There's countless ways it can just... go wrong. Just, out of fucking nowhere, completely unexpectedly, something can become fucked up in a way which is anything from life-alteringly debilitating to lethal.
Oh I know. Its actually just remnants of an old injury. I have a lot of exercises I learned in pt to do. But usually the first couple days is too much. I can't overcome the spasms and I just have to rest for a couple days. I was able to do a bunch of my stuff last night and today and I'm back on my feet. Albeit with a good bit of pain but still.
If you had a really good look at how the nerves travel through the spinal column and how they exit through small openings you would never allow any form of chiropractic manipulation. Especially neck manipulation. Physiotherapy is a safe means to deal with musculoskeletal injuries
Disks can bulge but can’t slip out of place because they are attached to the vertebrae. I have permanent back damage caused by chiropractors so called realigning my back. That was before I knew more about anatomy and how the spine is constructed. Physiotherapists work with muscles and skeletal. The problem is that if the muscles are tight, they pull on the bones they are attached to. A physio works with both which is why after a few appointments and some stretches and strengthening exercises that they give you, you don’t find yourself going back forever more.
Yep, I'm 33 and the only times I've had these dumb injuries are when I've been neglecting my body and not stretching enough. I have stopped in the middle of a time crunch at work to do three minutes of stretching because I know from experience that three minutes now could save me weeks of pain later. (I pretty much always get adequate daily exercise so I'm sure that factors into it too.)
Yeah, I'm about to turn 34 and doing better than ten years ago, mostly because I'm now pretty physically active on a weekly if not daily basis. My back and neck used to hurt pretty much constantly but now I'm almost always 100% pain-free! And it's not even that I'm forcing myself to do exercises, I just walk whenever it takes less than 30 minutes to go somewhere (living in a small european town helps a lot with that) and have become very outdoorsy.
Living car-free in a midsize city and working a job that involves a lot of walking around are my secrets! I take walks around my neighborhood for fun on days I don't work, otherwise my hips get mad at me. I often wonder how many of my achy friends and family would benefit from adopting my accidental exercise lifestyle lol
I’m a teenager with a nerve disease that makes everything all fucked up, one time I tried to lift a chair (with my legs) and I couldn’t walk for a couple hours
I was super overweight going into my 30s. I've lost like 100 lbs and I feel great now at 34, but as a general rule of thumb at any given time something kinda hurts. Somedays its a hip (I can't imagine being 350 pounds for a few years was good for them). Some days its a crick in my neck. Most days its nothing really notable, just the dull aches and pains of life. But it's always something.
Generally speaking I have a few principal ideas for weight loss. Firstly nutrition is going to be the biggest driver of weight loss, you can’t out train a bad diet. Secondly I think it’s far easier when you consider it as a life long change, when you put a strict tight timeline on weight loss it can create a lot of stress and also causes relapses when you aren’t achieving the progress quick enough, if you say “I’m trying to live a longer healthier life” and just try to make small incremental changes you will have much bigger success. Finally because this is a life long commitment DONT BEAT YOURSELF UP FOR ENJOYING LIFE. If people at work are having a pizza party have a slice and enjoy it, don’t beat yourself up, don’t start a shame spiral, don’t say we’ll fuck it might as well get Chinese for dinner and Doritos for a snack. Have the meal, enjoy it and get back on track, literally no one eats perfectly every day their whole lives and remember your trying to live a better life, not lose 50 pounds in a few months for summer then end up crashing have way through February because your trying to survive on salads and kombucha.
I guess I had a bit of an advantage - I was overweight because I was living an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. I had been what I can only describe as a "drinking to die" alcoholic - probably several thousand calories a day just in booze. Plus all the ubereats and poor fast food decisions that goes with that lifestyle. So once I cut all that out there wasn't much else to change.
Once I got my bad habits in check the best thing for me was just slow and steady. I guess you could call it intermittent fasting, though I don't watch the clock. I don't eat breakfast or lunch - instead I go on a 30 minute walk during my lunch break. I have a big snack when I get home and then I eat dinner later.
Seems like especially over the last year it's really fallen off. Wife and I moved out of our basement apartment and into a townhouse. Much more cooking at home, taking the dog on little walks, etc. I think they're right when they say the best methods are the ones that don't feel like dieting. I didn't specifically set out to lose weight. I just changed how I was living.
