However, don’t start stretching based simply on my experience. Iwouldn’t want your condition to get worse because of a bad assumptionthat it might help.
The symptom I felt was similar to gout, in that there was a slightswelling at the back of the heel, and pain when walking. (hobbling) Theless I used it, the worse it seemed to get. My wife noticed that mycalf muscle was very tight in the same leg, and that was the clue todiscovering the cause. Treatment of the tightness in the calf -stretching and massage - relieved the heel pain as well.

A well documented side effect from taking allopurinol is joint,tendon and muscle aches that can come close to crippling you forshort periods of time, i.e. a day or two. It always goes away but itis not an easy condition to deal with. Indeed it does not feel like agout attack but is, nontheless, painful and difficult to deal with.Mine and those reported by other allopp[urinol takers, are no wherenear the same intensity as a real gout attack and not nearly as longlived. If you are on allopurinol, it suggests that you are notgetting enough water through your system.

I get the same kind of pains you describe after a workout and it isespecially true if I am in the third succesive day of a regularworkout routine. I find that if I push through mine and keep thewater intake at a high level, it all pretty much goes away.

I doubt if it is uric acid but I suspect that it is some othermetabolite, or combination of metabolites, that your body is just notgood at processing. In other words I am speculating-and this is myown pure speculation here, that in addition to not being abble toremove sufficient uric acid, your body also is unable to remove othermetabolites as well. Actually one of my primary candidate is lacticacid. I’m sure you know the culprit. It’s the one that makes you sosore you can hardly walk when you play softball at the company picnicafter not having played, or for that matter even run hard, for overfive years.

I do not think the pain I get is from uric acid crystals, but, I dobelieve it is caused by the same metabolic failure mechanisms thatcause the excess uric acid.

Increase the water intake, take a celebrex or two and I bet it goesaway pretty easily.