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I woke up at 2:47 AM with my heels throbbing like they had their own heartbeat. Again. For the third time this week. The pain was so intense I could feel it pulsing through my entire foot, keeping me wide awake while my wife slept peacefully beside me. I tried shifting positions, hanging my feet off the edge of the bed, even getting up to walk around. Nothing helped. Just laid there staring at the ceiling, listening to that throb-throb-throb in my heels, knowing I had to be up for work in four hours. This has been my life for the past six months. Fall asleep exhausted around 11 PM, then jolted awake sometime between 2 and 4 AM by stabbing pain. Spend the rest of the night tossing and turning, dreading those first steps to the bathroom in the morning. Those first steps are pure hell. Like someone lined the floor with broken glass and said "walk on this." I literally have to hold onto the wall and shuffle like an old man just to make it ten feet. At 34 years old. By the time I get to work, I'm already exhausted. Running on maybe four hours of broken sleep, popping ibuprofen with my morning coffee, hoping I can make it through the day. But you can't function on no sleep. My focus is shot, my patience is gone, everything feels harder when you're dead tired. My wife started sleeping in the guest room. "I can't deal with you tossing and turning all night," she said. "One of us should get some rest." Can't blame her. But now I'm not just dealing with the pain - I'm dealing with it alone, in the dark, with nothing but my own thoughts for company. The worst part is the mornings. I used to pop out of bed ready to tackle the day. Now I lie there for ten minutes, mentally preparing myself for the agony of standing up. Sometimes I actually count to three before putting my feet down, like I'm about to jump into ice water. I tried everything to get some relief. Those Dr. Scholl's heel pads that promise "all-day comfort." Lasted maybe two hours before the pain came roaring back. Bought a heating pad for nighttime. Did nothing. Even tried those compression socks that are supposed to improve circulation. Still woke up in agony. My doctor suggested cortisone shots. "It'll reduce the inflammation," he said. The shot itself was brutal - felt like he was injecting fire directly into my heel. Gave me maybe three weeks of decent sleep before the pain returned with a vengeance. That's when my coworker Dave saw me limping around the office like a zombie. "Man, you look terrible. When's the last time you got a full night's sleep?" "Can't remember," I told him. "My heels hurt so bad at night, they wake me up constantly." "Heels hurting at night? That's plantar fasciitis. I had the same thing. Couldn't sleep for months." "Had? Past tense?" "Yeah, figured out what was really causing it. Turns out it wasn't actually a heel problem at all." Dave explained something that blew my mind. The reason my heels hurt worst at night and first thing in the morning wasn't because of inflammation in my heel. It was because my ankle alignment was off, putting constant tension on the tissue in my foot. When I was off my feet for hours, that tissue would try to heal in the shortened position. Then when I stood up, it would stretch and tear all over again. "It's like having a rubber band under constant tension," he said. "Eventually it's going to snap back and hurt when you stretch it." That's why ice and heat didn't help. That's why anti-inflammatories only worked temporarily. I was treating the symptom while the real problem - my ankle alignment - kept creating new damage every single day. Dave told me about these insoles that actually fix the ankle alignment issue. Not cushioning insoles that just absorb impact. Not arch supports that push up from below. But insoles with precision heel cups that guide your ankle into proper position, taking the stress off that inflamed tissue. They're called TruSole Ankle Support Alignment Insoles. Dave showed me how they worked differently from everything else I'd tried. Instead of masking the pain, they addressed the biomechanical problem causing it. I was desperate enough to try anything. Ordered a pair that Friday. The first night, I slept from 11 PM to 6 AM without waking up once. Thought it might be a fluke. Second night, same thing. Solid seven hours of uninterrupted sleep. By the end of the first week, those brutal morning steps were just... normal steps. No wall-grabbing, no shuffling, no mental preparation. Just got up and walked to the bathroom like a regular human being. Two weeks in, my wife moved back into our bedroom. "You're not tossing and turning anymore," she said. "And you're not grumpy all the time." She was right. When you're actually getting rest, everything in life gets easier. A month later, I realized I hadn't taken ibuprofen in over two weeks. Hadn't woken up in the middle of the night in pain. Hadn't dreaded getting out of bed. For the first time in months, I felt like myself again. Here's what kills me: TruSole was available the whole time I was suffering. But nobody talks about ankle alignment being the root cause of nighttime heel pain. Everyone focuses on inflammation and cushioning, missing the real problem completely. Dave told me thousands of people are lying awake right now, dealing with this same pain, thinking they just have to live with it. When really, they just need to fix the ankle alignment issue that's creating the problem. My sleep tracker shows I'm now averaging 7.2 hours of solid sleep per night. Haven't seen numbers like that since before this nightmare started. My energy is back, my mood is better, my whole life improved just from being able to sleep through the night pain-free. TruSole is running a promotion right now for people who've been struggling with nighttime foot pain. T hey know how desperate you get when you can't sleep, and they don't want cost to be a barrier to getting your rest back. If you're reading this at 3 AM because your heels woke you up again, don't suffer through another sleepless night. You deserve to sleep peacefully through the night and wake up refreshed, not in agony. Click the link below to see if TruSole Ankle Support Alignment Insoles could finally give you the pain-free sleep you've been missing. Your body needs rest to heal, and you can't get rest when you're in constant pain.