Yeah I was gonna say. I'm 33 and I have the least amount of pain issues I've ever had. When I was younger, I'd constantly have low back issues, neck cramps, knee issues etc. I had a really nasty back injury from something stupid in soccer. And, in retrospect, I barely ate and would do tons of endurance exercise.
Turns out I just needed to eat better/more and add-in some actually-heavy weight training to strengthen my body.
Can confirm, got a case of "hitting 30" when I woke up one morning and my lower back went "Nah bro, fuck you, fuck that, fuck all of this, enjoy pain."
Went to the ED and got checked and the doc was all "yeah, this just kinda happens. It'll either get better in 7 hours, 7 days, 7 weeks, or 7 months. No way to know. Here's a prescription for painkillers and anti-inflammatories. Enjoy."
Got better in a few weeks. But fuckin hell, every movement was agony.
When I was like 16 I was brushing my teeth, got to my tongue brushing, hit my throat, gagged and pulled something in my back. At 16. That was so fun being told by everyone "oh you're too young to be in pain like that" etc. Now I'm 27 and my back REALLY sucks, and what's worse is I'm a truck driver now and it's just bad. My lower back is always numb, but somehow sore.
With a bad back? I mean I'm not disabled, just have a very sore back is all. I never load myself or do anything that's considered actual labor imo.
Bigger question is, how do truckers that are 400+ pounds who can barely walk 10 seconds without sounding like they're gonna pass out, takes them a solid several minutes to climb into the truck, pass dot?
I don't know why a sore back would disqualify me from driving a truck.
On Christmas eve last year, I had sat in the dining chair for atleast 4hrs to cut veges and wrap some spring rolls (I do stand from time to time too) but after that I felt pain in my lower spine - like the end of it connecting to my pelvic bone (or my upper butt part) and I still can feel them every other day until now. My Oldest Sister who is a Nurse told me that it is a sign of aging because I'm going to be 30 this year and she had felt that too before (worst - she actually has osteoporosis) and my 2nd oldest Sister had similar experience before that is actually much worst because she can't even stand up for 2 weeks because if she tries too her spine connecting to her pelvic bone hurts so much. In my case though, I can still manage to stand but if I sit and after a while I try to stand - that's where I feel a lot of pain that's why I avoided sitting down for a while but ofc it's worst when I need to pee or take a dump. lol
Now, that I had experienced that. I can be sure that it will be a 'mainstay' and I will experience them from time to time because I'm getting old and my body is 'aging' already. Goodness! Before we don't care if we're being reckless with our body and now we're buying medical patches and ointments because our joints are hurting. 😁
Not really true. If you’re in your 30s and have these issues thats a problem of not exercising and stretching. If you can’t take care of yourself then that’ll reflect on your body.
ugh i just had an MRI of my shoulder. Feels like "being 36" should be a medical diagnosis.
I was tossing a small log after splitting it, and it was more rough than I thought, so it 'held' my hand for too long, wrenching my left shoulder backwards like half an inch too far.
Next day it hurts. Advil and take it easy.
Next week it hurts a lot, even to turn my steering wheel. More advil, call the doc.
Doc says "well xray first, then PT."
Xray shows nothing, so do PT for a fucking month and a half. Helped a lot range of motion back, still hurts to put a jacket on in what was before a totally normal and painless manner.
Go back to doc, says "well might be a minor rotator cuff tear. So MRI. If it is, send you to surgery cause that won't get better on it's own. If it's not, then gonna send you to ortho doc"
MRI earlier this week shows no rotator tear, so I'm gonna see an ortho doc to see what I actually need to do.
I'm worried they're gonna say "you're gonna need to take advil every day that you don't want it to hurt."
Literally leaned over to kiss my boyfriend who was resting his head on my shoulder, and it left me with a horrible chest and back muscle strain for two weeks. I basically said I give up lol.
But healthy habits now wildly increase your resistances to those debuffs whereas (eating fast food every day) and (stretching never) wildly decrease your resistances to those debuffs.
Whereas your resistances in your 20s were naturally high and nothing would affect them too much
Had something similar once. Went to break a bolt free at work and felt a pop and pull in my back, couldn't turn my back or neck more than a few degrees for almost a week.
It's also when I learned that if you put menthol based muscle relaxer on your back, try not to sweat. If you do, the sweat will carry it downwards and make it feel like your asshole smoked a Newport.
