Conditions
Corns
Corns are areas of dry, thick skin that develop to protect areas of your foot from constant pressure and rubbing. They are often very hard to the touch, and are frequently les sensitive than the rest of the foot due to the thickness of the skin. Although having a certain number of corns is normal (and frequently not painful) women who wear high-heels and ill-fitting footwear will often develop more corns. Treatment is relatively simple, and can be carried out by a podiatrist, who will remove the hard skin that surrounds the corn and then the actual centre. These corns will come back, however, unless changes are made to the distribution of pressure on the foot. For this you may require customised in-soles, or foam wedges.
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i am 16 years old and have 3 corns on one foot, 2 on the other
me and my mum thought they were veruccas to start with or perhaps just hard skin so i went to a shuropojist (cant spell at all LOL)
and he said they were corns, he took them off with a syringe knife and i do have indents in my feet now but they are as soft as ever!
i have to continue going there though,
it worked very well, i do recommend :)
im not even sure if i have corns or what it is…i cant wear high heels or even walk on my bare feet when i wear heels my right foot hurts so much ive got a yellow really hard skin or sumthing on my foot not sure if its called the ball of my foot but its not near my heels now when i walk on my bare feet its so sore an ive noticed my big toe on my right foot its kind of bending in when im walking from this corn or watever it is
Hi, well i have a corn i think and its red on the middle of my 2nd toe in. i dont know what to do as my toe looks longer than the same toe on the other foot. advice?
hi both my mam and i suffer with corns but my mam suffers a hell of a lot worse .she has twenty five ingrown corns on one foot and twenty ingrown corns on the other foot she did have an operation on them a few years ago but it left her feet worse as they took away some of the bone but they are just as bad as ever she goes to see her chorpoidist every two weeks to ge them picked out and filed down she also has had special insoles made for her fett but they havnt worked either ,this is really a night mare for her as when she get p in the morning she has to take two ponston and this is every morning is there anything else that can be done she really needs help
hi im 16 i have a lump on both feet on the top of my foot by my baby toes which are red and look inflamed some times but they dont give me pain i dont no wether they are corns could you help me please
hi i have a lump on both feet on the top of my foot by my baby toes which are red and look inflamed some times but they dont give me pain i dont no wether they are corns could you help me please
The skin on my feet doesn't heal very well and where i have worn heels and there is a red mark, using moisturiser regularly and changing to trainers all the time, the skin has never healed.
I've had this problem for years but tried to avoid it until now.
When i saw a chiropodist, she didn't seem to know what to suggest and told me to stop wearing heels but i very rarely wear heels.
hope to hear from you soon
I'm not quite sure if I have 'Corns' but in between my toes it's cut, basically sliced between them and every night they become extremely itchy and painful and they often bleed, I was wondering if there was anything at all I could do to cure it or at least calm it down??
hi, i have somethink on the bottom of my foot at the ball, which is by my big toe, i ad a chiropi cut it out but it came back with a vengence, that was about 2yrs ago. i went to the docs recently and he said he thinks it is a corn with verrucas around, it is very painful and very itchy aswell. and i cant take it any more. it is really emberrasing. ther is a hole in the middle of it, it as hard skin which is pain full and my skin is very white like it is dead skin!! i really dont no what else to do.. but it is giving me greif .. thankyou. please help..
am 20 years old and i think i might have a corn on both palm on my foot, it realy hurts and it stings and throbs even when i relax my feet, it hurts when i walk then i end up walking on the side of my foot try and stop the pain, still no beter, its white and round and hard, i want to get help but am to embarrised,
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