Comments on: Something’s always wrong a.k.a. my right foot

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:10:50 +0000

I feel your pain I have been dealing with a cranky auto immune disease for a year now and in december I hurt my foot just like you I couldn’t pin point exactly when I injured it and after about 6 weeks we finally found I had torn the tendon in the arch of my foot and had to be in a boot for 3 months and it still hurts. Argh! How frustrating I am sorry you have to deal with this.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:44:44 +0000

You should try wearing Dansko clogs for a while.
They cures many foot ailments!

By: Gingersnapper

Gingersnapper — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:26:22 +0000

I don’t have any kind of diagnosis, but I want to comment how odd it is that so many people have received type-of-shoe advice. I hadn’t thought about it before, but surely it’s terribly unnatural to wear shoes at all! It seems more likely they are the source of a foot problem than a solution, especially heels.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:44:13 +0000

@PastaQueen – ahhh, that’s not so bad then I guess. Just bad luck with timing.

I had a lot of trouble with the wait to see my assigned doctor in the UK (about 1-2 days) when I had undiagnosed hives. It wasn’t life threatening so I couldn’t justify a trip to the ER but by the time I got in to see the doctor they would be gone.

I ended up just standing at the surgery and crying until they let me see someone straight away. They then told me it would be 3 years wait (!) to have allergy testing done.

Think I prefer our (Aussie) system of any doctor, anywhere. We have our regular doctor but if it is urgent and they aren’t available we just ask for whoever is free or ring another surgery. It means there aren’t sick people needing one doctor while another one sits idle.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 02 May 2011 04:49:47 +0000

No xray? That seems a little odd. :(

By: Netta

Netta — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:35:56 +0000

I had a mysterious problem with my right foot (ankle), that is still actually undiagnosed. I spent three years of my life, at the age of 18-21, not able to spend more than 10 minutes standing, or 15 walking, without immense pain shooting up my leg from my throbbing ankle. It happened that I was serving in the army at the time, and so “medical treatment” was getting a temporary break from kitchen/toilet duty etc. not very helpful.. To be honest, I also went through 3 stages of physiotherapy which hardly made a difference.
What it was, most likely, is that one of the strap thingies in the joint got stretched during a football match I played in high school, but x-rays hardly showed anything (“fluid accumulation”) and when I was finally about to get an MRI, it was already much better and I never got around to it in the end.
To make a looong story short,
the only thing that fixed my foot was a month in Greece, volunteering, and specifically spending 4-5 hours a day walking barefoot on the beach.
Now THAT was Physical Therapy!
I sincerely hope your condition gets better, SOON. I thought my life was over at 20 when nothing helped me. In short – when in doubt, head to the beach!
By the way, in Israel we don’t use inches for anything, including shoes. We survive :)

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:06:04 +0000

@Sue – nice one. :-)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:47:53 +0000

Just wanted to give my 2 cents. I had a stress fracture a few years ago. I messed around with a podiatrist for a couple months and did not recover at all. Finally I saw an orthopedic doctor that specialized with feet. I was feeling better in a few weeks. So I would suggest skipping the podiatrist all together and find the orthopedic doctor.

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:30:11 +0000

@Anna – I hadn’t seen a doctor since I moved to Chapel Hill, so the wait was due to that since I wasn’t an already established patient. Back in Indy I was able to see my doctor within a day or two because I was already a patient.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:39:12 +0000

Sorry about your foot. How frustrating!

I’m in Canada, and while most things are measured in centimeters, shoe heights are still measured in inches.

Either that, or in terribly human judgemental attitude. Examples: there are the “Heels, with Bonus Ability to Remain Upright” which are about 2 – 2.5 inches.

Then you’ve got your “Friday Night Out With the Girls and it Won’t Matter if You Can Walk Anyway” – 3 to 4″.

And of course, the ever-popular “How Much?” shoe at 5″.

Just sayin’……