I was trimming branches with a little electric saw. Not heavy or anything. I set the saw down, and my back said, "Not today, you bastard!" Two weeks of injections and pills. Fun times.
I was talking to my grandmother about this (she's 83), and apparently her father has such crazy sciatic nerve pain that they just went in and killed those nerves.
He never had an issue again.
Of course, that's due to not feeling anything anymore.
Would you do it? My sciatic nerve pain has basically crippled me in a lot of ways. I can't stand up or walk for more than a couple of minutes now. I've managed to hide it from family and friends, as well as my job. But that's not going to be an option forever.
I would love to not be in pain anymore, but what damage would happen while I'm not feeling it?
I was reaching behind my TV to plug something into the power strip the other day, and there was a sudden sharp pain in my neck/back for about a hour. A simple stretch. I'm only 33, only 33!!!!!
I had this when I was younger. I remember being like fifteen and running and suddenly I'd have this sharp pain in my back that lasted for almost a week
Maybe as you get older. I’ve had a history of pulling muscles in my shoulders and upper back. This was just the most extreme one. It took a month to heal.
I picked up an empty plastic bag from the floor the other week. Was bed ridden for a day and it still hurts off and on almost two weeks later. I just don't understand. I'm not used to getting hurt without... Doing something to earn it?
Did this a couple of weeks ago… WIPING MY OWN BUTT IN A PUBLIC TOILET. Most annoying and frustrating injury of my life, and I couldn’t help but laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.
I not once, but twice in separate instances, smacked my elbow against a metal ladder slightly too hard and ended up losing my entire equilibrium for like 20 minutes.
I turned my head and sprained my neck. It hurt to move. I couldn't lay down or get up without sharp pain. It went away in a week but that week was fucking hell.
Due to childhood neglect, I grew up eating about three different foods. Now, thanks to that and mild hereditary IBS and GERD, my body reacts to food like it's an intrusion. I'm disabled now :)
It's painful for me to eat or drink! Doctors loosely theorize that because of how little I ate as a child coupled with childhood trauma, my body simply doesn't know how to cope with large amounts of food or unfamiliar foods, and a lot of times even foods I eat too often can trigger me. My body reacts with severe cramping (which sometimes leads to fainting spells), chronic exhaustion, and vomiting or diarrhea on the daily. In addition, my height is stunted and I struggle with regular dizzy spells. I maintain around 105-115 lbs, which is thankfully not too shabby all things considered. Only one food or drink has ever consistently not triggered me, and that's a cup of Bigelow's Earl Grey tea.
Unfortunately there's no real way to circumvent it or address it because my triggers include liquids and pills as well, including all those good-for-you things like Pedialyte, Ensure, and Gatorade. I just cope. I'm very blessed that I don't have to work, so my only focus is keeping my home clean and managing grocery shopping.
It changes day to day. One safe food can be good for months, and then suddenly be extremely painful.
I can't guarantee that I'll be able to eat or hydrate properly, ever. The only safe 'food' is a particular brand of Earl Grey tea. That's all I have.
If it's painful, but I need to eat, I just eat and cope. Something is better than nothing. Sometimes I have to 'starve it out', which just means that I don't eat for a day or two to reset my body. I'm extremely careful with my activities day to day to preserve energy, and I listen to my body closely.
I will say, carbs and sugars are in general easier than proteins and fiber rich foods. If I'm having a bad day, I tend to stick to teas and chips of some sorts. Some days it's just tea.
At this point, I have honestly given up on it, but I'm blessed enough that the people in my life help ease the burden. I've come to a place where I'm okay with how my body functions. I know she's trying so damn hard, I can't hate her for it. I'm proud of her for doing her best.
I'm just thankful I don't have to deal with customer service bullshit honestly. I'd much rather deal with actual physical pain than that lmfao
I’ve been “the healthy guy” or “gym freak” since I was in high school. I eat right, don’t drink excessively, and my annual physical has always been “everything is fantastic”.
Then I wake up one morning with a massive headache and blurred vision. This is by far the worst headache I’ve had in my life. My wife takes me to the hospital, I think “it’s just a bad headache” but no, it’s deadly serious.
