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Need help to stop my feet falling off

 Poster: A snowHead
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Hey Snowheads. Need your guidance please.

Skiing hurts my feet. Always has but was bearable in the past.

10 years ago I got custom boots (which I no longer have )fitted to deal with pain in my big toe as well as a sore little toe. The boots were blown out and lessened the pain but didn’t get rid of it completely. I think my boots were too tight and it may have made things worse.

We’re going skiing in Jan so we warmed up at Chill Factore last weekend and I was in agony!

The problem: The outside of my food (5th metatarsal) hurts like hell. My pinkie and the toe next to it go numb and then hurt like hell.

I will have no choice but to wear the boots I’m given at UCPA.

What should I buy to try and lessen the pain? I can’t get new custom boots so need an off the shelf option I can at least try!

TIA


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Get your shells stretched as required at a boot fitter.
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I don’t have them anymore sadly
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Chris_n wrote:
Get your shells stretched as required at a boot fitter.


Yes this. It's easy process if you tell a boot fitter where the pain is and they will stretch it, small cost to get it done either in UK or in resort.
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Unfortunately I don’t have my custom
Boots anymore
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In spite of your comment that you can't get new custom boots: it is indeed past time for you to get new boots custom-fitted by a capable person/shop, and don't stop working with them until they fit without pain. If you start with the right boot and put in the effort to tweak them, which may well take some trips back and forth to get it right, you will solve your problem instead of kicking the can down the road. Messing with your ten year old boots that hurt you seems like a waste of time. Your bod may be different now as well.

Boots don't have to hurt. I have the same foot issue, and I buckle my boots in the morning and don't touch them again until I unbuckle in the afternoon. No pain. Its worth the effort it took to get there.
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Don't put up with foot issues - they only compound and steal the joy you get from a ski holiday. That unfortunately probably means spending on your own boots and getting them punched/stretched around the sixth toe. It's a fairly standard mod so most bootfitters (as distinct from sellers) should be able to do it. Otherwise you're at the mercy of whatever wide fits they have in the fleet at UCPA or trailing round rental shops looking for something more suitable.

Alternately you could snowboard.
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bezthespaniard wrote:

The problem: The outside of my food (5th metatarsal) hurts like hell. My pinkie and the toe next to it go numb and then hurt like hell.


I had something similar. Fixed by a properly fitted boot (with some modification) and most importantly a custom made foot bed.
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Alternately you could snowboard

Yes, I wondered that too. Given your very long-standing problems with ski boots.
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@bezthespaniard, I found similar issue at MK before skiing in March, it did however ease off when skiing as I think my boots loosened slightly and my feet grew used to it. Again this was a 3-year gap due to Covid
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@bezthespaniard, buy some new boots from a respected boot fitter.
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bezthespaniard wrote:
I will have no choice but to wear the boots I’m given at UCPA.

Why no choice?

Can you not afford to buy custom fitted boots or some other reason?
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Obvious comment, but you should wear the thinnest of ski socks.
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You know it makes sense.
There isnt an easy answer except for a well fitted pair of your own.
Anything else will be sheer luck!
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Layne wrote:
bezthespaniard wrote:
I will have no choice but to wear the boots I’m given at UCPA.

Why no choice?

Can you not afford to buy custom fitted boots or some other reason?


The wife will kill me if I buy some
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bezthespaniard wrote:
Layne wrote:
bezthespaniard wrote:
I will have no choice but to wear the boots I’m given at UCPA.

Why no choice?

Can you not afford to buy custom fitted boots or some other reason?


The wife will kill me if I buy some


Either your wife will kill you, or the boots will Laughing

If your on a budget, buy some boots and get them blown to accommodate your feet, they don’t need to be top end ones, they may not feel like slippers but they will be better than being in such pain.
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Cheers everyone. Think I will just risk the marital trouble and get some custom fit.

Snow and rock offer a free fitting and custom footbed with a new pair of boots. Anyone can recommend them?
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@bezthespaniard, Manufacturers do make 'High Volume' boots - they might help ??
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bezthespaniard wrote:
Cheers everyone. Think I will just risk the marital trouble and get some custom fit.

Snow and rock offer a free fitting and custom footbed with a new pair of boots. Anyone can recommend them?


No! But it might be worth hitting where in the UK you are for people to recommend.
Or start here www.skibootpro.co.uk/Findabootfitter.html
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bezthespaniard wrote:
Cheers everyone. Think I will just risk the marital trouble and get some custom fit.

Snow and rock offer a free fitting and custom footbed with a new pair of boots. Anyone can recommend them?

Where do you live?

Don't go on price. It will be worth each trip when you can wear your boots all day, buckled up without any issue.
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Layne wrote:
bezthespaniard wrote:
Cheers everyone. Think I will just risk the marital trouble and get some custom fit.

Snow and rock offer a free fitting and custom footbed with a new pair of boots. Anyone can recommend them?

Where do you live?

Don't go on price. It will be worth each trip when you can wear your boots all day, buckled up without any issue.


Manchester
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Collin at Solutions for feet in Bicester is one of the best. A bit of a trek but worth it.
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For Manchester Rivington alpine

https://rivingtonalpine.co.uk/
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MorningGory wrote:
Collin at Solutions for feet in Bicester is one of the best. A bit of a trek but worth it.


They were very helpful when I called today but I priced it up and it’s not worth it for the one week every other year I go skiing.
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Ok, if buying boots is not an option, the best you can do is get your feet properly measured and work out what size/model of boot are a reasonable fit for your foot width, instep, etc. Next, how flexible are your ankles/how tight are your calves? A lot of foot numbness comes from inflexible ankles/richer calves meaning that when you flex, instead of moving at the ankle, your foot lifts into the upper of the boot. Muscle rolling your calves might help a little.


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£600 one off, or £70? a week rental and no enjoyment due to pain. Think about it, it makes all the difference
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bezthespaniard wrote:
Layne wrote:
bezthespaniard wrote:
I will have no choice but to wear the boots I’m given at UCPA.

Why no choice?

Can you not afford to buy custom fitted boots or some other reason?


The wife will kill me if I buy some


It'd cure your foot problems. Toofy Grin
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