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Feeling numbness, like needles and pins pinching in right leg after spine surjery, left is fine.day 2 after surjery.
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If this is the leg-: -that was involved with you having back surgery, this is not uncommon, but if it's a new symptom,let your surgeon know right away.
Answered 3/13/2016
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