Sorry to read about all the injuries LM. I think we all go through periods of that sometimes and hopefully this is just a bad string.
One thing I have prioritized a lot more in recent years is not getting hurt and not getting sick... but since I'm sometimes careless or stupid or (charitably) unlucky, you can't avoid it.
>>plantar fasciitis
I was watching some videos from a woman who is a Feldenkrais practitioner who claims that she can fix PF and people not getting paid to do so say she can. Articles like this
https://www.balancedrunner.com/how-to-fix-plantar-fasciitis-or-plantar-fasciosis/Unfortunately, her writing and videos are just too abstract for me. It may work, but I struggle to connect my body to her words. Maybe it will mean something to you (I don't have PF; I found her for other reasons).
>lifestyle options
I spent about a year pursuing that. I tried to increase my carbohydrates to see if it would bring my SHGB down, but it didn't work.
Well, if eating a lot of carbs help, at least I have that going for me! I looked into the lifestyle options for 10 minutes with a few Google searches and they did not seem likely to have much impact. That's what my neighbor who was a physician who did a lot of TRT with his patients said as well (he injects testosterone as well and thinks everyone over 50 should). Problem is he is also an anti-vaxxer, Covid-denier, anti-masker (not to mention huge Bitcoin booster and climate change denier).
If I took his advice, I would be taking T injections, un-vaxxed, un-masked, heavily invested in Bitcoin and reading books about how the drug companies started Covid to boost profits and using terms like "mass murderers" to refer to companies like Moderna and Pfizer. So basically I discount everything he says, even though he was a practicing physician for a long time, did a lot of blood testing and HRT with a wide variety of patients and his strong bias based on clinical experience is that your experience is typical.
>>ibuprofen
None of that.
>>Strength & stamina have improved
That's good. Any news on where you are on the wait list? What, if anything, is happening there?