Asklemmy

43766 readers

1177 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Anyone else feel like their body began falling apart in their 20s? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In my early 20s, I got tinnitus even though in the rare occasion I'm around loud noises I wear hearing protection.

In my mid-late 20s, my vision got worse after never needing glasses and my knees starting creaking with occasional pain. I now need some more involved dental work even though I brush and floss regularly.

I've lived a predominantly outdoor, active lifestyle the last several years, so I should be quite well off health-wise, but it still feels like I'm aging faster than I should be. wtf?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] tallwookie 3 points 1 year ago

earlier than that for me:

ran into a barbed wire fence on a bike in 2nd grade & cut one of my thighs down to the muscle layer, requiring a couple hundred stitches (and let me tell you, pulling those out was not fun).
fell off of a rock onto one of my knees in 5th grade, necessitating surgery (it didnt cut my jeans, havent worn jeans since)
had to get glasses in 6th grade, and stepped on broken glass that year, bunch of stiches in my feet.
broke an arm in 8th grade
had a power sander accident in 11th grade (rerouting some of the veins in my left wrist).

in my 20s, I had 3x wisdom teeth removed and 2x root canals/crowns in other molars.

in my 30s, I had dental surgery removing the last wisdom tooth as it was impacting a nerve causing the left side of my face to go completely numb & extracting the 2x teeth from the failed root canals I had in my 20s. got bone grafts for those two, plus posts and dental implants, and then one more unrelated root canal.

in my 40s now, I am beginning to develop lower back and knee/ankle pain - it's not awful or debilitating but it's constantly there.