Manyquestions
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Hi everyone! I have been reading this forum since I started twitching a month and a half ago. I received my first EMG result last week, the very same day that I found out I was 6 weeks pregnant. The conclusions of the EMG result state that I have a chronic axonal mononeropathy of the left deep peroneal nerve probably caused by an old ankle sprain and that the results are negative for a motor neuron illness.
The more detailed results state (SORRY IF THERE ARE ERRORS IN THE TRANSLATION SINCE MY RESULTS WERE GIVEN TO ME IN SPANISH):
1. Neuroconduction study: prolonged distal latency of the muscle action potential composed of the left deep peroneal nerve with reduction of the amplitude.
2. Other action potentials with latencies, amplitudes and conduction velocities normal.
3. F wave of the bilateral ulnar and tibial with latency and cronodisperion normal.
4. The EMG showed motor units with neropathic characteristics with reduction of the recruitment in the left extensor digitorum brevis. All other muscles explored normal.
I have shown these results to my neurologist and he has assured me that this is a completely clean EMG with an incidental finding that has no relevance. However, I cant help to still be nervous and think that there was a mistake, that this can be an early stage ALS or that they misdiagnosed the findings.
I know you will probably say that I should trust my doctor and live my life. But I just can help feeling nervous and would really appreciate it if you could tell me if you have every seen results like mine in an ALS patient and if a chronic axonal mononeropathy of the left deep peroneal nerve is something easily confused with ALS or if it is something completely different and that I should completely relax. I just want to live a happy pregnancy and I think this would really help me.
Thank you and sorry for any bother!
The more detailed results state (SORRY IF THERE ARE ERRORS IN THE TRANSLATION SINCE MY RESULTS WERE GIVEN TO ME IN SPANISH):
1. Neuroconduction study: prolonged distal latency of the muscle action potential composed of the left deep peroneal nerve with reduction of the amplitude.
2. Other action potentials with latencies, amplitudes and conduction velocities normal.
3. F wave of the bilateral ulnar and tibial with latency and cronodisperion normal.
4. The EMG showed motor units with neropathic characteristics with reduction of the recruitment in the left extensor digitorum brevis. All other muscles explored normal.
I have shown these results to my neurologist and he has assured me that this is a completely clean EMG with an incidental finding that has no relevance. However, I cant help to still be nervous and think that there was a mistake, that this can be an early stage ALS or that they misdiagnosed the findings.
I know you will probably say that I should trust my doctor and live my life. But I just can help feeling nervous and would really appreciate it if you could tell me if you have every seen results like mine in an ALS patient and if a chronic axonal mononeropathy of the left deep peroneal nerve is something easily confused with ALS or if it is something completely different and that I should completely relax. I just want to live a happy pregnancy and I think this would really help me.
Thank you and sorry for any bother!