anyway. leg pain + my assistive device might have stopped working gripes

so i have a problem called morton's foot which i found out from this tumblr post and this post is right, you can buy the insoles from this site and bam! problem solved! you can even see my enthusiastic tags on the post

i have been strugglign with leg pain at the end of the day for like three or four years now - it got worse during covid, of course, or maybe my new job just meant i was standing more than i had at my previous job (same job, much shorter shift,)

and after tons of physical therapy and medication (tylenol/ibprofen usually touched the pain, but like, when you start having to take it every night to stop hurting to fall asleep EVERY NIGHT for MONTHS ON END well) nothing was working so when i saw this tumblr post i was like fuck it you know

esp since tehre's a hack of you just buy some moleskin and slap some in the place you need support and it will do close to enough good

so i tried the moleskin and i did see an improvement - that my pain was less, if not completely iradicated, so i was like, sure, okay. with that in mind, i'll definitely try out the 90 day money back guarantee insoles that are meant to last for 18 months

and it was in fact LIFE CHANGING how within a month i was just pain free. even my back pain - which had gotten worse in teh last year - was going away, even after all the physical therapy (treating hte symptoms and not hte cause) hadn't touched it

so this shit WORKS. except.........

im about 100 days out, lads, and i'm starting to suspect that either i have been too rough on them (wearing down past the point of helping) or that something else is wrong

because i'm starting to have pain again,,,

maybe its the waether (its been really humid this past week and we have a storm that's threatening but won't break) or the barometric pressure (i really gotta figure out how to note that vs my pain for science)

but today i was on my feet all day and it hurt. and maybe thats because it was all day. the insoles had roughly improved my tolerance for standing from 20 minutes before pain to 2 hours before pain - though i made a note on that tumblr post that i had no upper limit at all, but it might've been an exaggeration

and if i'm having trouble being creative because the chronic pain is back, that's annoying, especially since i DID have a fix for it, but WHY did the thing htat promised 12-18 months of use for regular daily wear give out huh.....

so now i'm just sitting here like ok. i'm exhausted beccause i have to diagnose the problem again

1) is it the weather
2) do i need more support?
3) is it my shoes actually? i'm not using a type that they recommend to use and the shoes are 2+ years old

4) are they lying about their product? or more likely: am i underestimating how rough i am on them?

anyway to do is
- keep track of weather re pain
- compose email asking "hey, can i have some advice about your product"
- cry a little

- if not weather, then try either more support or better shoe

(the shoe thing is - according to mortonsfoot dot com which not only sells you insoles but also has a lot of research posted as resources - most modern shoes have excess cusshioning to relieve teh symptoms rather than address the problem. so. spending less money on new shoes than lots of money on insoles might make more sense....)

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i would suspect shoe wear first

shoe > insole > BUNK ASS FEET!!!

especially if you didn't have brand new shoes when u got the insoles to begin with

what kind of shoes do you have

man yeah i bet it is the shoes....

I'll also add that before I started buying Brooks shoes over New Balance, I wore insoles that would last roughly a few months like yours did. most insoles are said to last up to 12 but I think that's w relatively low use bc I've never had em last that long ever, lol

ive got new balance running shoes.... which again are 2 years old.

also that's WHACK about insoles.... blah... would love them to last longer because these ones are 'spensive .... but yeah mb I buy some new shoes

yeah 2 years is Old

i get noticeable wear on mine after about 6-8 months just walking around my office

lack of money is real LOL plus I bought 2 identical pairs and was alternating them but yeah. Will invest in new shoes....

actually if anyone on plurk has an idea before I resort to google

does anyone know what they mean by this

I can google those keywords tho so maybe I should just. I'm like does this mean converse are a smart option or could/should I get a simple sports shoe.

no okay googling has proved me not wrong but definitely wrong angle. I guess I'm looking for SL1 shoes lmaoooo

ganbare!!

update i at least was not in as much pain today, so, ther'es that