Myasthenia Gravis Support Group

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. The hallmark of myasthenia gravis is muscle weakness that increases during periods of activity and improves after periods of rest. Although myasthenia gravis may affect any voluntary muscle, muscles that control eye and eyelid movement, facial expression, and...

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Plantar Fasciitis

drakeford1968
drakeford1968
Can someone please tell is there any connection between MG and Plantar Fasciitis .
deleted_user
deleted_user
If MG results in weight issues, I believe they could lend themselves to PF. The favoring of one leg because of a weak like might as well, but PF is generally an overuse injury.
wgreen19
wgreen19
Having had an extreme case of PF in both feet, and extensive corrective surgery to aleviate said associated pain, I seriously doubt there could be a connection to MG. It generally is from overuse, and being overweight, and tends also to flair as we get older.
Joe-Fodor
Joe-Fodor
Drakeford:
In my opinion -- these feet problems are MG related -- My ankles are very weak and I when my MG was bad I would roll on them and sprain them over and over again, until I could barely walk. My Neuro said it had nothing to do with MG, but I am *in this body -- I know the ankles are weak and prone to injury when I am weak.

Fortunately, I bought a few ankle supports -- thick, stretchy $15 nylon tubes that fit over my ankles and keep me from injuring myself. And this summer I have had relatively pain-free ankles.

But it's funny, also, that every physical pain I experience has an MG connection in my mind. Even if it is not true, it gives me some comfort to believe I have some control. "Oh, it's just the MG."
~Joe
snowbeltfolkie
snowbeltfolkie
Inherited foot problems.
Also, jobs: that involve lots of time, standing on hard floor surfaces (ex: nurses, factory workers, banking jobs).

Even, running for training or exercise.
And a lovely little foot-mechanics problem called pronation.
In my birth-family, these all combine to cause a fair amount of plantar fasciitis.

Like Joe, this pronation: causes a lot of ''ankle roll-over'' - and a lot of sprains, especially as time goes by.
Generalized muscle weakness from MG - would only make this situation worse.

I had appts. with two orthopedic surgeons, to make orthopedic inserts, for shoes & sneakers.
And wouldn't you know it?
Ortho #1 was a nincompoop, who made exactly the WRONG type of insert, making my condition worse. The medical practice where Ortho #1 worked? Literally sent him back to school - for retraining. (I found this out, when returning my x-rays to his office, from my second-opinion with Ortho #2.)
Ortho #2 got the job done correctly, correcting the pronation - and I haven't since had one single ankle sprain.
I wear the inserts in every pair of footwear, every day. Over the ankle footwear - helps too.
- Ross