Elizabeth
Absolutely do not get an EMG at…
Absolutely do not get an EMG at Cleveland Clinic. I had gotten multiple EMG’s done prior to coming to the Cleveland Clinic (from Indy area). They made me made a whole separate trip back to see them to get their own EMG. After driving over 6 hours on my 2nd trip to see them, they had a resident do my EMG. Of the 4 EMG’s I’ve received, none were more painful than the one at Cleveland. The residents didn’t know what they were doing and kept hitting blood vessels and nerves throughout the multiple hour long session. I was bawling my eyes out, telling them that I had done this before and they must be doing something wrong, and they asked if I wanted to stop in the middle of the EMG due to my extreme pain, which they made seem like was my fault and was out of the ordinary. I refused to end it early, saying that I came all the way here for this and that the cleveland neurologist said it was necessary for further patient care. I somehow survived the full EMG, but was very unhappy with how things went. Come to find out, on my EMG report, they wrote something like “unable to finish EMG due to patient’s amount of pain,” which was a complete lie. And even after all of that, their EMG said the same things as my other EMGs and the neurologist still didn’t have any answers for me. The neurologist was also a medical gaslighter, so beware of that. If you are an EDS patient, I wouldn’t go here. I told them I had EDS and they still brushed it off and didn’t consider how EDS could be causing all my symptoms. Complete and utter waste of time and money.