Really sore feet. All the time. Anyone else?

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I've noticed in the last year or so I have really, really sore feet. It's particularly bad after a period of inactivity, but lately it's become so bad I am limping after sitting down or driving for a few minutes.

People are starting to take the piss because I limp so badly.

I am on my feet a lot. Only wear flat shoes. Wellies, birkies, converse or crocs for work.

Anyone else have this? What is it?

I was going to say PF as well.

Don't waste time or money in Scholl. Go to a physio who will give you prescription insoles.

I got them. it cost me 50 euro (Ireland) for the physio and another 50 for the insoles, and I was cured within three weeks.

LadyMary, where did you get your insoles? Because ds (aged 14 and with very, very flat feet) has gone from constant pain to cure within a couple of weeks with prescription insoles from the same physio.

The orthopedic bloke referred him, they are made by orthotics at the hospital. I have seen a difference, his ankles used to bend inwards more then they do now. They haven't helped with the pain though.

Well if they aren't helping the pain they are wrong. They must be.

ds2 got his first ones and the pain disappeared almost immediately. A year later he needed new ones, but they were wrong (only just out) and he couldn't run at all. We went back, they remeasured, and now he's fine again.

I suppose it's a hidden advantage of having to pay - we can go back and complain. Maybe if you get it all free on the NHS you are stuck with what you get? But if he is in pain all the time there is something very wrong, and a private physio (we went to a sports physio, I find they are the best at this type of thing) might just be able to help.

How does one know of they have flat feet?

People have often laughed at my flat-looking hobbit feet, but I don't know if that means they are flat?

How old is your ds?

I have always had slightly pigeon feet too, if that makes a difference, but I wore DMs as a teen that helped. (although the school hated that.)

ds's have very prominant sticky-out bits on the inside top of his feet. The bones are sticking out as his arches have dropped so much that his entire feet are mis-shapen. He is 14.

He will, apparently, have to wear orthotics for the rest of his life.

I have flat feet due to hypermobility and I have PF (first in my left, then in my right foot) It's really bloody annoying - because of the HM, insoles cripple me more than the PF does. I've been told to wear them, but not until the PF has cleared up (had it around a year now but it's getting better, just slowly)

FWIW I had anti-inflammatory injections directly into my heel and it was wonderful. It's a bit of a marmite treatment though, some people it works for, some people it doesn't and the length of time you get relief for varies too. I was at the stage though where I thought I might have to quit my job (retail, on my feet all day) as the pain was excruciating by the end of the day and I was desperate.

The irony is that it was exercising more that triggered the PF, but I need to lose weight (by exercising more) to stop it reoccurring.

Stupid feet.

Ds is 13. Maybe the problem is that it takes the NHS 12 weeks to make them, so by the time they are finished his feet need remodeling?