Symptom: Paralysis symptoms

Introduction: Paralysis symptoms

Further information about Paralysis symptoms is below, or review more specific information about these types of Paralysis symptoms: facial paralysis, hemiparesis, sleep paralysis, jaw paralysis, Leg paralysis, partial paralysis, total paralysis, muscle paralysis or other types.

Paralysis symptoms: Loss of body control and/or feeling. See free access online books about Paralysis symptoms below. See detailed information below for a list of 290 causes of Paralysis symptoms, including diseases and drug side effect causes.

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Causes of Paralysis symptoms:

The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Paralysis symptoms. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

• Some causes of sudden paralysis include:
  • Stroke
  • Transient ischemic attack
  • Head injury
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • Hysteria
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Arterial blockage
• Some causes of slow-onset paralysis include:
  • Nerve compression (see Nerve symptoms)
  • Nerve entrapment
  • Tumors
  • Brain tumor
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Vitamin B12 deficiency
  • Motor neurone disease
  • Poliomyelitis
• Psychological disorders that may cause paralysis type symptoms include:
  • Parasomnias
  • Depersonalization disorders
• Causes of specific types of paralysis depend on the location:
  • See facial paralysis
• Other types of symptoms that may be similar to paralysis symptoms or imprecisely described as paralysis include:
  • Catatonic
  • Parasthesias
  • Tingling symptoms
  • Weakness
  • Muscle weakness

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Causes of Types of Paralysis symptoms:

Review the causes of these more specific types of Paralysis symptoms:

• Facial paralysis (58 causes)
• Hemiparesis (38 causes)
• Sleep paralysis (2 causes)
• Jaw paralysis (13 causes)
• Leg paralysis (19 causes)
• Partial paralysis (4 causes)
• Total paralysis (2 causes)
• Muscle paralysis (8 causes)
• Paraplegia (77 causes)
• Flaccid paralysis (5 causes)
• Ankle paralysis (16 causes)
• Arm paralysis (27 causes)
• Elbow paralysis (13 causes)
• Eye paralysis (30 causes)
• Finger paralysis (15 causes)
• Foot paralysis (18 causes)
• Jaw paralysis (13 causes)
• Knee paralysis (13 causes)
• Thigh paralysis (15 causes)
• Wrist paralysis (15 causes)

See full list of 64 types for Paralysis symptoms

Paralysis symptoms: Multiple Symptom Checker

Listed below are some combinations of symptoms associated with Paralysis symptoms, as listed in our database. Visit the Multiple Symptoms Checker, to add and remove symptoms and research your condition.

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Multiple Symptom Checker Combinations

• Paralysis symptoms and Weakness (203 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Movement symptoms (197 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Nerve symptoms (177 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Muscle symptoms (174 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Head symptoms (173 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Sensations (162 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Pain (153 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Seizures (127 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Behavioral symptoms (123 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Muscle weakness (122 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Muscle spasms (116 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Spasms (116 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Personality symptoms (107 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Face symptoms (100 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Eye symptoms (95 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Digestive symptoms (89 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Mental problems (87 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Respiratory symptoms (82 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Mouth symptoms (77 causes)
• Paralysis symptoms and Headache (76 causes)

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Causes of General Symptom Types

Research the causes of these more general types of symptom:

• Weakness (2019 causes)
• Movement symptoms (1727 causes)
• Sick (3141 causes)

Causes of Similar Symptoms to Paralysis symptoms

Research the causes of these symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Paralysis symptoms:

• Numbness (242 causes)
• Weakness (2019 causes)
• Tingling (358 causes)
• Paresthesias (210 causes)
• Collapse (53 causes)
• Hemiparesis (38 causes)
• Facial paralysis (58 causes)

Diagnostic Guides for Paralysis symptoms

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Diagnostic tests for Paralysis symptoms:

Various tests are used in the diagnosis of Paralysis symptoms. Some of these are listed below :

• Physical examination
  • Blood pressure - if blood pressure is high must consider a stroke (due to a cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis or cerebral aneurysm).
  • Pulse rate and rhythm looking for atrial fibrillation which would suggest a cerebral embolism as a cause of a stroke
  • Cardiovascular examination looking especially for murmur and an enlarged heart
  • Listen for a carotid artery bruit which can indicate narrowing of the arteries to brain and thus risk factor of stroke

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Diagnosis Checklist: Questions your doctor may ask (and why!)

