Does anyone find that a type of shoe helps your foot neuropathy?

@cls1, @artemis1886, and all...I agree. Several years ago, I tossed all my shoes - either donating or garbage! Before that, I'd already done the same with my beautiful, stylish heels and or low-heeled shoes. I finally admitted I needed to walk, and couldn't do that without drastically different shoes.
I tried several companies. I settled on Sketchers because they have a slip-on non-laced shoe that almost looks attractive. I need a bit of beauty mixed with comfort and also some bling if possible. Sketchers provide all those needs.
I love the skimmer, I think they call them, in different types of soles and cushions. My instep is high, so no shoes that go far above the toe joints or I swell out of them. I can't tie laces due to arthritis in my hands and it's pretty uncomfortable anyway to have to get to them to tie. I love being able to slip into the shoe and go.
I have various colors, snake, red, sequin/star bling, white, and several different black pairs with slightly different designs and soles. I also have a pair of wonderfully comfortable Sketcher sandals. Living in Florida, it's vital to have comfortable, fun sandals for casual hot weather and/or beach wear. I expect the best comfort AND the fun colors and a touch of style!
Blessings on your foot journey. Elizabeth

You can buy the no tie shoe laces at most shoe stores or Amazon. I have problems dressing myself as far as getting a leg you can’t control into pants or shoes. Then it’s frustrating trying to get them off. I spent my birthday in Florida for a month (April). Had fun loved the food but injured my back walking in the sand at night with the water splashing on my legs. Felt great my husband said the water was really cold. I could not really feel it but it felt good if that makes any sense. When we got back to the hotel he checked out my feet warmed them up. It was more humid than Dallas. I just don’t understand how people can live there and California. Florida is prettier than California but the price of living in both places is crazy. My husband works for the Department of Defense and he had a month long class in Florida . I loved the sunset.

No because I wear t prescription orthotics and they will not fit inside sketchers. My ankles roll to the inside without my orthotics. I need the support of the high tops. When I was young it would bother me not having matching shoes now I just do not care. My next shoes willl have to be a tad bit larger to allow for the swelling of the neuropathy and lymphedem.

@artemis1886, and all...Glad you enjoyed the beach walking, but it's really difficult for those of us with any movement or muscle issues. With peripheral neuropathy, numbness, cramping, and pain are fairly normal and often. I can't walk on the sandy beach much anymore, nor even barefooted since it negatively affects my feet, legs, and back causing pain and cramping. I need some cushiony support all the time.

Even in the house, I don't go barefoot which is sad as I have always been a barefoot kind of gal...lived most of my 76 years in the Southern States with warmer climates, and always barefoot in the house.

Now, I have found the perfect indoor slipper for me with my feet/limb issues. Smoothies. They are ballerina-type shoes, flat, with leather bottoms that don't slip, stretchy so they stay on, but my toes and feet move and I can 'feel' the floor as much as possible, moving my toes to help with my balance and walking. Slip-on slippers slip on and then slip off, and I trip or fall. Can't lift my feet and curl my toes to walk well or walk upstairs.

These Smoothies also come in wonderfully fun sequins in wild colors...I have red, silver, gold, black and purple! Love them. My feet and toes move and get some exercise without too much-required work to walk. The soft leather bottoms are wonderful for the inside.

On the sandy beach, I can walk barefoot in the water for short distances, but it's extremely taxing and would surely cause an increase in pain and lower back pain. It's a lot of work walking in the sand. And the water from the ocean makes the sand run out from under your feet making you have to work to stand up! Great exercise if you want and can tolerate it, but not for these limitations...better to wear some kind of shoe on the sand if you plan to walk much.

Yes, Florida is humid. We're Semi-tropical, that's why it's so beautiful and lush and green and flowering year-round. At my age, I enjoy the A.C. so during our summers stay pretty much inside. All our cars have A.C. as do our houses. Some winters, I use the A.C. most of the time, not the heat. Just in Dec/Jan/Feb do I usually run the heat... But, most folks do acclimate themselves to this lifestyle, with no heavy sweaters or heavy wool/fluff jackets generally. Boots we wear for style or rain. I love the simplicity of life here, must have the sun every day or I begin to wilt! It gives me an uplifted feeling inside. I awake each morning with my drapes open, looking outside at the morning light and sun into the lovely, huge, 150+-year-old live oak trees. It's truly glorious. In past decades, we've had a touch of snow or ice, but nothing recently, although last winter was colder than usual.

Anyway, my slip-on skimmer Sketchers are what get me to and fro in comfort. With a touch of style! Blessings in Dallas. I shouldn't think Dallas would be less expensive than Florida, at least in the northern part of the state. South Florida beaches are indeed more expensive. But we have a pretty good economy rocking along. Elizabeth

I’m about to get a prescription orthotic for my left foot so I guess things will change for me too. Fortunately as a young person I didn’t have the problems I have now. Aging helps!

Love my sketcher shoes and sandals, but it was just mentioned that custom orthotics don’t fit in them and I’m about to get one for my left foot. That will break my heart as I have at least 30 pairs!

@cls1 and all...I hope that's not true. I find them the best for my needs and they fit my feet well. Can actually walk pretty well on whatever foundation, too. I get the more cushioned ones with the lower top of the heel, so it doesn't cause a rub on my ankle. One I got was a tad too high in the back and bothered me, but now I know what to look for.
I have about 20...You've got me beat! But then, these days I don't go out so much so don't need more. I got a couple of new pairs recently on sale, to replace worn shoes.
I hope to stay out of orthotics.
Blessings and enjoy...Elizabeth

That was over a year ago mine has progressed to the point the electrophsiologist gives me two years at the max to live. This takes and takes until you have nothing else. It gets really depressing. They originally gave me seven years. The more stress you are under the quicker it progresses. Due to the stage mine is in I am hoping to qualify for IVIG therapy to slow it down. I am 61 and really not ready to die. I just wish the doctors were up front about the progression of this disease.. I am know wheelchair bound my legs do what they want. They do not move the way I want them to move. Sometimes they look broken how contorted they are. The beach was over two years ago. The neuropathy had not progressed to this point. I cut my hands because I don’t feel them and have to go get stitches. Stitches over three times in one month. Dropped something on my foot broke it and now it’s having a hard time healing. The doctors are saying that I might lose my foot. While the walk on the beach was nice it was not worth the pain of the back surgery and the pain that ran down my leg from the sciatic nerve caused. Fentanyl did not stop the pain in the er. On top over everything else discovered that with peripheral neuropathy comes neuropathic arthritis from the neuropathy. Very few people seem to know anything about neuropathy. Heck I can’t evens get on disability having to go to court.

I use Brooks leather Walking Shoes etc.

Brooks leather walking Shoe an recreation Shoes.