Hi,
I was born with flat feet and have never known anything else. If I try to wear shoes with arches, it is absolute torture to try and walk, so I always check to see if the inner sole will come out of a pair of shoes that I might buy, so that I can cut off the arch on the left and right sides of the sole which is preformed, with a Stanley Trimmer type of knife, before I wear the shoes.
If the sole won't come out, I cannot cut off the preformed arch and thus I don't buy the shoes.
I was also born with a pot belly, which my parents thought was hugely funny and always made fun of - they used to call it my Biafran Belly, referring back then to the African kids dying of starvation in Biafra - although I was never starved and always fed well.
In recent years, medical research has found that people who grow a pot belly are more likely to get Diabetes, as presumably a grown pot belly is an indication of food and alcohol abuse - but since I was born with mine, makes me permanently pregnant in shape, although when I was a kid, no one ever poked fun at me (apart from my parents, that is).
When I got Type 2 Diabetes, it was unrelated to my flat feet and has had no impact on my Diabetes.
One upside of flat feet is that I could not be enlisted in the Army, Air Force or Navy or expected to fight in any war.....
I personally do not think that Reflexology is any different from any other Quacky or Alternative medicine. The more gullible you are, the more people who will put their hands in your pockets and help relieve you of any money you might have, which you can sensibly spend in many, more sensible ways.
No matter what the Alternative Medicine people say, there is only one sure fired way of tackling most problems and that is by Hospitals, Doctors and conventional treatments.............I know because I have tried all of the Alternative techniques and all they have done for me, was nothing at all, or to make myself a lot worse than my original condition.
BigBenn
