I going through it right now, going on 5 weeks. My 2nd time in the last 3 years. It feels better compared to a couple of weeks ago, so I am on the road to recovery. I ice my foot 4 times a day, do my stretches the same amount as well. I also wear a brace at night while sleeping, my doctor suspects the cause is my foot position when I sleep at night.

Had bad PF years ago, crazy painful in the mornings. Tried the shots, stretching, inserts, rolling balls and ice water bottles under feet. Wearing a foot brace at night finally fixed the problem.

I use those shoe/boot inserts for everything now.

My wife has been struggling with PF for about a year. She did all the stretches, the frozen drink bottle, etc., but it didn’t help. She went to a podiatrist that over the course of a couple of months gave her 4 shots in her heel. That helped only a little and the benefit was short lived.

Long story short, she had surgery yesterday. We’re very hopeful that this will work. The doctor said we will know in 6-8 weeks.

Anyone else had that surgery?

Miner, what was the purpose of the surgery medically? What did the surgeon do?

I assume it was not a heel spur.

The ligaments were extremely tight and she has a bone spur. They were so tight that the surgeon said they/it “popped” when he made the incision to release them. Nothing was done to the bone spur. We are very hopeful this will fix the problem. She’s been in really terrible pain for a long time.

Thanks for responding. I do hope it helps her.