I'm tortured because I hate waiting to see if I get worse. I have random cramps so does that mean I'm really worse? or really crazy? (I guess I shouldn't ask that because I can guess what most people will say.)
Random cramps are simply that -- random cramps. They don't mean that you're worse and they certainly don't mean you're crazy. They simply are. What they mean, if anything, will be shown over time if they are part of some pathological process.
A loved one (not biologically related to me) had ALS so I do know of EMG but your are correct that I really am not that educated on how the test works or what the results mean. I was just wondering if it was normal practice to not do an EMG based soley on the fact that there was not clinical weakness?
You do know that your loved one's ALS has nothing to do with you, don't you? He/she wasn't a blood relative, so you couldn't have inherited any genetically based disease from that person. ALS is not contagious, so that person couldn't have "infected" you with it.
What does appear to have happened is that the experience of losing that loved one has made you very anxious and hypervigilant about your own health, especially where symptoms that resemble, however superficially, those of ALS are concerned. That's a problem no EMG and no neurologist can help you with.
So I guess that's a yes from you trfogey
thank you for your answer.
Yes, that was a "yes" to that particular question. You don't expect the doctor to send you for an MRI of your head every time you get a headache, do you? Why expect a neuro to do an EMG on a person whose clinical exam was absolutely normal -- "perfect", in fact?
Anxiety has the best of you right now. Please, please, please consider getting some help for it.