Glenn:

Sorry to hear your experience at the clinic was not good. Frankly, in my own personal experience, I have ended up with several neurologists, shall we say lacking in bedside manner. I do believe there is still hope for that specialty, as my current Neurologist seems to have passed that course with flying colors. Perhaps others become insensitive after doing numerous pain inflicting EMG/NC studies...

Anyway, about the skin testing. I believe Johns Hopkins has done quite a lot of work in this area. I spoke with someone in their neuromuscular lab, who told me that they could send the kit, then give a local doctor, or even a PA, about 5 minutes of instruction on the phone on how to take the necessary sample. The sample is then returned to them for diagnostics.

Are you comfortable in sharing what type of foot surgery you had?

Cathie