My knee began hurting in my twenties after a fall. I went to my GP who told me it was just a sprain and to exercise. The pain never really went away, and then one day in my late forties the dog yanked me on his leash to try and chase a cat and it popped in a funny way, and I saw an orthopedic surgeon who told me I should have had surgery in my twenties to correct a malaligned kneecap, and that now it was too late and I would be prone to medial collateral ligament injuries like the one I currently had. I've done a bunch of physio but I still avoid stairs because it's one surefire way it's going to aggravate my injury.
Just another example of doctors not taking women's complaints seriously. A referral to Ortho would have taken five minutes of his time.
I empathize with your story, but I'm not sure why it became about anti-women doctors. Men constantly have our complaints misdiagnosed.
The problem is that most GPs aren't very good. People who do the best in medical school often choose to become surgeons or specialists, not GPs.
Idk, I can simply say there's a lot of jokes women make about how you can go in with a broken ankle and your doctor will ask you the date of your last period and tell you you should get some exercise. Though I did work with an excellent gynecologist who disposed of the scale in his office because it didn't mean he wasn't going to treat his patients or make any difference to their care.
GPs also make shit money and work a lot of hours to be fair though, but yeah some of them really are the pits.
I'm in my 40s and I have experienced all of these at some point in my life but it's hardly part of my personality. Someone really observant might be able to tell I baby my left knee a bit and my right hip is often tight.
But geez none of these were issues at thirty. None are issues more than a few days a year now. Y'all need to take better care of yourselves.
You should look into better footwear. Modern shoes cause bunions. Fashion is the culprit!
That was 13 years ago. And I was wearing comfortable work boots. Only happened in the left foot. Likely genetics.
I guess if you have diseases then yes you might feel like a bag of smashed rocks at 40 which could understandably make your entire personality based on that diagnosis. However, people that don't have diseases and who take care of their bodies when they are younger tend to not feel like shit in old age. Most people do not have arthritis at 40.
I do like to strech, don't like to work out tho. Unless riding my bike a couple times a week counts. I'm 29 and the neck pain is unbareable sometimes. There is literally nothing I can do to prevent this. sits another 12 hours in front of his pc
That or it’s just zoomers being dumb about terminology. They call 30 year olds boomers, which is two generations off.
I would like to see a cartoon of comic of a relationship between a gardevoir and a hatterene trying to keep their payduck stable. According to their Pokédex entries gardevoir will find people with strong emotions and try to help and console them, meanwhile hatterene will also find them but will instead violently silence them
It's easier to say where my body doesn't hurt at this point. I guess my hands are ok. Well no scratch that the bastards dry up in winter and resemble bleeding salt flats... fuck.
Oh, God, that's the worst. They're dry AF in the summer, too, but when winter hits, if I don't keep applying lotion every 7 and a half minutes like Cassandra from Doctor Who, then I just leave little snail trails of blood on everything I touch!
The excessive use of lotion is probably what's doing it. Your skin stopped making it's own protective oils. What you're experiencing is not normal.
I know, but I'm in a shitty cycle. It started when I was about 15, I'm 32 now. It's just been a constant battle. I don't know what originally caused it, but when I was a teen my hands just got super dry painful. I dealt with it for weeks, and then started using lotion. Have been using it ever since.
Change to Jojoba (ho-ho-ba) oil or something with it. Might cost a bit more but it closely mimicks (not like evolutionary mimic, like just by chance is the same) your skin's oils which should help you get back to normal eventually.
Also the heavy duty stuff like O'Keefe's in small amounts on problem areas like knuckles if they need extra time to heal.
-Advice from a massage therapist, literally bathing in lotion for a job.
Thanks for the tips!
My doc has me using a diabetic lotion, does that change anything? I'll definitely see if I can find something with jojoba, too. I'm always looking for something better. Haha.
Also really appreciate the pronunciation guide, because I would've sounded like an ass when I asked for it otherwise. Lol. Thanks.
The diabetic lotion actually does! How, I'm not certain but I do know diabetes effects your skin in ways I'm not fully familiar with. I don't have any listed contraindications with diabetes with any of my products so I can't imagine it would mean you can't add more products to a skin routine.
As always, IANAD so check with a dermatologist to be sure because of special factors.
Thank you!
I actually have an appointment with my doc today because of stupid stinky COVID, so I'll ask her about this. I really appreciate the advice. :)
When I was 10 I started having issues with my ankle joint "locking" into place. I wouldn't be able to bend it forward or back (like you need for a walking motion), and would have to roll it around gently sideways and slowly get a wider and wider ROM in my roll until it popped and I could do a straight back and forth motion and walk normally again. As a young athlete, it was a bitch, because I'd be sprinting down the soccer field and mid stride my ankle would lock and I'd be fucking hobbling. Finally at 13 my parents decided maybe it was an issue worth seeing a doctor for. The orthopedic specialist told me he had no idea what was going on, that puberty does weird things to kids heads and it was all in my imagination. Told me by the time my hormones stabilized it would go away, said just wait til 15 or so, I promise you'll be fine. I'm in my 30s and the fucking thing locked up as recently as last week, so he's clearly a genius.
