Who wants to hear about my medical pedicure?

[anna7602]

I loved it. She dug into the deep-rooted callouses and corns and scraped them out with her special tools. I barely felt it because it was mostly just dead skin, but can now see actual craters (small ones) on the bottoms of my feet. And I no longer feel like I am walking with tiny pebbles in my shoes! 

She also applied some kind of intense lotion and scraped away the scaly skin on my heels with a metal foot file with disposable coarse pads on it. (You can find them on Amazon and I am going to buy one.) My feet are now incredibly soft. 

She reco'd some kind of prescription cream for future scaliness, but then said I can't use it while BFing. In any event, she told me NOT to use Baby Foot because my skin looks to be sensitive and I would just burn it. She gave me another non-prescription cream to try out and see if it will keep my skin soft. 

Insurance does not cover it, for those who asked, but this is by far the most thorough pedicure I've ever had. She works in the same office as a podiatrist and does referrals for issues she can't treat, like removing dead nails or anything really serious. 

[ilikedonuts]

Oooooh I need one of these. My feet are so terrible.

[babyrn]

Mar 10, 2015 13:53:51 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

She also applied some kind of intense lotion and scraped away the scaly skin on my heels with a metal foot file with disposable coarse pads on it. (You can find them on Amazon and I am going to buy one.) My feet are now incredibly soft. 

Link for the foot file? There are tons of files and I want to get a good one

What is the name of the non-prescription cream she gave you? I wonder if that is on amazon as well.

I use Baby Foot every few months but need something to help maintain in between.

[anna7602]

Mar 10, 2015 14:06:10 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

I was wondering what the medical pedicure was when you mentioned it in the randoms. Do you think it'd be worth it for someone with average levels of dry skin and callouses?

I remember getting a pedicure in Budapest by this dude that seemed to have a foot fetish. He used a knife that looked like a straight razor or scalpel or something, brought my foot up to eye level, and carefully shaved off any dead skin he saw. Odd but effective. I wonder if this would be similar.

Very similar. She did all her work with my feet at her eye level (while she wore one of those doctor-y, magnifying glass things wrapped around her head that had a little lamp). And used a combo of razors for the more superficial, but hard callouses, and a scalpel-y type thing for the deeper ones she had to dig into. 

Unsure whether you'd need this if you feel like a regular pedicure cuts it for you. I have such hard callouses on my feet that when I've gotten splinters in the past, DH has had to cut layers of my skin off just to get at the splinter. (Sorry, TMI.)

@astrid, I just took off my socks and realized all the craters are now full of sock lint. Not picture worthy. Also, I didn't take "before" pictures, which is what would really be dramatic. 

[anna7602]

Mar 10, 2015 14:09:57 GMT -5 babyrn said:

Mar 10, 2015 13:53:51 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

She also applied some kind of intense lotion and scraped away the scaly skin on my heels with a metal foot file with disposable coarse pads on it. (You can find them on Amazon and I am going to buy one.) My feet are now incredibly soft. 

Link for the foot file? There are tons of files and I want to get a good one

What is the name of the non-prescription cream she gave you? I wonder if that is on amazon as well.

I use Baby Foot every few months but need something to help maintain in between.

She recommends something like this (but says the brand doesn't matter, as long as the pads are disposable): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LQXZGO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2DF21UICQPGVL

Disposable pads are key, she says, because if you have any kind of bacteria or fungus on your feet (hard to self-diagnose), you're not spreading it around. 

This is the cream: www.thepodiatreecompany.com/products/Adessa30.html

[babyrn]

Mar 10, 2015 14:14:10 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Mar 10, 2015 14:09:57 GMT -5 babyrn said:

Link for the foot file? There are tons of files and I want to get a good one

What is the name of the non-prescription cream she gave you? I wonder if that is on amazon as well.

I use Baby Foot every few months but need something to help maintain in between.

She recommends something like this (but says the brand doesn't matter, as long as the pads are disposable): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LQXZGO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2DF21UICQPGVL

Disposable pads are key, she says, because if you have any kind of bacteria or fungus on your feet (hard to self-diagnose), you're not spreading it around. 

This is the cream: www.thepodiatreecompany.com/products/Adessa30.html

Thank you!!

[SJ]

I am really jealous. I have similar feet and could really use this.

[loskadoodle]

anna7602 how much was it?

[anna7602]

Mar 10, 2015 14:40:43 GMT -5 loskadoodle said:

anna7602 how much was it?

It's $120 for a single go, but she sells packages that don't expire and the costs go down the more sessions you pre-pay. 

[sjh722]

Interesting!! Thanks for the report.

[lulu21]

Mar 10, 2015 14:40:43 GMT -5 loskadoodle said:

anna7602 how much was it?

I read the OP and I instantly thought were can I do this around here. I havent found any yet.

[mcfelix]

Thanks for sharing. How did you find a person who does this? Before recent posts here, I didn't know medical pedicures existed.

[anna7602]

Mar 10, 2015 19:06:41 GMT -5 mcfelix said:

Thanks for sharing. How did you find a person who does this? Before recent posts here, I didn't know medical pedicures existed.

DH found her- his calloused marathon-running feet needed lots of TLC. But his search wasn't very sophisticated, perhaps yelp or something like that. She has been written up in Allure, etc., but I found that out after DH went to see her.