Having in the feet is truly awful. It always feels like I'm walking on marbles. I've thought about buying one of those heated massaging foot baths for when I'm having a bad day.

I often pretend that I don't have out in my feet! However when I walk barefoot in the house I'm so reminded! I wear flip flops often at home seems to help and I will keep pretending!

Only one suggestion, do what you absolutely must for the least amount of time on your feet when they are bad - then rest them with warmth and ice, whichever works.

RA hit me in the feet pretty early on. I found icing worked best for me but warmth works for others. Keep your feet elevated whenever you can and stay off them as much as you can when they're bad.
Did your Rheumy suggest taking a quick taper of Prednisone (5 days) to help with the swelling and pain? Swollen feet and red sausage toes are no fun at all.

heat definitely helps me. Cricketeer's suggestion of the massaging foot bath sounds lovely - I don't have one, but it's something I'd look into. My feet and ankles bother me a lot. By the end of the day, my feet are usually swollen and purple and yucky looking. I generally elevate my feet once I'm home from work, and at the very least put on slippers to trap some warmth, sometimes put heat packs on them depending on how bad they're feeling on that particular day. Some days I just let one of the cats sit on them...

I am now on mxt, trying to come off the preds. worked fine on hands but on FEET AND ANKLES ???????????? Not a chance. Ive used a cane for 4 years and its got steadily worse. I can see disablement looming unless the medics have any more ideas.
I can stand RA anywhere exept feet and ankles. I am no stranger to pain, have had lung removed [lung cancer]. That will probably kill me but the RA is unbearable.

Give the ole' Epsom salt hot soak a try my wife swears by it, I will say when I sprained my ankle badly the other week out def helped! (I don't get much swelling often I have the marbles in my foot seems the best explanation)

Thank you all for your input.so much good grace on this site..One reply said that feet being affected have been the worst and that's exactly how I feel.worse than anything except the really early days when my whole body didn't work.Thanx again.best,Kathy

My feet and hands are the most affected. When I can I elevate my feet and ice them. I have had 3 hand surgeries due to the RA. Feet are the worst they make your whole body hurt :(
Best of luck
xoxo MLC.

I have it in both hands and wrists, it has just started in my left foot/toe joints in the last few months. I try to keep fit by going walking but found that I have to put at least 2/3 pairs of insole in my trainers, so it might ease any pain and I know the feeling when Cricketeer says it feels like walking on marbles.

I know feet and ankle pain are the worst. For 9 months while on Simponi that did not work for me from day one, I suffered with ankle pain that would increase as the day went on. I went to a podiatrist after having steroid shots in one ankle to no avail. The podiatrist told me never wear a flat flat shoe or bedroom slipper. I need to wear a one inch heel or more. I have been doing that for the past year and have had no further problems with heel pain. The new problem is the stiffness in my knees, but that needs to be in another thread.

Its a terrible thing to have to walk on marbles, or rocks as I called them. I have had surgery on my right foot and they removed all of the first joints in my toes except my big toe, last november, it's been terrible but is better now althou I still have trouble with small marbles underneith, worst on some days, I guess its something we have to just work with, Keep a stiff upper lip my friend, i hope it somehow gets better for you.

I have had the walking on marbles thing for years, didn't know what it was, just put up with it, now I know what it was, :-( I have just started having soft tissue swelling in my left foot this morning, sure hope it doesn't get as bad as it gets in my hands.

It hit my feet first . . .
I have a Conair bubbling foot spa (best gift my in-laws ever got me!) . . . I can put ice in it and bubble it, can turn on heat and make it vibrate/massage . . . I dissolve a cup of epsom salts in tepid water before adding it . . . . and a few drops of peppermint essential oil . . . tee tree too, if my feet are icky.
One note, if you are gonna use heat, do not add really hot water, as the heat function will make it warmer . . . .

I'll try the conair thing it sounds great.,maybe it will help.I'm now waiting for the Actemera to work....????THx for your input.