Foot pain and fibro

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hi

I am a new member, originally from the USA but I live in Japan.

I am wondering if anybody here with fibromyalgia has foot pain bad enough to

keep you from walking and standing much and have you found anything that helped.

I am doing an hour of passive stretching a day and have tried many kinds of

custom orthotics (made here in Japan) but not having much luck. I started

wearing prescription orthotics almost 25 years ago, before any fibromyalgia

diagnosis. last spring i got pain in the arches of both feet. then i got

plantar fasciitis. now i am not sure what is wrong but the arch pain won't go

away. i have high arch rigid feet. i read that the ligament under the foot can

permanently shorten with this kind of foot. i stretch and stretch but....one of

my orthopedic docs says the foot pain is just another fibro symptom and i need

to learn to live with it.

but i think there may be something out there...

i actually ended up having six different pairs of orthotics made in the past

year! very expensive. most i cannot tolerate at all. two of them i switch off

between. i used to wear hard orthotics but cannot endure those anymore. the two

i am wearing--one is made of memory foam, the other plastic " gel. "

anybody else have this problem? any success?

i used to walk and even mountain hike for exercise. have not been able to do

either for a year, i have trouble just doing everyday activities like shopping

and working sometimes now. i sit down as much as possible now. i still do

stretching of my feet, underside of feet etc.

i made a stretching routine from a variety of books--Pain Free, Yoga for

Arthritis, Fixing Your Feet, Injury Afoot... it seems to help only a little even

tho i spend over an hour a day with these exercises.

i am going through menopause naturally. i first got fibro symptoms when going

thru an induced menopause (as an alleged cure for period pain). at that time my

arms and neck were most affected after taking the drug that induced menopause.

now old enough to be going thru that naturally i think it has created a pain

flare that started 2 years ago and hasn't let up. I was having trouble with my

back and neck. I started stretching and walking and that helped somewhat

but--then a year ago the foot pain started.

i am a vegan, slender, likes exercise and healthy food, taking supplements.

have widespread joint pain but it is the foot pain that is really affecting my

life at this point. i can ignore the other pain for now.

jane in japan