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• Wear properly fitted stockings. Avoid stockings with seams. Change stockings daily.
• Let your shoe fitter know that you are a diabetic. Inquire if the fitters are members of the Prescription Footwear Association. These professionals have had special training in fitting shoes for diabetics.
• Do not wear new shoes for more than an hour at a time for the first several days.
• Do not buy shoes with corrective pads and do not add inserts without medical advice. An insensitive foot can be broken down readily by abnormal pressures inside a shoe.
• Each time the shoes are worn, they should be turned over to be sure that no foreign objects have fallen inside.
• Your doctor may recommend special shoes or inserts which are designed to provide maximum protection for your feet so that you may continue to be active and do the things you like and/or need to do.

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