I've been doing 12-hour shifts for 11 years and nothing worked like this

I do 12-hour shifts and spend probably 10 of those 12 hours on a hospital floor. Been doing it for over a decade so I kind of just accepted that my feet were going to hurt — that was just the deal. Clogs, expensive sneakers, gel inserts from the drugstore. Nothing really fixed it. I just know that I used to sit down on my break and not want to stand back up, and now I do. The heel soreness I'd had on my right foot for months is mostly gone.

Three years of PF and Soolemate is the most helpful thing I've tried

I've had plantar fasciitis going on 3 years. If you have it you know — that first step out of bed in the morning is just awful. I've done the stretching, the night splint, got a cortisone shot once which helped for maybe two months and then everything came back. Tried probably 5 or 6 different insoles at this point. Soolemate is the most helpful thing I've found, by a wide margin. The morning pain is genuinely so much better.

I was standing in the kitchen again and that's when I knew

I teach primary school so I'm on my feet most of the day. My arches started hurting about a year in — by mid-afternoon they'd be swelling and by the time I got home I'd collapse on the couch. A colleague mentioned these. The first couple of weeks I noticed my feet weren't as sore by the time the last bell rang. Then I realized I was standing in the kitchen again. Small thing but it meant a lot — it meant I had something left at the end of the day.

Hip pain for two years. that's the review.

Hip pain for two years. Physio, stretching, the whole thing. Someone at work mentioned these after I complained one too many times. My hip pain is about half of what it was. Hard floors all day and it just doesn't grind me down the same way anymore. That's the review.

Concrete floors all day, lower back used to be my biggest problem

9-hour days on concrete. My lower back had been a problem for two years and my heel was taking the full hit every step. About three days in I noticed I was standing differently — less leaning back, less shifting around. Lower back got quieter after that. Week two I finished a full shift without the countdown-to-sitting feeling I'd gotten used to.

Too early to say but hopeful

Only had these a week. The arch support feels noticeably real — you can feel it actually making contact with the arch, not just sitting under the shoe. Still getting some soreness in my heels by end of day but I've read that's normal for the break-in period. Going to stick with it and see.