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  • Thank you both very much.
  • Thanks guys! These are great.
  • Decided to give you guys an update. I exercise-walked after the cortisone shot and now my heel hurts again :( So I have decided to swim for exercise and joined my YMCA this past weekend. I am a life-long runner, so I really hope this is just a blip. But I need the aerobic exercise for the stress and my poor foot just keeps…
  • Yippee! You are a beautiful girl. Get some clothes from Good Will or Salvation Army to tide you over. So much fun to buy cheap smaller clothes.
  • You might change your current picture to reflect what you want.
  • Got the cortisone shot today. It already feels better. I have 2 bone spurs and swelling behind the ankle. My podiatrist thinks I have Achilles Tendinitis as well. He is a runner, though, and gave me so much hope. I have to stretch, wear my night splint, take antinflammatories, and get new running shoes. He says I have to…
  • :sad: So I have tried as much as I can to handle this myself: Icing it, using my specially-made orthotic, wearing my shoes from the running store after my gait was measured, stretching the crap out of it, doing the things the PT did to it originally...anyway, I am going to see my podiatrist on Tuesday to get a cortisone…
  • Wow you guys, Thanks so much!!! Now I am going to make a plan based on my experience & your great suggestions. I will keep you posted! Thanks again :)
  • Thanks, Chad. I have never tried the tennis ball thing. I think I need to be more consistent with the stretching. I have done all those exercises in the past. Just don't keep them up once it gets better!
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