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Neuropathy | Last Active: Sep 25, 2023 | Replies (67)
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Good Evening, Ray! I have to tell you I got a chuckle at your expense imagining you moving from object to object at your partner's home just to keep upright. I was amazed, though, that you can walk at all without shoes. I don't understand how it is that with numb yet cold feet I cannot walk indoors or out without very stable shoes and not be in excruciating pain. But there it is. And that was a complicated sentence, to boot. This N.P. sure gives one lots to think about and deal with!
Cheers back to you!
Barb
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Hi, Barb (@bjk3)
I’ve been deviled by this question of shoes for the longest time: Do I wear them (indoors, I mean LOL ), or don’t I? That I don’t wear them around the house (right now, I’m in my non-slip socks, but no shoes) probably has more to do with my not having a great sensation of numbness in my feet. I knew my feet were slightly “odd” (in feeling the ground), but I’d always chalked that up to decades of long-distance running: all that running had “toughened” my feet, that’s all. I had no idea I’d lost sensation until I had my EMG in the summer of ’22 and was told I’d considerable numbness. What I’d figured was “toughness” was “numbness,” at least to some degree. Will my numbness grow more numb (numb-er? LOL ), who’s to say? For now, being reasonably comfortable going about in only my non-slip socks – especially on my partner’s hardwood floors – is working: wobbly? Yes! But no pain, no icy feeling in my feet – and most importantly, no falls!
Have a grand day today, Barb. I’ll see you around the Connect campus!
Ray (@ray666)