branv
<font color=blue>The safety feature in my parents
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Before I go to my doctor and risk sounding like chicken little, I was hoping for some advice or personal experiences.
I've always had foot pain, even since I was a tiny young thing. No lasting power on my feet, just standing in heels for 5 minutes hurts like the dickens. Very tight calf muscles (and cankles, so yaaaay me
) As I got older and overweight, it got worse, of course.
Then about five years ago I went up on the balls of my feet to grab something at the grocery store. I heard a loud POP and at first thought someone had run into the back of my foot/ankle with their grocery cart. Looked back, saw no one was there. I noticed my heel felt a little tender, but nothing big. Shrugged it off.
Since then, this has happened about twice a year, always when I go up on the balls of my feet. And it's even happened once on the other ankle. Each time it happens again, it hurts a little more...sharper, longer lasting. I finally looked it up and the only thing I can find that mimics this -- the loud pop with the feeling of being kicked hard in the heel -- is a rupture of the achilles. But everything I read about says you would be debilitated if that happened, unable to walk or in extreme pain. And I certainly can see just visibly that they're still intact!
However, since this has started happening, my foot pain in general has gotten much worse. And oddly, it's gotten even worse in the past year after losing 25 lbs (through diet, not exercise, so increased activity isn't to blame). These days when I get up in the morning my ankles and feet are so stiff and painful it's all I can do not to fall down some mornings. And even with mild activity, like an hour or two shopping for instance, within a few hours of coming home, I'm limping from heel pain (back and bottom of foot) everytime I stand up and walk.
If it weren't for that popping/hitting issue, I'd just suspect this was Plantar Fasciitis. And I'd probably just keep trying calf/foot stretches. But that achilles-area thing troubles me.
So in short (too late!) I was wondering if it's remotely possible to have micro or minor tears of the achilles tendon that aren't disabling. Or is this just something that also happens with PF?
Thank you so much for any experience you can offer.
I've always had foot pain, even since I was a tiny young thing. No lasting power on my feet, just standing in heels for 5 minutes hurts like the dickens. Very tight calf muscles (and cankles, so yaaaay me
) As I got older and overweight, it got worse, of course. Then about five years ago I went up on the balls of my feet to grab something at the grocery store. I heard a loud POP and at first thought someone had run into the back of my foot/ankle with their grocery cart. Looked back, saw no one was there. I noticed my heel felt a little tender, but nothing big. Shrugged it off.
Since then, this has happened about twice a year, always when I go up on the balls of my feet. And it's even happened once on the other ankle. Each time it happens again, it hurts a little more...sharper, longer lasting. I finally looked it up and the only thing I can find that mimics this -- the loud pop with the feeling of being kicked hard in the heel -- is a rupture of the achilles. But everything I read about says you would be debilitated if that happened, unable to walk or in extreme pain. And I certainly can see just visibly that they're still intact!
However, since this has started happening, my foot pain in general has gotten much worse. And oddly, it's gotten even worse in the past year after losing 25 lbs (through diet, not exercise, so increased activity isn't to blame). These days when I get up in the morning my ankles and feet are so stiff and painful it's all I can do not to fall down some mornings. And even with mild activity, like an hour or two shopping for instance, within a few hours of coming home, I'm limping from heel pain (back and bottom of foot) everytime I stand up and walk.
If it weren't for that popping/hitting issue, I'd just suspect this was Plantar Fasciitis. And I'd probably just keep trying calf/foot stretches. But that achilles-area thing troubles me.
So in short (too late!) I was wondering if it's remotely possible to have micro or minor tears of the achilles tendon that aren't disabling. Or is this just something that also happens with PF?
Thank you so much for any experience you can offer.
