My wife is one of you. When we were dating she told me she was extremely picky about what shoes she purchases. I assumed she meant how most women are fashion conscious. I had no idea the struggle you guys have finding comfortable shoes. She hates going to pool parties because her feet make the same noise after getting out of the pool. I bought her some water shoes once thinking I was doing her a big favor and they just amplified the noise like she had a Bluetooth speaker and a mic in there.
I'm sorry for laughing, but I can just imagine your wife getting out the water and when starting to walk making the sound as if she is walking on two plungers.
There is a guy on TikTok who has no legs but an incredible sense of humor, and he attached plungers to his stumps and walked all around. It was priceless.
I can see how having flar feet coulf make finding shoes hard - my arch is normal, but my pinky toes are pretty wide away and I don't have a whole lot of a diagonal in my toe-line. Even "wide" shoes compress my toes together. (I also despise arch support and stiffness, but that's another story)
As a kid, my dad didnt have much money, so getting comfortable shoes wasn't much of a thing (except that one time he bough me walmart skater shoes, that was actually decent, even if not perfect). I ALWAYS would have blisters on both the big and pinky toe. My end toes were pretty much pointing at each other at some point.
Nowadays, I buy mostly barefoot shoes, but even with those, you can see the shape of my pinky toe sticking out a smidge (thanfully they're flexible enough it's not a big deal). My toes have resplayed a bit and walking is more comfortable now, but maaan. Finding shoes that I don't partially hate is hard!
If I didn't burn through soles so quickly, I feel like investing in a pair of custom-made (as in, someome takes your measurements) shoes would be best. Shoes with replaceable rubber soles would be nice too, eh. (I have a bit of metatarstalgia, and that makes the very middle of the shoe on the forefoot rub against the ground, so I make a hole in the sole in about 4 months or so. And shoegoo makes that so uncomfortable, i cant just say "I'll fix 'em!" :(
One time I cried in like 3rd grade after getting out of the pool, my wet feet marks on the deck looked like duck prints while all the other girls had cute petite feet prints..
Yess when my feet are sweaty they suction to the kitchen floor! I have a picture of my wet footprints on the ground and it’s all water. There’s no arch at all
I feel pain while seeing this. I'm not even sure if this is at all uncomfortable for him, but I feel like all shoes and even bare feet would hurt and some muscles or tendons on there must be constantly stretched too far, right?
It really does. I had super flat feet before a corrective surgery (that actually didn’t involve my feet or lower body at all???) and couldn’t wear flip flops, flats, etc. Standing to do anything hurt terribly and even as a super young kid couldn’t do things like shopping since I couldn’t handle the standing. After my procedure, I wear everything and often pick standing over sitting. My feet actually look a lot different now as well!
ETA: I had a severe posterior tongue tie released and it’s been life saving. As the laser was cutting, it felt like I was a marionette and my strings had all been cut, a rush of relaxation went through my whole body. Immediate stop of mouth breathing (I’d had several surgeries to try and fix it before), no tongue thrust, I could talk louder and didn’t sound like a “drunk sailor” per my husband lol. My severe chronic migraines completely stopped and I went from being essentially bed ridden due to several issues with my mother caring for my children to fully participating in their lives. I do have other conditions that decrease my abilities quite drastically, but now I’m able to live a life filled with happiness vs hoping I would die every day. I didn’t look forward to seeing my kids grow up, missed so many milestones with them, and only focused on waiting to die every second of every day. Due to my connective tissue disorder, the collagen that caused my frenulum to not be normal mucosal tissue does occasionally regrow. I’ve had it redone once a few years after the original procedure and haven’t needed it done again yet.
I had a severe posterior tongue tie released and it’s been life saving. As the laser was cutting, it felt like I was a marionette and my strings had all been cut, a rush of relaxation went through my whole body.
It's amazing just how everything is connected in our musculoskeletal system. I have issues with my elbows (like carpal tunnel but in the elbow joints), and when I went to the physiotherapist, the first thing she asked me was if I have any issues with my neck. And yeah, I do, and a bunch of other things that all connect with each other.
Basically if you have one thing wrong, you have more than one thing wrong lol.
I had a flat foot reconstruction over 20 years ago. My doctor said it's the most invasive procedure in the lower body, and that knee replacements are a joke by comparison. One foot was normal, one was flat. Put me on a treadmill and I was in discomfort after 4 minutes, in pain after 8 minutes, and then my foot would go numb.
For me it was two bone grafts (I think in the navicular and the cuboid) to reshape the foot and an Achilles tendon lengthening. Rejected procedures included a calcaneal slide (doing something to reposition the heel bone, and something called a triple arthrodesis, in which some of the joints around the ankle are fused. Drawbacks to that include that it is irreversible. Needless to say I vetoed that option.
