To tell my Gp and physio they are wrong?

Just to add some conditions such as Diabetes can cause burning pain to feet.

I have plantar fasciitis and it's not really a burning pain (more of an ache) i have but can be there at night. It usually flares up when I've been wearing the wrong footwear. My DR Martens always cause it to flare up because I have a high arch.

Have you had your GAIT looked at? Some independent sports shops do this and so do podiatry which is probably your best option and your GP can refer to and they can undertake an assessment. They have more of an Idea than your GP on feet conditions. I'm actually surprised you have seen a physio before a podiatrist as they are the experts in feet and nerve conditions.
You can also do exercises with a tennis ball by standing on it which helps relieve the pain in the feet.

Yes to this! I had a good Dr who had run through some tests for what she suspected it might be and then asked did I have any suggestions on what I thought could be wrong as all her tests led nowhere. I told her what I'd read online and she agreed that although my symptons weren't the usual standard for tests that she'd go ahead as we'd exhausted a few avenues already. Unfortunately the consultant who got the referral said no as I didn't have the most common symptom so we got nowhere. Few months later I ended up in hospital and I DO have the thing we suspected but because it didn't present with the usual main symptom then the original consultant wouldn't entertain it. Luckily for me it wasn't a time sensitive issue.

The best doctor I ever had actually took the time to listen to my concerns and asked me if I had any suspicions what it could be.

@Iwannabeacrocodilehunter my OH had the problems you describe. He saw a podiatry specialist. He had bespoke orthotics made and an ankle brace with specific / bespoke orthotic attached (Richie brace). The company is www.fireflyorthoses.com/en/ OH was told that he'd possibly need the surgery to correct the PF and recovery is 12 months off the foot on crutches. He wore the brace for 3 months and now wears the orthotics daily, and it fixed the problem. The total cost was £1100, but worth every penny.

exactly - they are general practitioners, not specialists.

Doctors don’t know every single condition and how it presents. I had something that my GP had no clue about and basically told me it was probably cancer. It wasn’t, thank god.

Is that a question for OPs GP? I'd imagine not and that's why they haven't assessed her foot.

if it hurts their feelings then that is their problem

it really cant hurt, to take the print out and ask

Have you a degree in Medicine Orthopaedics or Anatomy?

And DH, maybe his cholangiocarcinoma would've been found earlier and he'd still be alive.

Medics are not always right, sometimes you have to be your own advocate.

There is a lot of unnecessary sniffyness about 'dr google'.

I went to the GP with a print out some years ago, with what Google told me was a Gallstone attack.

GP was so rude I was embarrassed for her. She literally took the print out off me, tore it in half and threw it in the bin. The pain I had was in my lower left hand side only and the Gallbladder is on the right hand side.

Over the next four months of agony I was misdiagnosed by various GPs as having a UTI, a kidney stone, a pulled muscle, constipation and ovarian cyst. I ended up being admitted to hospital and very nearly died. I had choleocystitis, pancreatitis and sepsis from blocked gallstones. A consultant who sorted me out had once prior to this had a patient with gallstones whose pain was in the bottom left only, with no pain when they pressed the gallbladder. So because he'd seen it once before in his career, he knew about it. But because it was an unusual presentation the GPs did not. Google, however, did.

The idea that a GP can know every single condition they might come across is ridiculous. They can recognise common conditions and refer onwards for other things. Machine led learning is going to be very important in primary care in the future for just this reason.

GP who threw the google print out in the bin has never apologised to me.

I don't know where in the country you are OP, but pm me if you're anywhere near Edinburgh. I use a superb podiatrist here who was recommended by the consultant I saw, and I credit the pair of them with being able to walk without crutches.

Oh and also their sizing runs small- I'm a 40.5/UK7 in Asics whereas I'm a UK 6.5 or about 39.5/40 in other brands.

I can't help with the question but I wanted to mention that I was recommended Asics trainers with gel in the heels when I had this years ago and found them very comfortable. The gel cushions the heel (check they have gel if you get some- not all do) so made walking less painful.

An F2 and my GP disbelieved me when I said I was sure a vertebra had broken. (Had one before). An XRay was misread.

Had to be referred privately to get the correct diagnosis. Did it matter? Yes it did? It indicated my osteoporosis hadn't adequately responded to zolendronate infusions. The diagnosis was required for my rheumatologist to escalate treatment to teriparatide which is the optimal treatment available.

The NHS wouldn't diagnose, sadly neither will the NHS pay for teriparatide because I am under 65. The NHS is no longer fit for purpose. We already have a two tier service.

Health insurance costs me £210pcm. It also doesn't cover the teriparatide so that's £2500 over two years.

TBF OP, I'd try the podiatrist route for a specialist orthotic and some pilates training for your posture/core before anything else.

I really don't get why people are being rude about OP googling and wanting to ask a Dr to at least consider it. I had to google my Mum's symptoms and ring her GP to ask for a certain test to which he agreed only 'to settle my anxiety' and low and behold, cancer! He wouldn't have done it if I hadn't googled.

There's no harm in asking.

Given the tens of thousands of medical conditions, illnesses and diseases that exist do you really expect a GP to know them all in detail?

Well my mum is dead because NOBODY believed me when I said she had all the signs of heart failure. Be persistent if you think they’re wrong .

Oh I’m so sorry! That’s devastating. Sending prayers

Thank you. He's doing really well with his treatment now thankfully, long may that continue.

You’re the type of person most medical professionals hate, a dr Google

I wish my FIL had been that kind of person, maybe his "piles" wouldn't now be stage 4 cancer.