Aging 🫠
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Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's not necessarily abuse to not react strongly to your child having a minor injury, but that could be a reason why. It could also be you learned to mask your pain to avoid further abuse.
I also have a stupid high pain tolerance (like making it through my vasectomy without anesthesia while only saying ouch under my breath, because my surgeon didn't believe I could still feel everything), but my mom knew about this from her masters degree and applied it to me.
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Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
it's always the abuse.
my wife was neglected as a child and always told to "walk it off".
our first child, she didn't have any pain mitigation. the nurses were horrified but morbidly curious.
when she says it hurts I believe it would incapacitate a normal person.
personally, I have worked on mind-over-matter pain mitigation (I fell asleep during a root canal) but hers takes it to a whole new level.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
48yo alpinist who climbs 5.12+ here. I'm constantly injured. If you're not doing regular training for injury prevention it will come back to bite you in your 50's or 60's and you will not have the framework to navigate the injury without further fitness loss and a downward spiral of capabilities.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
The rock gym is where I fucked up my shoulders. That was the beginning of the end. That, then office job, then kids, then pandemic. I'm working on regaining some movement, though.
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By far my favorite.
“EARTH!”
“FIRE!”
“WIND!”
“WATER!”
“MCDONALD’S!”
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I actually keep a velcro wrap in the backpack I take everywhere because between decades of being a dancer, soccer player, and a roller derby skater and the injuries I had doing those things, coupled with my age, it's eminently possible for me to just 'step wrong' and have to wrap up an ankle.
I have an ace bandage in my gear bag for the same reason. Though, the ace bandage is a bit unhelpful when I strain my hip on a high kick.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
I'm still active in my 40's and I have a bunch of nagging sports injuries, some of which trace back 20+ years. Overuse injuries are common, too. Ask pretty much any serious runner or lifter or full time athlete, and they'll all have things that they just live with.
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The rock gym is where I fucked up my shoulders. That was the beginning of the end. That, then office job, then kids, then pandemic. I'm working on regaining some movement, though.
You got this bro.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
Yep, same age here. I have a herniated disk. I stretch in the AM and before bed. Probably once a year I'll do something stupid like lift something way to heavy and aggravate it, and then I just take it easy for a day or two and I'm fine again. People just don't move around anymore, everyone is sedentary now. Just getting you 10k steps in helps a ton.
Hell if you're a gamer like me, get walkscape and play a game with the amount of steps you do in a day.
Just move around.
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I walked up a hill and hurt my hip a bit. Then I got excited and jumped around dancing later that night, and BAM. Hip has hurt for 4 days now (as in, hobble-walking), and considering my track record, will now hurt just slightly until I die and doctors will have no fucking idea why.
In my experience, persistent joint pain can be mitigated by working the muscles that pad that joint.
Consider doing some yoga or basic tai-chi that will stretch the region that is in pain. As you move through forms and poses you will figure out which muscle or muscle group needs to be strengthened and you will find movements that work it.
I've got some gnarly arthritis so my joints are always inflamed. Yoga helps me to keep the muscles strong enough to power through the inflammation without pain, though with arthritis it always hurts a little 🥲
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In my experience, persistent joint pain can be mitigated by working the muscles that pad that joint.
Consider doing some yoga or basic tai-chi that will stretch the region that is in pain. As you move through forms and poses you will figure out which muscle or muscle group needs to be strengthened and you will find movements that work it.
I've got some gnarly arthritis so my joints are always inflamed. Yoga helps me to keep the muscles strong enough to power through the inflammation without pain, though with arthritis it always hurts a little 🥲
Thanks for the advice. I actually do yoga and am permanently doing Physical Therapy for my other hip (since doctors said there’s nothing physically wrong with it), so I guess I’ll just keep at it. I also have to remember to actually rest the area when it’s so injured that I’m limping…
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
It is good to see this comment. Seeing the same joke of "I'm 30 and basically invalid" repackaged over and over on the internet and so many people finding it relatable is worrying.
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I feel this. I can make my ankle audibly crunch on command by rotating it the right way
My ankles, wrists, and shoulders have done that as long as i remember
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I have a toddler, and when he cuts himself or skins his knee, I'm pretty sure I can see the healing happening when you look close.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
...fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn't quite what it was twenty years ago...
...fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge...
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It is good to see this comment. Seeing the same joke of "I'm 30 and basically invalid" repackaged over and over on the internet and so many people finding it relatable is worrying.
It only takes a few years of inactivity and overeating for your body to become a total wreck. There's nothing stopping 30-year-olds from doing it.
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Wow it's been ages since I've seen VG Cats.
RAT-MACE!
I thought it was a rat flail?
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I thought it was a rat flail?
Dude
It was so long ago, probably. But it was a rat tied to a stick and I laughed my ass off
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Dude
It was so long ago, probably. But it was a rat tied to a stick and I laughed my ass off
Let’s relive that moment. https://vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=110
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it's always the abuse.
my wife was neglected as a child and always told to "walk it off".
our first child, she didn't have any pain mitigation. the nurses were horrified but morbidly curious.
when she says it hurts I believe it would incapacitate a normal person.
personally, I have worked on mind-over-matter pain mitigation (I fell asleep during a root canal) but hers takes it to a whole new level.
fell asleep during a root canal
Fell asleep? Or passed out?
Ever seen 127 Hours? When he cuts through the nerves? That's what it felt like for me 1 out of 4 times. I don't think it's a pain response tbh. More like a similar effect to cutting on a video cord slowly and the signal getting distorted.
