Foot pain
My Achilles tendon in my left foot has been giving me pain for months. It prevents me from running and I usually hobble around like some sort of invalid in the morning or if I've been sitting a while. I hate it. I'm so sick of being in fucking pain all the time. So lately the little toe on my left foot has been kind of hurting. Like a bunion, but on the wrong side of the foot. So I did some research today and found that I appear to be developing a bunionette on this foot now too. Wonderful. It's bad enough that I can not run anymore or do any high impact activities. No more races or anything. I thought if I was doing low impact activities that this swelling in my achilles would go down or diminish over time. But no.. I guess my inadvertant gait is causing my whole foot to be one big giant constant pain. And believe me... I don't work.. it's not like I'm in heels or impractical shoes every day. Mostly I wear sneakers or my Emu boots or the like. Ibuprofen does not touch this pain the way it does the pain in my hands.
I just feel like I'm thirty four and I'm falling apart. It's so depressing and annoying. I guess I'll make a doctor's appt today so I can get a referral to a podiatrist because I can't let this foot pain get worse. Though no doctor has EVER EVER helped me with any of the pain I've been in. Pain is so subjective they usually say "Well, we don't see much swelling.... so we don't know what your problem could be... " I fucking hate doctors, too. Exercise is one thing I enjoy so much and I feel like that is slowly being taken away from me. I don't want to be one of those elderly people exercising in a chair at the Y before I'm 40. Right now I so yoga to stretch... and body sculpt because it's weights. For cardio I did precor yesterday bbut my achilles hurt afterwards so I think just the action of pressing down on the pedal (it's like a stairclimber/elliptical hybrid) hurts that tendon. I don't know how I'm supposed to get any cardio in when everything hurts my heel.
I just feel like I'm thirty four and I'm falling apart. It's so depressing and annoying. I guess I'll make a doctor's appt today so I can get a referral to a podiatrist because I can't let this foot pain get worse. Though no doctor has EVER EVER helped me with any of the pain I've been in. Pain is so subjective they usually say "Well, we don't see much swelling.... so we don't know what your problem could be... " I fucking hate doctors, too. Exercise is one thing I enjoy so much and I feel like that is slowly being taken away from me. I don't want to be one of those elderly people exercising in a chair at the Y before I'm 40. Right now I so yoga to stretch... and body sculpt because it's weights. For cardio I did precor yesterday bbut my achilles hurt afterwards so I think just the action of pressing down on the pedal (it's like a stairclimber/elliptical hybrid) hurts that tendon. I don't know how I'm supposed to get any cardio in when everything hurts my heel.