Your experience is about typical. Not one smidge of effort to find out what is happening to you. Typical.
Surely he does not think you have CMT?
http://emedicine.medscape.com/articl...overview#a0101
This presents in children:
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United States
The prevalence of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is 1 person per 2500 population, or about 125,000 people in the United States. The incidence of CMT type 1 is 15 persons per 100,000 population; the incidence of CMT type 1A is 10.5 persons per 100,000 population, or 70% of CMT type 1. The incidence of CMT type 2 is 7 persons per 100,000 population. Persons with CMT X represent at least 10-20% of people with the CMT syndrome.
International
In Japan, the prevalence is reported to be 10.8 cases per 100,000 population; in Italy, it is reported to be 17.5 cases per 100,000 population; and in Spain, it is 28.2 cases per 100,000 population.[18, 19]
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PN in twelve year olds... that is appalling if not hereditary.
(not everyone has hereditary PN --as a 12 yr old might have)
Hereditary PN is not the most common cause, but only one of many.
Looks like you have a "winner" there, (not).
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