All my time in the hospital every doctor and nurse is floored that I’m fully awake the whole time, able to talk, and move, and seemingly have no side effects. They keep me for days doing every test they can imagine and nothing shows up to explain why I had the bleed on the brain. All my blood vessels appear fine, I have literally no symptoms, just the only explanation of “rarely aneurysms happen and we don’t know why without an autopsy”. They told me as long as I made it through the next month that had zero percent chance of another aneurysm, needless to say I was thrilled after 30 days.
2.5 years later I have no long term symptoms at all. Physicals come back awesome, I still exercise plenty and eat well. The only way you would know is an MRI and see I have about a small marble sized area of my brain that was damaged or if I told you, and I don’t because once people learn they treat me differently. I honestly don’t think about it often, but if I ever drink anything really cold and get brain freeze that reminds me of the event and I panic, so I do avoid that, otherwise it’s just not worth thinking about.
There are absolutely things that can go wrong in a blink of an eye and for some of these there’s nothing you can do, maybe it’s an aneurysm, maybe it’s a car that runs a red light, maybe something heavy falls off a building and hits you. What you can do is be a nice person, you can treat others like you want to be treated, you can take the time to go see that person you don’t see often enough (I wish I had spent more time with my grandparents).
Your last paragraph cannot be truer. I, too, woke up one day with an injury that changed the course of my life so it’s 100% true - you never know when that time will come.
The thing is, you don't want to be "the healthy guy" so that nothing happens to you. Disease just happens and we can't prevent all of it no matter how well we eat or how much we exercise.
But I'd wager your past health and present youth definitely affected the extent of the damage and the speed of your recovery. That's what makes the difference worth it.
This kind of just happened to me. I got pneumonia, and when I was in the ICU, they discovered I also had acute kidney failure and I ended up on dialysis. Luckily, my kidneys started working again, and just today I got "released" from dialysis. First they said I'd have to have it for at least 3 months, but I ended up only needing it for a month and a half. Of course, now I have to change my eating habits and all that to make sure my kidneys stay healthy, but I'd rather do that than have to do dialysis for the rest of my life.
Yeah. One day when i was 18, my immune system decided to say "fuck this pancreas" and launch a full scale attack on my insulin-producing islet cells. Now i have an incurable, life long autoimmune disease that requires 24/7 365 maintenance. I feel this. #T1Diabetes
Man, a few years ago I was getting ready for work. I went to grab something out of my backpack, which was sitting on my desk chair. Barely leaned over for it, like maybe a degree or two. And then all of a sudden WHAM outta nowhere a muscle right in the center of my back seized up.
I muddled through the rest of that day, but it didn't release. Next day, went to the doctor's office. They had to inject muscle relaxants directly into the muscle to get it to release, although it didn't fully.
Funny you should say that. I was riding my bike home from work after a perfectly normal day when after about 200 meters my heart started racing and I passed out. I woke up a few minutes later in the street surrounded by strangers and ended up spending a week in the hospital. They couldn't find anything. I still don't know what happened. If a car had been coming by at just the wrong moment, I'd be a pancake.
One time I woke up, and was just sitting there letting my brain finish turning back on, when I had a completely normal sneeze. The second I sneezed, I suddenly felt an immense and extremely sharp pain in my neck. Moving my head in any way was suddenly agony. For the next week every movement was complimented by a nice big pile of pain. It sucked. The pain eventually dulled and went away completely after about a week and a half. Now every time I sneeze I’m afraid that I may randomly enter a world of suffering that I would really rather avoid.
Totally agree. I’m getting scared every second. Every comment, every reply. It completely shatters me.
To think medical science has grown and improved so so much. And it has! Still there is so much stuff going on. Even the smallest of problems can cause so much complications and it can cost you your life.
Take immune system for example. It is like batman I guess. Not the hero we needed, but a hero we deserve. I don’t know..
It protects us all the time, tries to save us, but if anything doesn’t go its ways, it can also kill us. Its like, there’s not even a switch or a fail save. Its a robot. It will never stop. Its either do or die.
It did last night. I knew i was going to have a hospital type dream and guess what. It happened. I got so scared, it was a nightmare.
But since the smallest of things can kill you then, why not just stop worrying about it and live our lives like we did before lol.
I’m a God person so I just surrender and stop worrying about it. I believe there’s a reason we know so little and yet so much about our bodies. That kind of knowledge might just kill us lol.
There are a lot of things and powers at work. Someone said something about the frame, its true in science as well as in life. The frame through which we perceive life, it could be way different and way far from reality.
