Not a Type 2 but have the icky feet... as does my dad... I'm convinced it's tied to IR, I noticed my feeting getting hard and nasty around age 8 (my mother suggested Dove soap!) and soon after puberty and all hell broke loose...
I will never LOVE my feet but I can make them reasonably attractive - but damn, the upkeep. My feet are HIGH MAINTAINANCE. Feet are far away so it's easy to ignore them. My other problem is I have limited mobility in my right hip from surgery as a child so it's hard to do anything to my right foot. It's easy to scrub or put lotion on the left, hard for the right.
Anywho. You need to get the old crappy crud off and keep the new stuff soft.
To get the old stuff off - there is a tool called "pedro" callous remover - Tweezerman makes it. I got mine at Walgreens, I think. It's pricey for a foot file - $20? But as far as I can tell it will never wear out and it doesn't grow nasty mildew etc like pumice stones eventually do. So I don't think you will ever need to replace it or if you do it will take YEARS. It's heavy and has a great handle that makes it easy to use. Rough side and smooth(er) side. Take a hot shower or soak your feet - Johnson's foot soak is nice - then soap up Pedro and scrub the hell out of your feet. Rough first, then smooth.
Get out and lotion up!
Flexitol Heel Balm is good - they make a diabetic version but I don't know if it's any better than regular... DiabetiDerm is nice, they have a minty version which is nice and cooling... and finally I have discovered Nutragena Nowegian Formula Hand Cream (something like that) which I hate for my hands - too greasy and thick - is great for feet.
Lotion up and put on thick socks.
Ideally you will lotion up twice a day - but I find that challenging. I hate working on my feet.
Use Pedro as needed, lotion daily - once your feet look "normal" you can do the lotion just a couple times a week... but let a few weeks slide and you're back to nasty feet.
It's an endless battle for me.
I wish I could just have normal feet.
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