When did you start noticing a difference?
Early 30s, this year I had knee pain every time I when for a jog, the pain lasted 2 or 3 days each time, it lasted for over a month until I met with my brother who’s a physiotherapist and gave me very simple advice:
- warm up before running
- run in smaller steps, large steps are harder on the knees
- stop or take a break before it starts hurting
- run more often, 3 times per week minimum
The pain was gone in 2~3 weeks. Has not came back since.
It’s not always about the age, sometimes it’s about doing things correctly or getting the right care.
What do you mean “recover”?
Mid 40s, and I don’t think colds and stuff have changed much. But it’s a little hard to tell as I’m almost always floored by those sorts of things. When I was younger I’d just stay in bed all day, now I have shit that needs done so I have to soldier through. So if anything I’ve become more functional when sick, even if it feels just as awful.
But for sprains and pains, it’s much worse. Any sort of overuse or careless maneuver can lead to weeks of issues. Whether that’s specifically age, or just decreasing physical strength and flexibility (I’m very phsycially active, but never do sports or fitness or stretching) is uncertain.
Late 50’s and always been fit. I had a crash on my motorcycle (off road, went over the bars) which took three weeks to recover from. Serious bruising to both legs as they caught on the bars. Had trouble walking for three days. Limped for over two weeks. Still got legs that range from yellow to purple.
Finally figuring out that my teen years are behind me. Now reconsidering buying a Ducati desmo450mx. Might have to be a fucking golf cart instead.
Guessing you’ve been riding awhile so you might have heard these statistics already but in case you didn’t:
You’re thirty times more likely to die per mile traveled on a motorcycle compared to a car.
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813732
You’re playing Russian roulette with a theoretical hundred chamber revolver. Dude in a car puts in one bullet spins and pulls the trigger. Dude on a motorctcle puts in thirty before their turn. Most people watching would put a raincoat on before he pulls.
That is a fuckton more risk.
Put it this way: You wouldn’t drive when you’re drunk right?
But per mile driven, you’re actually safer driving drunk in a car than sober on a motorcycle if that helps put things into perspective. You’re actually more than twice as likely to die sober on a motorcycle compared to driving drunk in a car. It is mind blowing how dangerous it is.
If you have any people that depend on you, might wanna consider hanging up your spurs :o
Yeah, I know the statistics. My crash I spoke about was off road, on private farmland, riding my enduro bike. I do ride on road, as well as on closed circuits when I can, but two wheels is no longer my only form of transport. I used to do over 100,000 km a year on road, on various motorcycles. Now it’s closer to 15,000.
I understand the risks. I also know what it does for me and my mental health.
I’ll never give it up. Well, unless I’m a danger to others.
I hear you, you know what you need. Just that for a lot of folks, their life is not always quite all their own to risk as they please. I say this out of concern for a fellow human and not out righteous judgement or anything.
This shit just hits close to home for me. I’ve personally known two people that have died in motorcycle accidents. These were dudes that were pretty safety oriented. Like wore all the gear all the time, rain or shine.
One of them took a spill and his bike pushed his femur through his hip and partly into his torso. He surprisingly lived through that accident. After he recovered he went back to riding as if nothing happened. He was fine for 7 years until he got involved in another accident and didn’t get lucky a second time. He left his wife and two school aged kids behind and it really complicated their situation to put it lightly.
50s, and I started noticing between 30 and 35. I definitely take longer. A small cut used to heal in like 48 hours when I was preteen. Now it’s at least 2 weeks for a similar thing. I actually have scars on my legs from briar cuts received about 3 years ago. Very minor, never healed.
Mid 30s.
I get maybe a cold or two per year, which last around 3 days.
And apart from some bruises and small cuts I haven’t been injured in decades.
I’d say no change so far.
Same, but with one caveat, sports.
I was never much into sports, but always did some sport in my childhood. In my late teens or early twenties, I stopped doing sports all together. I picked it back up at 28/29 and have build some decent strength and stamina since. Now I’m 35 and I notice it takes a bit longer to recover from a heavy workout. Also there’s other places that start hurting after a tough workout, like my back and knees.
