I had my accident in late November and was not diagnosed until late March.

Before being diagnosed I was seen by 4 different GPs, two specialists in the field of trauma and the team who operated on me, none of them mentioned CRPS to me or wrote it on my medical notes. Many of the symptoms were clearly visible at these times.

I was only diagnosed correctly after my last GP thought my foot had been set wrong in the operation as my leg was not straight. My third trauma specialist diagnosed it after xraying my foot and realising what was wrong with me.

Doctors in my view are often pretty useless and those should think about a new profession.

I was having a conversation about my problems with one GP and he was looking up things on his laptop. So I thought for me, it came out he was booking a flight!

At least three of my recent GP's had never heard of CMT aka Charcot Marie Tooth disease which my wife suffers with.

I am still in search of a GP that knows what he/she is doing when it comes to our two diseases, it might take a while I think.

John.