Are you taking a statin?
I suffered with a "heel spur" about sixteen years ago. I was in agony for about two years and my GP recommended wearing trainers with a gel insert. On holiday in France, I read an article in the Sunday Telegraph by Dr Le Fanu about problems with the use of statins. I was taking Simvastatin so I decided to stop taking it. In two days, I was pain free. I decided to try them again to determine if it was caused by Simvastatin. Within a couple of days, I was back with my heel pain. I stopped the Simvastatin altogether and saw my GP when I returned home. He agreed that Simvastatin was to blame, and he prescribed a new statin that had recently been introduced, which was Atorvastatin. Needless to say, my "heel spur" was no longer.
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