I have pain in the back and slightly on the outside of my heel. The pain didn’t start overnight. I noticed it in the morning with a little ache but then kept walking on through the rest of the day. The following morning, I couldn’t barely put my weight on it. If I stayed off my feet, then the pain level was acceptable like 2/10. The pain was not sensitive to the touch but only when applied pressure. My heel was not pink and hot. It looked like a bruise (dark). the heel was swollen up a bit. My uric acid test result was high (tested a week after the pain started). Pain is elevated at night after I walked around all day.
Can someone share your experience and recommendation on how to recover fast?
Is gout pain usually pink, hot, and painful to the touch? there are no joints at the heel. If it was at the ankle, then that could be gout. Am I missing something here?
I also have this! You most likely have Plantar fasciitis rather than Gout. (I also get gout in the summer when I forget to drink enough.)
Go to the Doctor to confirm, but the below might help!
The pain with Gout is incredibly sensitive to the touch, hot and angry, right in the joints, often the big toe. Uric acid control tablets, tart cherry juice, and electrolights all help.
The pain with Plantar fasciitis is, as you described, pressure at the heel. For this, I have found that the shoes I wear make a difference; more padding is good. Mine seems to go within a day, but I hear lidocaine injections in the heel work well.
Thanks for replying! I went to the doctor after a week of limping on the cruise and ate good (had beef everyday). Doc to me it might be gout because my Uric acid elevated above the normal range. He described Naproxen and I didn’t drink it because it wasn’t painful. After couple days of research, I found out that my symptoms looked a lot like heel bursitis. Now, I’m just resting a lot and soaking my feet in Epsom salt.
Hi, I have this issue, yes it sounds like planta faciitis.
I do exercises.
You’ll need a doorstep or something safe to stand on.
Stand up on tiptoes and back to normal stance, 10 repeats of this.
Stand on a step with toes and ball of the foot, lower the heal downwards and bring the foot back up again to stretch the foot. 10 repeats of this.
It isn’t a cure but it helps ease the pain.
I do this when I get up and before I go to bed, or if I am experiencing a lot of pain. Hope this helps 
Another for plantar fasciitis. This can be extremely painful and seems particularly worse when getting out of bed or standing up after sitting for a while. That’s a tell-tale sign.
It can also eventually go away after maybe 20-30 minutes of painful walking.
I ended up getting some custom made NHS insoles made after seeing a podiatrist (it was quite a long wait in our particular NHS Trust) - they were quite pushy about getting the mainstream ones but I took along all the ones I’ve bought over the years and showed them how they just don’t provide me enough rise in the heels even when stacked. So they made them for me.
I was advised to try slightly heeled shoes as stretching the foot that way is important, and to avoid walking bare foot at home. I now have some thick spongy flip flops (semi-Crocs like) at home.
It’s also highly likely connected to tight hamstings and overall not stretching which is common with people sitting at the computer all day.
I have flat feet so have had plantar fasciitis issue my whole life, but even my husband now has it, and his feet are naturally high arched.
Hope you get some relief soon.
this is used to get rid of gout, but you need a prescription. It works fast ie within 24-48 hours.
Then once its gone, you take Allipurinol as a preventative measuer, also prescription. I#ve been on these for about 5 years and never had gout return, and i got it a few times before i was given them