Good morning, fala (@fala)

I'm glad I gave you a laugh! It's a threadbare cliché, I know, that laughter is the best medicine, but there's some truth in that, as there is in most clichés. For many with chronic diseases, especially those deemed incurable, like PN, laughter is sometimes our only reliable medicine. All others, with regard to effectiveness, ebb and flow, are potent for a while but then grow less effective, work for Mary and Joe but not for Alice and me, are wonder drugs if you've got large-fiber PN but not so much if yours is small-fiber––on it goes, round and round. It can seem a dizzy dance we're dancing. My own PN––chronic idiopathic axonal (large-fiber) polyneuropathy––can go symptomatically unchanged for months, even appear to be lessening, but then flare up, worsen (poor balance) by a notch or two (as a fellow PN'er has called it: go up to the next plateau).

You mention changing shoes every day as a way of getting some relief. I hope you'll forgive me if I tell you that imagine made me smile––yet I know there's nothing, absolutely nothing, funny about it. It suggests the lengths to which we'll go to gain even a half-hour's comfort.

I, too, change shoes several times a day. I've often I'd be better off living in a shoe store so I might have several hundred shoes to choose from. 🙂 Here's to us shoe-changers! May we never forget how to lace-up!

Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)

please give barefoot shoes by Grounded a try. They are not expensive so if they dont work for you you're not out much. They are the only shoes that dont hurt my feet and my neuropathy is much eased