# Plantar Fasciitis

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plantar-fasciitis/376216>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 12, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plantar-fasciitis/376216 "2006-10-12T16:55:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plantar-fasciitis/376216/21 "2006-10-14T15:40:33Z")

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Doh’ … Make that "now that I am **insured**

I guess I’m just so used to being uninsured… LOL

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**Author:** ![Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montgomery_Burns)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plantar-fasciitis/376216/22 "2006-10-16T13:40:15Z")

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[QUOTE=DoctorJ]  
Last week I had an iontophoresis treatment with dexamethasone, which is an alternative to the injection, and it seemed to do me some good; I’ll probably continue those for a while.  
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I had 6 iontoporesis treatments. I don’t know what compound they were using. They improved things short term quite a bit, but it seemed like after a couple of days the pain was back to about the level it was before the treatment. I think overall they helped but I seemed to reach a plateau as far as pain goes and unfortunately that plateau isn’t at a point were I am anywhere near pain free. Hopefully you will have a better response.

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