I regret running through feet pain and developing plantar fasciitis

I will stop posting once I am healed. But no one can seem to heal me

It’s like an amputation. It’ll never heal.

This is my thinking based on my own personal case, and the articles I found here in the forums and on the internet, at the time. Take it for what it is worth.

I had a mild case of PF, and what I think was most helpful was a routine of toe-stretching and massage in the morning, before getting out of bed, and putting your full weight on your feet. It involves sitting in the bed and pulling your toes towards you to mildly stretch the fascia and also massaging the area with your knuckles to warm it up.

The thinking was that without such a routine, all the healing that occurs during the night is instantly undone the moment you get out of bed and stand up. Sleeping with a boot, or with elastic socks which pull on the toes probably accomplishes the same thing.

I also bought a rolling massage stick with hard rubber knobs to massage my feet, but also used a golf ball, and also a tiny hard ball (actually a dog toy) to massage the pain in the foot.

Another depressing item I found was that one of the theories behind ESWT is that, after about 6 months of your body trying to heal, it eventually just gives up and stops trying. ESWT causes new minor damage that triggers the healing process again.

I'm also no psychologist, but the way you post your struggles, given the nature of keyboard warrior posters on the internet, seems like you are trying to set yourself up for abuse.

Again, speaking from my own personal experience, I decided not to run competitively in college nor did I join other club sports. Part of my rationale for stopping running was that the time and effort I would have needed to invest in running competitively would have cost the time needed for studying and also the time needed for having fun in college. Running was still a part of my life, but it turned into a few road races a year.

You won't solve the fun problem by blaming it on your foot pain. You could turn to other endeavors, like cycling, or bowling, or darts.

Do you have a cat? Stroke the affected foot on its body. The fur will soothe the tendon.

But I want to join the military. I need to be able to run for that

David I thought you already told the world about numerous other conditions that disqualify you

I can only recommend the toe pulling/stretching exercise and massage first thing in the morning before you get out of bed and stand, as I described earlier. I didn't see that in the list of things you tried, and it basically costs you nothing.

Ok, I will start doing that

Hope it works -- as you know PF can be a pain to get rid of.

You got crippled for five years from running maybe 10 miles a week at like 12 min pace. Hate to break it to you but the military will not go well.

Whatever issue you think the military will solve for you, I guarantee it won’t.

Why am I so injury prone?

I had a friend fail boot camp like three times. Got a stress fracture the first time, other health issues two more times. His co was so frustrated at him and they were close to dishonorably discharging him when the discovered like stage ~4 cancer that had spread to his bones and was causing his health problems. Ended up with a medical discharge instead and died a few years later.

He was injury prone. You are just a whiner who won’t listen or do anything to improve your situation. You btch and want pity. He got a stress fracture because cancer was eating away at his bones and didn’t whine or complain or beg for pity. If you stopped btching you might have friends in the real world to support you. Nobody on any web page can solve your self pity.

Why haven't you gotten surgery if it's taken this long to heal? It's like you don't want to actually get better and would prefer it never to heal so you continue to seek pity on message boards and social media.

I'm not joking when I say this - run through it.

If you've rested for that long and it hasn't go away, just run through it. A few months or a year down the line you will suddenly realise it has stopped hurting.

have you tried laying around around the house. whining. and jerkin it?

you can join ice. they hire chronic bozos and fat asses

Bro, you continue ignoring any advice besides some random exercises that have worked for one person.

GO TO AN ACTUAL GOOD PT OR ORTHO!!

Early on, how was I supposed to know if feet pain was just soreness or plantar fasciitis? I thought it was just sore, so I just kept running without knowing that I am causing permanent damage to my foot.

Move on. I recall you were very slow to begin with. People here told you to stop running. You didn't listen to advice and kept at it.