Just to say thank you to everyone for all the support. While going through this for the past year I have had a horrific experience not just with the SFN but from 2 particular members of my family. My sister and her vile husband. I was told by my sister on a number of occasions that her and her husband thought it was ridiculous that I was seeing a professor in London, and that her husband thought it was 'funny' and that her husband had looked SFN up on the internet and it WASNT painful. When I actually got my diagnosis, she came round to my house and snatched the diagnosis letter out of my hand demanding that she take this to be photocopied to show her Dr. She was ranting and raving at me infront of my 3 year old. Shouting at me in my hospital bed after a bodged lumber punch, I now have nothing to do with them and never will. Luckily my husband has been great so am blessed to have them