Atrophy and Pain: EMG Tomorrow

[soma]

Hi everyone - I have posted here before about dents and atrophy. I was just wondering if anyone knew if have atrophy was painful. The two areas where I have a couple of dents/muscle loss(no weakness) is painful and tender. Does this sound right?? I am having an EMG done tomorrow morning and I'm scared but can't wait in a way. I hope everything is normal and I can move on. I have been twitching for 2 1/2 years now and just developed these two dents 2 months ago. My CK level was 45 which is good, so I really hope this is nothing to be to concerned of. If anyone could give me any advise would be great. Thanks so much for all the support here.

 

[Gelianna]

I don't know. Just following my own line of twisted logic, if the nerves are dead, therefore killing the muscle, then there is no pain.When you have atrophy, you lose the use of a muscle. Muscles all have a particular task. Muscles around it may make up for the loss a little, but if you have true atrophy, you should have weakness.I'm not completely comfortable with any of the above answers, but no one else had responded so I thought I would give it a try.

 

[Gelianna]

By the way, with 2 1/2 years behind you, you may have atrophy (I doubt it), but it's not because of ***.

 

[NinaC2005]

Hi.Take a look at the sticky on dents and atrophy on this forum. If the dents you describe were symptoms of atrophy, you'd most likely feel weakness, not pain, especially if the dents appeared two months ago. I, and a lot of folks here, have been down the "dents=atrophy" road. That simply is not true. If you're 100% absolutely sure that those dents are indeed new, there can be reasons other than atrophy for such dents or even atrophy caused by nerve impingement, not ***. I "discovered" a dent earlier this month on the outside of my right calf. No weakness and, it turns out, that I often sit with my right leg crossed over my left and guess where the dent is . . . And I haven't really twitched in that area (imagine that!), so I connected dots that didn't exist.But atrophy should be preceded by weakness and certainly accompanied by it. You've been twitching 2.5 years, CK levels are good--I'd say your EMG tomorrow will be clean as well. Rule of thumb here, though, is don't look for dents, differences between limbs, etc--advice I failed to take myself (after dispensing it!). And take a look at that sticky I mentioned.Let us know how things go tomorrow so we can celebrate with you!Mark

 

[hCapitalize]

That is a new one to me, painful atrophy?Never heard of it.