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Does alcohol consumption lead to muscle weakness?
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Yes: There is alcoholic myopathy which is injury to muscles and alcoholic neuropathy is well described causing numbness, leg pain, unsteadiness some of this is really deficiency of thiamine or other vitamins.
Answered 5/21/2016
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