How do I know if I have Guillain-Barre Syndrome?

Paralysis that travel from lower limbs to upper limbs

Numbness or weakness anywhere 8n your body. Go to Dr ad soon as possible. He will do a spinal tap to know for sure

You will have extreme weakness in your arms and legs, tingling in hand, maybe numbness. Go to ER hopefully they will have a neurologist that is on duty

IN MY OPINION --- Symptoms may vary, but generally.... if you experience unusual, persistent leg weakness, followed in combination with either severe low back pain or a persistent worsening numbness in your feet, a numbness which may be ascending into the ankles & calves, you should seek medical advice ASAP. GBS is rare, one in one hundred thousand (1:100K). 2% do not survive GBS as a consequence of respiratory failure, usually due to lack of timely, accurate diagnosis. There is a good chance those you encounter have studied GBS, but have never actually encountered a real case of GBS. Don't fall in the 2%. If your healthcare professional does not mention GBS as a possibility, you should definitely mention that you've read that GBS is a potential match for your symptoms. A spinal tap for sufficient fluid sample for lab analysis is required for definitive diagnosis. A high protein level in the fluid will confirm GBS. Rule out GBS before exploring other diagnosis.

Time in an ICU with a decent Neurologist.

Numbness, tingling, pins and needles, unsteady gait, vision problems, speech problems symptoms can be mistaken for stroke.

Do I have Guillain-Barre Syndrome? I don’t know, I haven’t been to a doctor, but it seems the most likely explanation for my symptoms. About a month or so ago I got severe pains shooting down my legs that caused me to become extremely gimpy. Nothing was helping for the pain, not even old left over codeine. After using kratom for maybe 2 weeks I finally began having a few hours here and there without pain, but still a very strange crooked gait that got worse over time. I now take 400mg ibuprofen 3-4 times/day and fortunately I have not had much pain since. But there is this very strange weakness in my legs, particularly my left leg, and my left hip, I walk very crookedly and have to use a cane to not lose my balance. I can’t bend down and back up without holding on to something, I hit the ground. Can’t lift my legs enough to go up the stairs, I can go up the stairs with some effort on all fours. My legs don’t hold me going up the stairs. I can go down the stairs as long as I can hold on on both sides. Two weeks ago I was suddenly unable to take out the trash, I could not step off the sidewalk. The week before I could still do that but had a very hard time stepping back onto the sidewalk, which I can no longer do, not even with a cane as I just lose my balance. I have had benign positional vertigo for 23 years, I was diagnosed as diabetic 2.5 years ago and became instantly insulin-dependent. I began having extremely terrible pain in my lower legs while I was hospitalized for diabetic ketoacidosis, and it took more than a year for that pain to more or less resolve. I started learning about peripheral neuropathy. Three years ago I fell into a hole in a garden with my left leg and landed on my butt, which resulted in a pinched sciatic nerve, which also caused me a tremendous amount of pain and required lots of physical therapy to make better. With all these things going on I thought this might all be a sciatic diabetic issue, but when I became so suddenly so incredibly weak in the legs and so ridiculously weak I can’t bend over to pet a cat or pick something up off the floor without hanging on to a chair or something because I have to push/pull my upper body back up; can’t stand unless I’m leaning against something or else I fall over; can’t step off or up a sidewalk; someone tried to hand me a package at the door last week and it nearly fell out of my hands, had to request it be placed on the floor. I can’t pick anything up to carry. I have to put things in bags to carry up the stairs to my room, and I have to put the bags on the stairs every few steps and follow the bags on all fours. When I end up on the floor I am completely incapable of getting back up. And a just a very few months ago I did this quite well. I apologize for this long post, after much research I finally found something that actually makes some sense. And I have been in a part of South America where Zika was very bad from 2013-2017; I spent a week on the couch barely moving I felt so bad. I’m 54 years of age.

Mine started with tingling of my hands and feet and quickly began working it’s way inward toward my core. I got to the hospital and they quickly had to get me on a ventilator.

If you are experiencing ANY of these problems and there is no nerve damage that you know of to cause it, go to the hospital! Tell them what you think you have, even if you can only get out or write GBS!!

Numbness in extremities such as your hands or feet but mainly your feet.