Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 Hi, gang ... Is an EMG the test where the doctor traces the speed of nerve impulses by using needles connected to wires? If that is an EMG, I have had two, one in 1983 to test for the extent of my neck injury, and one about four months ago to test for CMT ... and I didn't find them to be very painful ... Could it be that some doctors are just bigger Klutzes than others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 , Lamar here, That's the EMG. I had it and the Nerve conduction velocity tests and neither were painful. A slight shock and twitching of the muscles. Only very slight discomfort. many with CMT complain with severe pain from them. I do not know if the doctors used less current, a different technique, or what. When I had my first one, I had very little loss of feeling so it was not that I was " numb " and did not feel it. I will say I have a high pain tolerance, for example I have had sutures several times with no locals, but I did feel some pain from that. As I said only a very minimal discomfort from them.. ----- Original Message ----- From: oregonpapa@... egroups Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [] My EMGs Hi, gang ... Is an EMG the test where the doctor traces the speed of nerve impulses by using needles connected to wires? If that is an EMG, I have had two, one in 1983 to test for the extent of my neck injury, and one about four months ago to test for CMT ... and I didn't find them to be very painful ... Could it be that some doctors are just bigger Klutzes than others? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 -----Original Message----- From: oregonpapa@... <oregonpapa@...> egroups <egroups> Date: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [] My EMGs >Hi, gang ... > >Is an EMG the test where the doctor traces the speed of nerve impulses by >using needles connected to wires? If that is an EMG, I have had two, .. and I didn't find them to be very painful ... Could it be >that some doctors are just bigger Klutzes than others? > > > I've had two and they hurt me. I think, and this is just my opinion, nothing to back it up as yet. The more the nerves are damaged the more it hurts! If the electricity travels along the nerves, which it does, and those nerves are ok, its smooth sailing. If they have weak posts, breaks in them, the elecrticity has to " jump " or push through those spots and that hurts???? Make sense? ~Becky M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 Hi, Becky ... That does make sense ... thanks. Ella says " Hello. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 In a message dated 8/17/2000 11:10:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rmax@... writes: << I've had two and they hurt me. I think, and this is just my opinion, nothing to back it up as yet. The more the nerves are damaged the more it hurts! If the electricity travels along the nerves, which it does, and those nerves are ok, its smooth sailing. If they have weak posts, breaks in them, the elecrticity has to " jump " or push through those spots and that hurts???? Make sense? ~Becky M. >> They also have to turn the machine up higher to get a reading from damaged nerves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 In a message dated 8/18/2000 5:17:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, oregonpapa@... writes: Does Ella want a sister named Roxie? That does make sense ... thanks. Ella says " Hello. " >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 I have one EMG and don't care to have another one!! Your comment on the weak spots is very interesting. When I had my EMG it hurt!!! They also did spinal tap the same day, and I was still having spasms in my spine when they tried to get the spinal tap done. Needless to say it wasn't a very fun day! Jane > I've had two and they hurt me. I think, and this is just my opinion, >nothing to back it up as yet. The more the nerves are damaged the more it >hurts! If the electricity travels along the nerves, which it does, and >those nerves are ok, its smooth sailing. If they have weak posts, breaks in >them, the elecrticity has to " jump " or push through those spots and that >hurts???? Make sense? ~Becky M. > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 ... Do you want to give your cat away? I think Ella would be too jealous. Women aren't very understanding of those things ... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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