Auguries Forecasting an Inexorable Decrepitude [NOW A SLEEP POLL]

[Eight Bit Alien]

I've had a reoccurring back injury for over 20 years. I hate myself though so I just chalk it up to deserved punishment.

17 here, plus scoliosis. And yeah it is a weirdly existential injury

[cxwx]

Scoliosis? Holy shit dude. I tried to carry at 75 pound safe on my shoulder and then stepped down wrong and turned with the weight twisting down at a bad angle. Fucked up the muscle and fascia. I can't imagine dealing with actual bone or
nerve shit.

[cxwx]

I've got some weird shit in both big toes where the outer 15% of them is both numb and painful to the touch. It assume it's some kind of nerve damage.

[FVBTVS]

true story, my main decrepitude is a reoccurring sciatica issue that gives me a rock steady constant 5 or 6 on the pain scale in my right quad that utterly ruins my life for a week every two or three months. cant sleep and cant think of anything else. nothing helps. squats, dead lifts, dumb yoda shit. when it flares up i just take like 8 or 9 ibuprofens a day and before bed so i sleep through the night until it fades away

the other night it flared up while i was sleeping and immediately, as if in a trance, i looked up on youtube some stretches specifically for my issue (nothing worked before) and i saw a 30 second youtube short that gave me instantaneous relief and literally cured me i think for good

[FVBTVS]

fuck you nerve endings call the cops

[Necrometer]

THAT RULES

post the stretches!!!

[FVBTVS]

nerve flossin. i did all the same stretching shit too and it would always only make it worse

first time i ever saw my dad break down and sob was because he had a badly ulcerated disc in his back that had fluid leaking out that would impinge on his nerve. he had to have surgery on it. it started with me about the same age it started with him but his was way way more severe. when it started i tried to bond with him like 'hey now im starting to get the same shit you did back in the day its not as bad though heh' and he was all 'lemme show you some stretches son' and they all definitely didnt help and probably made me way worse whenver i was in pain

[featherboa]

the other night it flared up while i was sleeping and immediately, as if in a trance, i looked up on youtube some stretches specifically for my issue (nothing worked before) and i saw a 30 second youtube short that gave me instantaneous relief and literally cured me i think for good

fuck!

[the awesome Assassin]

You guys gotta get a hot tub...

[Geeheeb]

Things have been really bad with my lumbar pain over the last year and half, and with a recent flare-up a month ago I decided to get an interlaminar epidural steroid injection (steroid injection by the base of my spine). It was yesterday, and today my back pain is a little better but the 10mg of dexamethasone makes me feel so crazy. I have had intramuscular injections before, but with the interlaminar injection its kinda in a pocket so I didn't expect so many systemic effects.

[featherboa]

feel better :/

[postaddiction]

On the physical tip, I've been fasting, going to cryo and sauna frequently, and even throwing some biking back in the mix. I have lost 60 pounds in 3 months and am in peak condition.

RE: Becoming an old man... Morbid Angel's "Immortal Rites" came on, and I started thinking about how this is a kids song for me. Then I re-categorized Vincent-era Morbid Angel as Young Adult Fiction

[Warpsmasher]

Terminator parts incoming: I'm getting both hips replaced, first one in 2 weeks, second one early November. X-rays show both to be bone on bone, with no cartilage left to speak of. The pain went from moderate to severe pretty fast. A year ago I could barely walk or even be on my feet for more than a few minutes. I had to use the electric carts at the grocery store, and take handicapped parking because I needed it. Right now I'm in killer shape and have been going to the gym every day first thing for months, and the pain is down to a 3 or 4 most of the time now because of that, so it feels really weird to be planning to have the fucking ball end sawed off my fucking femur and replaced with a ceramic piece, which will go into a polyethylene socket, which will be screwed into my fucking pelvis and somehow still be lubricated by my body's own natural joint fluid...

[MPD]

best eventual remains.

[featherboa]

I'm doing V7s now

[FVBTVS]

my nerve flossing technique isnt working as fast or as well as it used to

[Warpsmasher]

best eventual remains.

[postaddiction]

I got a fit watch and I've gotten obsessed with tracking my sleep. It always takes it a while for it to update in the morning, so it's like the votes coming in when the data loads. I saw today's stat - 10 hours and 3 minutes - and involuntarily exclaimed "NICE"

[FVBTVS]

ive started snoring like crazy

[postaddiction]

I got a CPAP machine but I don't use it. Sometimes it's kind of nice.

If you're wanting to stop snoring in a less spastic manner, this worked for me before I turned pro: https://snorelessnow.com/products/anti- ... ing-pillow

I've used the mouthguards, too. They work but they feel like shit.

I don't care anymore because it was just my ex-girlfriend's problem, so now I let 'em rip all night, loud and proud like a true Juggalo

[featherboa]

they make tape for taping your mouth shut at night

[postaddiction]

that stuff really sucks

[Toilet Fleet]

I moved our shit to our current apartment effectively by myself. Right tools for the job, never really overdid it—but going up those stairs that many times with a static load really fucked up my left knee. Right knee comes and goes, but the left really fuckin sucks. Almost certain I tore my left meniscus, and partially my right. The weakness is gone but my left knee still hurts when I stand up, go down stairs, go up stairs at slow speeds (running feels fine), or drive for longer than an hour.

Stretching helps kinda, certainly keeps me functional, but I think that left knee is just fucked now

[featherboa]

time to load up that kneesovertoes maniac into your feed

[Warpsmasher]

Can't even feel it anymore

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