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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...

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Horrible heel pain

Kimberley97
Kimberley97
Any one else that has had debilitating heel pain. I think it is plantar fasciitis I've read that it can be caused from RA. I'm going to be getting my big toe joint replaced and I'm hoping the dr can give me an injection while I'm asleep. And mayb the rest after surgery will help. It's very bad.
bigiblue
bigiblue
I had heel spurs for month before I was diagnosed with RA. Now both of my ankles are killing me. I had to get my walker out. Then my hips hurt.
Anyway hope you feel better. Btw my heel spurs went away after about 6 month. I took calcium supplements after I did some research.
Bigi
Emerald22
Emerald22
Plantar fasciitiis is the tendon on the bottom of your foot. Could it be Achilles tendonitis instead since its more at your heel?
confoosed
confoosed
Yep, that's how everything started for me. My very first diagnosis was bilateral plantar fasciitis. It felt like my heel bone was going to poke through my skin, and my arches were just agony. It's 95% better, but it sometimes feels like I'm being stabbed in my arch and heels. I suppose it goes along the -itises we are subject to. (Bursitis, tendonitis, synovitis, etc.)
free2beme6060
free2beme6060
I had the same problem, what really helped me was freeze a bottle of water and roll your foot back and forth from heel to toe as much as you can. Within 2 days it went away and hasn't bothered me since.Hope it works for you too!! Worth a try.
2scicrazed
2scicrazed
Yep, feel ya on this one. RA went after my feet for the first seven years. Had heel spurs by year four.

Once I gave up using stirrups when horseback riding - the pain lessoned by half. But when I finished college and was on my feet for 8 hours a day - periodic flares of plantar fasceitist hit me. I had custom Orthodox inserts made which shifted weight off heels/ball and placed more on arches. Kept me mobile for those years - until my prednisone/nexium use caught up with me and I started getting stress fractures. Fortunately, right as those began happening I lucked out and went into diet induced remission.

Orthodic inserts were my saviors. The steroid shots into the feet didn't give enough relief to be worth a second try.

Good luck with the joint replacement!