Memoirs of a Plantar Fasciitis Sufferer: 1

There are two things I need to highlight about me, which might've led to everything I'm suffering today. Sometimes I get over-excited, and overdo something I'm keen about. Second, it was one of my primary lessons playing sports (Swimming, then long distance running), that you won't get anywhere if you stopped everytime you got tired. In fact you have to go that extra mile after you feel you can't go any further, and that's the way you could beat your personal best. Of course they did not mean to do that when you have an injury, but I kinda took it to heart and applied it stupidly. Oh yeah, and the third is, I'm quite stubborn, unless someone convinces me, I just won't buy it and bide by the seemingly meaningless rules.

So there I was, having graduated I decided I need to get back to sports, which had taken a back seat during my college years. I tried to take it gradually, but apparently it wasn't 'gradual enough'. I was going to the gym, playing aerobics, swimming and jogging.. ooh the jogging... It wasn't a proper terrain and weren't proper shoes (Both I'd found out later). There is this walking track in Ahly club Nasr City, that has a tiled floor, which is not best suited for jogging apparently. Why did I run there instead of the regular running track? Well first I didn't know that back then the tiling was bad for my feet, plus the view is amaaazing. The track is built as a second floor to the swimming pools area, so you can see the water from up there, and there were roses on the two sides of the track, well the whole experience was amazing, better than jogging around the football track. It was Thursday, March the 31st, 2005, I was jogging, and then felt some paid along the medial arch and the ball of the foot. I didn't jog much longer, but I completed my scheduled excercises and went to the aerobics class.. The pain lingered.. I ignored. Two days afterwards I was a bit better, so I went jogging again. I found the same pain again. I tried tip-toeing, and found there was no pain then, so I tried to kinda tip-toe in my jog.. A VERY bad and stubborn decision. Two or three days later, I am limping, and I rush to the emergency in some hospital. The doctor tells me nothing is broken and I just need to stop jogging for two weeks.

Memoirs of a Plantar Fasciitis Sufferer: Introduction

It's been almost two years since I wrote anything on this blog. All my energy has been redirected from 'soul searching' to stark cold medical research abount Plantar Fasciitis. So I thought, may be I can talk about that now. May be anyone could benefit from my experience as a fellow sufferer. PF is challenging enough, but I gotta tell you, it's one thing to have PF in the US or Europe, and a totally different thing to have it in Egypt, where podiatrists are not heard of, nobody seems to have PF, and MANY orthopedics wouldn't acknowledge you have a case that needs treatment unless you get them an X-ray with a fractured bone. I mean, with all due respect, but you can always say you do not know, or you need more tests, or hand me over to another doctor. But invalidating my own feeling of pain by saying 'Ooh it's noting', and 'Oh you mean that thickening and tightening in this tendon over here, that's not even a real problem'... Well I tell you what, it is a problem, one that could've been there for four years plaguing my life, a problem that could've been treated since the very first year if any of you orthopedics I'd visited knew any better.