Duct Tape Cured My Plantar Fasciitis

Bring Your Bad Feet to Heel

Duct tape cured my Plantar Fasciitis. As weird as that may sound, it's true.

At age 50, I’d never even heard of Plantar Fasciitis (pronounced PLAN-TAR FA-CEE-EYE-TIS), but it was about to make my life a living hell.

My entire working life has been spent walking on concrete. When I was young, I never gave that any serious consideration, even though the “old people” told me I should take care of my feet, stand on mats, wear good shoes.

About 5 years ago, my feet started giving me trouble. They hurt, and I mean really hurt. When my feet hit the floor in the morning, they felt like they were on fire. I could hardly stand up. I’d hobble down the stairs and by the time I got to the kitchen, the pain would have lessened somewhat.

I’d go to work and be in pain all day. Most days, by the time I got home, I’d be in tears. The relief of getting my shoes off was almost climaxing. I’d go all evening with pain, but not the excruciating pain of my work day. Then it would start all over again the next day.

The pain moved around, too. Some days there would be a sharp, constant pain in the center of my heel. Other days the pain in my heel would be on the side. Some days, it would be my arch that hurt. Some days it would be the whole bottom of my foot and up into my calf.

Now, let me say that I am not one to run to a doctor. I always assume that whatever it is will go away on its own and if it doesn’t, then I will go to a doctor. This didn’t go away, so I went to my family physician. When he found out that I had been walking on concrete for all those years, he told me that that will cause you to have bad feet in later years and it was just something I would have to live with. He told me to get cushioned inserts.

Well! He wasn’t any help at all. I could have saved my money, because, like him, I really believed that this was just a condition of getting older and something I would just have to live with the best that I could.