Nah, my parents wouldn't take me and when I was an adult I didn't have money/care enough to go find another doctor who I figure also won't care. I'm also no longer an athlete (because of said ankle, but now I'm just old and lazy) so it's not a big deal. If it hurts, it hurts.
I am still fairly active. Can't really run much. But I do wear a neoprene pressure sleeve on it most days. That seems to alleviate it somewhat. I can force it to pop but when I do it's very sharp pain and throbbing for an hour or more afterward. Shit happens I guess.
I have crushed cartilage in one knee. That knee locks by itself sometimes until I force it to pop. I've been to several sports medicine docs and regular docs. They can see there is fluid on my knee and inflammation. They don't think the crushed cartilage is related and don't have an option for fixing that anyway that's covered under insurance (I have two different insurances). They have no idea why it locks up. Still.
A knee locking up sounds far more painful than an ankle! I hope you somehow find a resolution!
Not to brag, but I'm 40 and have none of these, it's surprising and a bit depressing to me that so many people have these ailments at such an early age. I wish you as many pain free and healthful years as possible.
I wish me a speedy death.
My knee has been screwed up since birth and somedays I can't walk on it. My lower back was destroyed when I was 10 because some idiot didn't follow simple instructions. I have constant headaches because of a glasses prescription that I can't afford to get changed. I have arthritis in my feet. I own 3 canes. I am 31.
Pretty much the only pain I don't have is hip pain.
I am not one to blindly believe that life is inherently sacred without the context of death. If this is what you want, and considering your physical ailments, I can only assume I have the smallest of understandings as to why you desire it to all end. And I can only hope you find some peace in one form or another. I'm... well, at a loss at how I can express sympathy. I hope you can find some solace, though.
I acquired almost all of these due to competitive weightlifting. It was fun, but also, ouch.
I’ve had arthritis since I was like 24 or 25. It really does suck… I miss the days when I didn’t hurt constantly.
I really am so sorry to hear about that. Even though I suffer none of these ailments myself, I've witnessed my elderly parents and friends (yes, I have elderly friends) go through coping with this negative permanent change to their day to day existence, and it is heartbreaking. It is an experience I can only logically expect to one day viscerally experience myself.
I wish I could offer you more than sympathy, truly. I hope you can find some peace and joy in the probably brief reprieves from your sufferings.
Thankfully medicine gets better every day! It’s not great, but it isn’t terrible. It’s just kind of “this sucks” rather than “I hate my life”.
Thank you for your kind thoughts! 😊
I know, right? I'm 30 and only have a slight knee discomfort because I lifted heavy on squats for a long time before changing to a lower weight higher rep regimen. I hear so many people complaining about having issues and unless it's from an injury I just imagine it's because lemmy self selects for the chronically online (and usually unhealthy as fuck.)
I hate stereotypes like this. I have all of these, and you're not going to make me pigeon hole myself into choosing one!
I got my first one of these when I was 21 and in the best shape of my life. Accidents, injuries, and unpreventable diseases happen, and acting like your comparative good luck means you've made better choices than those who have been less lucky by implying they've been "unhealthy as hell" is kind of gross.
I'm a massage therapist, my job is literally helping people's pain and I see a fuck ton of clients. Luck has just shit to do with it and most people just don't take as good care of themselves as they think. The vast majority of bad backs I see could be prevented or alleviated by having stronger abs and glutes.
Dudes with Hank Hill ass telling me they don't know why their back hurts make me want to scream.
Where's my shoulder pain at?
Nvm i know exactly where it is...in the right shoulder.
For now.
Nah just a result of physically demanding jobs and a nasty shower mishap on top of that.
People without chronic pain be making their entire personalities about going outside and doing things painlessly. /s
The best time to pick up a calisthenics program was your teens, the second best time is now, you old fogeys.
You must have slipped through the system, I've made a note of it.
Tomorrow, order will be restored
Still running on old mainframes, information doesn’t propagate through the system until everything is batch processed overnight.
I'd love to sort it out now, but my back just ain't what it used to be. Plus I've got this killer migraine.
Well, I haven't ever smoked anything and I haven't ever drank alcohol.
That probably has a lot to do with it.
Non-smoker/drinker, formerly very physically fit person weighing in. In the five or so years surrounding 40, everything suddenly fell apart. Knees would ache after pickup games. I picked up an empty suitcase and slipped a disc. Shoulder started feeling sandy. Hands got arthritic.
It snuck up on me until one day I realized that I couldn't remember what it was to not have something hurting. I hate to say that I could easily wish it on my worst enemies, but not the average person going about their business.
