Hi everyone! About me I’m 54, obese and a former marathon runner (17 marathons, one ultra). My arches are high…

I am a high arched former marathon and ultra runner also. I stopped running for a year. I have tried everything! I have recently had 10 sessions of shockwave therapy and started a progressive loading program for my calves and plantar fascia which I do 3-4 times a week at the gym, along with general strength training. I started back a couch to 5K a few weeks ago with no real plain. I am not sure if it’s the physio and shockwave that helped or if it was just time. Hope you find something that works.

K-tape on my feet and heating pads wrapped around my calves really helped me.

I have very high arches too. Tried all remedies you did and nothing really worked, so I stopped. Then from one day to the next my foot was fine. Took about six months. Still a mystery

I would not not exercise at all. It’s a fine line between exercise and rest. Loading it is what I did and I’m fine now.

I have high arches and exclusively wear Birkenstocks (in the house and out) and Altras for exercise. The pool will be your best friend for working out and not aggravating the PF. It took me a year, but I healed mine! I attribute it to the Arizona softbed Birks!

I also have very high arches. For slides, oofos have helped a lot. For sneakers, the new Nike Structure Plus is great for high arches! I also take out the insert on the Nikes and put in Fit Geno arch support for plantar fasciitis inserts. Got them off Amazon and they help a lot too!

I have high arches and really love Walk Hero insoles on Amazon. They say for flat feet but they’ve helped me a ton.

I would recommend continuing to exercise and strengthen- as much as you can without causing yourself too much (additional) pain. Swim, bike- whatever you are able to tolerate.

Swim, bike but no run. Weights are fine.

Used Oofos to get out of flare. I now wear zero drop shoes

Change your shoes up every time your feet gets sore - that’s helped me the most. Also, I started walking barefoot they tell you not to, but I think I needed to build the muscles in my feet. I could only do a couple steps at a time, but it was like my body was craving it and my feet were craving it. I didn’t rest enough initially. I think initially you have to rest, especially during the swelling stage - after that it’s more about building muscle in my opinion. Toe separators helped me and the night splint helped me the most probably I did get the Brooks shoes. I can’t remember what kind with happy feet arches. I would say close to a year later. I am probably 80% healed.

Chacos shoes

I have the same (high arches, underpronate, was running 40+ miles per week). I’ve improved but I’m not fully recovered (it’s been 5 months). A running store directed me to Brooks Ghosts, too. They were terrible for me. I’m running in Atra FWD Vias. They’re much better for me. I do use KT tape and something called a plantar fascia aircast ( found on Amazon) that fits in my running shoe. I did three rounds of shockwave and that seemed to promote healing more than anything else. I’m probably going to go back for more.

I started taking vitamin D and within days it disappeared

This sounds really crazy.. I started sleeping on a heated mattress pad and my calves and foot feel better. I would say 10% better which is better than 0%.

Birkenstocks are great for high arches . But you have to have ankle support with high arches . Heat and kt tape

Try Arch Rival inserts!

Really good strapping with a rigid strapping tape is always my go to. And massage those tight calf muscles xxxx

Oofos! The Oofos Omega gave me my life back 💯

I too have extremely high arches and Vionic Tide flip flops work the best for me.

Thank you all so much for the input!

I'm wearing a Sketchers John Deere with a castor oil pad inside while stretching my calf. It's my second day with PF. Better equipment is ordered but this may actually be better.