THIS WOMAN was diagnosed with a condition known as SUICIDE DISEASE after a simple sprained leg on a hike left her in so much pain that she BEGGED doctors to amputate it and felt ‘liberated’ once it was gone.

In September 2015, full-time mum and wife, Anita Carden (51), from Byron Bay, Australia, was hiking in Mt Cook, New Zealand, when she sprained her ankle. While the pain was insignificant initially, the next morning she woke up in extreme pain and her ankle turned black, blue and yellow and was very swollen.

Two days later, she flew back to Australia and went to see her GP who took X-rays and a doppler test which both came back negative. Over the next couple of weeks, her ankle worsened, so she went to a different GP who also turned her away with no diagnosis and said that it would get better in a few weeks with rest.


Following a few other dead-end appointments, desperate to find out what was wrong, Anita went to another GP who suggested that she had Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a poorly understood condition where a person experiences persistent severe and debilitating pain, also known as suicide disease.

She was officially diagnosed with the condition in June 2017, when she booked an appointment with a rheumatologist, as her previous doctor misdiagnosed her with rheumatoid arthritis. She was then sent to a pain clinic where she spent the next six months, but her condition had spread all the way above her knee.

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