Walking without pain.

Okay, so, consulting a podiatrist requires money that I don't have. I honestly cannot fathom why so many people on this site jump immediately to consulting doctors. It's mildly fascinating. I mean, thank you for your opinion, but I'm sure other people have had similar experiences.

I tried to roll out my foot a little bit. I attempted some stretching and some ice at the same time. I'll go ahead and take ibuprofen. If it gets worse, I'll head to the family chiropractor, and then if it doesn't go away for a while, I'll hit up a clinic or something.

It's on the arch on the outside of my feet. No ankle, not the top. Outside of my feet, on the arch--where the pinky toe is. If you run your finger down the length of the outside of your foot where your pinky toe is, it's right in the middle between my toe and my heel. A friend asked about my pronation, and we realized I underpronate. Which I still don't know how to fix that. But at least we know that's a thing.

Aaaand. I do eat vegetables. Usually I am all about the broccoli. But I haven't been fully logging lately. I'll try to add more green stuff to my diet. You caught me. I had cucumbers tonight. Do they count?

And I don't think I have other foot problems? I mean. I'm overweight, but I've never had a problem before.

Please don't yell at me or curse at me (OP or anyone else). But...since you said it's on the outside of your arches, on the sides of your feet, and you've never had this problem before...I have a stupid question...are you sure you had the left shoe on your left foot and the right shoe on your right foot?

I'm *not* trying to be funny (I don't find other peoples' pain amusing whatsoever). I don't walk (yet)...but I have put the right on my left and the left on my right before in a hurry to zip to the grocery store real quick and that chit hurts. >.<

ETA: and the left insole was in the left shoe/right insole in right shoe, etc? (I swear I'm being serious)

Hahahaha! I'm not the yelling type!! Generally, I'm pretty tame. When I put my shoes on and took them off, they were on the right feet. As for the insoles, they have hard sides, so I know that they were in the right shoes, too. But I mean, that's a valid question!! My feet have been hurting the past day or so, but I thought it might've been a vitamin thing. I tend to walk on my toes. I have since I was little. And a while back when I had a weird nerve thing in one of my toes (way back, like…six or seven months ago) it was suggested to use a golf ball on my feet, and that made the pain from that go away. But last week, I took a walk and had no problems. And I was walking around other places today and had no problems.

I think it might have been the switch from one pair of really worn shoes to a newer pair of not so worn shoes. And I can't remember if they're wide or not. Which also could be the problem. I might have to break them in more. I just didn't want my feet to hurt even more from my very worn shoes.

Anyway: because it wasn't a 'I wore these shoes and my feet hurt now' kind of thing, that's the only reason I posted on here.

Good luck to whenever you start walking, too! I've been taking the dog at night, and he's been thanking me with loads of snuggles. (He's usually very non-affectionate.) So that's a plus!