Yay for going to Yale! I was diagnosed in Boston after my Rhode Island neurologists couldn't diagnose me. When you call, explain you'll be traveling. When I explained that, they scheduled the SFEMG and the consult for the same afternoon for that reason.

A single-fiber EMG uses needles too, but they stay in for five or ten minutes once they're placed, and the doctor asks you to slightly clench a muscle and hold it like that.

I had two inconclusive single-fiber EMGs with one neurologist. He sent me to the Boston neurologist who did a third, and said it was conclusive. I am also seronegative (negative blood tests), so I was really happy to get diagnosed.

Send me a private message if you'd like the name of the doctor in Boston who diagnosed me.

Above all, don't give up. I really believe that more than anything, it's persistence that will get results.

Abby