Bob:

I am quite impressed by your going and getting these tests. My last emg was for something to do with my shoulder and pain going down my left arm (from some nerve decompresson or whatever).

My doctor said: "You have to go for an EMG and nerve conduction test". I knew what they were because I had had them YEARS before for carpal tunnel and I DID NOT LIKE THEM THEN.

So I looked at my doctor and said "do I really have to do this"? He said: 'melody, yes you do".

So I went to the testing place, I hopped on the table, the lady came at me with the cattle prod, she did this exactly three times before I hopped off the table and threatened her life. I really did this. No kidding. I would have belted her if she touched me one more time. I looked her dead in the eye and I said "if you tough me again with that thing, I'll punch you in your F.....face". I cannot believe I actually said this to another human being.

She just sighed and said: "yes I know SOME PEOPLE FIND THIS A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE".

DUH!!!!

I must have been on that table no more than 2 minutes. That was enough for me.

I immediatly marched back to my doctor's office, walked in and said "if you ever send me there again, that's IT!!!"

He started chuckling. I said "you go and do that test". He stopped chuckling.

Oh, in 1995 when I had Bells Palsy, the neurosurgeon told me "you have to go for an emg of your face". That's all I had to hear. My Bells Palsy cleared up in two weeks straight. When I went back to him he said "wow, you don't need to go for the test".

Concerning my left shoulder, after that, I just did the spider up the wall thing and the exercises when people have breast surgery. I had had breast surgery when I was 40 so I knew what those exercises were. So I just did them. My left shoulder has improved.

I have had X-RAYS. I have had one cortisone shot in my left shoulder. It helped.

But honestly, moving my arm every day is what does the trick. So it doesn't become frozen.

But I don't know what I would if someone told me "melody you have to go and get an emg and a nerve conduction test on your body.

I have diabetic neuropathy. Started in the tips of my toes. Then they started to vibrate, buzz whatever, and that's when I started the Methocobalimin. DID THE TRICK.

But, on occasion, when the weather is nuts, or I get a stress thing going on in my life, my arms feel like the hairs are standing on end. It's a wispy kind of feeling. I just take my hands and pat down my arms. It goes away.

I don't know what an emg or nerve conduction study would tell my doctor. I'd have to have my arms, my legs, my feet and toes done.

NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

Can you just imagine me lying there and they come at me with that cattle prod thing. If I could only take 2 minutes on that table, what the heck would I do if they try and put those things all over my body.

I've had pinched nerves all of my life. Been diagnosed with them.

So I'll do my epsom salt soaks (for my feet to get the magnesium in my system), I just orded Malic Acid from Puritan's Pride. I'll take my CQ10, and I take my Methyl B-12,.

BUT NO ONE'S COMING AT ME WITH NO CATTLE PROD.

They'll land in the hospital if they do this.

I know me. lol