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How to fix a HARD plantar callus?

 
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I have a soft shallow callus about the size of a 50 cent piece. No big deal. Then, in the center there is a hard spot, deeper in the tissue, that feels about the size of an English pea seed. After 5 hours of walking on it, I begin to limp. It HURTS. I previously believed it was a shoe problem. New shoe, same problem, actual observation of self begins. My foot has been hurting for about 2 weeks.

Tonight, Hunny broke up/roughed up the surface of the hard spot with a needle. I applied salve of equal parts dock leaf, mullien, and plantain.

I also have available straight comfrey salve. Yes, Carla, I also have a new batch of DEEP Intense available, if it would be appropriate use for it.

What would you try, to fix this problem?

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I have a soft shallow callus about the size of a 50 cent piece. No big deal. Then, in the center there is a hard spot, deeper in the tissue, that feels about the size of an English pea seed. After 5 hours of walking on it, I begin to limp. It HURTS. I previously believed it was a shoe problem. New shoe, same problem, actual observation of self begins. My foot has been hurting for about 2 weeks.

Tonight, Hunny broke up/roughed up the surface of the hard spot with a needle. I applied salve of equal parts dock leaf, mullien, and plantain.

I also have available straight comfrey salve. Yes, Carla, I also have a new batch of DEEP Intense available, if it would be appropriate use for it.

What would you try, to fix this problem?



Ugh - I'm sorry it hurts, so! No - don't use DEEP on it, if the skin is broken, cracked, or scraped. DEEP has a high concentration of arnica, which can damage the liver, if it gets directly into the bloodstream. Your comfry salve, especially one with the addition of any one OR any combination of calendula, plantain, frankincense, selfheal, rose, peppermint... Castor oil in the salve would also be a great help. I'd start by soaking it in very warm water with Epsom salts, acv, or lemon juice, for as long as you can deal with sitting still (BWAHAHAHAHA!!! - you? Sit still???), then begin sloughing it off as much as possible, then coat it moderately in the salve, while it's still damp, and wrap it. Lather, rinse, and repeat, every 24 -48hrs, until you get the relief you're looking for.

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The surface, while softish, has no feeling. Ought I take a fine metal file to it?

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Please be very careful with that. If there's no feeling, it will be easy to do real damage, before you realize it.

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Well, I THINK the no feeling is due to a callus being made of dead skin, not from any nerve damage.

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If I understand, your pain is from the "hard spot" ?  Then I would try a semi thin slice of garlic cut if needed to the same size as the area in question.  Cover with some tape overnight for a few, it might help "draw" out or reduce the painful area.

I hope you will be pain free soon.

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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:The surface, while softish, has no feeling. Ought I take a fine metal file to it?

Hubby had something that sounds similar. The podiatrist uses a special rotary tool with a stone bit to thin the hard spot. This has improved it, but it's still there.

I'm thinking he should try some of the herbs mentioned above on it.

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Yes, Deanne, the pain is inside the foot at the hard spot.

Jay, Hmmmm... (Thinks about the cone shapped grinding bit for the drill...)

Yeah, when Hunny offered to "dig at it" I thought he would grab one of the many many knives that were within his reach. I looked away for the duration.  All I felt was pressure and a couple almost ouches. I really thought he was cutting a tiny bit out of the center. Nope. When I walked around a bit afterwards, there was no additional pain. We're hoping the needle disturbed the knot a bit so it will break up.

Experimental tsunami to follow. Won't have any idea which one will have done the job. Right now I've got a glop of salve on it.

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I would try to soak the foot with magnesium flake bath crystals instead of the Epsom salts due to the pain killing factor of magnesium.

After soaking try to rub to remove the dead skin.

Try repeated soaks until the spot is better.

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Actually, this sounds more like a corn than a normal callus. The corn forms a "seed" due to friction, which is harder than the surrounding callus and flesh. The seed causes discomfort because it acts like having a splinter, applying uneven pressure through to the soft tissue beneath. The reason the change of shoe hasn't helped is that the corn is still deep inside.

A corn needs to be physically removed - I have found it best to shave off a decent amount of the surrounding callus with a very sharp scalpel blade. This can expose the "seed" which can be fairly deep. The seed will have a fairly well defined boundary, and you can use the scalpel then to slice carefully around the corn to remove it.

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Well, I did a few things. I soaked it in rotation using above suggestions. And I took a cuticle tool that looks like wire snips, and cut a section out of the callus about the size of the 'pea'. This relieved the pressure, no hurting foot. Then the callus would appear to grow back. I did the process again. Repeat. Several times.

The callus still exists. The 'pea' ihas been gone for a while. YMMMV.

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Jay Angler wrote: Hubby had something that sounds similar.


His hard spot was gradually improving. I finally started pinning him down right as he came out of the shower once or twice a week and used a file (the small one that's attached to fingernail clippers) to scrape whatever soft tissue off the the area, particularly out of the center. This made a huge difference, and the last time I checked, I could hardly tell that the hard lump had ever been there. Most of the time, what I was doing didn't even hurt, but he whined anyway at the beginning. After he realized it was making such a positive difference, he settled down.

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Being a guy with a deep love of power tools I often sand my feet with 80 grit sandpaper and a 1/3 sheet corded sander. I hike a lot so I have to take care of my feet and what I found was the sander will take off callouses but as soon as it touches softer skin it osscilstes with the sander. In other words it is impossible to sand your skin down too much. It only takes off hard skin.

It’s no different than using a pumice stone but takes a lot less time.

Any sander will work as long as it is orbital in nature. Like a sanding disc on a grinder would not work because it’s rotary. That could sand off any skin.
 
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