Shoe size?

[shanmomof3]

Ok, i know this is a crazy question! I thought the same thing when i was asked! This is part of a study Dr. Heffez is doing and I just wondered if there were any similarities between all of us. ~ Shannon

[*Stormy*]

That was the first thing I noticed with my leg problems too! I had very, very weak feet..I could only bear to stand on them for short periods and when cooking or something I would have to constantly shift back and forth on my legs so I could bear to stand. Even way before that...before I knew of any problems...I remember being at the gym and doing exercises that required me to stand for a long period of time on one leg and my left foot would go into excruciating spasms and I would have to stop. I just thought it was due to my bad balance, which has always been an issue!!
Like you Selma, my left ankle would start to hurt, swell, and lock up making it so I had very little range of motion in the foot. I just put it down to being a runner...at that time I had upped my runs to 4x's a week and thought the ankle was just taking the toll. I also noticed after runs that some of my leg muscles refused to stretch out and just hurt..and still I shrugged it off (the anxiety right?)

Unfortunately, as I continue to heal...the ankle and feet have come up to the top of my list as things that are not getting better...which is why I am exploring other possible causes....
Carolyn

[selmaS]

yeah, in fact the one thing that I go back to that got me to go back to a dr is my feet.....I was going to swing dance lessons every Tuesday and was on the board of directors for the group and it was getting harder and harder bcuz my feet hurt so bad.

The balls of my feet and I tried everything, diff shoes, padding, even gel pads for toe shoes, my DD being a dancer they have some pretty good  pads for those shoes, well in a weeks time this hard bump on the ball of my foot rubbed a hole into the pad, so I went to DD's foot dr and was told tarsel tunnel and had surgery in 2000......during PT for it they found another injury...which, I was told could not be touched for 2 yrs to allow the nerves to heal, this is when I started using a cane, as what ever the issue was , my ankle would lock up and hurt and I was losing my balance.When I went back to the dr they said they would have to cut the bone to get at the problem and put screws and bolts to put it back together....so instead, I had to wear a brace on my leg while at work....so, the muscles in that leg atrophied...and I need to get a job sitting down, I had aqua PT to build the muscles back up and took a job with my company sitting down, not that it was all sitting....but all this goings on for my piggies....lol.....ne one else go thru something like this bcuz of foot pain?.....oh BTW I had my ankle fixed without bolts and screws in '07......thanks God over that time they perfected orthoscopic procedures for th ankle : )

[*Stormy*]

You know what I find interesting...is that most of us have foot problems..hmmm

[selmaS]

Shannon by our very nature one side is different or larger than the other...we r asymmetrical.....even tho we look symmetrical...so the foot size is a "normal" thing......

[shanmomof3]

Ok, what i have gotten out of this is not the size but that almost all of us have wide feet and one foot is slightly larger than the other. It is interesting though

[northernstarmn]

i wear womens size9w, mens size 7.5, but i also have feet problems
i have heel spurs, bunion, and i have had a tendon repair-- surgery on all, mostly Ok except L ankle,tendon issue still bad