I am falling apart....

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About a month ago...I noticed a slight sharp pain in my left arm/shoulder. I went to the doc because I couldn't do a push up without pain. Turns out I have a partially torn rotator cuff.

Then last week I lifted something I shouldn't have, and felt a slight pain in my lower back. It steadily got worse. I went to Minnesota/Wisconsin this weekend and Friday the back flared up bad. It was like I had a fire between my discs. The fire went away but now it is really stiff and aches. Now I'm going to have to go to the doc for this. Ugh. Dammit.

Getting old sucks.

I hate that I can't lift like I used to.
 
Dude said:
Getting old sucks.

I hate that I can't lift like I used to.

Welcome to the Club, the Old Fart's Club. :D

I think you can get an OFC discount on Better Bottles. :cross:

Sorry to hear about. I know all bout the pain. A little homebrew goes a long way though.
 
Dude, you're turning into an old f*ck. The only good news is that you can soon become a curmudgeon. That's one of my goals in life, I want to be a crusty old curmudgeon.
 
Cheesefood said:
Dude....you're falling apart. Fingers, shoulders, etc. Is your warrantee still good?

LOL....fingers are commonplace for me--I've had so many nsty cuts on my hands I can't even count them anymore....

There was the time I ran over some partially buried barbed wire with the lawn mower and tried to remove it without gloves--mangled the hand pretty bad.

Then there was the time ripped open a good part of my pinky finger on a glass shard--I didn't even know I did it until my girlfriend asked me what the purple stuff was on the floor of the kitchen. Then we looked at my shirt and it was all bloody there too. Finally I figured out it was coming from my hand.

And then there was the time I sliced my index finger with a box cutter. That was so deep I could see bone. I actually had to get stitches for that one.

And then numerous other knucklebuster cuts and scrapes....I always have some kind of scab or bandage on my hand.

But this muscular stuff is new to me.
 
Damn, I had to check your profile to see how old you were. For some reason I though you were a few years older than me and not just a month. I haven't started to fall apart yet, but it must be coming.
 
I had my left shoulder fixed 10 years ago. I was dislocating my shoulder all the time. What they did to me, they said was a lot like a rotator cup surgery.

What the doc. told me at the time was if they scoped it, it would heal fast but there was a 50% chance they would have to go back in later. If they did open surgery, it would be a month before they let me do any physical therapy, but they would never have to go back in.

I told him to cut me open because he wasn't going to get me back in there a second time.

I didn't get everything back. I lost 10% of my range of motion when I fully extend my arm backwards, like I'm throwing a baseball. But that's better than partially dislocating my shoulder everytime I sneezed.
 
Dude said:
LOL....fingers are commonplace for me--I've had so many nsty cuts on my hands I can't even count them anymore....

There was the time I ran over some partially buried barbed wire with the lawn mower and tried to remove it without gloves--mangled the hand pretty bad.

Then there was the time ripped open a good part of my pinky finger on a glass shard--I didn't even know I did it until my girlfriend asked me what the purple stuff was on the floor of the kitchen. Then we looked at my shirt and it was all bloody there too. Finally I figured out it was coming from my hand.

And then there was the time I sliced my index finger with a box cutter. That was so deep I could see bone. I actually had to get stitches for that one.

And then numerous other knucklebuster cuts and scrapes....I always have some kind of scab or bandage on my hand.

But this muscular stuff is new to me.

Whoever said that being a meteorologist isn't dangerous?
 
My warranty sucks. I'm starting to think I was built on a Friday.

Right foot injured and now gone chronic pain. (work injury)
16 days straight of bad pain between my left shoulder blade and my spine.

Strained my lower back the other day lifting a keg with one arm.

I want a rebuild. Knew I should have leased...
 
If it makes you feel any better, I'm only 25, but I went on a long run last night, and I feel like crap today. I also have had a clicking sound in my knee whenever I put weight on it for a little over a year now, and I've no idea what it is.
 
ayrton said:
If it makes you feel any better, I'm only 25, but I went on a long run last night, and I feel like crap today. I also have had a clicking sound in my knee whenever I put weight on it for a little over a year now, and I've no idea what it is.

Get an X-ray before it gets worse, and you'll know when it gets worse.

My knees are pretty much shot, I had some cartilege removed from my left knee and now it clicks when I climb the stairs.
 
Flyin' Lion said:
Get an X-ray before it gets worse, and you'll know when it gets worse.

My knees are pretty much shot, I had some cartilege removed from my left knee and now it clicks when I climb the stairs.

Woohoo! Sounds like I could be in for some fun.
 
feedthebear said:
But that's better than partially dislocating my shoulder everytime I sneezed.

I hear ya on that one. I have dislocated my shoulder several times as well. Once quite literally from a sneeze.
 
All I can say Dude is WAH WAH WAH:D don't be a crybaby. Wait till you get to be my age, AARP has me on speed dial now. Both my shoulders are shot, I have two bad discs in my lower back and I've jammed both my thumbs so many times that my wife has to open the pickle jars because i can't grip them. They came to the decison that the only thing that would help my back is surgery but I'm allergic to that:D
 
What Second St. said. You don't know what falling apart is until you can't sit through a whole movie in a theater without it feeling like someone is jabbing a knife into your knee.

