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I’ve already posted this once, but I’m honestly terrified that I’ll just be met with total silence here.
To give you the full picture, I’ve been struggling for months now with constant wrist pain, numbness in my hands, and these muscle spasms in my legs. I’m sitting right on the edge of a Lyme disease diagnosis and am currently undergoing treatment for it—but let’s set that aside for a moment...
Here’s the crux of the issue: I went ahead and got MRIs of my brain, my cervical spine, and my lumbar spine. And wouldn't you know it—everything came back perfectly clear. Even my SSEP tests for the vagus and tibial nerves showed nothing out of the ordinary.
What is absolutely driving me insane while I wait for my neurology appointment is this massive contradiction. How on earth can an EMG—you know, that whole ordeal with the needles—detect moderate to severe neurogenic lesions in the C5-C7 area and down in my lumbar spine (which is the whole reason I was sent for the SSEP and MRI in the first place), yet the MRI shows absolutely nothing wrong? What in the world is happening? How can there be nerve damage present when the imaging is clean and my spine looks textbook perfect?! 🙂 I suppose I should just say—maybe I missed something. My blood sugar is fine, my thyroid is normal. Please, I’m begging you, don't move this thread to the "test results" section; nobody ever actually looks at the posts over there, and I really need to talk about this for my own peace of mind...
To give you the full picture, I’ve been struggling for months now with constant wrist pain, numbness in my hands, and these muscle spasms in my legs. I’m sitting right on the edge of a Lyme disease diagnosis and am currently undergoing treatment for it—but let’s set that aside for a moment...
Here’s the crux of the issue: I went ahead and got MRIs of my brain, my cervical spine, and my lumbar spine. And wouldn't you know it—everything came back perfectly clear. Even my SSEP tests for the vagus and tibial nerves showed nothing out of the ordinary.
What is absolutely driving me insane while I wait for my neurology appointment is this massive contradiction. How on earth can an EMG—you know, that whole ordeal with the needles—detect moderate to severe neurogenic lesions in the C5-C7 area and down in my lumbar spine (which is the whole reason I was sent for the SSEP and MRI in the first place), yet the MRI shows absolutely nothing wrong? What in the world is happening? How can there be nerve damage present when the imaging is clean and my spine looks textbook perfect?! 🙂 I suppose I should just say—maybe I missed something. My blood sugar is fine, my thyroid is normal. Please, I’m begging you, don't move this thread to the "test results" section; nobody ever actually looks at the posts over there, and I really need to talk about this for my own peace of mind...