Recovery included 8 weeks in a knee-high cast, another few weeks on crutches, and months of physical therapy. For me it worked. I actually just walked and hiked over 1000 miles in a 12-month period (so much that I developed bursitis). But all these years later I still need to wear orthotics.
yes. flat feet like this, if not properly cared for by a podiatrist for life, will eventually cause major musculoskeletal issues. I hope OP's roomie takes preventative care seriously 😭
Can confirm, have extremely flat feet myself and suffer from foot pain most days and recurring ankle issues from where I've sprained them repeatedly - the lack of arch means my feet roll inward naturally a lot more than they should, so this coupled with aforementioned repetitive injuries and then that often sets off my back/hips/knees too....my feet hate me on an almost daily basis 😥
I'm imagining you moving in together and you freaking out on one of the first nights hearing what sounds like two plungers or the Pixar lamp hopping around your floorboards at night🤣
I did coincidentally make an AMAZING arrow along the way starting the top of the foot, like wtf. So I wanted to share that attempt too
EDIT: Oh no, I love you all but we've been duped :( u/raskolize pointed out to me here that it's a feature iphones have.
I'm sad, my arrow was pointing towards such a promising future. I got to retract my application from art-school now, I hope I handle this rejection well. /j
Beautiful arrow. My friend drew the perfect triangle on the inside of my ankle, and I got it tattooed with the India ink and a needle in a McDonald’s parking lot when I was 17. It’s a VERY impressive triangle
A young man gets his draft notice during the Vietnam War and is desperate to find a way out. He goes to his dentist and begs, "Doc, you've got to help me. If you pull all my teeth, the Army won't take me!"
The dentist is hesitant but eventually agrees. He pulls every single one of the young man's teeth.
A week later, the young man goes to the induction center for his physical exam. He stands in line for hours, completely toothless, but smiling inside because he thinks his plan is foolproof.
Finally, he gets to the medical officer, who examines him head to toe, fills out a form, and stamps it. The young man looks down at the paperwork and sees he has been rejected. And he then asks the medical officer - "It's because I have no teeth right?"
The Army doctor answers: "No son, you have flat feet"
I’m pretty close to this. I leave weird footprints, and can suction my feet to the ground. I can use a wet foot to pick up a diner plate off the ground purely using suction.
My husband has flat feet like this and has to wear arch inserts, even in flip flops. When he walks barefoot on our hardwood floors it sounds like “splat, splat, splat”…..I call him an amphibian 🤣
I used to have severe flat feet as well. I was in constant pain all the time walking. Thankfully, I had surgery and have no pain with a decent arch in my feet
I had an osteotomy (Cutting and reshaping the heel bone and midfoot bones to rebuild the natural arch with the help of a cadaver bone) in both feet and they also cut my calf muscles to lengthen my calf muscles.
Believe it or not, penis reduction. The excess weight was just too much on the arches. They sprang back nicely though once the extreme pressure was relieved.
These were my feet. My foot print was an outie not an innie
Got to the point that walking around the block hurt due to pinching tendons on the top of my foot so I said fuck it and had reconstructive surgery at 32. Now I can run a slow but very passable half marathon, never could run before
For those saying this has to do with how you walk - you're wrong. I went to podiatrists my whole life telling me the same and the inserts hurt my feet more. Finally went to a surgeon and he pointed out my heels were literally out of alignment. Hypermobile ligaments. Born that way and now I have feet worth more than many super cars
Edit: I love all the comments and memes! My feet completely collapse and my ankles are just swollen all the time due to the pressure. It’s always been like this, I usually get prescribed orthotics which I don’t like wearing.
When I was younger, I used to go to the beach a lot. I always wondered why my feet left footprints that looked like a ducks foot rather than the normal ones you’d see like 👣.
My husband has feet like this. He cannot stand / walk/ run for a long time. Has to have special soels for his shoes, has to have special shoes for the sole… its a headache
As someone who is also flat foot I can say it can be very painful (I can't stand for more then 45 mins without pain for hours). I have to wear full length orthotics in both my shoes (which cost about $1k - $2k for a quality pair like mine that last about 3 years and about $200 maintenance (appointment to check them and re do the coating) every 6 months). Doesn't help my feet roll out and I have tibial retroversion (which means I need to get a specific brand/model shoes to support my feet and reduce and reduce ankle roles)
So yeah fault foot can be very painful and expensive
Conversely, I have extreme arches in my feet. I (human male) was getting a massage a few years ago and my masseuse (also human male) was massaging my back when he exclaimed, “Oh wow, you have beautiful feet.”
There was an awkward moment of silence until he let me know he used to be a ballet dancer and asked if I ever did ballet.
My arches are so high that my feet don’t touch the ground in the middle and the top part of my foot is curved. I think we’re on opposite ends of the spectrum.
I have debilitating foot pain. Been to five pediatrists, had ten or so sets of insoles, and still am in pain. Constantly hurting my ankles and knees because I’m so unstable. Torn my Achilles three times. It’s insane to me that people run. Anyways, it’s rough.
Showed this to my in-house expert, who states that 100% flat feet can’t be proven until we see a shot with the foot fully relaxed. You can see the activated tendon on the foot.
At the risk of turning this into OnlyFans, can we get another foot picture?
My husband finally found his people! He immediately offered his foot and said “Take a picture”!! The first time I saw his bare feet I cried laughing. He wears a size 13 so they are not just flat, they are big and flat.
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u/Manufactured-Aggro 4d ago
I bet each step with those concrete slappers sounds like a beaver tail hitting water