Sores on my feet after diving

[Mo2vation]

We have only been diving for a couple of years. When we go on a trip where we are doing lots of repetitive diving (like on a liveaboard), we both find we start having problems with our feet after a few days.

We start getting sores on our toes, the top of our foot over the instep and the back of the heel. We put bandades on to cover those areas to prevent rubbing. But the sore appear and then take forever to go away. It is now one week later and they are finally close to being healed up.

We also find the skin on top of our feet over the instep seems to get very dry and flaky. And I also have something like a rash on my right ankle.

We do not notice others on the dive boat having this problem. We own all our gear and we wash it and take very good care of it. Our boots seem to fit perfect (not too tight or too loose).

Does anyone else have experiences like this? Or any ideas of what might be causing it or what we can do to prevent it?

Thanks.

Iron man of our Aggressor Trip over Christmas / New Years. I'm the only one who did all dives.

Every day I was wrapping another toe. It was the joke of the ship. By the end of the trip, I had 6 toes and a complete duct tape wrap to protect my cracked heels and foot-top sores.

It all healed up fine when my feet finally dried out when I got home.

I dive Dry in SoCal - so I got princess feet when it comes to all of this wetsuit diving nonsense. 25 dives in 6 days put the hurt on me. Duct tape was my friend. Cruel friggen booties.

Playing in pain is the name of the game.

Eyes on the prize, Violet.

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Ken

 

[TSandM]

Duct tape I have in abundance!

 

[mchiapetto]

What Mo2vation describes is what we experienced. Except we were using a combination of bandades and mole skin. We just came back from Blize on the Nekton Pilot where we did 30 dives in 6 days (we only skipped one dawn dive opportunity). I think we will try Henderson's Polyolefin socks and maybe some different boots. We left our wet suits and boots on in between the two morning dives and then again between the two afternoon dives. Maybe we will also try taking them off to get some air to our feet in between dives.

On a side note, we used a Dry Ear ear drier on our ears this trip and it really helped prevent any tenderness problems in our ears. Maybe we should use a hair dryer on our feet?

 

[Mo2vation]

What Mo2vation describes is what we experienced. Except we were using a combination of bandades and mole skin. We just came back from Blize on the Nekton Pilot where we did 30 dives in 6 days (we only skipped one dawn dive opportunity). I think we will try Henderson's Polyolefin socks and maybe some different boots. We left our wet suits and boots on in between the two morning dives and then again between the two afternoon dives. Maybe we will also try taking them off to get some air to our feet in between dives.

On a side note, we used a Dry Ear ear drier on our ears this trip and it really helped prevent any tenderness problems in our ears. Maybe we should use a hair dryer on our feet?

About half-way through day 5, on the KAII they open "the store" - essentially Tshirts, Aloha shirts, caps and other imprinted momentos of the trip. Whatever - Like I need more shirts.

And in their pile o' crapola are some lycra socks. Of course my wife and another lady buys some (as she has two toes taped and a hot spot on top of one of her feet - doing 3 -4 dives a day and not my fiver...) These sox are basically dive goddess material in the shape of a sock.

I'm a guy - like I'll wear anything like this. I can suck it up for two more dives today and two more tomorrow on the last day of the trip.

But the socks worked great for Jaye.

It just made me laugh. I mean, me and about 3 others of us are wrapping our feet in duct tape, and the solution is behind a glass door in the salon, and nobody on the boat puts the two together???

They could have busted these things out on day 3 and charged twice as much!

Dolts.... (or does that word offend any of the mods or former mods?)


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Ken