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I don't know if it's old age but I'm developing a quite pronounced callus on the middle of my right foot across the line of the ball of my foot.
It's getting bloody painful.

This can't possibly be due to cleat positioning could it?

Nothing to do with cleats, you could get it treated by a podiatrist.

A callus in itself should not be painful, so if it sore to press on it is most likely a corn.

Dam' !!

it's a corn then.

How the hell does one get a corn in the middle of the sole of the foot (it isn't but near enough for me to call it that)??

Maybe a "Plantar Wart", quite painful i believe

greyhoundtom wrote:A callus in itself should not be painful, so if it sore to press on it is most likely a corn.

bollocks, callus can be very painful without there being a corn...

so ......
what could be causing this painful spot that's roughly over the cleat ?

Callus and corns are typically a response to friction and or pressure, do you get a hotfoot on that side? Is there by any chance something different on or in that shoe?

Mulger bill wrote:Callus and corns are typically a response to friction and or pressure, do you get a hotfoot on that side? Is there by any chance something different on or in that shoe?

I'm not sure what a "hotfoot" is, but there doesn't seem to be anything amiss with the shoe (but there's a bloody painful lump growing on the underside of the ball of my middle toe)

You'd know if you did.

Time for an expert opinion methinks, good luck.

I second the possibility that it could be a plantar wart and suggest you have it diagnosed by a doctor. I had a plantar wart as a kid. I don't remember anything at all about it except having my foot injected at the doctors. I remember which part of my foot was being injected and it is right where you mention.

well, the upshot is

- Callus (or a corn)

The GP had a look, took a scalpel to it and said if it comes back have a go at it with a pumice stone.

He didn't know what caused the irritation but suggested that I might have had a splinter or something ages ago that caused an irritation, the callus formed over the sore spot and the wood is absorbed by the body but the skin deposits remain to irritate for ever and ever and ever (or until you take a sharp knife to them to slice them off)

ewww scalpal.

Well there is a less severe option. There's the heel cream called eulactal. It softens the skin so that it washes off in the shower. Normally if you want to fix your heels you have to apply it twice a day for about two weeks - depending on how bad they are.

Don't buy the gold i don't think its got any more urea in it. But this stuff does work. Although of course more expensive than those methods you referred to.

Is it split? In my experience callous generally only hurts when the outer crust opens up a little. Moisturiser is an answer to that.

If it's not cracked then I have no advice - My feet seem to be trouble free as far as warts, bunions, gout, tinea, etc.