No “meat” on the bottom of my numb feet.

Thank you very much for starting this thread. I have the same type of pain and "no meat" is exactly how it feels. It's painful and it's debilitating. In my case this problem had a very sudden onset but none of my providers can suggest why. It's sad to contemplate the rest of my life dealing with this... Just thanks for the validation that you gave me by bringing this up.

I have skinny, narrow feet, plus a neuroma on my left foot. I find sketchers and Mia shoes to be the most padded on the foot bed, plus Hooka tennis shoes or any other like tennis shoe with deep soles usually have more cushions. My feet cannot hit the floor without a heavily cushioned slip in or shoe. I also add foot bed cushions. I had expensive fat transferred into the balls of my feet but it didn’t work. It also hurt me tremendously. I feel your pain. I feel discriminated against. No narrow cushion shoes to be found. I would like to own a pair of cowboy boots but that’s out of the question, even with inserts. Another brand of shoe that works for a dressier look are SAS shoes and I add cushions because they have narrow and slims but they are super expensive. Must be nice to walk into any department store and buy a cute pair of ladies sandals for under 40 dollars. I have to pay 3-4 times that much and they are MauMau looking. I am a MauMau but I would like to wear a little bit of a cuter shoe if I could, but narrow, cushioned shoes are non existent!

I have skinny, narrow feet, plus a neuroma on my left foot. I find sketchers and Mia shoes to be the most padded on the foot bed, plus Hooka tennis shoes or any other like tennis shoe with deep soles usually have more cushions. My feet cannot hit the floor without a heavily cushioned slip in or shoe. I also add foot bed cushions. I had expensive fat transferred into the balls of my feet but it didn’t work. It also hurt me tremendously. I feel your pain. I feel discriminated against. No narrow cushion shoes to be found. I would like to own a pair of cowboy boots but that’s out of the question, even with inserts. Another brand of shoe that works for a dressier look are SAS shoes and I add cushions because they have narrow and slims but they are super expensive. Must be nice to walk into any department store and buy a cute pair of ladies sandals for under 40 dollars. I have to pay 3-4 times that much and they are MauMau looking. I am a MauMau but I would like to wear a little bit of a cuter shoe if I could, but narrow, cushioned shoes are non existent!

@bb03 Oh wow! This is EXACTLY what I've been complaining about for years now. I even called Brooks, as they seem to be one of the few that made narrow shoes, and now they seem to be dropping most of them. Nobody seems to understand that if you have narrow feet and heels, that you can't just wear a smaller size in a medium! Nope. The heels on the Mediums come right off my foot when walking. For the summer, I am able to wear "Fit Flops" which are REALLY comfortable. I can walk in those all day! Skecher's flip flops work for me, but their shoes are just too wide for my feet. Yesterday I shelled out a bunch of money at the Good Feet store. Their inserts work on a system with a wearing schedule. You get 3 inserts, all of which are worn for different amounts of time. The cheapest plan they had though was $1500!! I've avoided them for years due to that sort of pricing, but after years of pain, doctors, therapy, X-ray, MRI's etc and getting no better, I'm going to try this. I have spent way more than that on all the shoes and inserts I've purchased so far!!

My orthopedist directed me to a guy who took impressions of my feet and custom made inserts. Orthotics?? I believe was the term. 400.00 worth of relief! Well-worth the cost. Even took into consideration my uneven leg length!

I have skinny, narrow feet, plus a neuroma on my left foot. I find sketchers and Mia shoes to be the most padded on the foot bed, plus Hooka tennis shoes or any other like tennis shoe with deep soles usually have more cushions. My feet cannot hit the floor without a heavily cushioned slip in or shoe. I also add foot bed cushions. I had expensive fat transferred into the balls of my feet but it didn’t work. It also hurt me tremendously. I feel your pain. I feel discriminated against. No narrow cushion shoes to be found. I would like to own a pair of cowboy boots but that’s out of the question, even with inserts. Another brand of shoe that works for a dressier look are SAS shoes and I add cushions because they have narrow and slims but they are super expensive. Must be nice to walk into any department store and buy a cute pair of ladies sandals for under 40 dollars. I have to pay 3-4 times that much and they are MauMau looking. I am a MauMau but I would like to wear a little bit of a cuter shoe if I could, but narrow, cushioned shoes are non existent!

@bb03 Oh wow! This is EXACTLY what I've been complaining about for years now. I even called Brooks, as they seem to be one of the few that made narrow shoes, and now they seem to be dropping most of them. Nobody seems to understand that if you have narrow feet and heels, that you can't just wear a smaller size in a medium! Nope. The heels on the Mediums come right off my foot when walking. For the summer, I am able to wear "Fit Flops" which are REALLY comfortable. I can walk in those all day! Skecher's flip flops work for me, but their shoes are just too wide for my feet. Yesterday I shelled out a bunch of money at the Good Feet store. Their inserts work on a system with a wearing schedule. You get 3 inserts, all of which are worn for different amounts of time. The cheapest plan they had though was $1500!! I've avoided them for years due to that sort of pricing, but after years of pain, doctors, therapy, X-ray, MRI's etc and getting no better, I'm going to try this. I have spent way more than that on all the shoes and inserts I've purchased so far!!