Vibit ad: 3 pairs of hokas didn't fix my plantar fasciitis

I am SO sick of every nurse on the internet telling me to buy Hokas for plantar fasciitis. I own 3 pairs. My heel got worse in every one of them. Last Saturday I stood at the farmers market for 2 hours on concrete with my sister. In June I was limping the 3 minutes from my car to the staff entrance. I'm 52. ED nurse, 24 years. Right heel mostly, and the left one started joining in last year. Ask any nursing group about your feet and you know what comes back. Hokas. Danskos. Get the Bondis. Get the wide ones. Better socks. So I did. All of it. Hokas, 3 pairs in 2 years. $510. Danskos, the clogs half my unit swears by. $140. Superfeet insoles to go inside the Danskos. $55. Compression socks, 4 pairs. $140. A night splint I kicked off in my sleep every night. $40. A podiatrist. $180 to tell me to stretch and buy better shoes. Custom orthotics from that podiatrist. $450. $1,515. And my heel got worse. And every new pair worked for about 3 weeks. Then the heel came back and I decided the shoes had "worn out" and bought the next ones. They didn't wear out. They never touched the problem. The worst part of my day was 6:40am. The 3 minute walk from the car to the staff entrance. I'd roll on the outside of my right foot until it loosened up. I timed it so I wasn't walking in next to anyone I knew. At the med room counter I stood with my right foot up on the little bar underneath, like a bird on a wire. I stopped the evening walk with my husband. He still asks. I still say I'm tired. I said no to my sister's 50th because it was on a boat and there's nowhere to sit on a boat. Then my granddaughter asked if I was walking funny on purpose. She's 7. She wasn't being mean. She just noticed. What I hadn't told anyone was that I'd started looking at the triage desk shifts. The sit-down ones we quietly give to nurses on their way out of ED. I wasn't ready to be on my way out of anything. Then Angie from physio caught me on the bird bar in the break room. She didn't say "oh you poor thing." She said, "Rach, how many pairs of shoes have you bought for that heel?" I said 4, counting the clogs. "And how many of them touched the part that's actually tight?" I didn't understand the question. She said, "If your parking brake's on, do you fix it with new tires?" "No." "That's you. 4 sets of tires. Parking brake still on." The brake is your calf. The fascia runs the whole length of your foot and it's tied straight into your calf. 12 hours on a hard floor, year after year, and the calf and the band seize up. Less blood gets through, so they get tighter, so less blood gets through. Your heel is just where the pulling hurts. A shoe is on the outside. It softens the landing. It can't get anywhere near a rock-hard calf pulling from above. Then she told me what she uses on her own feet, because physios stand all day too. It's called a Vibit. A roller about the length of your foot with around 90 pressure points. You press the button and it vibrates. The pressure gets into the tight band like a physio's thumb that never gets tired. The vibration pushes blood back through it, so the calf lets go and doesn't lock straight back up by morning. "Calf first," she said. "The calf is the pump. Leave the sore heel alone for a week." The guided routines that come with it go in that order anyway. About 10 minutes. She lent me her spare that night. I did it on the living room floor while my husband watched the game. It is not comfortable. It finds the exact spot and sits on it. About 5 minutes in, the whole back of my lower leg went warm and heavy. I stood up to go to bed and the first step didn't hurt. I stood there in the hallway and put the foot down again to check. Then again. My husband muted the TV and asked what I was doing. I said, "Walking." I ordered my own on my break the next day. Week 1, the 6:40 walk in went from an 8 to about a 5. I stopped timing it around people. Week 2, a full med round flat on both feet. No bird bar. I only noticed at the end. Week 3, my husband said I'd stopped tiptoeing in the kitchen. I didn't know I'd been tiptoeing in the kitchen. Week 5, the farmers market. 2 hours. I bought a plant I didn't need just because I could stand there long enough to choose one. I took my name off the triage list the same week. I'm still in Hokas, by the way. They're good shoes. They were just never going to let the brake off. Honestly, the only reason I bought it was the guarantee. After $1,515 I was not spending one more dollar on a maybe. It was 40% off, it comes with the guided routines, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. Use it for a month, and if your feet don't feel like different feet, send it back for a full refund. They make them in small batches though, and they do sell out. Here's the link if you're interested: https://vibit.com.au/products/the-vibit My granddaughter hasn't mentioned my walking since. She's moved on to my hair.