Re: How long should I wait for improvement of my PF?
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Posted by Melissa on April 14, 1998 at 18:43:13:
Thank you for your helpful response. I am wearing the smaller Tuli cups. I can't tell that I'm wearing them when I have them in my shoes. Yes, I am allowed to wear my jogging shoes to teach in. My podiatrist wrote a note allowing me to wear them to work indefinitely. I am not permitted to teach sitting down. This is my first year in the public school system, and I had ankle surgery a month after school started. Right now, I'm trying to keep my feet and ankles from ruining my career. I'm wearing a TENS unit on my right ankle (nerve damage from a minor sprain in January). My left ankle had surgery in September, 1997. Now my left foot has PF. The PF is quickly getting worse like my left ankle did last year. I think I'm going to take your advice and call my podiatrist for another appointment. I'm very fortunate to have a compassionate podiatrist who is willing to do whatever he can to keep me on my feet. I just tired of bothering him all the time. I'm also tired of getting shots (three cortisone and one anesthetic in the right ankle in the last two months) almost every time I see him, and reading about cortisone shots for PF on this board has made me a little scared of them. Apparently they hurt much worse in the heel than in the ankle. I have tried ice, but that hurts when I rest my foot on it as I'm sitting down in the evening.Again, thank you for your response.
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