My Foot Procedure is scheduled

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I would like to ask for your prayers and thoughts on Decemeber the

8th when I will be undergoing a non invasive procedure on both my

feet that is supposed to cure chronic plantar fascitis in about 90%

of patients. My heel pain(for those not familiar with PF it is a

painful inflammation in the heel) that I have suffered with for about

4 years now with only occasional remisions, and then relapses over

and over again. I used to be a big time high heel fan, and always

wore them, everywhere. HIGH HEELS, big time 6 inch pumps when that

was the style and then later the platforms etc. I always liked to be

taller than I was at only 5'3 " so the high heels helped allot. I

never had allot of pain with my feet though until two things occured

in my life, first of all I began my quest to lose the 60 pounds I had

put on working as a nurse aid on the graveyard shift for 3 years, and

this included walking 6 miles up steep hills everyday, 7 days a week.

I was very determined to lose that weight. THen I moved myself into

running and began to be very obssesed(i am an obsessive addictive

kind of person) and with running I started to run 6 - 7 miles a day,

5 days a week, an average of 30 miles a week! I lost all the wieght

needless to say and have kept it off for the lat 6 years or so. I am

about a size 3 and muscular, so I weight allot at 120 but anyhow, I

am pretty tiny now. I am very proud of this, not trying to brag but

we all know how hard this can be to accomplish. As a reward to myself

(when I lost my C cups with my fat) i decided to get implants. Now I

was starting to have injuries with my running, my hip, my knees, and

esp shinn splints! OUCH! Anyhow I did not stop running, but I started

to add some other things to cut back on the running. One was tae boe,

very bad for your joints if your not used to those moves ! Anyhow I

got the implants, and within about 2 weeks I started to work out

again, and within this time I began to have foot pain. The foot pain

was not in my heels then though, it was across the tops of my feet at

first. I also began getting hand pain, it was all very strange, and

of course within 3 months I was sicker than ever with flu like

symptoms, dizzyiness that was so bad I could hardly stand up(this

never went away till after explant either) and then the pain all over

my body, but esp in my hands and feet.

As we all know and have experienced, I was told a million things, and

nothing, ya know what I mean, we don't know, you have mixed

connective tissue disease, we are not sure which one, you have the

begining of lupus, bla blh, fibromyalgia etc. I never fit the classic

symptoms of any one particular disease, just had symptoms of all of

them. Well to get to the point, I have been explanted for almost 3

years (ironically it will be 3 years on the 8th of Decemeber) the day

of my foot procedure.

I have been completely and totally cured. At least I consider myself

to be. I never have any of the weirdness at all anymore, my body does

not hurt anymore(occasional stuff but nothing like before) no dizzy

stuff etc, except that my feet still hurt. I have been seeing a

specialist in Idaho Falls where I live who is a good friend of my

husbands, they went to college together at BYU in Utah. He injected

them a few times with steroids and the pain did resolve, for awhile I

thought I was cured, but then it came back. I did some stupid things

too, of course I thought I could wear heels again, and run again, big

time mistake! At one point 1 year ago it became so bad I had to get a

disabled sticker for my car, it was that bad, and the only working

out I could do was to swim laps and lift wieghts, it was horrible. I

spent most of my time laying around the house when I was not working,

thankfully I have a desk job. THen I got some soft orthotics and they

really worked for ahwile and my feet got better. I once again thought

I was cured, but was cautios stilll about running and footwear.

Unfortunatly when we went on a vacation this summer, we went to

Yosemite and several large amusement parks in California, we walked

so much that my feet flared up again, this time it was pretty bad

again, but I did not want to get injected, so I opted to try the hard

orthotics, another $300 !!!! ARG! They helped for awhile, and then we

started taking our new puppy for walks at night, and bam again I am

flaring up. This time I am at the end of my rope. I saw my Dr and he

told me that this time he felt I was a good candidate for the ossa

tron treatment. It is a machine that sends sound waves, shocks the

feet, the affected area, and breaks up the scar tissue. It is for the

worse cases of PF and he thinks it will cure me.

I am doing it, because I found out that while it is just barely

approved by the FDA for this(it has been used for breaking up kidney

stones for years) it is a $14,000 dollar procedure, but my ins is

going to pay and since I am at the end of the year, have met all my

deductables etc, the most out of pocket fees for me will be

anesthesia, $400, surgeon fee $700 and then the use of the machine

which is $500 a foot. HOwever I may even get reimbursed for that. HEE

YIPPY!

So sorry this is so long, but as you can see my torment is what if I

don't have normal PF like other people, what if it is somehow still

related to implants ? Even if it is, maybe this will still work? My

symptoms are classic PF, and the fact is that there is inflammation

in there, and with the blood flow being so poor in our heels, it is

very hard to heel inflammation in that area, this machine actually

causes the tissue to be injured, in such a way that the body actually

heels itself, it is very safe and there is no cutting. The only other

method of cure for PF that is chronic is surgery where they actually

go in and cut the tendon in your arch, it is very very scary and not

at all succesful and takes up to 12 months of being in a cast and

crutches or wheelchair! YIKES! I won't do that, since if i wear my

orthotics I am capable of doing most things that most people do. My

issue really is that I am not most people, I AM A RUNNER A HIKER! I

love those things, I miss them, and I end up doing them anyhow and

end up needing narcotics and stuff to get through the after affects.

So this is my hope and dream and right now I feel like the fact that

it is all falling into place and on the same day as my explant that

was so extremely succesful, I feel that it is a sign from god above

that this is going to heal my one last issue!

Of course I dont' even know if I can say it was or is implants, I

mean I want to blame them of course, but I cannot say it for sure, I

just don't know. I only know that this is my hope, and I am asking

you all to please pray for me and think of me that day.

The good news too is that they do it with a local anesthesia, so your

not knocked out, and that I will be up and around within a day or so.

In fact although he told me no work for 5 days, he said it will be

fine for me to go to my classes. So apparently the pain is not too

bad.It also gives me a week of no work paid and I can use it to study

for my finals, god is watching out for me I feel!

Gosh I know this is long, if your still reading this then your a true

caring and loving friend! HEE HEE

Anyhow I am also wondering if anyone else has this foot thing? The

heel pain?

I created several polls so when you guys get around to it please

check them out too!

Ok then

I have some things to do but gosh there is another topic I need to

bring up to you guys, it involves sex! Can you imagine.

Hee hee, that post will be long too, and a little personal, so I will

write it soon, I want to add that I have this increased sex drive

lately, it is insane, I am turnig so sex crazed, ha MY HUBBY IS

LOVING IT, but is it normal to be so horny all the time? Is this what

happens when you get close to 40 years old? I just turned 39 in

August and i mean I have always been a sexual person but this is

crazy, fun but yeah hee hee it is crazy!

Any feedback on this would be appreciated to. I wonder if my

hormones are wacked out. If so I guess it is in a good way huh?

hugs to all