Hot water bottles and slippers!

[Manda1]

I wear slippers all the time and use a hot water bottle although I usually cuddle that or stick it up my jumper x lol x

 

[CosmicHedgehog]

I live in flip flops most of the time unless its arctic outside, i only use hot water bottles when camping and the lilo is cold lol. I know we need to be careful about our feet but to me it all seems a bit bonkers. i get the occasional cut or scratch or graze, nothing a bit of tcp doesn't sort out if needed. of course i check them most days. I know people do get problems with feet and cuts or infections that don't heal, but i have never had a problem yet. I expect this is aimed at those with greatly reduced sensitivity and a history of feet problems or history of slow healing. I have heard stories where people with reduced sensitivity have stood on a drawing pin and not noticed till it got sore. Lego, drawing pins its all the same if you have feeling in your feet you are going to notice when you injure them. For me personally imo i would not follow those rules and i turn up to most clinic appointments in flip flops and they never say anything to me or tell me off. If i had reduced foot sensitivity however i would be more careful.

 

[Northerner]

Surely those rules are only needed if the feeling in your feet is less than perfect?

Well, my original post was from 2008 - a week after the forum had started! I was only 4 months into my diagnosis, but even so, I found the 'rules' rather alarmist at the time 😱

 

[Northerner]

I suppose the rules err on the cautious side, in case there's a time lag between you losing sensation, and realising that you have.

However, I think Net's query about how to cope with painful neuropathy has rather got lost in here, as it was reviving an old thread, I wonder whether it could be moved to its own thread where more people will see it @Northerner?

Will do 🙂

 

[Ditto]

I've been told nothing about anything. Useless lot. I'm still going about in bare feet. Mum keeps on at me to wear slippers, now I can tell her I'm now allowed. 🙂