Anyone had /know about EMGs

[CassandraWebb]

Just curious really...
I am reading a Marian Keyes book and her description of an EMG doesn't accord with my experience at all. But I don't know if maybe they vary between conditions (I appreciate it's a novel but still...)

I have had a couple of EMGs to test my Myasthenia /rule out MND and they weren't pleasant but they weren't awful either- they started off feeling like the jolt you get when you slide down a slide and get a little electric shock. And then got more painful but never more than "eyebrow threading" painful (and I am a big wimp!)

In the novel though she describes the experience as unbearably awful and the jolts as literally lifting the person off the bed

Wasn't painful, more interesting than anything, watching my hand jolt on its own!

Yes that's what I found . I am a massive wimp and I only found it unpleasant not painful

I had this done around both my eye sockets and it was bloody awful. Electric bolts into my eye lids etc

technically, an EMG is the machine that reads the activity of your muscles, while a neurostimulator is the one that gives you little shocks. It is very similar to a TENS machine. there are various devices out there, and if the power is turned up too high it can definitely be painful. but it doesn't have to be.

Ah yeah round the eyes is not nice!