Personal Discovery
Sep. 13th, 2009 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyIt's always fun to get to know one's self. Especially when it is the result of an internet search due to a significant amount of pain.
I knew they weren't heel spurs, as those are calcium growths on the bottom of the heel, but I have known about and dealt with calcium growths on the back of my heel since early junior high. As I have just discovered, it's called Haglund's deformity, something that my doctor never told me, mostly because at the time I just needed to know it was otherwise harmless calcium deposits. A few bandaids made the pain of new shoes go away, and I learned to bandage my heels prior to even attempting to wear my nice dress shoes. When I worked in a corporate office, this meant almost every day.
Oh look. The nickname for this is "pump bump," due to the significantly high number of women that complain of their pumps rubbing the area. Yes, this is info that I probably could have used a few years ago, like 10-15 years ago. As I said, I figured this one out pretty quickly on my own. I'm a fast learner when it comes to something causing skin to scrape off vital areas of my body.
The pictures even match. This is exactly what my heels look like. It looks like a marble trying to escape from the back of the heel. Mine appears to be normal-to-mild (there's such a thing as a "normal" deformity??), versus this poor soul. Holy Shit those just LOOK painful.
So my reason for searching? Despite comfortably sitting on the couch for six hours watching some Gary Cooper movies this afternoon, I've noticed a pain in my Achilles getting significantly worse throughout the day. I've sprained my Achilles before back in high school while playing tennis. This feels about the same.
It's too late now for hot and cold compresses. I really wish I had some kind of Achilles support that I could wear tomorrow for work. At the most, I get to continue in my ibuprofen regimen, the same thing I have to take for inflammation/bursitis in my hip and whatever the hell it is that's going on in my jaw. I just hope I can walk tomorrow. By this evening I was hobbling around pretty bad and it now hurts to flex my ankle back any further than the standard 90-degrees. I'll probably take to work with me the pressure bandage I still have from the swollen rope burn. I remember the figure 8 wrap that was used on the pulled Achilles back when playing tennis. I also remember the pain of having to force my ankle into that 90-degree angle before wrapping, so as to allow the wrap to do its thing of alleviating pressure off the tendon. :( I'm not looking forward to this.
I wish my body would quit trying to fall apart on me.
I knew they weren't heel spurs, as those are calcium growths on the bottom of the heel, but I have known about and dealt with calcium growths on the back of my heel since early junior high. As I have just discovered, it's called Haglund's deformity, something that my doctor never told me, mostly because at the time I just needed to know it was otherwise harmless calcium deposits. A few bandaids made the pain of new shoes go away, and I learned to bandage my heels prior to even attempting to wear my nice dress shoes. When I worked in a corporate office, this meant almost every day.
Oh look. The nickname for this is "pump bump," due to the significantly high number of women that complain of their pumps rubbing the area. Yes, this is info that I probably could have used a few years ago, like 10-15 years ago. As I said, I figured this one out pretty quickly on my own. I'm a fast learner when it comes to something causing skin to scrape off vital areas of my body.
The pictures even match. This is exactly what my heels look like. It looks like a marble trying to escape from the back of the heel. Mine appears to be normal-to-mild (there's such a thing as a "normal" deformity??), versus this poor soul. Holy Shit those just LOOK painful.
So my reason for searching? Despite comfortably sitting on the couch for six hours watching some Gary Cooper movies this afternoon, I've noticed a pain in my Achilles getting significantly worse throughout the day. I've sprained my Achilles before back in high school while playing tennis. This feels about the same.
It's too late now for hot and cold compresses. I really wish I had some kind of Achilles support that I could wear tomorrow for work. At the most, I get to continue in my ibuprofen regimen, the same thing I have to take for inflammation/bursitis in my hip and whatever the hell it is that's going on in my jaw. I just hope I can walk tomorrow. By this evening I was hobbling around pretty bad and it now hurts to flex my ankle back any further than the standard 90-degrees. I'll probably take to work with me the pressure bandage I still have from the swollen rope burn. I remember the figure 8 wrap that was used on the pulled Achilles back when playing tennis. I also remember the pain of having to force my ankle into that 90-degree angle before wrapping, so as to allow the wrap to do its thing of alleviating pressure off the tendon. :( I'm not looking forward to this.
I wish my body would quit trying to fall apart on me.
