Unhappy Feet

[gothick]

Hmm. Just back from a podiatrist. It turns out that the reason my verruca didn't go away when I put verruca-ridding stuff on it was because it's a corn. That also explains why I couldn't figure out where I picked it up: it's a pressure-related problem, not a virus-related one.

But then came the bigger whammy. The man looked at my unusually-high arches (oft-commented upon by friends but never before mentioned by the medical profession), checked out the uneven wear on the soles of my shoes, and diagnosed a case of super-pronation.

He asked me whether I have achy feet in the mornings (check) and maybe back problems (check) and said I might want to look into getting myself a set of orthotic insoles.

It didn't click at the time, but I'm wondering if this might also go some way to explaining the foot problems I had at the beginning of the year -- the ones pushed out of my and the physiotherapist's mind after my snowboarding injury did more pressing things to my knee. At the time, my GP said my foot X-ray showed rather unusual wear, and that would be consistent with what this podiatrist just said.

So. I now have a sore toe that's been carved about a bit, a desire to get some new walking shoes soon, and the idea to go back after Christmas (when the orthotics lab he uses will be open again) and get myself fitted up, as it were.

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[perdita-fysh.livejournal.com]

Prescription ones are likely to be custom made I suspect still, I doubt it has changed that much, so full on take-a-cast-of-your-feet territory. The superfeet etc are not medical really and the different flavours (green, blue and erm another one) only indicate how industrial strength they are (and thus how fat). I have some blue ones for work shoes that are too shallow to cope with the green ones. They're about 30 quid a pair but they outlast shoes by a long way (I've never had a pair wear out yet).

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Ta. I shall see how I get on. I think I'll leave it until after I've had another session with t'foot bloke before I decide what to buy/whether to go for custom ones, but it's good to know that I may have some options that won't break the bank. I'm guessing that the blue things that Hal usually has in her work shoes are the blue superfeet...

In the meantime, I went and bought a new pair of walking shoes today, on the grounds that the old ones had reached the stage of "knackered" about two months ago, so that might have had something to do with me developing a corn for the first time. Oh, and on the grounds that the Millets over the road were having a half-price sale and had some waterproof Peter Storms in that look like they'll be good for the winter. I keep on having to fall back on less-good-but-at-least-not-still-soaking-wet-from-yesterday shoes recently. Ugh.

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

And come to think of it, although I was thinking "those Salomans didn't last long", when I stop to work it out I must have done somewhere around one and a half thousand miles in them, so I don't suppose I can complain too much. Bloody hell.