TLDR: Retail worker that is needs help dealing with Achilles pain.
This is kind of a part 2 of a previous post, but oh well. On July 14, I suffered some pretty bad pain in my right ankle/achilles area. I had to call my boss that I might not be able to work tomorrow and she told me to check on the doctor about it. I went to urgent care the next day and the doctor told me that I did not sprain my ankle but I had Achilles tendonitis (simply meaning that my achilles muscle is pretty inflamed).
After the doctors visit things seem to get pretty better with the medicine (indocin) that she gave me and getting my rest since I was able to have a day off. As a result, I decided to not schedule an update appointment with my family doctor (which I kind of regret but also I thought that my family doctor did not have any dates available).
Fast forward to today, since I have a vacation this week, I had to work eight days straight from last Monday to yesterday. now my left side is feeling the pain as well. I don’t know what to do because I’m trying to play it off as I’m OK because I don’t want to seem as unproductive but I know that this pain is gonna be killing me quite a bit.
I need advice as to what shoes I should wear and what remedies can work. I have tried icing my ankles, putting Green Eagle medicine (to all my Asians out there lol), and taking indocin. The retail store I work at is also pretty strict about dress code, so I need some thing that is not too casual and without any logos.