Weakness in the arms and legs with dizziness - causes

Most often, a feeling of impotence in the muscles of the body is characteristic of banal overwork or severe fatigue. But sometimes there is a complex of such symptoms as weakness in the arms and legs with dizziness - the reasons for this combination may consist in the progression of certain diseases of the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system, and the growth of cancer tumors.

Why is weakness in the muscles of the arms and legs and dizziness?

The simplest reason provoking the described symptomatology is the lack of protein in the body. Deficiency can be caused by adherence to a too strict diet for weight loss, starvation, malnutrition, vegetarianism without adequate replacement of meat with vegetable protein products.

Also, weakness in the limbs and dizziness are accompanied by the following pathological conditions:

1. Diseases of the spine and musculoskeletal system:

• scoliosis (curvature);
• inflammation of the joints in the shoulder or scapula;
• osteochondrosis;
• spondylosis;
• arthritis;
• intervertebral hernia with inflammatory processes;
• tumors of bones and joint tissues.

2. Endocrine diseases:

• disturbances of electrolyte metabolism (deficiency or excess of calcium, magnesium, potassium or sodium);
• diabetes;
• thyrotoxicosis ;
• insufficiency of the adrenal cortex (Addison's syndrome);
• hypothyroidism;
• pathology parathyroid glands, as a rule - hyperparathyroidism.

3. Hormonal changes in women:

• menopause;
• pregnancy;
• the beginning of the menstrual cycle;
• an imbalance between estrogens and androgens.

What causes dizziness and weakness in the arms and legs with nausea and chills?

The most likely factor predisposing to the emergence of these clinical manifestations is a viral or bacterial infection. This symptom complex is a specific intoxication arising from the multiplication and vital activity in the body of pathogenic cells.

Among other common causes of this condition are the following:

1. Diseases of the muscular tissue:

• metabolic myopathy;
• idiopathic inflammatory process;
• infectious myositis;
• muscular dystrophy.

2. Poisoning:

• botulism;
• intoxication with phosphorous compounds;
• food, drug, chemical poisoning.

3. Pathologies of the cardiovascular system:

• thromboangiitis;
• obliterating atherosclerosis;
• phlebeurysm;
• disturbance of blood circulation in peripheral vessels.

What causes dizziness with weakness and numbness of the limbs?

Tingling and feeling of "wadded" hands and feet, as a rule, testifies to neurological disorders:

• hemorrhage in the brain tissue (hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke);
• nerve injury;
• vestibular neuritis;
• damage to the spinal cord;
• transient ischemic attacks;
• multiple sclerosis ;
• epidural abscess;
• Guillain-Barre syndrome;
• lesions of the neuromuscular synapse;
• infringement of nerves, their inflammation;
• mechanical injuries of the brain with concussion.

Often numbness, especially of the upper limbs, accompanies heart attacks (heart attacks), angina, arrhythmia. It is worth note that there are less dangerous causes of the described clinical manifestations:

• physical or psychological overload;
• stress;
• lack of sleep;
• allergic reactions;
• prolonged exposure to direct sunlight;
• Disturbance of thermoregulation due to overheating or supercooling
• strong fright.