Will I need an amputation?

when someone comes to see me some people will ask me this and some people will not ask me this but I think it's in the minds of a lot of people is I've got a diabetic foot also am I going to need an amputation? A lot of people may not raise this concern initially but will then raise it in a few clinics down the line and I think whatever problem someone has on their foot people are often concerned am I going to need an amputation? And I think the answer to that question almost always is no, you're not. But I think it's important if people have that concern to raise it with the team looking after them, because often it's a very reasonable concern to have. But in almost all cases, the team will be able to reassure that person that they're very, very unlikely to have an amputation and can lay that concern to rest. So I think if that's something that's on someone's mind, raising it and asking the team is a useful thing to do because the team looking after somebody and the person themselves may well have a very different idea of the likelihood of a major amputation.