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Does anybody know, if Ativan can have affecct on findings in EMG? Just got me thinking,because I´ve bin taking this medicine before I go to sleep,for a while and have never bin asked if I take some medicine before the EMG test.
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I've never heard of it being a problem.

AL.
 
Medications do not affect EMG as far as I know. I have never been asked what meds I am on before the test. I feel sure if they are significant, it would be carefully documented before the test.
 
I believe somebody asked this question or something similar a couple of months ago and Wright answered it, saying that it would have had no effect on the EMG.

Why do you think that it might have an effect on EMGs, island? And what effect would it have to have to confuse the results?
 
You know, it's funny you ask.

Because I WAS told that I couldn't take my valium or my zanaflex 24 hours before the EMG they were going to do last month.

The NEW neuro said it didn't matter--the only med she said I can't take is my blood thinners.
 
And that would because you would get bruising from the needles:)
 
Thank you all for your answears. Trfogy
I just thougt that it might because of the muscle relax affects from it.(And could maybe affect the spontainios activity in the EMG). In some articles on tne net they say that do not take mucles relax and blood thinner, and some only mension blood thinners.
 
The neuro I saw first (not a great experience) said absolutely not to take them. He was a diplomat of Electrymyography (sp?) but he also isn't the doctor I'm seeing now for various reasons.

The Neuromuscular/motor neuron specialist I'm seeing now said I only had to bridge to a different blood thinner before the test (which the first neuro said wasn't necessary)

Go figure. I tend to believe the one that specializes in MND myself--and she said it didn't matter.

But--I did ask the first neuro why--he said "because we don't want the muscles to be artificially slow" (He ended up not doing the EMG anyway)
 
I can't edit the above--so let me stress due to a PM I received--I was NOT disagreeing with what Wright says--he's the expert.

In part (as I've read Wright's posts on EMG) it's why I didn't trust the first neuro--and believed the second who is a specialist in MND--who said it was FINE to take all my meds but my blood thinners--for the reason Aly said--too high a risk of bleeding at the high levels of coumadin I'm on--but even on blood thinners--they CAN do an EMG still if an alternative medication is used. I have A-fib, so I can take a new med on the market--those with simple history of DVT can take Lovenox shots so they can be EMG'd
 
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