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guej
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 Posted - 06/25/2012 : 19:01:50
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Hi Art,
Tried to send you a message but it bounced back as undeliverable. Are you allowing members to email you or is the email just outdated? If you don't want direct communication, I understand. Just read an old post of yours and had a quick question. Thanks. |
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Wavy Soul
USA
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Posted - 06/25/2012 : 23:10:19
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his email changed - I'm sure he'll get in touch with you xx
Love is the answer, whatever the question |
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Aussie
Australia
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Posted - 06/26/2012 : 00:35:54
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Hi guej,
Totally un-related but i was interested in how your doing? Reason being is i was helped a lot by reading your previous posts when i first joined this forum by putting some of your and Skizzik's advice into action, I too have found some relief.
Thanks from Australia. |
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guej
115 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2012 : 06:00:54
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Thanks Aussie! I appreciate that. It took me probably 3 1/2 yrs total from the beginning of the onset of pain until I felt normal again. I have "0" pain in the area of my back where I had stabbing pain non-stop for 2 years. I used to have body-wide pain too that they diagnosed as fibromyalgia -- that's gone too. I still have insomnia that I developed when I couldn't sleep at all during the worst of my pain years, but that I can live with!
I went back to running (which I never thought I would ever be able to do again) and ran a 1/2 marathon this past April. That went well, so I was training for a full marathon in the fall, and bam...I developed severe left foot pain, otherwise known as the dreaded Plantar Fasciitis. Came back to this forum and researched those threads. I remember when I took time off from exercising after first developing back pain, and instead of getting better, it got worse and worse, and I got more and more depressed and upset, thus setting off my spiral into chronic pain hell. Trying not to repeat my mistakes of the past! Art had some good posts about PF. Hope you are doing well. |
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Bugbear
United Kingdom
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guej
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Posted - 06/26/2012 : 13:58:17
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Thanks Bugbear. I actually emailed Enrique this morning before you posted this! I've followed his story as well and find it spot on. Unfortunately, and contrary to my other TMS experiences and also what Enrique wrote about his achilles, my sharp heel pain came on 1/2 way through a 16 mile run in relatively new, but ill-fitting sneakers. It persisted when I tried to ignore it, and was stabbing all the way home. It's about a 9 on a scale of 1-10 consistantly for about 8 days now.
It just feels different than how my back pain progressed, or from the other pains I've been able to rid myself of after a few days of treating them like TMS. By all accounts, Plantar Fasciitis can take awhile to heal. If it is a real injury, then plowing through it when it's this painful is not going to help. I think I need to give it some time, and then if it doesn't heal like all true injuries do, it will reinforce that other things are at work. Like Art once wrote, sometimes an injury is just an injury. I just don't know for sure yet. |
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Back2-It
USA
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Posted - 06/26/2012 : 15:12:52
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Back in the 90's I had what I now know to be plantar fasciitis. I had purchased new shoes, which were too narrow for my wide, flat feet. I didn't think too much of it, but got a wider pair of shoes, and the problem went away.
Thing is, I didn't obsess about it and wonder if it was psychosomatic or not. I simply got different shoes. Today, having some knowledge on TMS/anxiety can work to a disadvantage, I believe. Today I might obsess about it for no good reason and stubbornly cling to bad shoes, rather than switch out when my mind was apparently a simpler machine.
You are writing about ill fitting shoes and heel pain, and it is not clear to me whether those are the same shoes.
Sometimes the gear has to fit the feat (pun intended). Running 16 miles is no jog around the park.
Sorry if I have the maladies of heel and plantar fasciitis mixed up. That's my half-cent worth.
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guej
115 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2012 : 16:51:01
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It's the same thing. Plantar Fasciitis is pain in the heel and for me, a small part of the arch. But it's been non-stop pain since then, so it's not just a question of switching shoes. I had this issue last summer with my other foot. Very mild pain while walking with big floppy sandals. I switched to sneakers, ignored it, and it went away. This is stabbing pain every time I put weight on that foot since it happened last weekend.
I know the feeling about TMS knowledge sometimes being a curse. Because of what I went through with over 3 yrs of back pain, I went into panic mode again with this thinking..."Oh God...what if this is another chronic pain thing, TMS-induced or not". Ugh. Ignorant bliss is not such a bad thing. When I was younger, I had shin splints a month before my first marathon. I didn't run for 3 weeks, never gave it a second thought, and started running again right before and ran the marathon just fine. I think, with age, our worry meter goes through the roof about everything. |
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art
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Posted - 06/26/2012 : 20:07:05
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Hey guej,
I saw the title of this thread my first thought was , "who do I owe money to, now?"
Just kidding of course. I'm at 55pushups @ gmail.com. I'v tried to change it on
my profile, but doesn't seem to be cooperating.
Glad to help in any way I can, though I have no special knowledge.
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balto
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Posted - 06/26/2012 : 21:35:24
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Is that an old email address Art. You can still do 55 pushups? 
No, I don't know everything. I'm just here to share my experience. |
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