Nervous for EMG: Foot Twitching?

[jane3potter3]

I have an emg next week and I am very nervous. It has been 1 year since I started twitching. I am having a neuromuscular specialist perform the emg so I am sure it will be thorough. A local neurologist has been performing my emg's up until now. I have constant twitching in the arches of my feet? She plans on testing my feet along with things. Has anyone ever had their feet tested? If fasiculations do show up does that mean I automatically have ALS or do other changes need to be on the EMG? Someone please reply. Thanks. Sarah.

 

[simonw00]

Hi thereI would be almost certain that your neurologist would have picked up some siogn of ALS by now, were you to have it. The fact that someone who does EMGs all day every day is now doing a further test will hopefully give you extra reassurance that your symptoms are of a benign nature, which I think they must be, given the fact that you have had symptoms for about a year now and have developed no symptoms or signs of ALS by now. The EMG may well be abnormal, in that it shows the fasciculations, but this most definitely does not mean you have ALS. I understand that benign fasciculations are often distinguishable from other causes of fasciculation on EMG.All the bestSimon

 

[sick2009]

something i have come upon reading this site:fascics in the feet mean very little - they are very common and not indicative of other things.

 

[MarioMasher]

Fascics in general mean very little. If they aren't accompanied by severe weakness, they are meaningless. Doesn't matter where they are, they mean nothing.

 

[jane3potter3]

Thank you so much for your helpful advice and reassurance. Sarah.