So I am back from getting x-rayed. Remember when I told you how the Nike Free was the best shoe ever? Forget it. So today I had my usual doctor followup appointment. Apparently they have me recorded as losing 10 pounds in 3 weeks. In the end it was diet and exercise that is what made it happen, but the CBT helped spur that on. So while I am congratulating myself I tell the doc about my heel pain. Basically every morning when I get up both of my feet have this aching pain in the balls of my feet. I can feel it throughout the day as well. Recently it has even been feeling hot. So the doc xrays me for something called a heel spur, where your heel starts to grow bone inwards. By the looks of the xray I don't have it, but I'll get an official diagnosis later. I know it is for sure Plantar Fascitis, an inflamation of the heal muscle. So the doc prescribed me an anti-inflamitory. Which will probably work. But people seem to say it takes about 3 months to heal.

You know I don't know what to think of the Obama insurance stuff. I wonder if it would have allowed x-rays to be taken. I suppose it is good for piece of mind that I don't have a bone growing in my foot, but I don't think it was necessary. In the end I am going to have to stretch my foot every day, and dare I say it, stay off my feet for a while. I don't know if that is good for me though. Even though my heel will heal will it help or hinder my healthy heart exercises if I do half or no footwork? I suppose that negates stairs work for sure. It was even worse this morning as I did 48 flights of stairs yesterday. To top it off I hobble cause my legs are so sore from the workout.

I often thought, well do I really need a doctor to diagnose such a condition? I have read on the internet and learned that it is Plantar Fascitis. There are shoe inserts, night splints, stretching exercises, and even heel pads designed for this condition. However, even though I thought that I could do it all, the one thing I couldn't do is prescribe myself medicine. If I had thought I knew it all then I would have tried all of the home treatments, but I wouldn't be able to get the hotness out of the heel without medicine. Now the cause of this is still unknown because I have changed so much. Is it the shoes? Is it an increase in exercise? Is it being overweight? Is it lack of stretching the foot? It could be all of that. For now though, its gotta be the shoes...