Please Help Me With My Foot Pain

Dam bro, you have tried everything. I feel sorry for you, keep bump this maybe someone might actually read it.

Doesn't sounds like you have tried (1) softer, more supportive shoes (2) night boot or splint (3) golf/lacrosse ball massages. That's what did it for me. Cortisone did nothing for my PF. Methylprednisolone worked much better but the relief was only temporary.

Sounds like a bout of pus*yfoot.

What have you done in the previous six months?

If you changed to a more flatter racing type shoe, could be your problem.

Are you heel striking?

I vaguely remember a similar symptom.

I stopped took off the shoes and massaged the area of the pain,

did you try that?

It all fries and coke you know, a hand for heel beats two feet of pain.

I've actually tried all 3, I just forgot to mention them in my original post.

1. I've tried various shoes with and without my custom orthotics including...

Asics Gt-2000

Brooks Adrenaline GTS

Brooks Ghost (a neutral shoe with orthotics)

2. I have tried a rigid night splint. But I do have very good calf flexibility

3. Massaging with a golf ball, lacrosse ball, and frozen water bottle works breaking up the scar tissue but only temporarily.

Thank you

I'm intrigued, since I'm going through a milder version of what you're going through. (My real name is Adam G., btw, which is weird.)

It certainly seems as though you've tried everything. You strike me as the sort of person who, having tried everything, needs to go to "the" guy, whoever he is: the best running foot doc in the country. Maybe you should ask who that is. I have no idea, but in your position, I would feel as though I had no choice but to start fresh with the best, whoever he is, and let him take a full history, give me whatever imaging tests he wants, and offer his take on your troubles. The time for anybody BUT the best is long past.

I'd also focus more on your job, with its demands that you be on your feet. At bare minimum, you need to stop THAT burden of stress and pain--which means you need not just a running doc, but a very good podiatrist, somebody who deals with people who work on their feet. Whatever sort of space shoes or heavy-duty support shoes are required, you need them.

Overuse injuries are almost always caused by more than one thing--an accumulation of stress from various unaddressed directions. It sounds to me as though the combination of work and running is breaking you down. Stopping the breakdown on the work-feet end is absolutely crucial. It's possible you've already addressed this end of things, but I'm thinking about something like this:

https://www.thewalkingcompany.com/dansko-walker-black-smooth/13808?kwid=2oBwfXXB_dc%7cpcrid%7c52876905680%7c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrIT1uPGs1gIVx16GCh2rQA-3EAQYAyABEgLJS_D_BwE

Good luck! It will be a journey.

There are a ton of videos at youtube with

people in the same boat read the video comments.

You'll find the comment section of some of the videos

are like mining gold for advice. (see you tube, "heel pain")

Could be a bone spur.

Good luckus