OMG NOT IN PAIN ANYMORE
Apr. 2nd, 2009 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zana16It only took me 9 months of pain before I finally went to the doctor this Tuesday... As I suspected (after ruling out my biggest irrational fear, diabetes), it's a plantar fasciitis, aka a fancy word for "your foot hurts and we don't know why." Never one to trust conventional medicine, I find this a bullshit diagnosis and would have been pretty upset with it except! They don't know why it happened, but they can make it go away (knock on wood). A four-dollar prescription from Target later, and I feel like I am walking on the moon. Seriously.
I can walk without pain. It's amazing. I skipped the bus today because it didn't hurt to walk the extra mile. I felt like I could keep going forever! Descending into the Metro on the escalator, I actually walked down the steps instead of riding it down, because I no longer have to hold my foot immobile to avoid the sharpest pain.
Whenever I stand, I automatically start to limp, then realize I don't have to anymore! This is the best day ever. I heart conventional medicine! Better living through chemistry baby!
Couldn't muster the courage to read the list of side effects for the drug. Am in denial. What I don't know could hurt me, but probably not much more than the pain I was already in, right?
I can walk without pain. It's amazing. I skipped the bus today because it didn't hurt to walk the extra mile. I felt like I could keep going forever! Descending into the Metro on the escalator, I actually walked down the steps instead of riding it down, because I no longer have to hold my foot immobile to avoid the sharpest pain.
Whenever I stand, I automatically start to limp, then realize I don't have to anymore! This is the best day ever. I heart conventional medicine! Better living through chemistry baby!
Couldn't muster the courage to read the list of side effects for the drug. Am in denial. What I don't know could hurt me, but probably not much more than the pain I was already in, right?
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*worries*
Date: 2009-04-03 01:04 am (UTC)How are your shoes? Are you getting proper arch support and things?
God, how much do I sound like a mom?
Re: *worries*
Date: 2009-04-03 04:01 am (UTC)Yeah, the diabetes thing was pure terror, and not knowing was actually easier for a while than dealing with the reality would have been. Until it wasn't, and until I had the kick in the ass that my insurance runs out at the end of this month, so I'd better find out now while I'm still covered.
And, thank God, that was not the problem.
The first thing the doctor said when he came in the room was "And how old are those?" of my shoes. And those were the new(ish) ones! My other pair are... oh Christ, I guess they're fourteen years old, but to be fair I inherited then when my sister died and didn't wear them much until about two years ago. Yeah, nil arch support. Do they even make shoes with arch support anymore? I hate shopping enough that I've never found out.
Re: *worries*
Date: 2009-04-03 04:30 am (UTC)We can have a no mothers club. Eat cereal for dinner and run with scissors.
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Date: 2009-04-03 07:10 am (UTC)I'm another person who buys shoes rarely and then hopes they last forever - I don't get the whole shoe thing, I just want them to be comfy! There are definitely shoes with arch support and stuff too (in fact my Etnies, which I bought in a sale and have lasted really well, have really comfy arch support). It's not generally the cheap fashion-y shoes that do, mind - but it makes such a difference to walking in them! /comfy-shoe-rant... *g*
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Date: 2009-04-03 07:34 am (UTC)Re: *worries*
Date: 2009-04-03 11:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-03 11:25 pm (UTC)Shoes... it doesn't help that I go shopping so rarely that when I've gone in the last year it seems "recently". So I was thinking, I just went shoe shopping! Last month, wasn't it... no... I bought sandals as well and they only have those in spring, so it must have been a year ago.
I shall invest in some long-lasting, comfy shoes, I think. Perhaps when I have a positive bank account balance.
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Date: 2009-04-03 11:26 pm (UTC)Re: *worries*
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Date: 2009-04-04 01:51 am (UTC)I still love that I can get away with that. My dad would have a heart attack if he knew.
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Date: 2009-04-04 02:31 am (UTC)mmmmmm, arugula....
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