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[quote=Anonymous]I was born in 1962 and wore the high ankle shoes with an adjustable bar in the middle at night as a toddler. Without the brace both of my feet turned in severely. I have a film of me at about 4-5 years old running in a field and my two feet were over-lapping as I ran, I have no idea how I kept from falling down but I did. I'm not sure why I stopped wearing the brace, but I would imagine I had a fit about wearing them (to this day I can't sleep if my feet are covered I call it foot closterphobia). The brace, or just growing, did help enough that my feet don't slap each other when I walk anymore, but I'm still very much pigeon-toed and flat-footed. It never stopped me from doing anything while growing up, I don't remember ever being teased about it and most of the time o loved being pigeon-toed because I was different and I felt that made me special. There were times when I began to work in an environment that called for dresses and high heels when I tried to walk straighter, but wearing high heels was never comfortable for me. I've always had a very hard time finding comfortable shoes that fit my wide flat feet and even orthotics haven't helped. Usually I've resigned to only wearing sneakers or those rubber sandals. I've always been the most comfortable just being barefoot.

The reason I'm writing today is to ask if anyone that is pigeon-toed has had any muscle issues or Fibromyalgia? The Rheumatologist tells me I have some auto-immune disease that causes high inflammation rates in my body, among many other things. Whatever is wrong with me has been going on in some form for as long as I remember and really effects my muscles. I hurt all over every day like I have the flu and have been hit by a Mac truck. My whole spine is out-of-whack (bulging and herniated discs in my upper and lower lumber, spinal stenosis, DDD) supposedly due to muscles not having the ability to hold my spine stable anymore. Today I started thinking about being pigeon-toed and wondered if it's possible it could be related to some disease that has never been recognized. I imagine that sounds crazy to most, but I've never been diagnosed with any shin or hip issues related to being pigeon-toed, so maybe there is one form of being pigeon-toed that is caused by something to do with a muscle disease?
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