Oh yeah, plantar fasciitis is no joke. I hear you. It's just a slow healing injury, it just takes a lot of time.

Lu Zwei wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 1:10 pm Oh yeah, plantar fasciitis is no joke. I hear you. It's just a slow healing injury, it just takes a lot of time.

My original plan of doing nothing didn't work out. So now doing something hopefully will work out.

Yeah.. I had it pretty bad (spot #2) when I was doing a lot of walking over the past year. I started soaking my foot more and filing off the callus, and it eventually eased up.

I've also been having issues with my right foot, and my podiatrist finally prescribed me for custom orthotics (I also have really high arches so this is kina long needed). After four weeks, I'll still feel the pain a bit if I'm not active, but once I start walking I'm totally fine. Been trying to utilize the standing option on my desk more often at work which seems to help.

I've got some of the planter fascism as well, heavy on 8 and a little 7. I spend a lot of time on a forklift and it's damn near impossible to keep my heel off the floor. A trusted coworker who has it and has flat feet said to use a golf ball instead of a tennis ball and while extremely painful, that has shown some results.

I had plantar fasciitis maybe ten, twelve years ago. It was painful. So my sympathies.

However, after trying orthotics for a while, I eventually got a cortisone injection, and it cleared it up immediately. I’d recommend looking into that, with the caveat that cortisone injections aren’t like vaccine shots or blood draws. It was quite painful. Worth it, but I’d never expected a shot to hurt quite that much.

Wood Goblin wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 2:53 pm It was quite painful. Worth it, but I’d never expected a shot to hurt quite that much.

I somewhat recently had five of them, one right after the other, in the joint of my big toe. Boomer doc thought it was arthritis but a new doc called me out for freakin' bone spurs. He recommended in the meantime wearing carbon fiber insoles, then surgery for when the pain becomes intolerable, which it has whenever walking around socked or barefoot.

I should also mention that I attended a NYE party where a group of middle-aged men, myself included, talked about foot pain. This is where I am right now at parties.

Look at us all, just a bunch of bad feet mother fuckers.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 7:27 pm I should also mention that I attended a NYE party where a group of middle-aged men, myself included, talked about foot pain. This is where I am right now at parties.

Not to praise Sam Kinison—a truly vile and cruel person, on stage and off—but he had a bit in the 80s in which he imitated a shout-y old man: “DOES THIS HAVE SALT? DOCTOR SAYS I CAN’T HAVE SALT!”

I think of that every time I feel old-person aches and pains.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 7:27 pm I should also mention that I attended a NYE party where a group of middle-aged men, myself included, talked about foot pain. This is where I am right now at parties.

My wife's late uncle liked to call this "older people comparing pains" social bonding event The Organ Recital.