During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques in their assessment of Paralysis symptoms. Your doctor may ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to remember that your consultation is a two-way process and any extra information you can share with your doctor about your symptoms may help them with their diagnosis. Some of the questions your doctor may ask are listed below:

• How long have you had the paralysis (loss of power of voluntary movement in a muscle)? - to determine if acute or chronic.
• Which muscles does the paralysis affect? - e.g. hemiplegia is complete loss of power of the limbs of one side and is usually, but not always due to a lesion within the brain such as a stroke or tumor; paraplegia is complete loss of power of both lower limbs and is usually due to a spinal cord lesion; facial paralysis is usually due to a lesion of the seventh cranial nerve.
• Is there total paralysis of the muscles or weakness of the muscles? - The terms hemiplegia and paraplegia strictly indicate total paralysis. Hemiparesis means weakness of the limbs of one side. Paraparesis means weakness of both lower limbs.
• Is the paralysis intermittent? - may suggest migraine, transient ischemic attacks from the basilar artery or carotid artery disease, epilepsy.
• Was the onset sudden or gradual? - Sudden onset of hemiplegia would most commonly suggest a stroke (due to cerebral thrombosis, hemorrhage or embolism); however a contusion (bruising) of the spinal cord may also produce a sudden onset of paralysis. A history of trauma and a sudden onset of hemiplegia (complete loss of power of the limbs of one side) would suggest a subdural or epidural haematoma (blood clot pressing on the outside of the brain). A gradual onset of hemiplegia may suggest a brain tumor or brain abscess. A sudden onset of facial paralysis would suggest Bell's palsy, diabetic neuropathy and stroke as cause. If gradual onset of facial paralysis must consider acoustic neuroma, advancing petrositis, brain tumor or brain abscess.

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Diagnosis Checklist: Associated symptoms your doctor may ask about (and why!)

Sometimes, other symptoms may be present and may help your doctor analyse your condition. The symptoms your doctor may ask about (in association with Paralysis symptoms) may include:

• Limb pain? - a painful joint or muscle disease may interfere with assessment of leg power.
• Paralysis of the facial muscles? - If facial paralysis is associated with complete loss of power of the limbs of one side of the body, should suspect a cause within the brain. If paralysis of the facial muscles is absent, more likely to suggest a cause in the spinal cord.
• Fever? - If associated with hemiplegia may suggest cerebral abscess, venous sinus thrombosis or encephalitis. If associated with paraplegia may suggest venous sinus thrombosis, abscess of the spinal cord or myelitis. If associated with facial paralysis must consider mastoiditis or middle ear infection.
• Seizures? - may suggest brain cancer or metastasis, encephalitis, stroke.
• Headaches? - may suggest brain cancer or brain metastasis, subdural or extradural haematoma, stroke.

See Diagnosis Checklist for Paralysis symptoms (29 listings)

Stories from Users for Paralysis symptoms

Real-life user stories relating to Paralysis symptoms:

• Numbness in left side of face, and other symptoms
• Numbness and burning in different parts of my body...please help!!
• Numbness Right Side Of Body
• Can't Rest My Body
• Full Body Spasms, numbness
• Numb down my left side
• The feeling of being outside my body
• Pain, numbness, on right side of body
• Facial numbness, left side, 18 months
• swelling tingling on one side of body
• Dizzy, feet swollen, numb left side body
• Please help - Only affects the right side of my body
• Right Side of my body went numb
• Numbness on Left side of Face, slight chest pain
• What kinds of diseases affect only half of your body?
• Numbness on my right side
• Help: right side numbness
• My dad keeps having funny experiences where the left side of his body goes numb
• Left Side Back Pain - Numbness
• whole right side going numb with strenuous activities

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Organs affected by Paralysis symptoms:

The list of organs typically affected by Paralysis symptoms may include, but is not limited to:

• Arms
• Legs

Detailed list of causes of Paralysis symptoms

The list below shows some of the causes of Paralysis symptoms mentioned in various sources:

• AChR deficiency and short channel open time - paralysis of eye muscles
• Acoustic neuroma - facial paralysis
• Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis - hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body)
• Acute idiopathic polyneuritis - ascending atonic paralysis
• Adenoid cystic carcinoma - facial paralysis

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How Common are these Causes of Paralysis symptoms?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Paralysis symptoms. Of the 290 causes of Paralysis symptoms that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

• 1 causes are "very common" diseases
• 7 causes are "common" diseases
• 4 causes are "uncommon" diseases
• 18 causes are "rare" diseases
• 26 causes are "very rare" diseases
• 244 causes have no prevalence information.

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Conditions listing symptoms: Paralysis symptoms:

The following list of conditions have 'Paralysis symptoms' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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Causes of Paralysis symptoms Based on Risk Factors

This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Paralysis symptoms based on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient: