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To: Stan who wrote (38559)12/23/2023 10:51:53 PM
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I was just talking to my friend and he corrected my memory about what procedures he went through and their results in dealing with the impinged brachial plexus nerves and nerve demyelination.

The ultrasound was for detecting the extent of the injury to the brachial plexus in the left shoulder. There were no tears in the sheathing seen, just how free or how restricted the plexus nerves were when they moved through it. Those nerves can cause the problems he experienced like atrophy.

Demyelination was determined by inference from the results of an EMG which is a nerve conduction study I had forgotten about that test and mixed it up with the ultrasound. I am sorry for the impression that left. The test was performed because he also had involuntary movements, numbness and no reflexive responses in the arm.

My friend said the results showed that electrical signals were slower than they should have been. That's a sign of demyelination. It's what largely led to the CIDP diagnosis. But it was also these results that caused his wife to suspect the statins.

When he stopped them, the arm's reflexes began to return. Within a couple of weeks they were all back. After a couple of years now through therapy and time, he has recovered good use of his left arm and hand.

He is not sure to this day how much each of the two problems, impingement in the shoulder and demyelination contributed to overall picture. All he knows is that he won't touch a statin again.
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