Who sabotaged me today?

 As I am nearing 50 years old, I am developing normal issues that come with aging such as arthritis. I have been panicking lately because my fingers have been falling asleep and I don’t know why. I started googling my symptoms and as usual all of these horrible possibilities come up? Is it  Parkinson’s? Is it a tumor? I scheduled an appointment with my doctor who referred me to a pain specialist who could get me in quickly? I was grateful for the referral as I could do some much needed testing to rule all the horrible possibilities out and ease my mind. After making the referral I was called by the specialists office to schedule an EMT procedure. I have to admit I knew nothing of what I was signing up for as no one I knew had this procedure before! 

I read a little blurb about the procedure and went in for it as I thought I would just tough through whatever discomfort was laid out for me. Well I’ll be dammed! The procedure was complete torture lasting 45 minutes. They zapped me as hard as possible with electric shocks running from my fingers up my arms for 45 minutes. If was brutal. The procedure was this morning and I still feel frazzled and weak. I don’t recommend the EMG procedure to anyone! If I could leave a bad Yelp review for this procedure I would! Potential victims beware! The result of my EMG was that I have moderate carpal tunnel in my right hand. Could there have possibly been an easier route to a carpal tunnel diagnosis than this? I feel like a fool. Who tricked me into that? I am so naive. I should know by now that trusting doctors implicitly is not a good idea. I figured out why this doctor could see me so quickly, because who the hell wants to be tortured for 45 minutes when there are easier ways to diagnose carpal tunnel? I don’t want a new doctor with a terrible bedside manner experimenting on me like a lab rat. Holy S-! Two thumbs down on the EMG procedure! Never again! If I could warn anyone out of doing this unnecessary tortuous procedure I would! This is not funny but I do feel punked! Who’s friggin idea was it to send me to this?