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    Help interpreting EMG

    Well, thank you for the help. I signed up for a third EMG on January 17th... I am just so confused by this: "No spontaneous activity of denervation. Motor Unit Potentials show duration, amplitude, and PP within the limits of normalcy. Absence of acute denervation, some isolated fasciculations...
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Thank you everyone. I will definitely seek another opinion from a neuromuscular expert. In the meantime, what do the people who have experience reading EMGs think? Which were the most common findings in your own EMGs? To be more precise, for what I've been reading this is necessary for a...
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    Help interpreting EMG

    No, my current neurologist is an expert on epilepsy and migraine. Here in Spain it's harder than other places to have a neurologist that is specialized on your particular problems, since we are assigned one randomly and have to stick to that, so to say.
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    Help interpreting EMG

    I am just confused... I thought that the presence of fasciculations was not as important as fib/psw. I have what the summary calls "isolated fasciculations" in almost all areas, but I have no fibs. (this after approximately 2 years of symptoms). Can one make a reliable diagnosis of ALS based on...
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Thank you for writing. I really appreciate it. I have spasticity and hyperreflexia. It does not seem that I have much weakness, at least not very clear.
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Some other details... On a clinical examination, I have mainly PLS symptoms and had a clean EMG recently. The doctor who did the EMG said that it did not look to him that there was enough evidence of second motor neuron involvement, all the more when he checked my strength, muscles... etc and...
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Hi. Could someone please help me interpret this EMG? Does it mean I have ALS? https://imgur.com/a/3EFI6uR According to the summary, there is no acute denervation. The doctor who performed the EMG said there were no signs of ALS, but the doctor I saw today for a consultation said there are.
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Re: EMG results Hello, I do not have the table of results, but I received a new report... It says that some of the possibilities are "PLS, Lewis Sumner, and combined subacute degeneration." I will post now the summart (again translating from Spanish) and I will appreciate help interpreting...
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Re: EMG results Thank you. I called my doctor and she did confirm that the EMG did not show LMN damage compatible with ALS. However, she also said that my progressive, debilitating spasticity and clumsy walk cannot be attributed to pinched nerves. My impression is that she thinks I might have...
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Re: EMG results Unfortunately, I just received the report... I don't have an appointment with my doctors until after New Year's Eve
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    Help interpreting EMG

    Re: EMG results Thank you for your quick answer. No family members, just a mistake in my profile. This is all I got, unfortunately. Supposedly, everything else was normal, aside from these findings.
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    Help interpreting EMG

    EMG results Hello: I went to my neurologist with the following symptoms: progressive spasticity, extending from left hand to left foot over the course of a year and a half. Lack of balance and clumsiness. No fasciculations or atrophy. My EMG results arrived today. I will be translating to...
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