High Arches

[j_cheney]

ETA: Happy Birthday! keesa_renee

Visited the doctor today, who told me that he couldn't tell me if I had plantar fascitis or a heel spur without an x-ray. Basic idea, no weight bearing aerobics for a while, take loads of ibruprofen (he could have given me a prescription, but I already have the loads of ibuprofen, and it'll do that same job) use ice on foot, wear orthotics to support the arches. Oh, yay.

Anyhow, I stopped and bought a pair of the arch supports for people with super tall feet. Without them, I can't wear most sandals, clogs, and other high-throated shoes because my arches are already too high. With them, I'll be lucky if any of my shoes fit! Silly feet.

I can put up with it for a while, I guess....

Comments

[theladywolf.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I was out of action for six weeks this year with a torn calf so I sympathise with any leg related problems.
I recommend a great book called Pain Free. Can't remember the author's name off hand. I'll get it for you if you want it. Th exercises are great,and the logic of it will have you going around with arched eyebrows for a week. :)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Shall look over on Amazon....thanks for the recommendation!

[orogeny.livejournal.com]

Wah! I'm sorry about your feet!

Good that you're taking care of them, though. Somebody I know asked her 94-year-old mother what sort of advice she had, given that she'd lived to 94, and the woman said, "Take care of your teeth and your feet." So go, you.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see "Prelude to a Kiss" where the old man, at the end, tells the youngsters to floss...

I have a lot of beef on the hoof, so I have to try to listen to my feet. And I've pretty much given up sodas for the sake of me teeth...wah!

I think I'm reaching middle age!

[orogeny.livejournal.com]

Don't worry! It's not so bad up here! =D

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for the encouragement!

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

'Beef on the hoof' Classic! Never heard that one before ^_^

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

That's a Texan thing...

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of a basic workout injury, something you get when you start doing regular aerobics, walking, jogging, etc after time off. Isn't it cruel that when you are trying to get your body into shape, it breaks on you and then you end up being worse off than when you started? This often happens to my wife, so I feel your pain. Hey, but there is always Yoga! Kara and I swear by it ^_^

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

My gym doesn't have yoga...hmmm. Lots of weightlifing in my future.

As soon as I sell something pro again, I'll go bacvk to fencing. My feet better be healed by then!

[spielmadchen.livejournal.com]

I suffer from high arches as well. I bought some z-coils about 2 years ago and they have been a godsend. it's the only way I can make it through conventions.

http://www.zcoil.com/storelocator.html

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

You know, I've seen those, but just thought they were a fashion statement....interesting!

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I felt sorry for myself because... ;-P

Seriously, that's too bad. I'm violently allergic to ibuprofen. People are so rarely allergic to it that docs don't believe me until I describe what happens in _detail_. Hope the arch supports help! Otherwise, you'll end up like me, wearing so much plastic you can barely move.

Feel better!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Nah, I can take ibu like candy. I've got a seriously good digestive system. He could have prescribed mobic or....oh, the other one...but said that the ibu would have the same effect in the long run.

The arch supports are weird in that I'm really not walking on my heels. At all. These are designed to put all the weight across the arch. (which, if it's PF, will stretch that tendon)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I am, BTW, very cognizant of the fact that I'm fortunate in the feet I have....so ;-P back.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as they help. I walk on my ischium.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Just ow!

[keesa-renee.livejournal.com]

Awwww!! Thank you! :blushes: I've never had this much fuss about my birthday before!

Aiyaiyai! That sounds painful!! I hope your feet feel better soon! You know, tall arches were once considered a sign of aristocracy. :nods: Not that that makes you feel any better about not fitting into your shoes, but it's any interesting tidbit. :-) Hope you feel better soon!!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's make shoe shopping a pain. I have to be careful about anything that goes over the arch of the foot, so that really limits certain styles...

Aristocracy...not anymore! Heh!

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I think that people with difficult feet should form a support group. I have short, wide feet with high arches. Shoe salesmen have said to me, "Oh, feet like a duck!" and "Throw away the shoes and wear the boxes." Yuk, yuk, yuk.

I wrote a very evil little story about very evil little things happening to shoe salesmen :).

But all this hassle will be worth it if it puts your poor feet on a good path again. Good luck with everything.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Evil salesman!

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Evil sales men rule!
My shoes come from purveyors of orthopedic footwear. One size 7 1/2 A (yes, with lots of arch support!) and one size 5 1/2 EEE. It should be a 3 EEE, but shoeman says that makes it less noticeable, and brace doesn't slide around even with that much extra room. then they have to give me extra sole. I've got lots and lots of sole.

Weird shoe customers of the world, unite!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

;o)

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky I can manage in Danskos. I'm a 6 EE, but manage in a 6 1/2 D or E. My real nuisance is that my heels are much narrower than that part in front of my toes.

Yes, definitely, weird shoe customers unite!

I vote we put in demands for pretty shoes for wide, weird feet. :) Why do shoes with lots of arch support have to be so freaking hideous? "Opps," say the shoe designers. "Wide feet? High arches? Well, we'll fix her...!" and create the most ugly shoes possible.

I once had a stranger go out of his way to tell me I was wearing the ugliest shoes he had ever seen. Not Danskos, which are only, imo, the second-ugliest.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I used to have a friend who wore an 11EEE.
About the only shoes she could find were Mephistos...which are ugly, BTW

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I'd kill to have an average-sized foot and be able to wear pretty shoes. Yes, and I would also make any deal in the book with any super-natural being of any stripe, background or sliminess, just to have average-sized feet. :)

11 EEE, ye gods. She has my most heart-felt sympathies.

People with normal feet just have no clue.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad that I don't have to wear Markells anymore. Those, for the uniniated, are "brace boots." Unadorned, they look like what kids in Little House On the Prairie wear, only somehow less attractive. (Of course, everything in the TV show was far more attractive -- and cleaner!!-- than IRL)

Once you start modifying a brace boot to match the wearer's needs (in my case, adding a 3-and-a-half inch lift and cutting the ankle-support down to make room for my complete lack of anything resembling and ankle and my oddly shaped fibula, "unattractive" becomes mild.

But Yay! there are now three companies that will make shoes to order to fit braces, or oddly-sized feel.

They are PW Minor
Redwing
Softtouch (? not sure if this is the company name or the line.)