AIBU about Plantar fasciitis

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Why is this soooo bloody painful

Currently 30 weeks pregnant really suffering with this. Can't take anything but paracetamol. Can barely walk at times. Both feet hurt but only one has PF luckily.

Any tips to cope? I want to chop my foot off. Been advised physio might help which I can pay for but will it really help?! Thank you

YABU it's just foot pain get over it
YANBU I feel your pain

I hear you it's awful!

I find scretches as soon as I get up from not moving much help. Stand in front of a wall and step each foot backwards slowly in turn. Can be really painful but also feels good 🤣

Always wear shoes with supportive soles, no soft slippers or bare feet at all.

And rolling a tennis ball under your feet whil sitting down sometimes helps too.

Stretching sock for the night
Tennis ball/golf ball massage between floor and foot
Massage with ice cube
When sitting down pull possible towards shins

Haflinger slippers/ clogs - the only thing I could walk in when I had it. The ones with the cork soles.

A pharmacist advised me to try an insole with an arch support. It made walking much less painful. Might be something to try.

Thank you great advice 👍 I'm hoping it will go with pregnancy, can't imagine running around after a toddler and a having a newborn easy with one painful foot. I keep walking around on tip toes on that foot which probably isn't helping really either.

I've invested in trainers with arch support and have got slippers to match but they only help for a little while. What is a stretching sock? If anyone has a link to one I'd be grateful.

it's awful.
get ye to a physio for some exercises.
look up exercises using a massage ball.
birkenstock or croque type shoes.

I second the golf ball massage, and also always wearing shoes for support. WFH was a primary cause for me, too many days in slippers or bare foot!

@Gloria42

I second the golf ball massage, and also always wearing shoes for support. WFH was a primary cause for me, too many days in slippers or bare foot!

I am pretty sure this is how mine started then with weight gain in pregnancy its made it far worse.

I saw a podiatrist for this. I'm in perimenopause and he thought it might be related to that. Perhaps similar for you as you're pregnant.
He suggested never going barefoot, even to get up to pee overnight. I have some very supportive slip on I wear in house (Hotter)
Two months in and feeling much more comfortable.

He did say to go back if it didn't help as there are other options. A podiatrist is a better bet than physio I think ( though you need one who specialises in musculoskeletal problems, not just toenails)
I hope you find a solution as it is grim, especially being pregnant too

Get one of these ! It helps mine immensely!

I've had it for years now, keep stretching your calf muscles, ice, muscle rub.

I also swear by my new balance trainers with loads of support and padding. Never wear anything not comfy.

Cold can of coke (or beverage of your choice) or deodorant can- roll under foot from toes to heel under arch and back whilst you’re sat on the edge of the bed or sofa. Vary your weight pressed into it. Chilled for extra relief. The relief from the stretch is phenomenal.

When I had it badly, arch support insoles - I just bought them in Boots - helped enormously. I wore them continuously for several weeks, and that sorted it.,
Two BiLs have also found the same, but they paid £££ to have them specially made whereas mine cost about £25.

I suffered with this for at least 10 years. Spent a fortune on all sorts of crap insoles foot massagers etc.. nothing ever worked. This is the best thing i ever used. I used it every night and morning for several months so not an easy fix but i dont need it at all now.

It's awful, stretches in the morning, a frozen botttle of water to roll your foot on at night and plenty of rest x

It’s agony, I know, I had it for years before it went.
Unfortunately, because I put more pressure on my other foot when I got it in the first foot, I ended up with it in both at the same time.
You need to wear supportive shoes/trainers with a heel support and thick sole. Running trainers are ideal. Do not wear flat ballet pump type shoes.
Keeping your feet mobile helps, it’s when you sit down and have to move again that they hurt. Pedal your feet up and down by going onto the toes of one and then swap, repeatedly.
The only thing that shifted mine was the laser.

Rolling things under my feet did nothing, but I’ve just remembered that standing on the edge of the bottom step with just the balls of my toes on the step, then lifting my heels all the way up and down helped too

You can get supports specifically for plantar fasciitis on amazon. They do help.

My oh had it severely and ended up with an air boot for 3 months followed by a foot / ankle brace specially made for 6 months, and then custom made orthotic insoles. The total cost was £1200 but did cure it, the alternative was surgery and off his feet for 12 months.

As pp said you need a podiatrist to look at it.

A good osteopath with knowledge of fitting orthotics will be able to help you with fitting proper insoles and giving you advice on exercise.

Unfortunately, it will be expensive.

I recommend the insoles sold for pf at chemist shops.

It's very sore, but I and everyone I know who has had PF, recovered fully with time.

Is it deffo PF? I had ‘plantar fasciitis’ for a couple of years, couldn't get to my kids in the night as my feet were siezed up and incredibly painful. I saw loads of different people thinking it was a foot problem, but nothing helped (plantar fasciitis shoes, insoles, osteopath, plantar fasciitis youtube videos etc). But then I saw a physio who diagnosed a sacroiliac joint problem, which was referring down into my feet. Essentially that joint pinches the sciatic nerve, which passes from one side of the joint (in the pelvis) to the other and goes all the way down to the feet. Your body tries to throw the pain away to an extremity to protect the important spinal cord.
He gave me literally a 5 minute massage on this one certain vertabrae, three sacroiliac joint physio exercises to do, and the relief was immediate! Now I just maintain those exercises and stretch my sciatic nerve and it keeps it in check. Honestly life changing!

I wouldn't waste your money on physio for this, assuming you have an accurate diagnosis, they'll only give you exercises to do at home anyway.

Hideously painful and needs time to heal, but after trying literally everything this is the regime that eventually got rid of mine:

• In bed before first putting a foot to the ground in the morning, stretch your calves with a strap around the ball of your foot.

• Still before standing roll foot for several minutes on a rolling pin

• continue stretching and rolling at regular intervals

• ice for as long as you can bear as often as you possibly can.

These are the common solutions offered but IME you need to do them far more often than seems reasonable!

I have suffered from this twice - it’s so painful and takes a while to heal. As well as the stretches, freeze a bottle of water and use this roll your foot over - it stretches with fascia while reducing the inflammation.

My DH had this, agony, he eventually had an injection (steroid I think) which cured it.

Cold can of drink and roll it under your foot.