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Lost Sensitivity In Foot, Lower Back Pain, Cold Feeling. What Is Wrong?

Hi I m a 41 year old woman who lives in Sweden. For some month ago I lost feeling on the outside of my right foot . When I touch the side of the foot I can t feel it. Then I started to have lower backpain on the right side of the spine . Sometimes it felt like cold water were running outside my right leg below the knee . Now it started to feels like someone is poring cold water on the outside of my LEFT foot. I m getting scared! What is wrong with me?
Mon, 7 Jan 2013
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Orthopaedic Surgeon,  's  Response
Hello,
Abnormal sensations or loss of sensations in a particular area of the lower limb which is associated with low back ache, suggests pathology of the sciatic nerve or its branches. Usually the pathology originates in the spine most likely disc disease or some other cause which is putting pressure on the nerve and causing the abnormal sensations on that particular area of nerve distribution. the area involved in your case is S1 dermatome. Some times loss of sensation in perenial area can occur. Better consult a orthopedic doctor and get a MRI of the lumbo-sacral spine.
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Lost Sensitivity In Foot, Lower Back Pain, Cold Feeling. What Is Wrong?

Hello, Abnormal sensations or loss of sensations in a particular area of the lower limb which is associated with low back ache, suggests pathology of the sciatic nerve or its branches. Usually the pathology originates in the spine most likely disc disease or some other cause which is putting pressure on the nerve and causing the abnormal sensations on that particular area of nerve distribution. the area involved in your case is S1 dermatome. Some times loss of sensation in perenial area can occur. Better consult a orthopedic doctor and get a MRI of the lumbo-sacral spine. take care.