I get plantar faciitis, good insoles for this can be purchased from Amazon or you could get a referral to orthodontist and have some specially made to measure, I did and within a week no more pain.
You can also purchase rollers (silicone) which you roll the ball of your foot over to relieve the pain.
Sounds like plantar fasciitis - undermedication is normally at the root of it. Is TSH between 0.2 and 0.5, free T3 and free T4 in the top third of their ranges?
Looks like there could be room to up your meds a little, although TSH is very the others could be higher. Might be worth a try to see if it can banish the foot trouble. I found sleeping in a boot designed to help it was effective, but getting my meds optimised has stopped it
Thank you. I have some spare 25mcg tablets from when they tried to reduce my meds without telling me ( no!!) so I will add those in for a few weeks and see how it goes.
Sounds like plantar fasciitis - which I had for a year and futilely spent lots of money on useless and expensive foot doctors. I had no idea I had borderline hypothyroidism then but I rid myself of it regardless through trigger therapy self massage. The trigger point that relates to plantar fasciitis is about 6cm below the back of the knee and in the center of the calf. Using your fingers, a ball or your other knee, search the area for a point of “exquisite pain”, you’ll know it when you find it as you’ll catch your breath. Push into that point for a count of thirty. When you release you’ll feel a rush of blood and relief all the way through your leg and foot. It’s the stuff of miracles tbh. You might want to search for other lesser trigger points in the leg or foot elsewhere as there are bound to be a few. I consulted websites for trigger point info but the resource that helped me most to help myself is a brilliant book from the 70s! It’s by Clair Davies and is on Amazon. The introduction is a bit hokey but the trigger point self diagnosis body maps are amazing. I really hope my experience helps you. Please don’t listen to the foot doctors and get steroid injections or an operation. They don’t work and will only create more trigger points. Make sure you are also taking an absorbable magnesium supplement like Citrate or Theronate, it will help your pain and increase your vitamin D absorption. You’re likely to be low in both of these things. Take the magnesium before bed. Epsom salts baths will also help your plantar fasciitis as epsim salts are also a kind of magnesium but only absorbed through the skin. I never thought I’d wear flip flops again but I wear them no problem these days. Good luck and feel better!
(Just to be clear, simply finding the trigger point in your calf that I mentioned will cure your plantar fasciitis. You will have instant and long lasting relief. Try to do it 3-4 times a day.)
I totally agree with your suggestion about trigger point therapy. I bought a book on it years ago and found it very enlightening (but my doctor dismissed it all as rubbish). That said, I don't think you should claim on a forum that anything 'will cure' a persons plantar fasciitis or any other ailment.
Understood but the fact is it did almost instantaneously relieve and then cure my utterly debilitating plantar fasciitis and subsequently that of a friend’s work colleague. It’s worth a try as and it only takes 35 seconds.
Oh yes, most definitely worth a try. Although thyroid hormone levels need to be optimal too otherwise any relief will most likely be temporary. Combine trigger point therapy with optimal thyroid hormone therapy and then there might be 'a cure'.
I’ve got a similar exercise / stretch that I can to to get rid of sciatica - it’s amazing how fast it works. Not only that I can do it sitting down, lying down or standing up and if I’m sitting I can do it in public and no one even realises what I’m doing.
I’ve told lots of people about it but you have to be able to raise the foot of offending leg onto your other knee and a lot of people either can’t manage to do that or are just not willing to try it.
Thank you for your plantar fasciitis cure - I’ve saved it for if I get plantar fasciitis again - so far it’s the most painful thing I’ve ever felt - it’s like a direct shooting pain from my foot to my brain.
I have found epsom salt baths to be immensly helpful for foot pain as well as back pain. Also magnesium supplementation as needed, along with making sure you're getting enough trace minerals. And most importantly, optimal thyroid replacement along with attention to adrenals.
I bought gel insoles, which really helped the pain
Do you have bunions? Morton’s neuroma is a pain in the ball of the foot due to the nerve being pinched by metatarsal bone pinching. It’s relieved by spreading the metatarsal bones manually.
Plantar fasciitis is heel pain caused by overstretching the plantar fascia that attaches the heel to the toes.
I had excruciating pains in the balls of my feet and it was eventually diagnosed (by a good NHS podiatrist) as Morton's neuroma, not helped by shoes squashing your foot across the widest point and therefore irritating the nerves. I found the cure was to wear wider shoes (Wider fit DB) have been very good for me and now I only have problems when I wear high heels. Also good insoles(wider fit have an extra insole you can leave in or take out)
I am now having trouble with my ankle, probably due to a fall when nothing got broken but my foot swelled badly. I am going to make an appointment with a podiatrist and hope he can come up with some ideas.
