When did you start noticing a difference?
Age doesn’t matter to Tacrolimus much unfortunately.
They said, the way they treat post surgery in Finland is interesting and seems to work really well.
Basically, they want you moving and doing stuff as soon as possible.
They had me walking around on Day 2 of post kidney transplant for example.
I’m around 16. I can recover pretty quickly still, but definitely not as well as I could as a wee lad.
Recently turned 40. Generally speaking, I don’t see a big difference in the heal time of cuts or bruises. My joints on the other hand feel like they don’t hold up like they used to. Recently spent a day helping a buddy cut down and mulch some dying trees on his property, made it through the day no problem. The next three days of recovery were rough though. I feel like a random day of labor like that when I was 30 wouldn’t have had the same impact. I do weigh probably 20 lb more now but I’m also more physically active on a daily basis than I was when I was just a 30-year-old IT geek. That being said, seeing some of the responses here from the 60 and 70-year-olds gives me hope that it’s all in my head.
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I’ve largely avoided any major injuries pretty much my whole life, so I don’t have the best frame of reference
Most scrapes, bruises, cuts, sprains and other common injuries are right as rain in a couple days, maybe a week or two if it’s a particularly bad sprain.
I tend to not get sick too often, but I have noticed that when I do as I get older stuff like a sore throat or cough will linger a few days longer than they used to, fever still breaks in a day or two, and I’ll be feeling just fine otherwise, just that little tickle in my throat sticks around for a while.
45 here, and it depends on the illness/injury. I don’t get ill very often, can get over a cold in a week, still never had COVID (that I’m aware of, knock on wood). But God forbid I get any sort of scratch or cut anywhere on my body, it will always always get infected, always. Yes, I bathe regularly, wash my hands religiously, use anti-bac wound cream, cover the wound, etc, it ALWAYS gets red and itchy and irritated. That never used to happen to me in my 20s or 30s.
Early 20s. There isnt too much of a difference but any wounds I do get now take longer to heal than I remember and the scars stay for somewhat longer too. I could recieve the most cartoonishly outrageous injuries as a kid and in upto a year or so there would be little to no sign of them ever happening but now Im here collecting scars like a whale collects barnacles since they dont go away as fast.
57 and slow healing of injury is the #1 change I have noticed with aging. Not illnesses, those still resolve quickly, and allergies got better, skin got less inflammatory. Recovery from workout soreness seems about the same too.
But injury? I broke my arm when 7 or so, 6 weeks in a cast, couple more to feel normal. Broke my finger at 45 or so, TWO YEARS before it stopped swelling and was normal.
- I haven’t noticed a great slowdown in healing/recovery - I had a knee replacement six years ago and recovered well from that. Never had COVID, rarely get colds. I feel like my health is generally better now than in my youth, when I drank, smoked and took drugs. When the doc suggests I lose weight I want to show him pix of my speed-addled self in the 70s. I was super slim! But so bloody unwell.
54 but much the same story. I’m healthier now in many ways than I was in my youth.
I first noticed slow healing when I hit 27, had a knee injury that FUCKING SUCKED. It was over a year before I could do a knee bend.
Even now, decades later, it still aches when it gets cold.
At a certain age you don’t actually recover anymore. It’s just added to the list of things you’re slowly dying of.
Hovering around 30 and to be honest my immune system has always been made of papier-mâché and butterfly wishes lmao, so I guess no difference.
I did get COVID in the last couple years and never quite properly recovered, but that’s not really related to age.
I try to stay on top of my wiggly joints more to prevent further injury than my teen years gave me, but otherwise am typically fine (by my standards).
I’ve got wiggly joints too! It stayed a purely positive until I lost weight, and now I sometimes wake up with dislocated joints, but it’s not really painful at least. The easy/serious bruising that comes with them is more irritating, I find, because I occasionally wallop myself walking into something.
What do you mean “recover”?
41, I still don’t get sick or injured (🤞)
Late 20s. I get hangovers now, but a bunch of water in the morning clears it up pretty quick. Soreness takes extra stretches and massaging to get rid of. I haven’t been sick in years. Injuries take about the same time, but hurt a bit more.
Early 30s, this year I had knee pain every time I when for a jog, the pain lasted 2 or 3 days each time, it lasted for over a month until I met with my brother who’s a physiotherapist and gave me very simple advice:
- warm up before running
- run in smaller steps, large steps are harder on the knees
- stop or take a break before it starts hurting
- run more often, 3 times per week minimum
The pain was gone in 2~3 weeks. Has not came back since.
It’s not always about the age, sometimes it’s about doing things correctly or getting the right care.
I’m in a similar boat. Can confirm that this is the way.
I’ve had the most injuries in my life this year. Its just been one after another, but I think I’ve learned a lot about how to deal with them; especially the running injuries.
I’m just very stubborn and I tend to overdo it and that backfires every time it seems.
