

He said, no, he had a needle in my arm and was repositioning it (without pulling it all the way out).

I asked the doctor if he had applied tape and was pulling on it. I was laying on the table almost asleep and felt some tugging on my arm's skin. For my first EMG, I did not know that the test involved needles. In my case, the subject EMG was performed on one side of my body about 1 week before the muscle biopsy was performed on the other side of my body. When they did the muscle biopsy, they told me that it would take some time (I believe several weeks) for things to recover sufficiently from the EMG for the biopsy to produce meaningful results.

I generally felt OK right after the tests, though some of the muscles they spent extra time on were a bit crampy and sore for a day or two.
