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What Could Be The Reason For Loosing Leg Muscles?

my daughter aged 33 has lost leg muscle, well strength in her whole body actually for no apparent reason, she is not over weight, but has 4 children. 15,12, and 3 and 4. she said she feels tired all the time. she was diagnosed with epilepsy during her last pregnancy, she had a really bad pregnancy and emergency ceasaerian due to placenta previer, she lost a lot of blood during her whole pregnancy. Anyway, she can haedly walk up a flight of stairs, or even pick the children up. she is a single parent now and having a rough time. can you shed any light on her condition. she worries about drs as her 1st husband of the 2 older children died at 30 yrs old from cancer
Thu, 2 Feb 2017
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Orthopaedic Surgeon 's  Response
First of all, she must have get some bloods tests done specially FBC. Tiredness, fatigue can be due to low Hb. If it's too low she might need blood transfusion but if its slightly low then she needs to take iron tablets alongwith multivitamins.
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What Could Be The Reason For Loosing Leg Muscles?

First of all, she must have get some bloods tests done specially FBC. Tiredness, fatigue can be due to low Hb. If it s too low she might need blood transfusion but if its slightly low then she needs to take iron tablets alongwith multivitamins.