EMG's - Hey! They really DO hurt!

Well, today was the first time ever that I had an EMG done on me. Why? I was having some numbness and tingling in my right hand in the C8 distribution (that means my 4th and 5th little fingers). So I had my attending do some nerve conduction studies on me, today. Boy, do I have to say! I take back all those comments I muttered about the wimps I saw in EMG lab. Well, okay, not really. I do have to admit that it's an uncomfortable test and the experience is quite...shocking. But it's not agonizingly painful. Like I wouldn't be hollering at the top of my lungs in pain-stricken anguish and crying consistently for an hour straight like that lady did the other day. But that's just me. Interesting though....I thought my arm was going to jump up and punch me in the face.