I'm having foot problems again. Last time I had a problem with my feet it was my right foot, I got a stress fracture on my 4th or 5th metatarsal (self diagnosed) after walking around san francisco in flip flops stoned and not realizing how bad my foot hurt until I got back to the hostel and couldn't put ANY weight on it. It took 2 weeks to heal, by resting it and wearing doc marten boots (the only supportive shoes I had access to)
Now, it's my right foot, and it feels like the bone of my big toe and through the middle of my foot is developing a stress fracture, if I bend it too sharply and put too much weight on it it feels like a sharp pain. It even hurts when i just flex my big toe up and down when there's no weight on it. Is this a stress fracture? What is it caused by? I'm guessing it's from spending too much time wearing heels at work and wearing flip flops when I'm not at work..
What can I do to make this stop happening? Obviously not wearing heels at work isn't an option, so I want to know if there are any bone/cartilege strengthening supplements I can take and also what the best kind of shoes to wear when I'm not at work are. I need to buy some new shoes anyways, and I was looking at :
Danskos (the clog kind)
Earth shoes (the boot kind)
Simple shoes (the boot kind)
I'm vegan, but if there is no alternative to leather for shoes, I will buy leather shoes, preferably second hand off ebay or something. Any suggestions? Would gel insoles help for my stripper shoes? It's the ball of my foot by my big toe that hurts, so I'm thinking it might.
Also- when I was born my feet curled inwards and I had to get them broken and put in casts until I was 2 years old, I haven't had any problems with my feet until I started wearing stripper shoes, so I don't think it's related to that, but the fact that they were malformed probably contributes to that.



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