So does having chronic neck pain.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 14:45 (seven months ago) link
it instantly makes you look like an old person however― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac)
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac)
deems i _am_ an old person
learning how to optimally move my body through physical therapy has been a fucking life-changer, i can't recommend it enough
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 16:58 (seven months ago) link
Charlie horses are leg cramps huh. I had them ALL THE TIME when I was pregnant. and also after when I used to go to gigs.
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:49 (seven months ago) link
I guess this is the general body complaint thread now so I’ll share that I have a rash on two of my fingers
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:58 (seven months ago) link
So I called your mom and told her I couldn’t make it tonight
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:01 (seven months ago) link
Guilty lol
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:58 (seven months ago) link
To read books, I don't need glasses.
To read this screen, I need this pair (blue)
To drive, the black pair.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 23:52 (seven months ago) link
Drinking pickle juice instantly cures leg cramps for me. Learned it from my dad who gets brutal cramps.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 00:12 (seven months ago) link
My life was greatly improved when I moved from readers to progressive lens glasses and bifocal contacts.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 00:50 (seven months ago) link
pickle juice? just get some damn electrolytes!seriously though, any sports thing with some essential salts and getting more potassium in your diet helps with the cramps and it’s like magic for me. results may vary
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:21 (seven months ago) link
thing = drink
Pickle juice taste better though.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 09:45 (seven months ago) link
Yeah I was going to say - bananas help with leg cramps if you get them a lot because of the potassium but I would be fine with drinking pickle juice too.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 09:49 (seven months ago) link
is pickle juice....vinegar?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 11:50 (seven months ago) link
cucumber and dill flavoured vinegar
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:00 (seven months ago) link
Was gonna post this on the Hello Nasty thread but seems better here: I recently was driving my 12 & 13y/o nephews and looking for something to play that they might like, noticed the Hello Nasty CD and thought "oh yeah, slam dunk, this will be right in the strike zone for two silly boys that age who are just starting to get interested in music". They both hated it so much, "WHAT is this CRAZY NOISE?", etc. I explained to them that the disc we were listening to was actually once belonged to their mother, purchased on the day it came out in 1998 and well loved for many years, and they straight up did not believe me. "Yeah right, nice try! Mom would NEVER listen to anything like this!" I am here in this thread to say that I felt, at that moment, like an ILXor in my forties.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:40 (seven months ago) link
cucumber and dill flavoured vinegar― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
trans girl catnip
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 17:34 (seven months ago) link
so last night I offered to help a few of my closest friends move. their new place is on the third floor, a winding staircase (similar to one I lived at ten years ago).
idk if it's just that I'm older and more out of shape or what, but within an hour my knees were buckling from the constant carrying of things up that staircase. this morning, I'm having trouble standing up due to the knee pain.
biofreeze morning!
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:57 (six months ago) link
fuck no thanks to that
knees, you got off lightly tbh its the back will kill you
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:34 (six months ago) link
what was the "crazy noise" One Eye Open?
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:42 (six months ago) link
Tell them about the bit you had to 'rewind' the CD to hear on demand and why that was so amazing at the time, they will be so impressed and fascinated (ok they won't be)
― nashwan, Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:45 (six months ago) link
xp Just like the first minute or so of "Super Disco Breakin" - I honestly dont think they totally understood that it was even a song at first, and they were just incredulous that this crazy chaotic nonsense was music that people would listen to & enjoy. Its funny bc I wasn't trying to score cool points or "teach them about good music" or anything like that, just naively thinking "this will be an easy, unremarkable choice for everyone". They have a fairly limited media diet but they hear pop radio and are aware of & enjoy acts like Imagine Dragons, Lil Nas X, etc, but I didnt fully appreciate how they still seemed to have no frame of reference for something that sounds like that.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:30 (six months ago) link
fuck no thanks to thatknees, you got off lightly tbh its the back will kill you
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:37 (six months ago) link
my back's not great and I have a degenerative disc in my neck. the latter is often unnoticeable until random times where I can only sit in one fixed position or feel the most repeated, uncomfortable twinges. but fortunately that's maybe once or twice a year for a few days each time
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:48 (six months ago) link
Listening to "Super Disco Breakin'" now for probably the first time in 20 years. It's true that you don't hear this kind of sound in popular music anymore, really sounds very much of its time (in a good way).
