Fearful Before EMG Tuesday

[FredFlinstone]

Hi Everyone,I'm due to have an emg on Tuesday, after begging my doctor to have it earlier. I felt relieved when I heard the news yesterday that I would have it earlier, but then I started freaking out this morning. I am so afraid they will find something malignant. I have been twitching in my knees and I noticed that when I go down stairs my knee sometimes gives out. I keep thinking that the twitches are slowly zapping energy from my body. I don't have any weakness, but my mind is imagining that I eventually will. I also had a very scary body jerk when I feel asleep last night and it wasn't from a dream. My whole body moved lifting much of it off the bed. I am on Zoloft, getting off coffee, and trying to reduce anxiety as much as possible, but I am completely fixated on the worst case scenario. Does anyone have these symptoms. How can I cope with the anxiety from the EMG? On the one hand, I want the EMG to pick up a twitch to know if they are malignant, but on the other hand I don't want to know. Please help.

 

[JohnnyRocket]

Everything you have described, from your first post to the last, falls well within what we see in BFS cases. More importantly, what you have described does NOT sound anything like the big nasty. Stop playing horrid scenarios of what you think the EMG test might reveal. The symptoms already tell the story and your neuro already told you. The story begins and ends with a B F and S.

 

[Gloria123]

Lilly,I've been there. Very scared about an upcoming EMG.My advice, if you and your doctor are up for it: get a prescription for xanax to get your through the next few days. It will help immensely. Not a long term solution, but it will calm your mind down and your twitching as well. I couldn't have lived without it prior to my EMG.Also, it's likely the EMG will pick up fasiculations but that's okay, because it has for most of us. After all, we twitch. They can't tell from fasiculations whether they are malignant or not, but it's the other things they would see on the EMG. Don't worry about fasiculations.Hang in there.... let me know if you want to talk.Mitra