I know nobody can diagnose anything but I just wondered if anyone had ever heard of anything like this before because I’m sure there must be an explanation somewhere.
Husband always lived life to the full right up until retirement and then he started to fall over a lot with no real explanation, he’d suddenly lose balance and fall.
Doctors could find no reason why but this continued and he would seem to find walking hard work until he just shuffled along very slowly with a stick.
Again doctors and hospital have no clue to why his legs apparently just don’t want to work.
In his words he knows what to do ie put one leg in front the other but he just can’t get his brain to get the coordination right and so his balance goes and over he falls.
Recently he has hardly been able to get out of the chair and only does for toilet breaks which I have to assist with to keep him stable.
Doctors have now concluded that he’s lost the use of his legs because he hasn’t walked for so long which while in theory yes he has but that doesn’t explain the cause only the affect.
Meanwhile we have no idea what’s wrong because nobody seems to be able to tell us anything and now I’m a full time caregiver to him and apart from the suggestion of it being psychological it doesn’t look like we’ll ever have any answers to what’s happening.
He now can’t balance to stand up anymore and when he falls he can’t get back up again so I have to get assistance from neighbours or call someone to pick him up but despite this his brain is still as sharp as ever but it’s just not getting messages to his legs it seems.
I just wondered if there was anybody anywhere that had experienced anything similar?