I’m from an area where colds/flus are more common and I haven’t noticed a change with those yet either. I noticed a small difference in recovery from knee injuries in my late twenties compared to my teens, but I know that’s not bad yet.
Well done on not being injured for decades! I don’t think that’ll ever be true for me, lol.
i get bronchitis after a cold or flu, last about a week, only 1 time it last 3 weeks. its seems more likely if you have chronic allergies. i had covid recently, oddly it dint cause coughing/sneezing like with colds or flu. it only caused coughing because of the sputum(infected) from the lungs. if i get colds back to back, the bronchitis is more severe.(like right after another cold. it happened twice, both before pandemic and at the beginning of it.
anti-histamines significantly reduces most of the symptoms, hence why cold and flu medicine works, its because of the antihistamines. i think its more effective than dextromorphan.
34 and I can only just start feeling a difference. I also noticed that I get (lightly, like a cold) sick more often, despite being more active than I ever was in my life. I also tripped off my bike and scraped my knee a couple of years ago and while it’s absolutely fine, that is the first wound that left a permanent scar. When I was younger I had multiple knee grazes like that in any given year and none of them were visible after the scab fell off…
I don’t think you really get significantly less effective at fighting off viral infections until you get really old and start collecting co-morbidities.
If you’re more “active” as in socialising more, you’ll catch more viruses.
I meant active as in physical exercise
Early 30s. I used to heal insanely fast, as in deep cuts or heavy bruises only lasting a week, 2 tops. Now I’d say it’s only 70% as fast but i get way more scaring. I used to cut or burn my hands on almost daily basis (I’m just dumb, no self-harm) and never had any scars from that. But now even tiny cuts leave permanent rough patches on the skin. They’re not really visible but you can feel them.
57 and slow healing of injury is the #1 change I have noticed with aging. Not illnesses, those still resolve quickly, and allergies got better, skin got less inflammatory. Recovery from workout soreness seems about the same too.
But injury? I broke my arm when 7 or so, 6 weeks in a cast, couple more to feel normal. Broke my finger at 45 or so, TWO YEARS before it stopped swelling and was normal.
ETA - I don’t break more easily yet though. Overenthusiastic dog ran at me and knocked my feet out from under me on my deck the other day, nothing happened at all to my body, just got up and yelled at the dog.
Mid 20s no change yet. I heal as fast as my always have
Late twenties and I do recover quickly - from flu and such stuff - touchwood… However, there is this trapezius ache I get often days maybe because of being on laptop or phone more. For wounds - they do get healed as usual they would at the moment also. But I’ve noticed there is more anxiety and fear of what if…this isn’t getting cured soon enough what will happen…kinda inner monologue because maybe I have so much information now…
I also saw my grandparent die from gangarin - and so even thou I get a small injury I fear it turning it into something worse always after that incident. So I carry too much trauma now thou…
I (mid-thirties) had a 12 hour stomach bug on Friday and my body is still just exhausted. I’m trying to figure out if I simply need to gain a little weight to make a couple of days without many calories less impactful or if this is just aging.
30- something. I’ve not noticed a difference in recovery since my teens. I do have to warm up more compared to 20s.
Early 30s and I’d say I haven’t noticed much of a difference when it comes to recovery. I’m actually getting sick much more rarely than when I was younger, but I guess that’s down to working from home and not having to sit in a cramped classroom each day.
Not injuries luckily but with 28-29 I have started to realze I cannot get drjnk anymore without fealing like I got into a car crash the next day. Upnuntil then I could go out partying Fridday, Saturday and have the energy to go to the Gym on Sunday.
Aa for illnesses, I have a “chronic” one that turns most of the colds i have into bronchitis / pneumonia… but luckily I got it under controll with meds. Better said we did figure the med mix out. So I can’t say if it’s gotten worse.
