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.
Early 30s and I’d say I haven’t noticed much of a difference when it comes to recovery. I’m actually getting sick much more rarely than when I was younger, but I guess that’s down to working from home and not having to sit in a cramped classroom each day.
Mid 30s.
I get maybe a cold or two per year, which last around 3 days.
And apart from some bruises and small cuts I haven’t been injured in decades.
I’d say no change so far.
Same, but with one caveat, sports.
I was never much into sports, but always did some sport in my childhood. In my late teens or early twenties, I stopped doing sports all together. I picked it back up at 28/29 and have build some decent strength and stamina since. Now I’m 35 and I notice it takes a bit longer to recover from a heavy workout. Also there’s other places that start hurting after a tough workout, like my back and knees.
I’m from an area where colds/flus are more common and I haven’t noticed a change with those yet either. I noticed a small difference in recovery from knee injuries in my late twenties compared to my teens, but I know that’s not bad yet.
Well done on not being injured for decades! I don’t think that’ll ever be true for me, lol.
Late twenties and I do recover quickly - from flu and such stuff - touchwood… However, there is this trapezius ache I get often days maybe because of being on laptop or phone more. For wounds - they do get healed as usual they would at the moment also. But I’ve noticed there is more anxiety and fear of what if…this isn’t getting cured soon enough what will happen…kinda inner monologue because maybe I have so much information now…
I also saw my grandparent die from gangarin - and so even thou I get a small injury I fear it turning it into something worse always after that incident. So I carry too much trauma now thou…
I (mid-thirties) had a 12 hour stomach bug on Friday and my body is still just exhausted. I’m trying to figure out if I just need to gain a little weight to make a couple of days without many calories less impactful or if this is just aging.
Not injuries luckily but with 28-29 I have started to realze I cannot get drjnk anymore without fealing like I got into a car crash the next day. Upnuntil then I could go out partying Fridday, Saturday and have the energy to go to the Gym on Sunday.
Aa for illnesses, I have a “chronic” one that turns most of the colds i have into bronchitis / pneumonia… but luckily I got it under controll with meds. Bettwr said we figure the med mix out. So I can’t say if it’s gotten worse.
Late 50’s and always been fit. I had a crash on my motorcycle (off road, went over the bars) which took three weeks to recover from. Serious bruising to both legs as they caught on the bars. Had trouble walking for three days. Limped for over two weeks. Still got legs that range from yellow to purple.
Finally figuring out that my teen years are behind me. Now reconsidering buying a Ducati desmo450mx. Might have to be a fucking golf cart instead.
Guessing you’ve been riding awhile so you might have heard these statistics already but in case you didn’t:
You’re thirty times more likely to die per mile traveled on a motorcycle compared to a car.
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813732
You’re playing Russian roulette with a theoretical hundred chamber revolver. Dude in a car puts in one bullet spins and pulls the trigger. Dude on a motorctcle puts in thirty before their turn. Most people watching would put a raincoat on before he pulls.
That is a fuckton more risk.
Put it this way: You wouldn’t drive when you’re drunk right?
But per mile driven, you’re actually safer driving drunk in a car than sober on a motorcycle if that helps put things into perspective. You’re actually more than twice as likely to die sober on a motorcycle compared to driving drunk in a car. It is mind blowing how dangerous it is.
If you have any people that depend on you, might wanna consider hanging up your spurs :o
Yeah, I know the statistics. My crash I spoke about was off road, on private farmland, riding my enduro bike. I do ride on road, as well as on closed circuits when I can, but two wheels is no longer my only form of transport. I used to do over 100,000 km a year on road, on various motorcycles. Now it’s closer to 15,000.
I understand the risks. I also know what it does for me and my mental health.
I’ll never give it up. Well, unless I’m a danger to others.
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.
30s, I am much slower to bounce back from muscular injuries, and if I smash my knee, it’s gonna be a week before I don’t need a brace. Being overweight is a big part of that though. I’m sure if I had kept my weight off after my last surgery 10 years ago I’d be quicker to recover joint injuries.
Illnesses are about the same? Maybe? Idk whenever I got a cold I would be miserable for a week, and that hasn’t changed. Every so often I’ll get something that knocks me on my ass for 2-4 days, and when I was younger it was probably only 1-2 days. I was sick much more as a kid though so that’s likely one reason, my immune system isn’t exposed to as many things anymore so illnesses that DO hurt are worse than they used to be. I’m not a biologist though, and pathology sounds like what a startup company that makes designer walkways would call themselves.
I also think I’m much funnier than I used to, but that’s likely unrelated to illnesses…
41 years old. I generally catch a cold once every couple of years. It will last a couple days to maybe a week if it’s bad. This is about the same as it’s been since I quit smoking 15 years ago. I haven’t noticed any change in injury healing time.
At almost 40, I’m finding I still recover from most injuries fairly quickly. Roll an ankle in the grass? Good as I’ve always been within a minute or two. Strain a muscle? A day of rest and I’m back in working order.
I dread the day when this starts to change.
45, and dunno. Haven’t been sick with anything but food poisoning since boot camp.
I seem to recover from vaccines better than most of my peers though.
I’ve only hurt myself while sleeping once so far, and that just made that day suck.
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.
At a certain age you don’t actually recover anymore. It’s just added to the list of things you’re slowly dying of.
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.
