Plantar Fasciitis, what a curse!!

[jyoutz]

My wife was also told to freeze a water bottle and firmly roll your foot over it to exercise it.

That works really well to flex the foot and cool the inflammation.

 

[bigtiller]

Read up on "Good Feet", they seem to be a rip off according to posters on Reddit.

I went there years ago and seen the prices were more than I wanted to pay for. That's when I discovered Dr. Scholle's inserts. The machine said I need a size 440.

My Walmart still has the inserts but no machine. Their price was $50. Amazon has my size 440 priced at $40.

With the new ones in, I realized I should have replaced them long ago....they wear out and the new ones feel so good.

 

[ruffdog]

I have had good luck with the Superfeet brand insert. It took a bunch of research to narrow it down to the correct one for me. It is always a slow process of recovery once my feet start hurting because I neglect taking care of them when they feel good.

 

[newbury]

It is always a slow process of recovery once my feet start hurting because I neglect taking care of them when they feel good.

Same here, but at least I'm more sensitive and heed the warning signs (such as a slight ache in the balls of my foot) and back off, stretch and rest. Rather than bulling through for another couple of hours.
Usually a rest in time for half an hour saves me from requiring 8 hours of rest.

 

[gsganzer]

I stepped up my game and started taking NSAIDS and doing the frozen water bottle roll with lots of stretching too. I feel like I'm making progress, but I also feel like I can quickly be back where I started.

I traveled to the Canada job site and of course I had to fly into Calgary, which has one of the longest walks to get to the rental car counter. I got to the job site yesterday, but the site is having issues, so I only walked the site once.

Those 2 days put me right at the limit by the end of the day, so I stretched every chance I could, take a 400mg ibuprofen every 6 hours and then iced at the end of the day. I just have to keep on top of this.

 

[jyoutz]

I stepped up my game and started taking NSAIDS and doing the frozen water bottle roll with lots of stretching too. I feel like I'm making progress, but I also feel like I can quickly be back where I started.

I traveled to the Canada job site and of course I had to fly into Calgary, which has one of the longest walks to get to the rental car counter. I got to the job site yesterday, but the site is having issues, so I only walked the site once.

Those 2 days put me right at the limit by the end of the day, so I stretched every chance I could, take a 400mg ibuprofen every 6 hours and then iced at the end of the day. I just have to keep on top of this.

After living with and suffering from this for 12 years, discovering the ASTYM physical therapy was a godsend. Don’t suffer like I did; go get the treatment and insoles if you need them.

 

[gsganzer]

I'm home for the week, so I had an appointment with an Orthopedic doctor to discuss both my plantar fasciitis in my left foot and the issues with my right ankle. The right leg is the one that had reconstructive surgery after an accident in 1989). Between both issues, I have times when I can barely walk. I usually start out the day OK, but by the end of the day, or one bad step and I'm hobbling around.

For the plantar fasciitis:
He gave me some shoe inserts (2 pair), said to continue the icing and stretching and gave me an elastic band thing and some stretching/exercises to do. He said to just keep staying the course and we'll revisit.

For my right ankle:
I have bad arthritis in it, as a result of the original leg injury. It's not bone on bone, but the cartilage has degraded and the gap has become extremely narrow and also resulting bone spurs at the joint. He gave me a lace-up ankle brace, some strengthening exercises and started me on Meloxicam. This medication is some kind of super-duper anti-inflammatory that will help with both of my foot issues.

At the end of this month, I get really busy again with work and will start bouncing around between work sites in Taiwan and Poland, with a ton of walking and on-my-feet. He said that if the ankle is still an issue, he'll can do a cortisone injection in it, right before I leave.

Ultimately, he says I'll me looking at an ankle fusion or joint replacement at some point down the road, but we're not there yet.

Getting old is no fun.

 

[ruffdog]

For the plantar fasciitis:
He gave me some shoe inserts (2 pair), said to continue the icing and stretching and gave me an elastic band thing and some stretching/exercises to do. He said to just keep staying the course and we'll revisit.

Getting old is no fun.

A few years back I wore crappy sandals all summer, even doing some work. It killed my feet...I had a bad case of PF. I bet it took 2 years to fully come back from that. Yes, it can be very painful. Now, when I just feel a hint of PF pain I get serious with my inserts and footwear. Find out what works for you and stick with it.

 

[EddieWalker]

My wife struggled with her knee for a very long time. Similar to your ankle, she had an accident and even though she recovered, her knee just got worse and worse. The doctors told her that she was too young to get it replaced, and that she needed to wait until she was older so she wouldn't have to do it again. Basically, wait until you are old enough to die before it wears out.

Being a nurse that knows everyone in the area, she was able to get the best doctor to do her knee in the area, and it went flawlessly. Recovery was bad for the first week or two, but then quickly got better and then one day, she realized there wasn't any pain, and she could do things that she had been putting off, or avoiding.

Now she realizes that she was getting bad advice, and she should of gotten the knee replaced years ago.

If I was you, I would be figuring out how to get your ankle replaced as soon as possible!!!! The longer you wait, the worse it will get, and the more you will miss out on doing in life that you will never have the chance to do again.

 

[ruffdog]

One important thing about inserts is how good the heel cup is. As we age, the tissue on the bottom of our heel flattens out. We then feel like we have bone spurs. A heel cup supports the sides of your heel so it doesn't flatten out as much. This will help protect where the plantar fascia connects to your heel bone.