Achilles Tendonitis

[livingwith]

I started having severe pain in my heel and ankle. Somedays I would sit for a moment and rub my heel hoping the pain would ease.As time went on the pain just became worse and worse. I got ignored by doctors so many times. Its just arthritis. Then finally after not being able to walk at all one day I went to an orthopedic surgeon He basicaly told me there was nothing he could do that I had a bone spur (haglund deformity) growing through where my achilles tendon was attached. Then my weight was t...Read the full article

[trishg]

Melissa,

Unless you want to be crippled by this and other issues you must deal with your weight. Diet trumps execise every time. Go to weight watchers or one of the other programs. Exercise by swimming. I hae the same issues but was able to reduce the problems by losing weight.