Hi Trishann:

Many years ago, when I got up in the morning, and I placed my foot on the floor, well, I saw stars.

I immediately went to see my podiatrist who took an x-ray and announced "you have a double heel spur", and he showed me the x-ray. There it was.

I said "so what do I do now"? and he said "you get orthotics".

He took a foot mold for the orthotics, and it took a long time to get them.

But they arrived and I wore them each day inside my sneakers.

This was well over 7 years ago. I used to limp everywhere.

Then, and I have no idea if this is related or not", I lost a lot of weight due to a change in my eating habits.

I did NOT need the orthotics anymore. I had no more pain (and I remember the pain, believe me ) so to go from THAT KIND OF PAIN WHEN YOUR HEEL HITS THE FLOOR, to no pain at all, well it was a wonder.

The other day I was at the podriatist and I said "Years ago, I had this horrible heel spur and I had orthotics and well, I don't have the pain anymore, so what happened?"

He simply said "sometimes heel spurs stop bothering you".

I did not get any further x-rays so I don't know if the heel spur is still there.

I do remember at the time, I had to go for 3 ultrasound treatments and an injection in my heel. My doctor sprays some freezing stuff on the heel before the injection. He was great. The injection helped a great deal.

So perhaps if you go to the podiatrist he can take an x-ray and rule out any heel spurs. I have no idea if your heel pain is related to neuropathy, but it's a good idea to rule out anything else.

Best of luck

Melody

Thank you all for the sharing and for the information about heel pain.
We unfortunely had an emergency in our house, the bathrrom, that needed immediately attention. Have not been able to make a doctor appointment because of this issue.

I do have foot insoles for my shoes. Maybe I will start wearing them and not just when I am outside of the house. Hopefully it will calm the heel down, if not, I have to make that appointment then. The house emergency should only take couple more days and should be done hopefully and then I will decide what to do about the foot issue.

I love my slip on shoes when I am in the house , this is going to be a challenge, but if it helps with the pain I will have some relief.

Thanks, Trish