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    If it hurts, stop.....

    Oh, Kanga, so sorry you are having to go through this. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. That decision to stop is just so darned hard to make.
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    Walking The Camino Without Training. Fool's Errand?

    I can't find it right now, but there is a thread here somewhere from a while back where a number of people were talking about meeting a very heavy, not young woman who was doing the Frances at the rate of about 5 km a day and very happy with that. Be sure you have comfortable shoes, a...
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    Voltaren cream ....is it worth it?

    I've never used Voltaren, but when I fell in France last year the pharmacienne gave me Arnigel and Arnicalm for a cracked rib and a big bone bruise on my arm, and I have to say the effect was darned near miraculous. I could never have continued walking without it. Sadly, it did nothing for my...
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    Yay!
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    That's great news, Meri. How wonderful that you can get out and walk again, even if only a bit so far.
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    Oh gosh, Meri, what an ordeal this has been for you, but I'm so glad you're making progress.
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    Oh man, Meri, what a bummer! I hope you start to heal faster faster soon. :( If nothing else you'll have more patience than anyone else on the camino next time.
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    Oh, you do so have my sympathy, Meri. It's driving me crazy and I've been out of the boot for almost a month now and my little fractures were nowhere near as bad as yours . I'm afraid I'd be impossible to live with in your situation. But I'm really glad that you seem to be ahead of schedule...
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    Dear FEET, bedbug bites, and diarrhea,

    Shanblistered, thanks so much for the aquaphor recommendation. I just happened to see it in our local grocery store after reading your post, and you're right, it's just amazing on hot spots. In Paris the day before we started I wound up walking for about five hours in new Crocs with no socks, so...
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    Thanks. That's for sure. I forgot to say that while I was in Chateaudun I fell in with a little tour given by some local historians, two of whom had walked the Camino. They saw me limping and cheerfully told me that you get extra merit for walking the chemin with a hurt foot. Just think how much...
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    Ouch! Sorry to hear about that. Luckily my days on the crutches are just about done. I'm supposed to start with just the boot in a few days (my break isn't as bad as yours and my orthopedic surgeon is very leery of crutches and told me he often puts patients in the hospital because he can see...
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    Midfoot Pain: A Cautionary Tale

    What good news! And I'm so glad you posted this. I was walking the Voie de Tours from Paris last month during a couple of weeks of very heavy rain. The second day we were walking in very deep fallen leaves in the forêt de St Aubin and there was a big hidden gully that the rain had scooped out...
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    Prevention & Treatment of Aching Feet

    Thanks, Tia Valeria. Yes, of course the stomach problems and so on are a definite concern, but I've never heard of NSAIDs covering up the pain of a stress fracture or damaged joint. Thanks for the clarification, but I'm afraid I'd still like to hear a first person example of someone whose doctor...
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    Prevention & Treatment of Aching Feet

    This is often said here, but I'm always confused by it. NSAIDS like ibuprofen, aspirin, etc, reduce inflammation. How is that disguising damage rather than helping? Please explain this, since I never understand what you all mean when you say it, and a lot of folks here repeat this pretty often.
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    Thigh chafing

    I've used the Band-Aid brand and it does tend to cause stains, FWIW. I hope Body Glide is better in that respect.
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    Time to campeed, vaseline or duct tape?

    Check the travel size section of any big chain drug store like Walgreens or CVS. EDIT Target has a rack of travel sized stuff, too.
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    The doctor says my dodgy knee is arthritis - advice please!

    As far as turmeric, here's an interview with one of the doctors doing research on it at Johns Hopkins. Note that she specifies the importance of using it in something both hot and oily, unlike a lot of the "turmeric tea" recipes floating around, or the suggestions to roll it up into pills...
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    B12 Shot on the way

    Hi, biarritzdon. Just FYI, it doesn't need refrigeration. I know this from much post-hurricane experience, alas. EDIT I should have said the cyanocobalamin used in the US doesn't. I don't know about the stuff they use in Europe, which is quite different. But what you'd get from a US pharmacy...
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    B12 Shot on the way

    Hi, Jane. I'm not really sure about this, either, and I also have this to deal with. Two things: a farmacia in Europe is not much like a pharmacy in the US--they treat a lot of things we have to go to an MD for, so probably they could give you a shot. (However, the protocol is a lot different in...

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