I'm not sure Strizzlow, but when I had my EMG studies they told me I had Carpal Tunnel.

Wow, ironic! Me too, just had 2 cortisone shots in June. Doing good.

My back hurt every night until I went on Mestinon. When joints are unstable or misaligned due to weakness you certainly can get pain. Falls and other injuries are more common, as well. b.

Tough to make the connection, but if for some reason you do something abnormal with your hands/fingers because of MG that injures the median nerve (one to the hand) I suppose it could lead to carpal tunnel. Mostly carpal tunnel it is from repetitive hand motions --hammering, factory handwork, computer mousing or typing--other things where the hand gets a lot of use leading to damage/injury or as in the case of my wife--narrowed tunnel for the nerve that had to be opened. .
The EMG test is different--just trying to see how much signal gets through the wrist to hand rather than with MG trying to see how quickly a message to a muscle receptor decreases with repetition (fatigues).

As our problem is we tire quickly with repetitive motions (i.e. my fingers wouldn't work for more than a line of text on the computer when MG was worst without mestinon), it would be pretty hard to overwork them leading to injury. I suppose things like using a cane might cause a problem. However, I really haven't heard of a cause effect relationship or even a correlation with MG (and can't find any research that indicates that).

Good Luck

Okay thanks for the replies. I have worked on a computer for work for over 10 years. Plus I was a college student as well. I spend a lot of time on the computer. I am going to mention it when they go to do EMG at Mayo.

I used a computer a great deal at work. I had problems with wrist, elbow and shoulder until I got a trackball instead of a mouse (let your fingers do the walking), had the ergonomics folks drop by and set up a new keyboard shelf that was lower and tilted forward and had a wrist rest, as well as getting a special chair. All the soreness went away and I was good for another 10 years.

I also had neck problems and that was fixed by higher screen, video glasses so that I sat with my head directly above my shoulders rather than leaning into the screen. "Your head is a bowling ball--leaning forward means your neck muscles have to support it; sitting straight up with straight up makes use of the spine and bones instead of muscles...." was what I was told. The video glasses and screen were all set to focus best at the most optimal head position. Those ergonomics folks at Mayo really knew what they were doing. With MG, it is even more important to get the optimal settings for desk, computer, etc.