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Emg/mri of head and neck with contrast normal. still feel weak, fat feeling in left arm and hand especially on top of hand. hard to open and close?

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Sounds ominous: Dont like those symptoms proper workup already completed but if EMG was too early in the course may be normal and will be abnormal at 2 weeks from start of symptoms for a nerve entrapment otherwise stroke would be in the differential.

Answered 6/10/2014

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A member asked:

Emg/mri of head and neck with contrast normal. still feel weak, fat feeling in left arm and hand especially on top of hand. hard to open and close?

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