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I've been wrong all my life. The technical term is that I supine – namely; my feet are turned outwards, so I constantly balance on the edge of the foot and heel. I guess most people put the weight on the whole sole of the foot when they put their foot in the ground, but I do not. For me, it is a conscious effort to turn the foot straight.
When I was younger, this was not something that bothered me significantly. And, if you disregard the fact that I tore out a pair of shoes per season, of course. It will be a very unnecessary round after a while. It's not very fun to spend a lot of money on expensive shoes when you wear them out in such a short time, but buying cheap shoes will not be good either.
And the older one becomes, the more it becomes an actual problem. A few years ago, I first found posts that help for just supination, and since then my feet feel much better. But I have in many, many years, gone without post and the distortion in my feet has meant that I now have a knee that quarrels with me, a heel that hurts, I'm stiff as a thousand in the hips and back, and at least parts of my neck and shoulder pain problems probably come from there as well.
So before I do go on I just want to say this to you who are young and have this problem – get posts. Continue using posts. You really do not want to stand there soon 45 years old and feel like a 99-year-old woman who can barely stand and walk some days. It's not a bit fun, can I inform about. Fi fan.
But to move on – not only do I have this problem. I also have lymphedema in my lower legs. It is remedied very effectively with compression stockings (the elite variant of support stockings), but the crux is that I need to wear them all year round. Even in summer. No matter how hot it is. If you have not seen and / or felt a pair of compression socks, I can say that they are necessarily thick. In the summer they also get very hot.
So what has this to do with style, one may wonder!?
All, would I want to say. It was many years ago that I realized that I, for example, can not walk in high heels. Or, a lower high heel can work for a couple of hours – perhaps. And then we talk max 4 cm heel. Due to my compression socks and the fact that I sometimes swell in my feet even if it is hot means that I can not have which shoes I want.
This is something that takes up quite a lot of thought, can I inform about. Today it's the 1 February, and I have already started worrying about how to find shoes for the summer. I have been wearing clogs for a couple of years, but it does not work in the long run. I get extremely sore feet, and given that there is no direct support, I always end up wearing them out. Last year I bought a pair of clogs for over 600 span, and this year I will not be able to use them.
You have no idea how many shoes are I can not wear in summer. Basically none that you find in normal shoe stores. Given the lymphedema, I can not wear shoes with stretch straps or rubber (typ Crocs). I also can not wear shoes with too thin sole, because then I get pain under my feet. Considering that I have thick socks on, I get fussy and do not want too open shoes, for it does not look wise.
I have rows with criteria for how the shoes need to be for it to actually work. And those criteria do not always match what I think is nice. And this is where the question of style comes in. How the hell do you keep the style when they shoes like (hardly) are available do not work or are dirty?
Last night asked I'm asking about shoes in a Facebook group I'm in, for people with lymph- and lipedema. Got a lot of good answers to various shoes I never heard of that could actually work. The only problem with them is that they are obviously expensive. And last night, but earlier, I decided not to spend so much money on summer shoes because I still wear them out so fast. But several of the tips I got are on shoes where you can replace the sole itself with, for example, the inserts I use myself. So I guess I might have to rethink and actually spend somewhere in between 500 – 1 500 buckle on a pair of summer shoes.
But you understand how frustrating this is when you want to keep your style without losing in quality? After all, I want to be able to stand and walk without my knees falling off or that I get so tired that I have to rest for several hours after a dog walk. It's kind of not ok.
That's why I stayed overall very pleasantly surprised when several of the shoe brands I was recommended actually have shoes that could work. Both functionally and stylistically. I have a rather distinct style that I am not willing to jerk too much. Foot-straight shoes tend to look a certain way, and in general it is not something I would choose to put on. But as I said was; I actually found several varieties that I could live with walking around with this summer. And believe me – I'm terribly fussy.
This is it just to find the money to buy them. For sure, everything that works is expensive. I am considering raising the issue with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency about applying for disability benefits in order to obtain shoes and inserts., because my sickness benefit does not really allow that kind of investment.
Shoes I was tipped off about:
Embla | Cinnamon | Birkenstock | Sketchers memory foam | Here | Fit flops