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09-11-2009, 02:18 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Connecticut
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I'm falling apart
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It sucks getting old. I recently turned 40, and I got rewarded today with a bout of unexplained lower back pain-- the second worst I've ever had (the first not too long ago).
I want some factory reconditioning. 
-Steve
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09-11-2009, 02:23 AM
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Beer Buster
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Middlebury, Ct.
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I hear you there. Im almost 40 and have screwed up quite a few discs in my back and can barely tie my shoes or put on socks in the morning. By the end of the day Im a little more limber but the pain sucks and I have to lift heavy stuff all day and really dont have a choice unless I want to find another job that doesnt pay nearly enough to pay my mortgage!
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09-11-2009, 02:24 AM
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I Like Beer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
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Sorry. That's about when my back problems began in earnest - much better now. My advice is to be careful with it - I let it go way to long, thought i could just deal with it.
Want irrefutable evidence against "Intelligent Design"? No one remotely intelligent designed my back . . .
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09-11-2009, 02:25 AM
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Stuck in the playroom
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Watertown, CT
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Is this the Connecticut old guys bitch thread? Count me in. My 41st is in 9 days. Ugh.  |
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09-11-2009, 02:27 AM
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I Like Beer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shecky
Is this the Connecticut old guys bitch thread? Count me in. My 41st is in 9 days. Ugh. |
I thought I told you youngsters to stay the hell off my lawn!!!!
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09-11-2009, 02:29 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Philly, PA
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I'm 45 and this has been my year of steady decline.
I was cleaning up in the house earlier this year and I bent down to pick up a stray piece of lint. Yes, a whole piece of lint. I guess I didn't bend properly for the load and I actually felt something slip in my back. I actually blacked out a little, the pain was so excrutiating. It took me 15 minutes to move 10 feet to my bed and fall over into it. I couldn't move until my wife came home and started stetching me out.
Take heart Steve, you have 5 more years until it starts getting really bad. 
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09-11-2009, 02:32 AM
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Stuck in the playroom
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Watertown, CT
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Hell, I have you all beat. I had back surgery at the ripe old age of 36. Still have some problems, but it was the best thing I ever did. Not being able to move for 8 months might have had something to do with that outlook.
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09-11-2009, 02:32 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dontman
I actually blacked out a little, the pain was so excrutiating. It took me 15 minutes to move 10 feet to my bed and fall over into it. I couldn't move until my wife came home and started stetching me out.
Take heart Steve, you have 5 more years until it starts getting really bad. |
Wow. Mine suddenly doesn't seem so bad...
-Steve
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Fermenting: Orange Blossom Mead
Kegs: Element 56 Pale Ale, Ron's Belgian Blonde, Summer'n Saison, Furloughktoberfest '09, Grateful Pale Ale, Sam Adams Cream Stout Clone, EdWort's Apfelwein
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09-11-2009, 02:33 AM
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I Like Beer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dontman
I'm 45 and this has been my year of steady decline.
I was cleaning up in the house earlier this year and I bent down to pick up a stray piece of lint. Yes, a whole piece of lint. I guess I didn't bend properly for the load and I actually felt something slip in my back. I
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Honest to god, I sneezed. That was it. |
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09-11-2009, 04:24 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Philly, PA
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LMAO. I forgot to mention that. My wife laughs at me because I am actually afraid to sneeze now. Seems like I pull a muscle somewhere whenever I do.
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