I had the EMG done and it was pure torture. Mid evil like, seeing a machine that came out of the 60's. The person who conducted the test was uninterested in the disease overall and could have cared less that when she began the test in my leg where the RSD originated, I screamed loudly grasping onto either side of the bedding due to the amount of pain that test placed me in.

I went sonorously ignored during & after when my ankle blew up and no longer resembled one with both ankle bones disappearing, taking on a color of a light bluish hue. I was then told to get dressed and to leave.

The EMG should be done away with all together & has no room in this field of testing.

Your post is interesting.

I do find that a very difficult test to have done. I think it really hurts. With today's medical technology you would think there was some other way.

I think it also depends who does it. When I was at Hopkins, the neurologist did it himself and he was very kind and gentle.

I had EMG's and nerve conduction studies done back in the 90's.I see not much has changed. I was sent to have them because an Orthopedic Surgeon noticed I didn't have any reflexes. Prior to then, the most pain I had was a little in my hands and some lower back pain.

I think they caused my pain to increase considerably and it seemed to spread,

Cathie

I have had two with different Neurologists and was herded in and out with no treatment plan and nothing more than (your one in a million patient). I am being refered again and am wondering if a person can hire them to look at the old tests and just talk to me? It may not be within our rights to keep the machine operators from their tortuous task.haha Thanks and you are not alone. Ken in Texas

I've had 3 EMG's, the worst most painful test on the planet (not my opinion but a fact LOL).

The first two were absolute torture and when I would not do the third without some sort of pain meds, they said no problem.

Now they tell me!