Negative EMG

Posted By Kristy on October 30, 1998 at 10:12:23:







I have previously posted about my condition.  Long story short.
Over 18 months ago, I had a spinal for a C-Section.  The spinal
had to be done a number of times and immediately after, I
noticed that my right leg, knee down to my toes, were numb
feeling, tingeling, hot/cold feeling and would fall asleep
constantly.  I saw a neurologist soon after and he did an EMG
and a MRI.  EMG came up positive and the MRI was fine.  He told
me just to wait and that in time my nerve would re-grow.  A year
later, after I had fallen and sprained my ankle due to the weakness,
I saw a new neurologist.  Her EMG and MRI came back negative.
She told me that that did not always mean anything and she was
sure that I had nerve damage.  She put me on a bunch of medicine
and told me just to wait it out.  I decided to go to a large
university here in Michigan and get an oustide EMG.  It also came
back negative, although the test results were interesting to me.
The lowest normal would be 51 and I would be 52.  The doctor
said that was still normal and he thought that my fibers around
my nerve in L5 were probably damaged, but that an MRI should
show it.  He told me again, that time would be the only thing I
could do now.  He told me that although the EMG showed it to
be negative, that it didn't always mean anything.  
I am quite frustrated now.  The all have told me that I probably
have nerve damage, yet the tests don't show it.  Could you
explain that to me???
Thanks in advance.