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Does anyone find that a type of shoe helps your foot neuropathy?
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Cloud5 is a great shoe... To be honest, I really believe the issue here is, the more you spend the better the shoe. Both of these companies have a huge selection, with all types of support, from soft to a firm fit. With Sketchers just from the variety of shoes your selection most likely; was, way to soft for your needs. I'm a competitive runner and the Skechers I use are fantastic with tremendous support, comfort, light and built very well. Cloud5 is a Switzerland company and Sketchers is an American company. Unfortunately, both companies outsource their manufacturing to horrible, abusive, deadly slave labor in China and Vietnam and that's a total bummer! Since I'm typing guess I will also vent-out, that; Neuropathy totally SUCKS! It's so frustrating that the medical knowledge for isolating and treatment is still so archaic almost nonexistent. I've been all over the country for the past three plus years to most of the top clinics searching for anything, even out of the box scenarios that could help, even a little. What I found is, professionals especially since COVID will not even think of working out-side of the box and the reality is they have no tools or support that provide them an insensitive to it. Therefore, if a Neuropathy-patient does not have diabetes they most likely will have not only zero results in finding any type of path for life improvement, but many of us will start wondering if Neuropathy is some type of mental-illness the doctors are hiding from the patient. Thats being a little sarcastic, but I can say in my weakest moments that hasn't crossed my mind. I will conclude by saying since my symptoms started any successful life improvement has been found in simple google search's and a few medical podcast.
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I contribute my neuropathy to vitamin B-12 deficiency, which none of my doctors have considered. I was put on B-12 injections once a month back in the mid-1990s, but much too late as nerve damage was already done. My neuropathy has slowed and is progressing ever so slightly. It is my theory that I need a B-12 injection twice a month, but my primary care doctor will not entertain it. I still have a geographic tongue which is a symptom of B-12 deficiency and in my research geographic tongue will disappear once sufficient B-12 is present in my body. Logic would tell any doctor that trying B-12 injections every two weeks for a trial period of eight weeks or more to see if the geographic tongue would disappear would be a no-brainer. Maybe this will
benefit someone out there that may be experiencing my same issues.
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I would add this group to the list of where to find life improvement ideas. There’s so much real life experience here that doctors without neuropathy cannot understand. While there’s no one-size-fits-all to our mysterious disease, there’s been so much help and advice in identifying snake oil salesmen and sharing solutions that no doctor certainly ever gave. Btw, Skechers for me too, I wish they’d last longer though. But I need soft, I’m the type that walking barefoot is painful for me, realizing the other half of us find walking barefoot is most comfortable them. Big puzzle…