This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Old enough to know better.

i take allopurinol

Was my guess, just curious. Works great for many people I've heard. Kinda frustrated because my doc has been hesitant to prescribe that because I don't have "true gout" apparently. I have a prescription for when I have a flare, but haven't had one in more than two years to worry about.

I fell on some ice a few days ago. My wrist hurt a little in the immediate aftermath, but the next day I woke up feeling like I'd been savagely beaten

death to false gout

the prednisone has helped a ton but my stomach doesn't like it. i'm still walking with an awkward limp but a little more swelling reduction and that's fixed

lol

I know all the jokes about gout and what is historically represents, but holy shit that joint inflammation is some of the most intense pain I've felt in my life. The first time it ever hit me, before I was able to see a doctor and get anything prescribed, was in a knee about six years ago and every step was excruciating.

once it got to lifting my foot and putting a shoe on hurting like fuck yesterday is when i decided to go to the doc.

I learned at least 20 of my friends have gout, when I described my symptoms on FB. they all swore by cherry juice.

gonna try it.

i haven't had much in the way of meat or alcohol in two days.

Heard that about cherries and cherry juice, but that didn't work for me (assuming since it's the false gout or whatever).

What was most frustrating for me is that it had virtually nothing to do with my diet. I'd talk to people with gout and they all described how they could almost always feel it coming on and knew the food triggers for it, but I didn't have that experience at all. Like my last flare from a couple years ago came right in the middle of one of my healthiest food streaks in a long time where I was completely off red meat and wasn't drinking alcohol at all. But in more recent pandemic years when I've been, uh, less good about my diet, absolutely no issues. It's weird.

I don't know how I DON'T have gout tbh. Seriously.

Anyway aging is a shark you have to punch in the nose every day. Hard. Stretch like your life depends on it (you will not have time to do this).

^^^

this is all otm

My son's school flag football team had an end of season thing a few weeks ago and roped some of the parents into playing against the kids. It was last minute and I did not stretch at all. Holy shit did I pay for that.

Stretching before a walk has recently become really important, or my lower back lets me know in no uncertain terms that I should’ve stretched.

Absolutely no one definitely not me:
My lower back: You thought you were getting out of this bed without stretching? That's cute.

Lol yes

Eat the wrong things on day one, feel slightly ill/high on day two

about to turn 46 and i for sure feel like most people my age that I encounter seem so much older. These people have kids already out of college and shit, it's weird!

Yeah it always blows my mind anew a little bit when I realize that when my dad was my age, I was just about to start grad school!

I am relatively back pain-free, which I'm very glad about, but my shoulders have been hurting for several months now, which is not the best feeling to wake up to.

Only got one week left in this thread...

I've got a kid doing his GCSEs (16 in 2 months) and it blows my mind every day. I believe this knowledge is supposed to 'ground me' but nope, I find myself floating freer and further from reality every day.

I have friends whomst are roughly my age who I know through the music scene who are grandparents. That's mindboggling

Yeah, one of my friends has just become a grandmother at 45. Wtf.

chacun a son gout

hashtag skintag

Gout poser

I'm a year older than the biological grandmother of my adopted son.

Most of my friends/peer group didn't have kids until well into their 30s, so it's weird that my neighbors had kids in their very early 20s (unusual for all the academics I know) and are younger than me with one of their kids off to college already. They're going to be 40 year old empty-nesters in a year or two which blows my mind because my son wasn't born until I was 40.

I'm coming up on 25 years in the same apartment ... friend from college posted about the demise of their long-owned toaster oven, and I realized that I had the same model of toaster oven and it is actually older than their now deceased toaster oven. I have adult friends who are younger than my toaster oven.

I am 47 now and will take hot baths to reduce stiffness and aches in my knees. I think my mom started having arthritis in her knees when she was approximately my age, but when my mom was my age, I was away at college, so I don't know this for a fact.

* I purchased this toaster oven around the time I moved into this apartment

Our endless numbered days

swelling almost completely gone on my foot. thank god!

One of the many things I appreciate about the Peloton app (the classes, not the bike) is how much they emphasize stretching. Religiously.

barely BARELY into the next leg of my shoulder surgery recovery. Four weeks 24/7 in a brace and six in a sling, FUCK YOU. I am cheating on this last week and hoping it doesn't bite me in the ass but hey i work from home. Will see what my new PT guy tells me tomorrow. Waking up four times a night represents good sleep at this point.

My partner had two surgeries, same shoulder, this summer and it was hellish. Mind your shoulders, ppl.

i mean it is not fun

Got an energetic dog a fortnight ago and my knees are doing most of the barking by now

which variety of energetic dog or puppy would this be? I post this as my 3 year old vgb is sat at other side of kitchen waiting for his walk in a calm + composed manner that t'wasn't always thus.

Collie mix (yet to ascertain whether alsatian or doberman somewhere in there and almost afraid to find out) a year and a bit old

She's relatively well behaved but she wants walking and plenty of it

See you kids later — I'm off to the next age bracket!

Happy birthday unperson. Enjoy the rite of caroussel

You did it!

the fact that you are a Sagittarius explains a lot

Happy birthday unperson. Same day as my wife and daughter

who will be the last ilxor standing in this thread

oh speaking of last ilxor standing -- does anyone have any recommendations for insoles?

Insoles - very personal, depends on your feet. Zappos let’s you return them for free so you can try out a few styles. Or maybe try them in a store for runners.

Custom orthotics, if your insurance covers them

yeah, though mine are fucking hurting as i'm breaking them in.

o hai pinched nerve in my neck, glad to have you for your semi-annual appointment.

driving was sure fun today

If the main problem is your having high arches that complain about the minimal arch support in the insoles that shoe manufacturers provide, you can try Superfeet 'green' insoles and see if they do the trick. No guarantee from me, just that I had success with this approach.

I have the opposite of high arches

Finally got my hair cut after growing it for two years since the pandemic and while I like the haircut, I feel I look visibly more middle aged than last time it was this short

Where the fifties thread at? I am on the fast-track (2 months)