Old age aches and pain

[mrsnikkisixx]

I’m soon to be 52, and I’m a mess. I have Graves Disease, congestive heart failure, lymphedema, arthritis, and a plethora of aches and pains that plague me every day. I’m currently walking with a cane, because who the hell knows what I did to my knee / ass , as I can barely bend my leg, and it runs to my ass. Otherwise, I’m doing great !! What’s really screwed up is that I don’t look like a candidate for those maladies.

[DemonFilth2001]

6' and 215 right now... put a few back on...

haha, you're as heavy as Donald Trump, and 3 inches shorter!!

Damn.i.laughed. Stevie had to have at least chuckled.

[Turner Coates]

Damn.i.laughed.

Thanks.
At least somebody did.

And If Stevie were a woman (or dating Valerie Bertinelli), I'd probably be banned by now.

[ijwthstd]

Lower back issue since 2005-ish combined with a balance issue due to my right ear being a bit worse off than my left ear. Hearing damage that favored my right ear or impacted ear wax from taking the ear plugs in and out? No idea but I did have a lot of ear infections as a little kid and my mom says I have deformed ear canals.

A few years ago I had trouble reading ingredients labels. Last week I had to deep dive of box of DAT tapes for the first time in a few years. Couldn't read a single one but at least I had some sort of memory of what the tape I scribbled on in 1996 looked like oddly enough. Same thing but to a lesser degree going thru some borrowed boxes of tapes.

I am clumsy and accident prone, fell on the rocks at Brand Park last week and really skinned my calf bad. I barely looked at it even after I washed the dirt off but my girlfriend was very alarmed that half the skin was scabbed over. Now I was always used to falling off my bike and getting hurt as a kid, even had stitches once or twice but apparently she was the kind who never let her kids play outside so it looks even worse to her. And then I fell in the shower last night but somehow landed a direct hit against the tile on the top of my head and it sounded like a balloon popping but it was spread pretty evenly across the crown and doesn't even hurt but gotta be more careful.

I am a total caffeine fiend and decided to give my old overactive bladder a break and quit cold turkey. Not quit quit, but take a break as I have been known to do in the past. This time I had caffeine withdrawals so bad I threw up and I never throw up.

The odometer turns over in a few weeks and I am going to have to really plot some sort of health care strategy. I neglected it for so long due to poverty (combined with chronic depression) and like might as well enjoy what little money I have rather than throwing it into the insurance premium furnace but it almost accidentally turned around, actually a few years after the depression faded, making my 40's the best decade of my life but I know I can't pretend I will never get sick forever.

Otherwise I have been so incredibly blessed to be relatively healthy for most of my life but naturally unless I suffer a violent and instant death, it's not sustainable and it's giving me just a tad bit of anxiety because I am not used to going to the doctor or feeling my mind and body gradually acclimate itself to the inevitable.

[GoodJudge]

Do you have to piss 2-3x in the middle of the night?

51, reasonably good health except for gig-induced tinnitus and work stress (finished at 12.40am today, 5 hours sleep and start again, though that's a rarity) but the night peeing is what really gets me. I chug water at work but barely have a drop after 6pm, usually go to bed between 10 / 11 so 4 hours should be enough for it all to pass through - but no! The 2am bladder alarm clock goes off most nights. I know just about all men have this, but still...

[rubysdad]

Almost 47. No aches or pains. Eat fukken garbage everyday. Im like a human trash can. Never have to take a leak in the middle of the night. Still thin and have all my hair. Feel like a millilon bucks.

The genetic switch flicks at 50.
Laugh while you can monkey boy.

[AlexVonHaig]

My wife listens to country music. The pain is unbearable. Ive seen the specialists for this. Noise cancelling headphones, ear plugs, separate bedrooms. Nothing seems to work.

[DiamondDog]

Memory must be an issue here, because I'm sure this thread was just done like a month ago.

[DonJuanDeMarco]

Oh man.... I've had it all! You name it. It's happened to me at least once.

Unsolicited advice here but you really just gotta deal with your aches, pains, diseases, cancer, broken bones, whatever gets thrown at you....Deal with it right away and focus on healing. Then after that, you just live with it. Work with what you've got.

After work one day I saw a 3 legged dog walking around. This motherfucker was wagging his tail, sticking out his tongue, enjoying the summer sun in his eyes. Climbed up a flight of stairs going up to the overpass. A 3 legged dog climbing up the stairs like nothing was wrong. Didn't give a fuck. Just enjoying life.

That's my goal. To be as happy as that 3 legged dog.

[BulletProofPoet]

Will be 52 in October. I have had frozen shoulder since the beginning of the year and it sucks. Pain in my shoulder and lack of range of movement. Certain movements send shockwaves of pain into my shoulder. Also don’t sleep well because of it. Completely sucks. Have had to become left handed because my right arm doesn’t function properly anymore. Steroid shot helped with the pain and apparently it will unfreeze at some point but that could be a couple years.

[JamesHetfieldsAcneScars]

Oops

[JamesHetfieldsAcneScars]

Fukken pbone

[JamesHetfieldsAcneScars]

Gott dammit

[Luigi]

So many happy stories here! But what did I expect really ?

I feel your pains and I'm glad we have the Sludge to vent!

[EzyRider]

"Life is a bitch ... then you die"

You people are soft AF!!

Read Goggins book and sign up for a local race before the end of the year!!

https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Hurt-Me-Mas ... 1544512279

[Turner Coates]

Three Legs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnhGWAg4jkQ

[Black Stuff]

as long as I get up in the morning, all else is gravy.

[RicksPickWrangler]

60 here. Got really fat about 10 years ago. Felt miserable so decided to do something about it.

Exercise. Our bodies were not evolved to sit in chairs all day. Walking is how I started, then got back into weight training. Ever heard about the 1% loss of lean muscle mass every year over the age of 40 if you don't do resistance training? I'm not into the bodybuilder thing, just built up some muscle to make everyday tasks easier and less fatiguing. And stretching is important. I start every workout with 20 minutes of stretching mostly focusing on my shoulders (torn labrum, partially torn bicep, rotator cuffs with tons of wear). And that muscle you maintain and maybe build up? It burns calories, something your body does less well as you age.

Diet. Garbage in garbage out. Look at what you are eating closely and it will be obvious what needs to change. Fast food will be the death of a lot of us. Salads don't have to suck. Lean protein is your friend. And water, drink a shit ton of it every day. Supplements help, especially if your diet sucks. Glucosamine, Fish Oil, Multivitamins, and antioxidants are your new best friends. And ditch the pills and booze, they are doing you no favors. That said I do allow myself a couple drinks a week, almost always one at a time).

Your mentals*. It's not very Sludge to talk about addressing what's happening with your mental health, but it's not something to neglect. Helpful, competent, and discrete help is available (and most medical plans will cover some of it too). Don't sleep on this (and oh yeah, get those 8 hours every night). A Therapist may be what you need, or (like me) standing outside in the sun taking in a long look at nature will put you in a better place.

Whatever path you take, good luck...cause your too young to be feeling that old.


*thanks Marshawn Lynch

[GreatWhiteSnake]

I can't get up out of a chair or couch or in and out of a car without making old man noises. Apparently they are very annoying...