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Numbness in left leg below the knee
Since August last year I have this numbness in my left leg below the knee. Occasionally, I get very painful catches in that leg and off-late I have also started to feel a certain heaviness in that leg and it is now being felt in my left knee also. I have had lower backache problem for many years now.
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Visit a spine surgeon for thorough neurological evaluation and lumbo sacral mri. May be nerve root compression.
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