Feet pain

Welcome Oz to the CP forum and sorry to hear about your issues. I don't believe there's many of us here that actually sleep what's considered entire nights! Pain doesn't really care what time it is I guess. It sounds like your doing pretty much everything thats available short of the surgery and here I'm going to play devils advocate. Your pains fairly intense and disrupts your life and quality of living and don't believe everything you see on the internet.. furthermore what are the odds given by the surgeon and figure out if you really have anything to lose here,can it get much worse? Is it worth it to you if you get even a 25% reduction in pain?

I will offer one more thing you may wish to try and you can ask your Dr or therapist about it. I take rounds of five weeks of hydrotherapy throughout the year and there's a lady in the class that suffers from the same diagnosis and she swears she would not survive if not for the hydrotherapy. During the off weeks I use the pool at home and carry on the treatment myself so its basically a around the year thing.

If all else fails we at least can come here and vent and see just how others suffer and it diminishes our own pain and suffering.

Good to have you.

I am a retired physician and plantar fasciitis patient. I got plantar fasciitis around February 2016. After about four months, it completely resolved. Let me tell you my story. I have researched extensively on the subject of PF. I think most of the stuff you read on the internet is a bunch of untested crap. I don't believe in the foot exercises, the arch supports, the calf exercises, the night boots, etc. I have read on the internet (from "doctor" experts) that you should have firm arches . . . and I have read that you should have no arches - "walk barefoot only." I have read "apply ice," and I have read "apply heat - ice is harmful." Noone seems to have any idea about how to treat or cure PF.

Here's what I think. I feel that plantar fasciitis is inflammation of the attachment of the plantar fascia to the heel bone, AND/OR some minimal tearing of the plantar fascia - just a few fibers - that results, naturally, in inflammation . . . like a "pulled muscle." (You may know that a pulled muscle is simply the tearing of a few muscle fibers.) Inflammation hurts until it heals and resolves. So what's so difficult about curing P.F.? Well we walk on it!!! Let's say we take 5000 steps a day. Imagine inflammation of your elbow, (i.e. tennis elbow). Imagine taking your sore "tennis elbow" and wacking it against the wall, 5000 times a day. Think it would heal quickly? I don't either.

So my cure for plantar fasciitis is cushion, cushion and cushion. That's right - cushion the heel. Here's what I did. First, I wore the plantar fasciitis "relief bridge" gel-heel innersole in my shoes - that I got at Walgreen's for about $11. (I plan to use them indefinitely.) Then I wear a pair (usually) of nice thickish athletic type sox. On my heel I wore fasciitis therapy wrap padded supports that I got on the internet for about $13. But also, I sewed onto the the padded foot wraps, the back part of some thick arch cushions for a little more cushion. So under my heels I had 4 cushion layers. I must admit I wore all this 24 hours a day - except when in the shower. And after about 4 months, the PF was gone. That's what I think, and I hope that this helps you and the many other sufferers of plantar fasciitis. doknabox

Post Edited (doknabox) : 5/26/2016 8:43:45 AM (GMT-6)

got to stretch them buggers too. keep strong.

The problem with the RF factor is that many people can test positive, but have no issues. I also think you should consult a rheumatologist just to double check.

I use frozen tennis balls, under the arch. Rolling the foot back and forth helps with my symptoms. My Ortho recommend this trick.

Apologies that I haven't checked in here for a while but I've just read the posts above and am grateful for replies. Clearly I'm not alone with feet issues. Since my last post the torn plantar fascia has all but healed so no more unexpected screams of pain.
But this left forefoot bursitis is totally wrecking my sleep now ( just a mild, warm, sometimes prickly feeling in the ball of foot at night). The ice-wrap on the foot in bed always used to work but not any more. The foot is not an issue at all during the day except for the general plantar fasciitis discomfort that's all bearable.
Shock treatment to the offending foot over a 6 week period helped it last year for a few months but it's back again, and that same treatment hasn't worked so far this time around.
Going to search now for the creme with lidocaine suggested above, and I'm heading out now to have dry needling done. Podiatrist suggested 7 consecutive daily hits of Voltarin might work, on day 3 there is no improvement but I'll keep it up.
As mentioned by one poster above, my blood tests always show positive for rheumatoid arthritis but two specialists in this area say I don't have that condition. One suggested Fybromylgia but that's a contentious whole other issue...so tired...

Post Edited (ozchick) : 4/30/2017 7:25:56 PM (GMT-6)