When did you start noticing a difference?
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.
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.
ETA - I don’t break more easily yet though. Overenthusiastic dog ran at me and knocked my feet out from under me on my deck the other day, nothing happened at all to my body, just got up and yelled at the dog.
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.
What do you mean “recover”?
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.
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.
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.
30ish. The main difference is that my hangovers have gotten worse. In my 20s I could party all night at the club and still be functional the next day. Now I can’t spend an evening at the pub without destroying my weekend.
I found the solution to worsening hangovers was to drink about 1.5L of water spread throughout the evening. Better solution would probably be to quit drinking but I am not ready to rawdog the current reality
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.
I hear you, you know what you need. Just that for a lot of folks, their life is not always quite all their own to risk as they please. I say this out of concern for a fellow human and not out righteous judgement or anything.
This shit just hits close to home for me. I’ve personally known two people that have died in motorcycle accidents. These were dudes that were pretty safety oriented. Like wore all the gear all the time, rain or shine.
One of them took a spill and his bike pushed his femur through his hip and partly into his torso. He surprisingly lived through that accident. After he recovered he went back to riding as if nothing happened. He was fine for 7 years until he got involved in another accident and didn’t get lucky a second time. He left his wife and two school aged kids behind and it really complicated their situation to put it lightly.
- 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.
Mid 50’s. I haven’t noticed any increase in recovery time from injuries or illness so far.
I went through a period in my 30’s when I’d get sick with a cold in October/November and stay sick until March. I think more than anything else it was just catching every bug the kids brought home from school, and just going through a series of overlapping illnesses every year. It stopped when I hit 40.
One thing I’d point out is that we never really recover from an injury. Our bodies are just in a perpetual state of trying to hold everything together.
Lack of vitamin C will result in Scurvy. One of the effects of scurvy is that scars from injuries and surgeries just open up again. I interpret that as your body not being able to fake it anymore.
If you’re having trouble healing, maybe eat an orange ;-)
34 and I can only just start feeling a difference. I also noticed that I get (lightly, like a cold) sick more often, despite being more active than I ever was in my life. I also tripped off my bike and scraped my knee a couple of years ago and while it’s absolutely fine, that is the first wound that left a permanent scar. When I was younger I had multiple knee grazes like that in any given year and none of them were visible after the scab fell off…
I don’t think you really get significantly less effective at fighting off viral infections until you get really old and start collecting co-morbidities.
If you’re more “active” as in socialising more, you’ll catch more viruses.
I meant active as in physical exercise
Physical exercise doesn’t make your body more effective at fighting viruses. That’s covid-era anti-vax meme level reasoning.
To what page of search results do I have to skip to read something backing this claim of yours? Because frankly I got bored after reading 10 abstracts from the first page and no luck finding anything, but plenty of conclusions stating the opposite, such as:
Higher level of habitual physical activity is associated with a 31% risk reduction (hazard ratio 0.69, 95% CI 0.61–0.78, 6 studies, N = 557,487 individuals) of community-acquired infectious disease and 37% risk reduction (hazard ratio 0.64, 95% CI 0.59–0.70, 4 studies, N = 422,813 individuals) of infectious disease mortality.
I’m around 16. I can recover pretty quickly still, but definitely not as well as I could as a wee lad.
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.
i get bronchitis after a cold or flu, last about a week, only 1 time it last 3 weeks. its seems more likely if you have chronic allergies. i had covid recently, oddly it dint cause coughing/sneezing like with colds or flu. it only caused coughing because of the sputum(infected) from the lungs. if i get colds back to back, the bronchitis is more severe.(like right after another cold. it happened twice, both before pandemic and at the beginning of it.
anti-histamines significantly reduces most of the symptoms, hence why cold and flu medicine works, its because of the antihistamines. i think its more effective than dextromorphan.
