To think I have diabetic feet. Gross picture included.

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Literally panicking at my feet, to think this is diabetic foot!

@Gitfeatures 🤣🤣🤣 made me laugh

I have this too and it's horrible 😭 I see podiatrist every 6 months and pay £35 to have it shaven off xx

just go and see a podiatrist, they'll sort your trotters out.

but not concerned enough to look after your feet on a regular basis?

I'll say one thing, this thread has me a bit nervous about the imminent arrival of my first pair of Crocs 😅

Oh God you're not that woman from Jersey are you?

People with diabetes can get heel and toe fissures. So can anyone. But with diabetes the combination of high blood glucose and poor circulation makes it harder to fight off infections. So heel fissures can lead to long term infection, which can lead to gangrene, which leads to amputation.

If you don’t have diabetes, or any other problems with your circulation, you’re very unlikely to need an amputation as a result of dry skin on your feet.

But if you have underlying health issues it’s worthwhile talking to a doctor.

They look like feet with thick hard skin that have been festering in their own juices for too long. Have you been using freezer bags for socks? 🤣

Is this not what an acute fungal infection looks and feels like? Poor you!

Looks water logged to me!

Hopefully she will come back and let us know what happens. X

I've a gory (ish) pic of a diabetic foot sore if you want to see, Its absolutely nothing like ops pic

Wind up surely?

My feet, like the rest of my body, are diabetic. They don't look anything like that.

Did OP mean she had actual sepsis symptoms as well as calloused feet?

If you don’t have diabetes, you don’t have ‘diabetic foot’, surely?

That foot has built up over days / weeks / months / years.

How do you suddenly look at it, and decide: A&E?

Why not just go to your GP in one of the many passing days / weeks / months / years?

This thread is all round odd.

It looks a little like trench foot. Exactly how long were you in the shower?

I go barefoot everywhere and am the first to admit to my Gorilla feet. I do have very hard skin but nowhere as thick as that. Maybe 3mm thickness and that's after years of barefoot.

I couldn't imagine not being able to go bare foot because I may tread on something.

I'm a weirdo, it's fine.

It does look a bit trench foot!

Your ankle looks very swollen to me, that could require investigation.

Time to start seeing a podiatrist and look after your feet!

Just looks like thick crusty skin which has cracked in places, and potentially might have a fungal infection. Podiatrist needed, not A&E.

You know people with diabetes (not cryabetes) have feelings too? Have some empathy

I can help here - I could have written this post myself a few weeks ago! My feet looked identical. Eventually I went to a podiatrist, thinking I have hard/dry skin that they would shave off (which I know the NHS don’t cover). But I could have saved myself the fee because in fact it is a fungal infection. So:

• the worst thing you can do is add more moisture so all the hard skin creams in the world won’t help - they will actually make it worse.l


• you need Lamisil (which you can buy on Amazon OR do as I did and phone the GP and say that the podiatrist has said you need it so please can they prescribe it - mine was happy to do on the phone). Use twice a day.


• you can also get an anti fungal spray to use on your feet and shoes called Daktarin


• the next stage up in intervention is soaking in potassium permanganate - beware, it stains your feet dark brown! You can get the stains off (mostly) with hydrogen peroxide (also anti-fungal).


• if none of the above works after weeks, then the dr can prescribe an oral anti-fungal (not suitable for everyone though)

I wish I had known all this before - I had the most disgusting feet in the world and a combo of the cream and pot perm is doing the trick! I honestly feel like spreading the word as so many women seem to suffer from it thinking it’s just hard skin when in fact it’s a fungal infection.

What did they say OP?

Surely OP should have seen GP before if this was a problem?