Recurrent Polyneuropathy with Pregnancy and Oral Contraceptives

Abstract

RECURRENT symmetrical polyneuropathy is rare, and known to occur in various disorders.¹ This is a report on a patient with recurrent symmetrical polyneuropathy with every pregnancy and while she was taking oral contraceptives.Case ReportA 26-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital on April 11, 1967, complaining of numbness of the hands and feet, and progressive weakness of all limbs. Similar difficulties had occurred on 3 difFerent occasions. In 1959, during the last trimester of her 1st pregnancy, she complained of numbness and tingling of the hands and feet, and a few weeks later, she gradually became quadriplegic and . . .