I don’t have diabetes and that’s the only serious foot numbness thing I think it could be. It fits the description extremely well of Morton’s Neuroma. Nothing I can do except try not to make it worse.
The hip pain I know very well. It started when I started doing solar and I’ve tried a lot of things. Not doing solar is the only thing that works. I don’t know if the running, the stairs, or the jumping (I was jumping up and down stairs) aggravates it. I wish I could go swimming, but covid and sharks are factors against. (Not really that worried about sharks, but I don’t really want to swim for exercise out past the waves.)
Doctors might not help, I went and saw one in the UK about what I think was this years ago and they just did the punchline from the old joke about breaking your arm in three places, “just don’t go to those places.” (They said stop doing the thing that made it bad, which was walking with a heavy pack as I was gearing up to try a multi-week hike.)
Anyway, what did help was a doctor in France telling me I had “funny feet” and to get soles made by a podiatrist. That may also be too expensive in the US, but I mention it as it helped a lot and cost about 130 euros (I pay and then get reimbursed by my insurance here, so I know the actual cost.) They’ve lasted a year now and still seem good to go.
It might help. I have very flat feet. I tried many boots to get some that work ok for me and then I took the inserts out and reshaped them myself. I wore different shoes (tennis shoes/sneakers) for the exercise I did that aggravated my foot problems.
I am obviously not a doctor, but fwiw that’s my problem. It was explained to me that that then puts strain on all the muscles and ligaments all the time and leads to stuff like morton’s and also, in my case, an old sprain from years ago starting to hurt like a MF all the time. I’d also get (usually) mild pain in the middle and the ball of the foot a lot, and numbness at the front.
They moulded the soles using my feet on some machine and they then fit in any old shoes (as long as their sole is flat), as they just fill the space that should be empty if I didn’t have ‘funny feet’.
Well there’s more, but all unlikely. And if you don’t go to a doctor how do you know you don’t have diabetes? Doesn’t sound emergent but worth investigating imo.
When I first started having numbness I was concerned about it. My dad had adult onset, but he was extremely overweight and I’m not. I bought the finger prick thing to test my blood sugar and did it every day for a couple weeks. It was always ok. Also no symptoms other than the foot numbness. And the Morton’s Neuroma description fits to a T. I was always trying to pull my sock up until I just accepted that sometimes it feels like a sock is bunched up towards the front of my foot.
I read the wiki entries on the Punic wars. 500k seems on the very high end of a broad range of estimates for deaths at Carthage but holy shit the Romans had to be going for don’t fuck with us, we’re crazy. I mean you’d think at some point their soldiers would just say, you know what, this is too much work.
Kind of. It was more like “You fucked with us, now we’re crazy” where they kept changing the terms of the negotiated peace until the Carthaginians realised the Romans wanted the negotiations to fail. Rome had Carthage on the brain a little after Hannibal freaked them out. They wanted to make absolutely certain there was no fourth Punic war. Really only one way to do that.
Yeah as I was saying in the rest of the post if the contest is close to equally matched these things can give you an advantage, but some guy who doesn’t know how to fight isn’t going to win by doing these things to someone who’s better at fighting.
Wait were you breaking fingers and poking eyes in street fights? Considering your training seems kind of like a huge dick move lol. Also why were you getting in so many fights outside of the ring? Jeeze man lol.
MsConwoman has experience training in krav maga, boxing, and bjj. Meanwhile my combat experience is limited to a perfect record as a freshman JV wrestler 0-12. So, we joke around that if we ever find ourselves confronted with a situation that will require fighting, that I will act as a decoy while she unleashes the finger breaks, crotch shots, and eye gouges.
I guess there wasn’t that much left to do in N Africa.
Me as a Roman soldier: Uhm, yeah put me down for whatever the quota is today, I’ma hit the beach. And if Scipio don’t like it he knows where to find me.