The Doc that did mine was a very enteraining guy and we talked guy talk. I looked the other way when it was time for part 2. I have experinced the same tests, I was not quite ready for the first part to be quite so suprising as you describe it.
I'm completely exhausted from worrying, and could really use any advice anyone out there could give me. Is there any way that I could be sedated, or "knocked out" for this exam? (FYI: I'd taken two of my Percocet pills an hour before hand/my normal dose) I just don't think I could handle pain like that again. Not only was I completely embarrassed, but I also couldn't help but dread being sent BACK there to have the test REDONE.
I left the office after having only 1/4 of the entire 2-part test conducted. I wouldn't normally say this, but the pain was so intense with every shock, that if I'd had a gun in my hand.I would've blown my brains out. It was AWEFUL!! My entire leg leapt off of the exam table each and every time. Each "tiny" jolt of electricity given to me to test the nerves in my leg sent such a shock wave up my leg and into my back, that I nearly passed out several times due to the pain. I was told that the test would "not hurt", and oh boy.was THAT a lie!Īfter telling the woman that performed the EMG that I was very apprehensive, SHE TOO told me not to worry, and that it "wouldn't hurt." I made it through about HALF of the first part of the test (just the electrodes/no needles yet) before I absolutely couldn't take the pain any longer. I am now classified as totally disabled.Īfter about a month of being on these medications, I returned to my neurologist for a follow-up and he insisted that I have an EMG test performed to find out which nerves were being affected by the herniation to cause the numbness in my leg. Both of these drugs do give me some relief, but not enough to enable me to function well enough to return to work. My neurologist prescribed me two drugs: Flexirol and Percocet. The results concluded that I had a herniated disk at the L4/L5 juncture, as well as severe lumbar spinal stenosis/osteoarthritis. I had a recent episode of the most horrifying back pain I've ever experienced, with extensive numbness down my left thigh/calf, and was given several MRIs (without contrast). The pain would come and go (sometimes going, and leaving me be for up to a year at a time) but would always return to torture me. I am a 27 year old female that has had lower back problems/pain for the past 10 years.
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