best foot forward

Went to a podiatrist today, about the pain in my heels, and just generally, since diabetic folk like myself need to be more careful. As far as the diabetes goes, you would never know I had the disease based on my feet. Which is great news. Despite the Raynaud's occurrences that I notice in my toes (mostly discoloration not so much the numbness) my sensation is great. So then we tried to figure out what was causing the "wake-me-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night" heel pain. When he pressed my heels, it was fine. No pain to speak of. Then he pressed right where the arch meets the heel. HOLY GOD it was death on a stick. He also pressed along the sides of my feet, where the ankle meets, and boy did that suck. (didn't help that today my feet decided to swell up again). What seems to be happening is that the nerves that come down from the sides of the leg to attach to the foot around the heel periphery are being irritated. From two things, one is that I tend to bear weight weirdly, so my ankles roll in, thus stretching that inner nerve part, and also making my foot stretch so it can be more flexible and stable on the ground. The other is the deep tissue swelling irritating the nerves. I also have what I would call Pre- Plantar Fascilitis, which would cause more arch pain. So, in order to help these issues, he wants me to get compression stockings (they are evil old lady knee socks that basically just make sure you get blood flow back UP the legs through the veins, preventing swelling) and also took some plaster casts of my feet to make me insoles for arch support. Basically, though I still have an arch, my fleet are slowly flattening out. No good. So to prevent it, insoles. The good news is that I've used my entire deductible for insurance, so they'll fully cover the $555 insoles. woot. 

In other news, tapering down the steroids. Not as crazy of an appetite. But still not great. No weight loss yet. Face still huge. Going to try to get to the gym at least once this week. ho hum. but I'm trying to be patient, even though I absolutely have no patience whatsoever.

At least the foot prognosis is good.