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[dripley]

1 hour ago, Greenlee said:

Thanks Dripley, Funny story about bone spurs, a Boilermaker brother came by to bring an old desk from the 1960's so I could make a work table out of it. I'm hobbling one step and a drag of my right leg at a time and told him I had a flare up of an existing bone spur that is on my heel touching the Achilles Tendon. The pain is beyond explanation and nobody can assist you trying to walk because you are clumsy anyway. My friend told me about a bone spur he had about 12 years ago shaped like a chicken beak pushing through a tendon on the bottom of his foot. Now he is out of town working so options are limited. The orthopedic doctor he was going to see was not approved by insurance so he went to a podiatrist who looks at it and says he can help him with it. Now if you are anyone has ever experienced a spur you know that touching it is out of the question, you don't even want a fly to land on it. So the podiatrist pulls out a device with 2 metal or hard plastic roller balls with a little gel to make it move easy. He said he almost wet his pants but he got through it, rolling that device back and forth over the spur. No comfort at all. Next visit in 2 days, same treatment. This continued for a couple more visits and then he gave my friend the roller ball from hell and said you continue this until it goes away. After a couple of weeks it started feeling great but he said in the process it felt like a piece of glass broke and the spur flattened. What happened is it was growing through a tendon. After he flattened it he has had no issues for 12 years now. Long before he came over that afternoon I limped to the kitchen and there was a little bag of garbage that my wife said she would take out when she got home. So I picked it up and was heading for the garage. As I opened the garage door I stumbled and went the length of the garage to the garage door before catching myself. This crazy move extended and stretched my ankle, the pain was horrible and all I could think is my wife is going to kill me. About 30 minutes later I noticed my heel and foot still hurt but it felt better. I'm thinking that it separated the tendon from the bone spur and actually helped. So I didn't sleep much last night but when I got up I was walking better still dragging my foot but not as bad. I just don't know if I can stand getting a hard object and rubbing across my heel. Dripley, no one else would understand any of this so if you get it that's all that counts and I'll get back on the topic. Good talking with you.  

Same here my friend. I was able to get mine under control with Naproxen and some stretching exercises.The pain went away for a year or two. Then it came back while working in NW Iowa. Got pretty bad and I was scheduled to see a podiatrist. About 3 days before that is when my Achiles tendon tore. That was bad but it only took about 8 weeks to get over. Dealt with the heel spurs for a little more that 2 years. No fun what so ever. But I consider myself pretty lucky that I deal with no pain for now.

[Greenlee]

11 minutes ago, dripley said:

Same here my friend. I was able to get mine under control with Naproxen and some stretching exercises.The pain went away for a year or two. Then it came back while working in NW Iowa. Got pretty bad and I was scheduled to see a podiatrist. About 3 days before that is when my Achiles tendon tore. That was bad but it only took about 8 weeks to get over. Dealt with the heel spurs for a little more that 2 years. No fun what so ever. But I consider myself pretty lucky that I deal with no pain for now.

I understand and hope you continue to have pain free days and years from the spurs