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Originally Posted by kmeb
Hi. If we are talking about the same test - (SSEP?) I remember it made each limb they were testing jerk repetedly for about half an hour each... and yes, the next couple of days the PN symtoms were much worse - I have a feeling the nerves were going - WHAT WAS THAT?
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Hi, Karen, the test was called SER, and Billye gave me a good link to a description:
http://www.sparrow.org/neuro/neuro_ser.asp
It was pretty much as described. First they did the hands, then disconnected and connected at the ankle and behind the knee and lower back.
The goal for the tech was to get my thumbs to ... tremor I guess. And probably the same with the big toes of each foot.
I could feel the current in a very unequal way:
for my left ankle, the tech had to really crank up the current before I could feel it at all, and then he adjusted till I could feel it in the toes and the big toe was stimulated to move throughout the test.
for my hands, in the left hand I could feel the stim in all fingers; right hand, I could
only feel it in the palm it never extended to the fingers, but he did get the thumbs to move throughout the test.
I have no idea what if anything that means.
It does indeed feel like my toes are
screaming.
