I was wondering if any of you guys have ever had this before. My doctor (actually not MY doctor, since I don't permanently live in San Diego so it was my first time seeing this one) said this is what I have. I did x-rays for bone breaks or spurs, and both were negative.
Basically, here's the best I could describe my injury to you: I was playing baseball, and was tagging up from third to home. Somewhere in between, I felt pain in my heel like I just took a hard step or something somehow. This was the first inning of the game, and I certainly felt like I could play through it. I did, though I was still in little pain. I went to the Padres game that night, and during the game, I got a leg cramp on the same side as my hurt heel (don't know if they were connected). Even walking back to the car it felt like it maybe got worse, so I tried not to walk on it (basically, walking on the front of my left foot). I thought it would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up it felt like it was broken!
Lazy me, I didn't see a doctor, and did what I was doing before (walking on the front of my foot) for a whole week. It began progressively feeling better, then the next Saturday I had another baseball game. Warming up, I was already feeling that whatever was wrong with my heel was obviously still there. I stole a base, and it re-aggravated it. Still played through the whole game, and in my last at-bat, of all things, I fouled one off my heel. Then I knew I was done.
One other thing I noticed is every time I wake up from a nap in a sitting position (like a school desk... don't ask), I wake up with my ENTIRE left leg asleep.
I saw a doctor the next Tuesday, and that's when I got my "report" of retrocalcaneal bursitis. Basically, she says that I can't do much (especially baseball) for the next four weeks. She didn't let me have any aids like crutches, gel packs, or anything... and advised motrin, staying off of my heel, icing 20 minutes three times a day (rolling a frozen water bottle on and off of it), and she also advised new cleats and not to walk bare-footed.
So anyway, I'm visiting home now, and just woke up from a little nap, and now there is actually a small, but consistent, internal sting-like pain. I am not convinced that I will be able to try out again for SDSU baseball, since even Gwynn really thought this year would be my year for him to take me (I feel like that's sort of what he implied last year). Tryouts are October 20th, and I feel like it hasn't really gotten better in three weeks of pretty much being off of it.
Would anyone be able to help me out here? Anything else to speed up the healing process?
Basically, here's the best I could describe my injury to you: I was playing baseball, and was tagging up from third to home. Somewhere in between, I felt pain in my heel like I just took a hard step or something somehow. This was the first inning of the game, and I certainly felt like I could play through it. I did, though I was still in little pain. I went to the Padres game that night, and during the game, I got a leg cramp on the same side as my hurt heel (don't know if they were connected). Even walking back to the car it felt like it maybe got worse, so I tried not to walk on it (basically, walking on the front of my left foot). I thought it would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up it felt like it was broken!
Lazy me, I didn't see a doctor, and did what I was doing before (walking on the front of my foot) for a whole week. It began progressively feeling better, then the next Saturday I had another baseball game. Warming up, I was already feeling that whatever was wrong with my heel was obviously still there. I stole a base, and it re-aggravated it. Still played through the whole game, and in my last at-bat, of all things, I fouled one off my heel. Then I knew I was done.
One other thing I noticed is every time I wake up from a nap in a sitting position (like a school desk... don't ask), I wake up with my ENTIRE left leg asleep.
I saw a doctor the next Tuesday, and that's when I got my "report" of retrocalcaneal bursitis. Basically, she says that I can't do much (especially baseball) for the next four weeks. She didn't let me have any aids like crutches, gel packs, or anything... and advised motrin, staying off of my heel, icing 20 minutes three times a day (rolling a frozen water bottle on and off of it), and she also advised new cleats and not to walk bare-footed.
So anyway, I'm visiting home now, and just woke up from a little nap, and now there is actually a small, but consistent, internal sting-like pain. I am not convinced that I will be able to try out again for SDSU baseball, since even Gwynn really thought this year would be my year for him to take me (I feel like that's sort of what he implied last year). Tryouts are October 20th, and I feel like it hasn't really gotten better in three weeks of pretty much being off of it.
Would anyone be able to help me out here? Anything else to speed up the healing process?
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