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erica,

LOL! thankfully they were only that bad ONCE!

i got back from boston, stayed off my feet, literally for ~6 weeks and iced iced iced for a month, all day every day, rotating ice packs, then alternated ice and heat and stretched stretched stretched, all day long every day for the next two weeks, and that's how i successfully on my own, cured that horrible bout of "tendonitis". when i finally saw my physiatrist a few months later, she was impressed that i could do it without PT intervention, without cortisone injections, without ultrasound (before i had my own US, which i now do use as soon as the tendonitis rears its ugly head too much).

i still get it if i walk too much or am in a flare, but its NOTHING like it was when it first hit. talk about crippling. my PF can't hold a candle to that (knock on wood).