Cycling shoes for wide feet?

[OakLeaf]

Have you ever looked seriously into mens shoes? They do have more styles than they used to. And if you put an insert under the ball of the foot, it makes the heels tighter.

The Lake cycling shoes I wear are men's.

Lems are unisex, basically (some of the colors they label "men's" or "women's," but the shoes are otherwise identical).

The Mizunos I wore out for running and now wear for kicking around are men's 2E (hated running in those shoes, but more because of the stiff sole and the pointy clown toe than anything). Reasonable in forefoot and heel, though as always there's a great deal of empty space in front of the second and third toes.

The Nike Air Pegasus I really want to make work for me, but probably can't, are men's 2E. Those are the only shoes I own that actually don't rub against my toes. The problem is that the ankle opening is way too big, which causes issues with the tendons on both sides of my ankles - the Achilles because my heels tend to move around, and the flexor tendons because the laces are too tight against them (another perennial issue for me that I can solve in most shoes by padding the tongues).

Length-wise, my feet are measured at a women's 8-1/2. The only shoes I can wear that are smaller than women's 11 are the NBs that I wear in 10EEEE. Both my pairs of men's running shoes are 9EE. My cycling shoes are men's 43 Wide which usually converts to a US men's 9-1/2.

I'm just in the process of weaning myself off the metatarsal buttons. They were a very useful tool while I was developing foot strength and flexibility, but at this point, I don't need them, I need to run without them in order to let my feet function fully, and to be able to get my weight fully into my first and fifth met heads ... and they really never affected the fit at all.

Sigh.

ETA - this is my foot on the insole of those NB 10EEEEs (sorry for the huge file, too lazy to edit right now)...