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What are the potential causes of foot numbness, spreading to both legs?

Associated tags: differential diagnosis, Neurology, numbness

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Question answered:13/03/08

The NLH Q&A Service finds it difficult to offer advice based on symptoms.

The clinical website Wrong Diagnosis has a list of causes of foot numbness combined with leg numbness [1], reporting the following:

1. Acroosteolysis neurogenic
2. Broken foot
3. Buerger's disease
4. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder
5. Chronic Kidney Disease
6. Ciguatera poisoning
7. Diabetes
8. Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
9. Hyperventilation
10. Hypocalcemia, autosomal dominant
11. Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
12. POEMS syndrome
13. Peripheral neuropathy
14. Polyneuritis
15. Porphyria, hereditary coproporphyria
16. Pyridoxine deficiency
17. Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
18. Tarsal tunnel syndrome
19. Type 2 diabetes

Our clinical director has reviewed the answer and highlighted other additional causes, which may be serious, including guillain barre and spinal cord compression.

Given the wide variety of potential causes it is beyond the NLH Q&A Service to suggest potential management plans.

Reference

1) http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/cosymptoms/foot-numbness/leg-numbness-all.htm

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