― silverfish, Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:35 (six months ago) link
Also this album which seemed mostly unremarkable to me at the time sounds really good to me right now, about three tracks in.
― silverfish, Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:37 (six months ago) link
BODY MOVIN
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:54 (six months ago) link
right knee is fine now. left one still unusually stiff. no actual pain, but all of the muscles extremely tight.
i have arthritis per last ortho clinic visit, so probably a combination of that and pushing muscles beyond what they're used to.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:54 (six months ago) link
aka body movin
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:51 (six months ago) link
lol
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:52 (six months ago) link
i pushed furniture around all afternoon and tweaked a knee ligament or three at football an hour ago so i hear all of that
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 21:46 (six months ago) link
did the other guy get sent off
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:13 (six months ago) link
he fell backwards into me
at our age and level these mishaps are almost guaranteed to be bumbling rather than malice
big unit last week tried to turn too quick and locked himself. we had to load him sideways into the back seat like he was a set of drawers to get him home
it aint glamorous
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:54 (six months ago) link
Tfw you realize you’re wearing clothes like it’s 1995 and everyone around you looks like they’re going to or coming from the gym
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:42 (six months ago) link
Didn't know that people wore PAJAMAS to the gym.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:50 (six months ago) link
I won't be at the doctor's until this weekend to confirm, but I think I've developed my first ulcer, likely due to prolonged ibuprofen use to treat jaw-clenching pain.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 21:16 (six months ago) link
In just the last couple of weeks my eyesight has become noticeably worse. I booked myself into the opticians and they rang and asked why I was seeing them before I was due. I told them and they sent me to the eye hospital. Luckily I'm fine but I do need glasses.
At the same time I can very suddenly and noticeably feel the skin around my neck feels looser and wrinklier in a way it hadn't before.
That's it guys, I'm officially middle aged!
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:29 (six months ago) link
Identified my year of retirement: 2037
― calstars, Friday, 15 March 2024 20:47 (six months ago) link
not so bad!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 March 2024 21:15 (six months ago) link
Jonah who will turn 62 in the year 2037
― calstars, Friday, 15 March 2024 21:40 (six months ago) link
It's coming up.
― pplains, Saturday, 16 March 2024 02:54 (six months ago) link
I have less than 9 months to go before I graduate from this thread and now I’m getting all the back and leg aches y’all have been talking about… I used to be able to sit cross-legged on the floor for hours without problems… oops
― sarahell, Friday, 29 March 2024 17:32 (five months ago) link
I lost complete hearing in my left ear six months ago. No biggie
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:17 (five months ago) link
eh?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:19 (five months ago) link
jk sry
Ha! I’m having surgery in a month. They think one of those tiny lil ear bones lost connection so they’re gonna put a prosthetic in. Should get a lot but not all of it back. It’s seriously disorienting not to have hearing in one ear. I cannot geolocate sounds for the life of me.
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:57 (five months ago) link
this happened to my husband about 10 years ago. never got the hearing back. he can't tell where any sound is coming from, it's pretty bad. plus tinnitus :(
― kinder, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:14 (five months ago) link
I don’t wear bifocals or glasses of any sort but I do now (in my forties) understand why older people who do will tilt their head down when they look at something across the room and up when reading something in small print
― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:10 (five months ago) link
I've got a painful foot/big toe. I've done some reading about gout and spoken to my dad, who suffers periodically, so pretty sure it's not that. I think it's probably a pressure/RSI from all the walking I do? It's manageable but is just another one of those 'it's always there' aches that makes up my body map.
I'm also now the proud owner of a 'bunion sleeve', which sounds like a rejected name for a 'combine two nouns' death metal band.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:32 (five months ago) link
My left knee inflammation only really cleared up this week. Reaggravated it shortly after it got better when I went ziplining due to the upstairs climb. Can finally bend it again lol.
Now minor left hip twinges showed up but not painful, but enough to where I'm walking a LITTLE different
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:53 (five months ago) link