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Progressive muscle wasting
Progressive muscle wasting is a symptom in which a person's muscles become smaller and weaker as time passes. The time-frame can be hours, days, weeks, or months, depending on the cause of the problem.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Progressive muscle wasting?
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A 37-year old asked:
Does muscle wasting start rapidly after nerve compression?
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A 30-year old male asked:
What can I do to build up my calf muscle after muscle waste from a number of operations?
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A 25-year old female asked:
How long can it take muscle to waste? My dominant arm feels weak but i can still lift things. It also looks skinnier.
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A female asked:
I've noticed some muscle in my legs wasting away this was about 6 years ago after I had my first child and now it's seems after I had my second child ?
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A 32-year old asked:
What would cause right side muscle wasting?
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A 47-year old asked:
What can one-sided muscle weakness/wasting be?
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A 39-year old female asked:
What medication can be given for severe muscle wasting?
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A 34-year old male asked:
How long can a person fast before muscle wasting occurs?
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A 32-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Muscle wasting?
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A 31-year old asked:
Is it possible to reverse the muscle wasting from drug use?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Lumpy feelings along muscles and also crunchy it make me feel weak and stiff everyday not lipomas waste products maybe ?
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A 17-year old male asked:
It is a myth if you doing gym and after or before some time if you do masturbation your muscle doesn't grow( gain).. And your gym and hardwork goes waste...by doing masturbation?
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A 34-year old asked:
Is atrophy the same as muscle wasting?
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A 33-year old asked:
What causes unilateral thigh muscle wasting?
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A 43-year old asked:
What does muscle wasting(atrophy) feel like if anything?
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A 45-year old asked:
What do you suggest if my LDL is 167 and cholesterol is 247 can't take statis causes muscle wasting.?
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A 36-year old asked:
What to do if I have hyperthyroid and muscle wasting?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Are there any safe drugs that can help prevent muscle waste caused from to much surgery and where muscle has been scraped out?
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A 45-year old male asked:
Started working out, but only lifting weights once a week. (but walk 3-4x a week.) am i wasting time with weights-stretching my muscles for nothing?
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A 29-year old male asked about a female:
Can nerve damage lead to muscle wasting ?
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A 40-year old asked:
Muscle wasting possible due to ulnar nerve compression?
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A 46-year old asked:
My LDL is 167 and cholesterol is 247. I can't take statins because they cause muscle wasting. Alternatives?
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A 41-year old male asked:
How can u tell if your muscles are wasting away or its just weight loss I've had painless muscle twitching in my callves for 3 months on and off?
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A 32-year old asked:
My doctor thinks I may have proximal muscle wasting in my leg. What and why?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Can infected root canal cause muscle wasting in face?
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A 39-year old asked:
What's the difference between muscle wasting disease or disuse atrophy?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Global muscle wasting condition has resolved. What are the chances that i can redevelop calf strength to restore my arches which went flat?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Muscle wasting after "diagnostic" epidural steroid injecton that turned out to be not diagnostic in 23 year old elite collegiate long distance runner?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Been taking prednisone for while and have been noticing muscle wasting of certain muscles over others, does this sound about right?
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