Walking foot pain???

Skolls081102

Ok, so...I'm fat...and I'm ok with that. But to add to the problem of my fatness, I have perfectly flat feet (yes perfectly flat- as in, if I take my socks off and put my fut down, there is no arch at all). Anyway, I decided to buy Skecher Shape-Ups (I'm not here to debate whether these work or not), I am here to ask if anyone else uses them, and is experiencing foot pain. I've had them for about 5 days now (so it's possible that they're not totally broken in), but I have walked ALOT in them over the past five days. I've done two 1 mile walks while at work (at 4 m.p.h.- so a pretty brisk pace), and then another mile today at about 3.5 miles an hour. And I am having what I would call pretty bad foot pain. I like the extra burn that my legs are getting from these shoes, but the pain in my feet is almost to the point of me returning the shoes. I have done the one mile, 4 m.p.h. walk in running sneakers and it didn't hurt. So after that really long winded description, do you think it's my feet, the shoes not broken in totally, or the shoes in general?

P.S. The nice thing, is that I can return them if I feel it is the shoes to blame for the pain.

oldscratch

i wanna cuss!! ________ flat feet!!! you fill in the blank. i totally feel you. you need custom orthotics. ok so i'm not an md, but see one. flat feet totally screws up the way your foot...and knee...tracks. i've suffered LOTS from problem. i dont know for sure, but those shape-ups dont seem to have the arch support we need. i love asics, the only shoe i'll wear. to work and work-out. thats my 2 cents.

RMinVA

What you didn't say is how often you were walking before this week. If you just started the walking routine that will absolutely impact how your feet feel. And adding the new shoes on top of that is only compounding the matter. I've had my new sneakers for about 2 months, and they are just now really getting comfortable.

knittnponder

Where on your foot is the pain? Top of the foot, bottom (in the arch area, at the heal, ball of the foot?) Do you find that after you've been sitting awhile and get up the pain is worse or is it only while you're walking in the shoes? Does the pain continue after you've taken the shoes off? The same of less pain?

HMKan

What kind of foot pain is it? Like in the arch? The side opposite the arch? the toes?

If it's pinching, then I'd assume its the shoes. But I know that when I do a lot of walking (or even when I was less fit and did just a little walking) I'd get severe pain in the tendons in my feet. Wrapping the area helped a lot. That's what I learned to do when I did a 60 mile-3day breast cancer walk and now I don't have any trouble.

Skolls081102

I would say it's kind of an all over pain, but not in the toes...definitley the arch and the whole bottom of the foot. Maybe a little on top too. And the pain goes away once I slow down and walk at a normal pace for a minute or two. It's painful to the point of wanting to stop the walk when I'm out there trucking along, but I just power through and keep going. I just started the walkin g regiment. I've done it 6 times total, so three on old worn in running sneakers (pain that I would associate with just starting walking again), and 3 on the new Shape Ups (pain that is well above and beyond what I was experiencing). So I could definitley see how it's the shoes not being broken in.

Skolls081102

Figured I would throw an update in...I returned the Shape-Ups yesterday. After 3 weeks of walking/jogging, the foot pain was not getting any better. It was actually getting worse- and was also starting to include shin pain (pretty bad). So I returned them, and bought a pair of cheap running shoes, and after 2 days of walking/jogging, the pain in my feet andd shins is nothing compared to the Shape-Ups. So my guess is, it was definitely the shoes. I'm not saying anything bad about Shape-Ups. They were just not for me.

Celo24

Mike -

Please go get fit for shoes at a store that specializes in running shoes. If you are wearing the wrong shoe for your foot, then, at best, you will be uncomfortable and, at worst, you can really hurt yourself. Just getting a "cheap pair of running shoes" may be ok for now and maybe you'll be lucky and they'll work out great. But my wife - who also has very flat feet and just finished her second half-marathon - had a VERY hard time finding shoes that didn't kill her feet until she got fit properly. Now, she runs just fine and has zero issues with her feet/shoes.

tammy200678

I hate the shoes after I bought mine which has been 6 months ago my foot hurts so bad I can hardly walk some days actually buying new shoes tomorrow because I hate so much everyone seems to say it takes time but I give the pain is not worth it to me you know on I think it was USA today A lady is suing them because it caused hip problems for her anyways sorry got long winded there