u/Flat-Emu1527

sorry i’m writing this on 4 hours of sleep after a stressful day of a final exam and i’m laying in bed trying to sleep for hours now bur cant chz of my stupid feet hurting. i dont get it what the fuck do i do. doctors act like what i have is nothing but oh my god i cant do shit i feel like every activity i do is painful and jow even resting is becoming increasingly painful. i have flat foot and plantar fasciitis which i’ve had since i was 9 or 10 (from what i can rememember) and i’m 19 now. how am i supposed to live life at all with pain. this is one of my many areas of chronic pain but it’s torturing me rn.

sorry this is such a mess i’m just so ??? i feel like doctors don’t care and there’s never any answers or solutions it’s just “exercise and/or deal with it.” i loved the gym but my body felt destroyed and i’d be super sicm affer for weeks. i dont exercise enough and i really enjoy it bur the pain ie havw hinders my abilities to exercise more. plus exercise and losing weight never improved my pain but my worse is continually getting worse. i’m being checked out by a rheumatologist (my second one chz the fjrsr sucked and this one honestly doesn’t seem to be taking me seriously either).

i just feel like doctors think i’m a young afab patient who’s a hypochondriac but NO i am hurting so bad. i wish i could swap bodies with my peers to show them what i feel sometimes because it’s hard to emphasize the pain i feel when i dont outwardly show my struggles.

how do i deal with this how do i get help? i plan on getting a bunch of medical exams done after my exams but rn especially during the exam phase im jjst so exhausted and it’s hard to deal with my body.

Just wondering if anyone with autoimmune disorders also suffers with foot pain (specifically the whole flat side of the foot). I’ve had this pain since I was a little kid (10+ years). I got very visible flat foot and got diagnosed with planatat fasciitis (but honestly my pain isnt at my heel at all so idk if that’s even correct). My foot is in excruciating pain allll the time and gets worse during times of stress and gets super warm and inflamed sometimes.

Because of this inflammation feeling I was wondering if it could be connected to an autoimmune condition. My rheumatologist doesn’t think i could have RA and i’m getting a bunch more labs done in early July as my ANA and neuclesome AK were high. My symptoms aren’t exclusively foot pain but i’ve got chronic pain around my muscles on my shoulder, back, neck and tendons in my hands and general knee pain. Just wondering if anyone knows if my foot pain could be connected to something rheumatological ty