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I started feeling numbness and minimal "pins and needles" with no pain in my feet about a year ago. My left leg also feels "heavy" as though carrying too much fluid but not swollen. A CT scan showed some spinal stenosis. Lately my symptoms have intensified with my feet feeling like cardboard, especially when lying and immobile and this morning, for the first time, I awoke to find a pulling sensation in the toes of the left leg and pain on the ball of that foot when walking. This is new. I have an EMG scheduled for this Wednesday. I am not diabetic but do have paroxysmal atrial fibrillation very well-controlled by medication and had a coronary ablation three months ago with results still to be determined. Could these conditions be related? Thank you.
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Hi,
I just read your post. It's Wednesday, so today you are having the EMG.
I hope you will tell me how it went, but most importantly what valuable knowledge it gives you .
I had a very painful experience with an EMG a few years ago, and it was "inconclusive." Now a different Doctor ordered another one and I do not see any advantage. I know I have PN. Maybe Small Fiber but the treatment is the same. So, how does EMG help? Knowing I have it because of XYZ is of no benefit in pain relief, is it? I have not been told any real advantage for this painful procedure. Maybe I need to be enlightened? Anybody? Thank you.
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Welcome @willec49, Neuropathy certainly has a lot of causes and the conditions could be related but I'm not sure anyone here can answer that question. You mentioned you have an EMG scheduled for Wednesday. It might be a question you can ask your doctor at a followup to the EMG when you get the results back. You mentioned being on medications. There are some medications that can induce peripheral neuropathy. The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy has a list here - https://www.foundationforpn.org/causes/other-drugs/ if you want to check and see if any you are taking are on the list.
Since you mentioned spinal stenosis, here is some information that may be relevant -- Spinal stenosis. A common cause of podiatric symptoms: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9086718/
Do you think the new symptoms might be related to your spinal stenosis?