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Originally Posted by SeamsLikeStitches
I rambled in the other post....
Basically, the PN is progressing, it's idiopathic. Still "barely" within the "normal" range.
That's all I got!
Now what? Where do we go from here? What do I do now?
More meds? Get worse? Get better?
It's only been one year and it's gone from the balls of my feet to
all the way up to my knees
My hands and some of my face
O.K. all you "Veterans" where is this going?
I'm a "planner" like Mel, What can I expect? What should I do now?
HELP!!!!!  |
Firstly don't worry about this test, its a walk in a park, its nothing to get worried about at all, the test is used to diagnose nerve damage or destruction, a Nerve conduction test is only a test of the speed of conduction of impulses through a nerve.
The nerve is stimulated with surface electrodes, which are patch-like electrodes placed on the skin over the nerve at different locations. one electrode stimulates the nerve with a very mild electrical impulse, you might feel a little tiny bit, thats all.
The resulting electrical activity is recorded by the other electrodes. The distance between electrodes and the time it takes for electrical impulses to travel between electrodes are used to calculate the nerve conduction velocity.
Brian
