Guest guest Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Hi, again, everyone. My son is still going through the diagnostic process for neurosarcoidosis, as well as several mitochondrial diseases. There are lots of different tests for these, but the neurologist also wants to do an EMG. This sounds like a really bad idea to us because my son has really severe pain and, whenever he has had intramuscular needles since developing this illness (e.g., flu shot, injections of prednisone to try to treat some of his pain) he has suffered days of excruciating pain at the site plus (in most cases) recurrent pain at that site. So we are pretty leery about doing a test that involves inserting needles and adding electric current! And it's not really clear from the doctor's explanation how this particular test would aid or narrow the diagnosis anyway. Most of the specific diseases seem to have their own blood tests or other tests in any event. Do any of you have advice on whether an EMG is worth doing? Did it provide any useful diagnostic information? Did it worsen your pain? Did any of you have doctors who thought it was contraindicated for someone with severe pain? Thanks for any thoughts on this! Debby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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