Interestingly I had a bunion op on my left foot - the most painful - a couple of years ago. Not sure I can blame that now, especially as the other foot is fine. I will investigate Mortons neuroma thank you.
I was diagnosed with Morton’s neuroma several years ago. Excruciating “shock” pain when metatarsal region (just below the toes) is compressed by ill fitting shoes. Unfortunately, I was talked into surgery, basically cutting the nerves in that area and “removing” the so-called neuroma, a small tumor-like bulge between the metatarsal bones. The result was numbness in my toes, which has never fully subsided, and a sensation of walking on a marble in the ball of my foot. The same sharp, excruciating pain as before. I assume it is scar tissue from the surgery. The only thing that partially relieves it is shoes that are very wide in that region (hard to find when your ankles and heels are narrow like mine), or just walking barefoot or in loose moccasins. Bottom line: don’t accept foot doctors’ pressure to have this surgery. You will regret it!
I was diagnosed with a dropped metatarsal head by an orthopaedic specialist. My pain was in one foot only. I’ve had special shoe inserts made to support both feet, but with a raised area for the bad foot. This has really helped. I find that I can now wear shoes without these special supports. Providing the shoes I do wear are good and supportive.
Hope you find a solution soon, the pain is really bad, and I found it stopped me from doing so much.
Hi C. Google "thyroid joint pain". For some (like me) we get joint pain in hands/feet/elbows/kneees when we dont get enough Thyroid. I take it you are on Thyroxin, try taking an extra 25mcg and see how you feel in a few days.
I've had lots of foot trouble. Orthotic insoles (hideously expensive) were most of the answer. You could try massaging your feet carefully, perhaps with a spiky massage ball while you're considering what to do. You can buy "ball of foot cushions" from a pharmacy, but I found that they took up a lot of space in shoes.
The trigger points tip is a good one - I also have the book!
I am glad you have mentioned this as at the moment, I am getting burning in the soles of my feet and also I can hardly walk, feels like an elastic band around my joints. I know I have most probably got some muscle wastage around my joints that has to be built up, but the pain is excruciating and similar to the sciatica. I will have to investigate now. Hope you get some relief.
I wear wider shoes anyway, as I had really bad oedema for so long, I had to wear wound shoes as I could not get shoes to fit. I was advised to buy shoes and go by the circumference of the largest foot, rather than the size. So instead of buying size 5's, I now buy size 7. They fit like a glove.
If you indeed have plantar fasciitis ...you have my deepest sympathy! It often strikes those with hypothyroidism, even if it's being treated but #'s in low range. I had a wholesale floral business and was walking on concrete in the warehouse for hours on end and not wearing properly supporting shoes. I hate to tell you this...but it's a long healing process. I did get Dr. prescribed insoles and had exercises that I did faithfully. Since I have been on NDT and my thyroid #'s are in optimal range...I have not had it since.
I have just been diagnosed with plantar fasciitis plus I have an underactive thyroid for many years. On recommendation, I purchased a machine called Heelease, it has given me instant relief from the excrutiating pain especially when walking. There are 2types of machine - the original at £32.99 or the latest which pulsates and has 10 different positions at £39.99. I know it seems a big outlay but for me well worth it. Hope this post is helpful to a fellow sufferer.
I found this page on trigger points for different pain in the leg, ankle and foot. Just did a search and this is what I found. I'm going to use this to do the self-massage others are talking about here. Lots of great ideas. Had no idea my plantar problem was also thyroid related. So, check this out and share it with others:
My obvious answer was plantar fasciitis but your vit d3 levels are good so that stumped me, why because they are linked. My vit d3 was 12 when I was diagnosed with vit d3 deficiency. I also had plantar fasciitis, as I was given treatment for the deficiency my plantar fasciitis went away. I also read white papers that were available at that time, there is a link between them plantar fasciitis is a known symptom of vit d3 deficiency. I now only get plantar fasciitis when my vit d3 is low.
For anyone else with the condition please look up the link.
My husband who is not hypothyroid suffers with morton's neuroma and also has had plantar fasciitis at times too. When I was suffering with plantar fasciitis he gave me a tip for exercising your feet which really helped me when I was suffering.
Not sure it will help but might be worth a try - mine went away on its own - could be coincidence, but I still do these exercises often - so far, all good!
With your feet up (or lying down) scrunch your toes in and try and curl your foot downwards, and then do the opposite - spread the toes out and upwards. Do this several times with both feet. I can't remember now how long it was before my symptoms disappeared, but they did disappear.
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