I have three words of advice for you: aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen.

Re: curmudgeon-ism. That is the best part. You get to be grumpy and crabby about everthing. Life is gooood... no, wait! what am I saying? the world sucks. Things are nothing like they were back in the good ole days.
 
That sucks, Dude. I do notice a few more aches and pains nowdays- I can't run anymore because of my old knees. I remember my doctor telling me that old jocks really suffer because all the years of pounding the body takes have a cumulative effect.

One thing nice about getting older is it impresses younger people when you kick their *ss. My daughter's last boyfriend was quite a jock, so last fall we went out in the yard to play ultimate frisbee. This does involved full body contact if required. I had a walking cast on (broken leg), and my husband is 52 years old. We knocked the heck out of this 17 year old cocky kid. He ended up quiting and limping inside. Definitely looked at us with new respect when we told him to have her home at 11:00 PM that night.

Anyway, good luck with the back. I know it's hard to think about anything when your back hurts.
 
Dude, don't play around with the back pain get it checked out soon, I screwed around and did not do what I needed to do and ended up having surgery. Had not had any problems since (knocking on head).....
 
It's weird, I have fewer health problems today than when I was 40 and I'm probably stronger. Getting out of a cubical and retiring to a rural location seems to agree with me.

When I grow up, though, I want to be like my 76 year-old neighbor. Yesterday he was splitting wood, green Douglas Fir ... with an ax. He does about 8 cords a year. Says about 30 years ago, he finally purchased a chain saw, but he can't see any reason to get a power splitter.
 
Flyin' Lion said:
Get an X-ray before it gets worse, and you'll know when it gets worse.

My knees are pretty much shot, I had some cartilege removed from my left knee and now it clicks when I climb the stairs.
I have the same problem, I was a catcher for 14 years and my knees do the same thing. I've had various surgeries over the years. I second the x-ray recommendation!
 
Cheesefood said:
Who would have thought that middle-aged guys who are obsessed with beer would be so out of shape?

ROTFLMAO! :mug:

Anyone care to do some backcountry skiing in New Hampshire to get whipped into shape?
 
I've got arthritis in my lower back and my neck from vertebrae that where fractured in my early 20's. I can still lift like I used to (well, not quite, but not because of my back, just generally out of shape) but I have to be very careful to lift properly and if I over-do it, be prepared for a few days of extreme soreness and stiffness. Naproxen rules! Vicodin and Skelaxin are nice too.
 
I turn 40 in a couple weeks. I try to work out a few times a week. I've slipped lately, due to domestic issues, but last summer I was going for 50 mile bike rides. I was bagged when I got home, but a few days later I felt great !

I ran 8K on Sunday.

I've had pain in my upper back and neck since I was 20. I have no idea why. It hurt like hell when I did a lot of computer and desk work. I got an MRI. Specialists, etc. The diagnosis was degeneration in the join. Nothing you can do about it. Live with it.

A few years ago we got a good high end weight machine in our basement gym. Hmm... my shoulder started to feel better. Then I changed the ergonomics of my desk setup. Better again. Then I started working out with an Eliptical trainer, lots of arm motion. My pain is almost entirely gone now !

It isn't how old you are, its your physical shape. We live next door to an 87 year old lady. Up until her hip surgery a few years ago she golfed 18 holes 3x a week, pulling her own cart. She still shovels my sidewalk if I'm working and the snow is light.

"Anyone care to do some backcountry skiing in New Hampshire to get whipped into shape?"

I absolutely love backcountry skiing. Its a tremendous workout and great for the soul. Nothing like skinning a 40 pound pack 10 miles into a backcountry hut and then spending a few days Telemarking on the surrounding slopes.
 
Welcome to gettin' old Dude. When Iwas forty my body went on strike, and it took an entire year to re-negotiate the contract. Damned unions! I contracted glaucoma in one eye, had three surgeries and two lazer procedures on it and lost the eye anyway. In the same year I got kidney stones on both kidneys and had to have them zapped. Blech.
 
Evets said:
Too many problems to list.:( I'm just gonna get a t-shirt made up that says "Everything Hurts, All the Time" ;)
LOL!

Reminds me of the joke about an old couple waking up in the morning. The

Wife says: Don't touch me.

Why?

Cause I'm dead.

Waddayamean yur dead?

I don't feel any pain. LOL.



Dude: You're not old, abused, probably, but not old. I was in the Army over a year before you were born.


Frank Barone: Suck it up Nancy!!! :D
 
OK here's my list at 48. :drunk:

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 3 years ago and I'm on 2 meds twice a day for that.
I've had two teeth break in the last year. One was pulled. The other broke last week and I'm deciding what to do with it.
Both shoulders, elbows, and knees hurt most of the time.
One joint in my right index finger is constantly sore.
I have to use bifocals in my stinking glasses. Dang I hate my glasses!

Other than that I'm in great shape...
 
The best pills are the hoppy ones. I feel nothing. Tis good to be self medicating. used a lot of medication when I was building my extension. Probably took around 50 cartons of the lovely foaming stuff, plus tasty beers, plus homebrew!!! Come to think of it, no wonder it took so long!
 
I work with radiologists and im the guy that does your xray. Your just getting old. Not much can be done for joints that is not extreme. You can really only do things to relieve the pain.
 
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