You all have been through worst.cuz these pings end.

The test evaluates the electrical activity of your muscles when they contract and when they're at rest. During an EMG, your doctor inserts a needle electrode through your skin into various muscles. I remember thinking.how glad I was to be relaxed and breathed OUT whenever I felt a little electrical ping. It caused me severe muscle weakness and pain which I still have. Test results tell your doctor whether you have a damaged nerve. Sometimes after the test has been completed the muscle or muscles that. body/legs.and breathe and slow and even. Yes, it sounds awful, and you can feel it, but you will be surprised how little it hurts. MY advice for EMG is to relax your hands. next s off to see the umpteenth neuro but she's the MS specialist. He knows I am being tested for MS.and he checked my reflexes and made a note on my right leg.not sure what the number means.but when the Ortho guy did reflex on my LEFT knee he thought that reflex was hyperreflexed. I do not have neuropathy.but definitely problems with my lumbar stenosis and lower discs. The test is uncomfortable and at times painful. There are several limitations to EMG studies. Felt like pinches and hitting your 'crazy bone' see? Because newly formed axons do not conduct electrical impulses as efficiently as the native axons, the persistence of significant denervation (i.e., axonal loss) is a poor prognostic sign. But now he also is sending currents with a couple of needles in.so quickly.that is can be a bit overwhelming.īUT.

the 'needles' he calls.dang I cannot remember how he said it.but it made it NOT sound like needles. I just don't like surprises so he would tell me when it would give the little second of 'juice of elect' It did not hurt.like I s kinda a surprise and your leg can jump when it happens but not always. he puts on these little straps around different areas of feet/toes/ankles and give you a little jolt of electricity.įelt like if you hit your 'crazy bone' by your elbow. He was very talkative and that relaxed me. The doc was an MS doc but did not want to know my history as it would influence his evaluation.

Do emgs hurt