[pct-l] Feet Swelling

[Kathi]

Hi Nate,
I have that problem and it is because I was born with the padding that 
should be under my metatarsal bone (the bone that is at the ball of your 
feet) pushed up under my toes. So I have a lot of close "skin spaces" 
behind my toes that creates friction most people don't have. A 
podiatrist made custom orthotics for me that push the bone up and cause 
all the padding to pull back a bit. It has decreased the problem quite a 
bit but I still need to use a blister powder in the space behind my toes 
and that makes it so I have no problems. That's my experience YMMV.
Kathi

Nathan Miller wrote:
> I work 10-hr. days standing and walking around on concrete at a machine shop.  Yet my feet don't swell.
> However, when I go backpacking, the same 10-hr. day does, after a couple of days, lead to foot-swelling.  I notice it mainly in my ankles, although it isn't painful, it's just that my feet get noticeably puffy.
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> While we're on the subject of feet, I've been getting blisters on the balls of my feet, right behind my second toes, which seems to be a strange place to get blisters.  It's also a pretty darned near debilitating place and I was forced off the trail a couple of years ago and had to do some concerted damage control to avoid the same last June.  Is there something different that leads to blisters on that part of the foot vs. on other parts such as the heel or toe edges?
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> -Nate the Trail Zombie
> Newberg, OR
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