If you're getting numbness in the lower portion of your foot (ball of foot to your toes), then you'll probably need to do what I did: You'll need a heat gun for this... 1. Remove the laces from the boot 2. On the low setting, heat up the in-step sidewall (out-step as well... if needed) between eyelets 1 to 4 (near the toebox) by continually moving the heat gun in small circles about 6 inches away from the boot 3. When the material becomes soft and malleable, roll the sidewall up and outward 4. While still warm, place your foot inside the boot, and tuck in the tongue 5. Look along the eyelets to see that tongue is flush and flat across the foot 6. If not, take off the boot, and continue to roll it up and out until desired (re-heat the sidewall if necessary) 7. If you're still getting pressure after rolling the walls outward, then remove the red insoles if you haven't already... OR... use a thinner insole What the tongue should NOT look like (notice that you'll see the foot through the eyelets--the arrows in the diagrams below represent pressure when the laces are tied; yellow arrows represent excessive downward pressure since the tongue can't sit flat; green arrows represent pressure spread evenly across the flattened tongue): What it should look like: The tongue should sit flat and symmetrical across the foot, like so (green=flat & even pressure across foot, yellow=raised & excessive down-force on top of foot):