Achilles Tendonitis

According to the symptoms described at this page on foot.com I probably have inflamed achilles tendons. Yes, plural, because both of them are extremely painful. This hit my mother when she was about my age, I think, and now she's being treated for a torn tendon (though not the achilles) in her foot.

I wonder if I'll be able to buy a heel cup and a good arch support at Walmart? Maybe I'll need to go to Walgreen's, instead.

In any case, the pain is significantly less with activity and much, much worse first thing in the morning. Nothing like stabbing pain in the back of your ankle to get you going at 5:15 am!