Keep pestering your lymphoedema clinic - politics should not be an excuse for a delay in garment provision.

If you want to invest in a walker, it may be quicker to buy one, unless the Occupational Health dept local to you can provide one?

If my surgery is anything to go by doctors seem pretty clueless about compression garments and how to prescribe them.

It is best to liaise with one of the surgery nurses who will usually see the whole process through with a dopla and measurement session needed regularly.

They seem better at co-ordinating with the local clinic as well.

You shouldn't be treated like this, so why not contact your MEP? This has been very successsful concerning lymphoedema issues. See aftercancers.com/making-use...

I get mine ordered by the clinic in St George's Hospital (London) and they are posted direct to me from Juzo, the supplier in Germany. It only takes a couple of weeks.

I replace mine every 12 to14 weeks and they take 5 days from ordering to me getting them.

When I first had Jobst compression socks they came in a fortnight from Germany, made to measure. The last pair I had, last September took about a month or 5 weeks to arrive. I notice now that Jobst have been taken over by BSN Medical, a "Global" company based in Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull to give it its proper name). After nothing had come after 5 weeks I checked at the pharmacy to find they hadn't received a prescription from the medical centre, (they are in the same building!). When I checked with the medical centre they had made out the prescription but had lost the measurements. I contacted the hospital lymphoedema unit and they told me where my medical centre could find the measurements, on line. About 3 weeks ago the pharmacy told me they'd received the measurements and had ordered the knee length socks. I expect to receive them in the next fortnight.

My clinic used to order them for me but last time they said for doctor to order them what a run around I had . Doctor didn't seem to know procedure for made to measure ones . Then the chemist wouldn't dispense them as they had optional s which had a cost of £20 for gripper tops . Said to go back to doc as he wasn't going to left to pay extra .