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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hello i've gotten 2 corns on both feet can i get them removed in a local gp?
Your gp will ref you to the foot specialist.
I have 1 corn on my left foot and 2 on my right. Who would have ever thought that such a small thing could cause so much pain :( I have learnt to remove them by myself with this scraping thing from Boots but the always come back.! I dont mean to be mean by this but im pleased im not alone with this small but huge problem.
hi the ball of my right foot is really sore it hurts to walk on it and it feels like a real deep burning sensation i file the hard skin down and i have been applying bazooka gel on it as i dont know if it is a wart , corn and it hurts even more when i use the gel i dont want to stop using it yet in case it is doing the trick being as it hurts so much its been 2 weeks now but little improvement please please help i feel like chopping my foot off at the ankle x
I know how you feel, i to have the same thing over the last 12 months i have been to get it cut once a month, it is a corn i have and it also sounds like you have a corn, I to though it was a wart and used the bazooker gel, because i had a black dot in the centre, i put to much bazooker gel on the area which in turn turned my skin around the area. I feel i will not get rid of this corn as my work involves me being on my feet 8hrs a day. I have an insole to help pad my foot, I am so sick and tired of going through the pain every day then have to go through even more pain when they start cutting it, i get a right sweat on,,, i just know this needs to be done.
hi, I have a hard, round, black ball shaped thing on two of my toes on both feet but on my right foot it's less visible whereas on my left it's really horrible n one of the nails have turned black!! It's really embarassing and I tend to hide my feet and wear socks. I can't go out wearing slippers or sandles as I fear people will stare.
what if i have them operated on and they have come back what do i do.
i am 14, lately i have noticed very big corns on the side of my bum cheek help me please !
i have a corn on the sole of my foot which reoccurs every couple of weeks, i have stopped wearing heeled shoes and have also recieved insoles from my chiropodist to which i,m sad to say it still returns, i also bought my self a ped egg as i was told to keep the hard skin at bay by using this, but still it returns is there any cure out there
hello my partner suffers from a corn on the sole of his foot he has tried everything and i really hurts him when he has been on his feet all day he says it feels like he has a stone in his shoe when he is walking what should he do he has got rid of it before but it keeps comeing back
hi, i hve sufferd 4 mny years wth my corns.I really sympothise wth ure partner,they r so sore 2 even touch and yes left too long it does feel lke a stone is under ure foot.I hve one either end of my foot and they even keep me up at night with the pain and burning sensation.Its almost as if a string is attached and the pain is hard to describe,like as if they r being lanced(VERY PAINFUL)
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
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