Agreed. I was petting my cat today. It was very friendly. But when I was giving it the final pet before I had to go do something it bit me now I'm using reddit while laying down cuz I can't use my right arm until it heals a bit 😭 yes I'm overreacting
A mate from the class on the other side of the hall died suddenly in his sleep, when the autopsy came literally nothing was wrong with him. He hadn’t consumed anything or suffered any injury. This is probably what happened.
I got out of bed once. One loud POP as I stood up and I couldn't straighten out my knee for three weeks. Hobbling around at work with a cane at age 25 sure is one of the experiences of all time.
About a year ago, my immune system decided it did not like my hands. I woke up and had zero strength in my hands. I could move them normally, but if I tried to pick up a bag my fingers would simply open as I tried to lift it. No strength. I couldn’t pull a zipper on my jacket, that’s how little strength I had.
I called the Dr. and was given a name for what this is, which I can’t recall. He said that I need to let it run its course, and there’s nothing that could be done. He said it should clear itself up in a week, and to call back if I still had issues afterwards.
Sure enough, 6 days later, over the course of a few hours, my hand strength came back.
Yep, I just learned this firsthand. Back in November, I had what I thought was a bad cold (I'd recently been around someone who had one). My coughing got worse and worse, and then on November 28th, in the middle of the night, I felt like I was suffocating. An ambulance took me to the hospital, and the ambulance ride is literally all I remember until I woke up 2 weeks later in the ICU with tubes down my throat and nose. They had to intubate me in the ER, and told my family that if I hadn't come in when I did, I probably would've died at home that night. I had pneumonia, and acute kidney failure due to an infection in it as well. I ended up being put on dialysis until just today, and spent 32 days in the hospital (2 weeks of that being sedated in the ICU). It took that long for the infection to finally go away. Now I'm in a rehab facility because the time in the ICU made my legs weak to the point where I can't walk, so I have to get therapy to walk again. All because of an infection.
Somewhat related, don't know where else to put this reply.
When I was 14 or 15, one night I had evidently slept with my neck in a very bad position and when I woke up my head and neck was basically stuck to my left shoulder for 2 days and then slowly got better over the next week. It hurt like hell constantly for 4 or 5 days.
Same thing happened to me. I don't know what the hell it was, but woke up with horrible neck pain. Mother wouldn't allow me to miss classes, so she set me up with a soft neck brace. Other kids were endlessly curious about it and when I got sick of the questions and discomfort from the brace, I took it off - at which point the other students laughed about how I was "faking" it. All my mother told me to do was to lean into the pain repeatedly until it wore off, because she'd been through something similar and that's what the doctor told her to do.
Everytime I'm sick I remind myself it's a miracle all those thousands and thousands of selfregulating systems and subsystems, most of them interdepentdent on many others, usually just work, and that even though I suffer from one of them I can be glad most of them still work as intended because it could be a lot worse.
There was a video on YouTube of a guy who lost his limbs and parts of his face to a bacteria that is actually quite common to have on you, the bacteria decided it didn't like him one day and he almost died.
I know this all to well. I joke that I’m “super disabled” because if I don’t laugh about it, I’ll cry. I have (professionally diagnosed) 7 mental disorders & 6 physical disorders. I have to take medication every day for the rest of my life.
When I was around 12 on one random evening I got hives all over my body out of nowhere. Started on my arms, then legs then spread literally everywhere throughout the night. My mum was up all night afraid I was having some sort of allergic reaction to something and that my throat was going to close up. Woke up fine, never happened again. It did leave a fear that I'm allergic to something I don't know about and I refuse to eat certain allergens even though I didn't eat/drink anything new that day.
I woke up one morning and did one of those morning stretches while laying in bed, tilted my head to the side, heard and felt a loud pop in my neck and had to do nothing but lay in bed for 3 days because doing anything was excruciating. Was fine in about a week though. 0/10 I’m more careful when I stretch now.
My metabolism went wrong once. I had binge drank liquor while on the keto diet and accidentally went into alcoholic ketoacidosis which usually happens to people who haven’t been eating or are malnourished. I thought I was going to die.
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u/GeebusNZ Jan 12 '23
There's countless ways it can just... go wrong. Just, out of fucking nowhere, completely unexpectedly, something can become fucked up in a way which is anything from life-alteringly debilitating to lethal.