Earliest sign of RA? - kept buying new shoes thinking that was the source of swollen painful feet…

Arthuritis

I found that my earliest symptoms of RA were painful feet after long walks, never a problem before, prompting me to think bad shoes and making me buy several new pairs wondering why nothing made it better. (Guys usually only stump up for 1-2 pairs. Ever!)

I later found out I am not the only one, has anyone here done that? Should it be part of public awareness? If it had been caught that early I might have had a reasonable prospect at remission & avoiding connective tissue damage.

Thoughts & experiences?

frogmorton

I blamed my heels too @Arthuritis ! I think so did Claire King the actress - I'm sure I read that somewhere.....

A few years ago there was a public awareness thing about hand shaking - not so relevant now with COVID is it?

Arthuritis

@frogmorton I didn’t know about the handshaking thing, I thought I’ become clumsy butter hands always dropping stuff. Don’t know if related, as it started years before my RA Dx.

vally

Can so relate. My kids laugh about how many shoes I have bought. Only really have one pair that is comfortable and wear those all the time.

Arthuritis

@vally Yup! have a neat pile of only-worn-once shoes. Should have had alarm bells when the usual single layer gel insole made no difference, and. started pairing them and walked on a sandwich of 2 gel insoles! This was 11 months ago. Still do. Next set are memory foam insoles on top.