Anyone lose foot pain/plantar fasciitis when you lost your weight?

I am exercising but it takes me so long to walk, because of foot pain I have to stop and rest my stupid foot.  No wonder I have gained so much.

I hope this foot pain will GO AWAY FOREVER when I lose weight, but I'd like to know your experiences, good or bad.

thank you,

pp

I've had very little pain in my feet since surgery.

It never went away completely for me as I had 2 foot surgeries.  I did figure out when I had a 25 lb regain before my revision that the pain got worse again.  I find exercising in the water much easier.  I do use water shoes and it does help.
Deanne

I have achilled tendonitis so I know what your going through (at least to a certain degree).  Excercise has been difficult, at best because of this.  So I hope to hear more experiences as well.

I am sure what I have is different but I have wondered about it. I have deep cracks in my feet surrounded by dry skin that make it painful to walk some days. I was just thinking about it today if this would go away once the extra weight was gone.

Try salicylic acid, as in Kerasal, water soluble ointment. (Walmart)  As the dead skin flakes off the cracks go away.  Put it on a night with a sock over your foot while you sleep.  You'll be surprised at how fast it works.

a pedicure to remove some of that dry skin might help you.  also, put some vaseline on your foot cracks and put socks on to help heal them at night.

nancy

I do have pedis and the girls always ask me if it hurts because the cracks are so deep you can see the red meat of my heel! It's embarrassing and I try to shave off most of the excess dry skin before my pedis. A couple of years ago I looked it up on the internet and read that the cracks were usually due to being morbidly obese. I think that was the first time I realized I was in that catagory.

I had this -- and yes, gone, gone, gone!!!  I even had several deep  'cuts'  on my fingers.

I now believe that this was due to my PCOS.  For a long time I believed it was due to a medication that I took (Accutane), to cure the cystic acne I had at 28, which I also now know I had because of my PCOS.  Because my weight loss has significantly cleared up so many of my PCOS issues, I am frankly amazed at how much actually was related to the PCOS and SMO.

Anyway, NOTHING I did helped cure me of these deep caverns in my skin, some things helped, but never cured, until the weight loss.  When exactly this happened, I can't pin point, but to say that I didn't get one pedicure all winter -- which is what actually made me realize a month or so again that my deep cracking skin issue had resolved itself.

I had that for about 10 years, including the deep cracks where you could see red & pain while walking.  I had it in my later childhood & adolescence & it's been gone for about 10-12 years now.  I've actually been heavier most of the time while NOT having the deep cracks than when I did have them, so weight alone isn't what caused mine.  Probably made it worse when I had, but that's it.

Remember that once you have them, they're very hard to heal & that's probably more of what's maintaining them than your weight.  My first big tip - always wear shoes that are supportive to for the heel of your foot.  This will help ensure they don't smoosh out flat as much as without shoes or wearing shoes that don't support the shape of your heal.  I'm particularly referring to the bottom outer portion that curves upwards that's cracking - that's my guess b/c that was my worst area.  I also used to get cracks underneath my toes.  So, when I say shoes, I don't mean the flat white canvas shoes or any sandals - they don't support that bottom outer portion that cracks.

Several times per week, soak your feet in HO****er for at least 10-15 minutes & have the thickest lotion you can that's made for feet.  If you don't want to pay the $$, vaseline or castor oil (expensive itself) works just fine.  Have your lotion, vaseline (whatever) & socks all ready next to you while you are soaking your feet so that you can take one foot out at a time, dry it, & immediately SLATHER on your product of choice so there's extra visible still on the cracked area even once you've massaged it in as best you can.  I'm sure you know not to shove the lotion in the cracks b/c it will only irritate the exposed tissue - that's the tissue that needs to heal from the inside out, lotion will not help that part, it will help to keep the area a little softer so that your feet stop cracking.

I know this seems totally opposite what you should do, but I would recommend to stop shaving away the extra dead skin, or at least to minimize it until the cracks heal on the inside.  What you shave off helps to support the internal portion of the crack so that it doesn't squish down  so much when you stand/walk.  The more that your foot squishes down with that crack already there, the more it will keep cracking (the pain in walking - I KNOW!)  I don't think it would be bad to still use a pedi file to help minimize more cracking or unsightly dead skin (aside from cracks).

I don't have to do this process anymore, but I still use a THICK cream after the shower every morning.  If you don't already, I would do that also.  Bath & Body Works has a nice foot cream that comes in a white & blue tube with some feet pictured on it.

Good luck~