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@mitchell007

Hi, interesting you mentioned your heels, was the same for me, had bone spurs in both heels, years ago whilst working in USA, I live in New Zealand now, only a few Months ago I accidentally found the DISH diagnosis whilst in Hospital with another injury.
My neck gives the most trouble headaches associated with muscles trying to support my neck.
My back is the most painful, a back support brace helps a lot, I use vert sparingly ordinary panadol when absolutely necessary for a while of relief.
Walking I find good relief and keep busy with anything.

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I had to look up, and I was pretty sure what the medication‘s were that you were referring to. Vert is meclizine, which makes sense because it is for vertigo. Panadol is our acetaminophen or Tylenol. I use Tylenol twice a day every day & occasionally an extra dose, depending on what I’ve done for the day. I’m actually considering getting the long acting product to see if that helps any.
I don’t have as much in my neck yet, and I say yet because it seems to be going everywhere. But I have bone spurs in both shoulders and have had radio frequency. Ablation‘s done there as well as in my back. I was wondering if you have orthotics that were made for you because of the bone spurs in your feet. Like I said, I have them on the bottom of both feet and on the back of both feet. Sometimes makes it difficult to have shoes with a backing . I am going to see a podiatrist next Friday and hopefully they can give me some answers and see if I can have some treatment with laser on my feet to break up the bone spurs. Not sure if I can or not and I’m not sure if I do if it will make them come back worse. It is strange how many of us have the bone spurs in our feet. Good luck to you Mitchell. It seems that you are doing the best you can with medication and exercise.