This is going to sound ridiculously stupid and off base. Heck maybe it is. My plantar fasciitis seemed to flare up in sync with my eczema. I’ve had eczema flare ups without plantar fasciitis, but when I was dealing with plantar fasciitis, it’s intensity perfectly followed my eczema intensity. Obviously the plantar fasciitis issue was linked to how much I was on my feet, but if my eczema was mild that week, I could also walk more with less pain that week. Well, my eczema ridding routine eventually rid me of the plantar fasciitis as well.
Now it’s going to sound even more like rubbish. Eat things that nourish healthy gut flora and don’t eat things that don’t. Tobacco and sugar will make my eczema flare up. I gave up tobacco completely. Cut the sugar, eat raw veggies, eat yogurt with live cultures, ferment your own sauerkraut. Glutamine and ginger help your gut heal.
I came about all of this because I saw a dermatologist for almost three years for severe eczema and nothing he gave me helped(this was before all ***umab medications I see on TV). I tried every topical steroid under the sun, some non-steroidal stuff that made my skin burn, and something oral for a little while. My mom finally asked him what the Dermo thought of alternative medicine. He said “I think they’re a bunch of quacks, but what are they gonna do, charge you money and tell your son to take something that doesn’t actually help him? That’s all I’ve done.” So I saw a lady that I called “the crazy witch doctor”. A lot of her diagnostic methods seemed more intended to placebo you into thinking something was going on that clearly was not. When she was done waving bizarre things around she pronounced “he has yeast in his small intestine. Follow this diet”. Well the diet was unfollowable by a highschool athlete. After a few weeks my mother took me back to the dermo and told him about the yeast thing. He said that he’d recently seen a paper suggesting that candida overgrowth did present in a high percentage of eczema patients, but not all. He wrote me a script for diflucan. The pharmacist looked at me like something was wrong, and double checked that nothing had been misunderstood. I took it for a week or so. Six weeks later I was eczema free. I had scratched my feet with a fork multiple times a day and ruined ever sock I wore(with blood and puss) for three years. It was completely gone. I’ve had it come back a few times since then, but I immediately start focusing on gut healing and proper gut flora and it’s never gotten larger than a half dollar since. It takes 3-6 months of being very careful with my diet to become completely clear. Before I took the diflucan the entire tops of both feet, and wrapped completely around the ankles would itch and weep all day, and the entire back of my head was a mess.
I know you asked about plantar fasciitis and not eczema, but my episode of plantar fasciitis came and went with an eczema outbreak, and although that eczema outbreak was mild, the plantar fasciitis was debilitating.
If anyone else here with plantar fasciitis also has eczema/psoriasis and/or uses tobacco, I’ll feel a lot less crazy.
NC!
