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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Texas
Posts: 761
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Texas
Posts: 761
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Jack
A lot of people have already posted some helpful advice. To that, I would like to suggest that you get some 11x14 heavy blue ice packs (ColPak by Chattanooga), freeze them, wrap 1 in a hand towel and apply to feet, knees moving to wherever it hurts. I use them at night and move them around where I hurt and swap one out for a colder one. Cold helps nerve pain in a lot of people. I could not make it without these. Get a couple and at least give them a try. You can usually get them locally from Chiropractors, but you can get them cheaper on the Internet.
These do not sweat and make you wet all over like other ice packs. They feel sooo good... They are used in sports medicine.
Also, the kind of shoes and socks can affect your pain. I cannot tolerate anything but all cotton and no tight shoes. I had a huge brown bag full of expensive custom made shoe inserts, which constantly had to be remade, because I could not stand where they touched the bottoms of my feet.
Cathie
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