Plantars Faciitis
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NoHall...why is your foot turning colors?Yikes! Does this dr. not have a PA you could get in to see on Monday?
Sorry you are having such issues. I have graduated to a bootie and PT. Picking up and dropping marbles with my toes in one funn exercise.
I think it's turning colors from the rupture. It's swelling again, too. The doctor told me that I didn't rip it completely across, which would have made it simpler. Only a portion ripped, and it has a hard time healing because it will re-tear very easily. If it had torn all the way across, it would simply scar over and heal. I have a feeling that I've torn a larger section of it this week somehow.
Yes--the doctor did agree with the diagnosis completely, and I really liked the PA, for that matter. I was offered the option of going in to see the PA or his father-in-law on Monday, but the doctor I'm seeing is really the foot/ankle expert in the practice. They would end up consulting him in the end.
I've been investigating the whole podiatrist issue, and it's my understanding that an orthopedic trained in foot/ankle is actually better trained than a podiatrist--? It's my experience that it depends on the doctor. I once dislocated a finger (not a great thing for a pianist) and was sent to a so-called "expert" who was absolutely awful. I could barely get him to look at it, and the finger got worse with his treatment/lack of treatment. I ended up going to an orthopedic doctor (in the same practice as the one I'm seeing now) who took a completely opposite approach to treating the finger and it healed very quickly at that point.
I was very surprised at the approach of Hughston Clinic (orthopedic) as compared to Atlanta Foot and Ankle (well-respected podiatrists, official doctors of the Peachtree Road Race). Right now I am liking Hughston Clinic because it's closer timewise and I like their physical therapists.I've been investigating the whole podiatrist issue, and it's my understanding that an orthopedic trained in foot/ankle is actually better trained than a podiatrist--? It's my experience that it depends on the doctor. I once dislocated a finger (not a great thing for a pianist) and was sent to a so-called "expert" who was absolutely awful. I could barely get him to look at it, and the finger got worse with his treatment/lack of treatment. I ended up going to an orthopedic doctor (in the same practice as the one I'm seeing now) who took a completely opposite approach to treating the finger and it healed very quickly at that point.
The issue with my cousin was kind of a scandal--like I said, the podiatrist was about to cut his feet off when the orthopedic doctor intervened. My mother was good friends with the chief of staff at the hospital at the time, and he's the one who told her that podiatrists are great for bunions and that sort of thing, but that anything orthopedic dealing with the foot and ankle should go to an orthopedic doctor.
Like I said, if he doesn't give me a plan of action on Wednesday I think we'll need to reconsider. (I suspect, based on my conversation with the nurse, that he WILL do something more aggressive. They really expected it to get better by now.)
This all sounds horrible. It also sounds like you do have a good doc after all. Good luck to you and I hope you find some sort of relief soon.
Good luck, it makes me hurt to even read about it. Mine was so much less than anything you have been through.
I love my podiatrist but you have to go with what works for you. He saved me from pain and surgery and never had another problem with mine after his treatment.
I love my podiatrist but you have to go with what works for you. He saved me from pain and surgery and never had another problem with mine after his treatment.