms (22 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Limb symptoms (22 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Movement symptoms (22 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Muscle symptoms (22 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Musculoskeletal symptoms (22 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Lower leg symptoms (19 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Nerve symptoms (11 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Walking symptoms (9 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Sensory symptoms (7 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Weakness (7 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Foot symptoms (7 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Back symptoms (6 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Pain (6 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Sensations (6 causes)
• Lower leg weakness and Respiratory symptoms (6 causes)
• more...»

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Lower leg weakness: Comorbid Symptoms

Some of the comorbid or associated medical symptoms for Lower leg weakness may include these symptoms:

• Leg symptoms
• Limb symptoms
• Movement symptoms
• Muscle symptoms
• Musculoskeletal symptoms
• Lower leg symptoms
• Nerve symptoms
• Walking symptoms
• Sensory symptoms
• Weakness
• more associated symptoms...»

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Causes of General Symptom Types

Research the causes of these more general types of symptom:

• Muscle symptoms (7251 causes)
• Musculoskeletal symptoms (6264 causes)
• Movement symptoms (6001 causes)
• Leg symptoms (2751 causes)
• Lower leg symptoms (59 causes)
• Limb symptoms (3592 causes)
• Brain symptoms (2787 causes)
• Neurological symptoms (9575 causes)
• Nerve symptoms (9132 causes)
• Arm symptoms (1619 causes)
• Head symptoms (10192 causes)
• more symptoms...»

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• Lower leg
• Lower leg symptoms (59 causes)
• Lower leg pain (8 causes)
• Leg weakness (152 causes)
• Lower
• Leg
• Leg symptoms (2751 causes)
• Leg disease
• more symptoms...»

Misdiagnosis and Lower leg weakness

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Lower leg weakness: Undiagnosed Conditions

Conditions that are commonly undiagnosed in related areas may include:

• Fatigue Disorders -- serious diseases that may be undiagnosed:
  • Anemia -- Undiagnosed
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Undiagnosed
  • Fatigue -- Undiagnosed
  • Lyme Disease -- Undiagnosed
  • Thyroid Disease -- Undiagnosed
  • more ...»
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Detailed list of causes of Lower leg weakness

The list below shows some of the causes of Lower leg weakness mentioned in various sources:

• Acute idiopathic polyneuritis - lower leg weakness
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 5 - lower leg weakness
• Diaphyseal medullary stenosis with malignant fibrous histiocytoma - lower leg weakness
• Distal myopathy with vocal cord weakness - lower leg weakness
• Distal myopathy, Markesbery-Griggs type - lower leg weakness
• more causes...»

See full list of 23 causes of Lower leg weakness

How Common are these Causes of Lower leg weakness?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Lower leg weakness. Of the 23 causes of Lower leg weakness that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

• 0 causes are "very common" diseases
• 0 causes are "common" diseases
• 0 causes are "uncommon" diseases
• 0 causes are "rare" diseases
• 4 causes are "very rare" diseases
• 20 causes have no prevalence information.

See the analysis of the prevalence of 23 causes of Lower leg weakness

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Lower leg weakness:

The following list of conditions have 'Lower leg weakness' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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A

• Acute idiopathic polyneuritis ... lower leg weakness

C

• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 5 ... lower leg weakness

D

• Diaphyseal medullary stenosis with malignant fibrous histiocytoma ... lower leg weakness
• Distal myopathy with vocal cord weakness ... lower leg weakness
• Distal myopathy, Markesbery-Griggs type ... lower leg weakness

G

• Guillain-Barre Syndrome ... lower leg weakness

M

• Myopathy, Distal, with Early Respiratory Failure, Autosomal Dominant ... lower leg weakness

S

• Spastic paraplegia 17 ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia 19, autosomal dominant ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia 2, X-linked ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia 24 ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia 25, autosomal recessive ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia 26, autosomal recessive ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia 3, autosomal dominant ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia 8, autosomal dominant ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia type 1, X-linked ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia with Kallmann syndrome ... lower leg weakness
• Spastic paraplegia with precocious puberty ... lower leg weakness
• Spinal muscular atrophy -- Dandy-Walker complex -- cataracts ... lower leg weakness

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Classifications of Lower leg weakness:

Medical Conditions associated with Lower leg weakness:

Muscle symptoms (7251 causes), Musculoskeletal symptoms (6264 causes), Movement symptoms (6001 causes), Leg symptoms (2751 causes), Lower leg symptoms (59 causes), Limb symptoms (3592 causes), Brain symptoms (2787 causes), Neurological symptoms (9575 causes), Nerve symptoms (9132 causes), Arm symptoms (1619 causes), Head symptoms (10192 causes)

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