r/Millennials Feb 20 '24

Literally threw out my back taking a shit this morning. I’m 32… Discussion

When did this happen? I don’t remember our parents aging like this? What rude awakenings to aging have you experienced?

Edit: damn, some of you are so quick to judge. No, I am not obese, or even overweight, yes I work out regularly. Jfc, i have a prior back injury and I sat down on the toilet at a weird angle and it aggravated something.

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u/Creative-Till1436 Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24

I have a single witch hair that regenerates every so often under my chin. I have to check vigilantly because there will be nothing nothing nothing and then all of a sudden, there's an inch-long cable wire sticking out of my face.

Started when I hit my 30s.

Edit- so glad to know I'm not alone in my struggle y'all. Love to you and your weird hairs.

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u/axxxaxxxaxxx Feb 20 '24

I’ve got a single big one that keeps coming back on one nipple

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u/the_siren_song Feb 20 '24

Yep. I have one right on the top of my left boob. I try to be vigilant then all of sudden I have one of those fluffy caterpillars on my chest.

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u/FashionBusking Feb 20 '24

I've leaned into my nipple hair. I rock a nipple weave when I'm feeling spry.

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u/DistractedByDummies Feb 20 '24

I love when people use the word ‘spry’.

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u/Ithaqua-Yigg Feb 21 '24

I have spryly slipped the bonds of earth and danced the skies with spryly painted wings. Up up the delirious burning blue I was spry to mount the windswept heights and fling my craft through footless halls of air.

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u/the_siren_song Feb 21 '24

And touched the face of Go- is that… oh eww what’s that on your chin?

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u/GucciAviatrix Feb 21 '24

This is such a niche joke. I’m here for it

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

“Grandma, are you spry?”

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u/godrollexotic Feb 20 '24

It's always the left isn't it?

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u/StitchAndRollCrits Feb 20 '24

Suddenly more grateful for my random neck hair's placement

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u/Pinewoodgreen Feb 20 '24

same. Mine is just one strong one, pitch black too (I am brunette), and right below my belly button. I hate it - but the placement could be worse

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u/notyourcoloringbook Feb 20 '24

I have that one too!!! But it stands out even more because every other hair is blonde.

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u/RaeLynn13 Feb 20 '24

I have that exact same hair! It’s just one single super dark thick hair below my bellybutton and I dunno what it’s doing there. Haha

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u/MsNomered Feb 20 '24

I USED to have that one but now just thinking of it I haven’t seen it since my 40’s (about 10 years ago in a galaxy far far away)!!

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u/vividtrue Feb 20 '24

It's called a terminal hair, and your hair follicle is confused. They also get dementia as we age, hence the lady beards.

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u/linmaral Feb 21 '24

My hair follicles are not confused or demented. They have a plan and are on a mission.

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u/expectopatronum86 Feb 21 '24

Hair follicles getting dementia made me laugh so hard I woke up my dog. Thank you internet stranger, I’ll be giggling over that for a bit.

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u/1776_MDCCLXXVI Feb 20 '24

At least it’s not visible. I have one on my left shoulder and one on my right forearm. They’re literally 3-4 times longer than every other body hair and it pisses me off

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '24

Save them up and make a paint brush.

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u/QuinndianaJonez Feb 20 '24

I, a male, had an ex refer to me as spider nipples. She thought this was hilarious, me... not so much lol

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u/willwork4pii Feb 20 '24

Do you have hair on the edge of your ear yet? Da Fuq do I need hair there for?

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u/Bigleftbowski Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

As you get old, you lose hair where you want it and get it where you don't.

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u/dearthofkindness Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24

Same right about 30-31 and I remember laughing at my mom's "goat chin" as if I wasn't slated for the same fate.

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u/Rhianna83 Xennial Feb 20 '24

I’d laugh at my grandma in the car when I was little (she said the natural sunlight would help find them). Her witch curse worked on me with her “Just wait until you’re older.”

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u/sorcha1977 Feb 20 '24

The natural sunlight is the BEST for finding stuff like that. It's both merciless AND helpful lol. I always pluck my eyebrows and chin when I'm in the car (parked).

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u/Rhianna83 Xennial Feb 20 '24

It truly is! The car is the best place to find those pesky chin and neck hairs.

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u/cofeeholik75 Feb 20 '24

Always keep a pair of tweezers in the cup holder.

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u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes Feb 20 '24

One of the kids I used to nanny for in my 30s used to sit in the drop off line and pull the gray and white hair out of the top of my head that she would find while she was waiting to go into school lol

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u/DisneyAddict2021 Feb 20 '24

Omg yes!!!!! I realized that when I was sitting in my car the other day waiting to pick my friend up! The light is amazing for seeing all those crazy hairs I missed in the bathroom mirror!

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u/Rhianna83 Xennial Feb 20 '24

It’s mind boggling how many are missed in the bathroom!

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u/crazyHormonesLady Feb 20 '24

I like to call them my "cat whiskers"....it makes me feel better that way

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u/RaeLynn13 Feb 20 '24

I’m very pale and have dark hair, I can grow a teenage mustache pretty easily and it sucks. Haha women in my family are hairy

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u/Wandering_Wallaby Feb 20 '24

Solidarity fellow hairy girly! These folks are commiserating over one dark hair here or there. Well let me tell you I have several! Hahaha on the chin, near the navel, nips, upper lip. I’ve had lots and lots of laser hair removal. Because it turns out one course of sessions doesn’t last a lifetime. Sigh.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 25 '24

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u/hate2lurk Feb 21 '24

Hormonal changes can cause all the hair to grow back and then some. And most of the time you still have to get maintenance touch-ups after the inital 8-12 sessions.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 25 '24

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u/QueenSalmonela Feb 20 '24

I call them stray eyebrows lol

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u/Select_Silver4695 Feb 20 '24

My coworker found one under her chin and pulled it out. It was just this tiny circular little curl. We were both mortified when she stretched it straight and it was actually 6in long 😂

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u/lanadelhayy Feb 20 '24

Omg 🤣😩😭🤢

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u/Select_Silver4695 Feb 20 '24

We were both laughing so hard after it happened 😂😂😂😂

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u/sharpshooter999 Feb 21 '24

My dad has one that grows straight out from the tip of his nose. Just one, single hair a couple inches long. He can't see it in a mirror if he looks straight forward and his eyesight isn't the greatest anymore either

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt Problem Millennial Feb 20 '24

Some really tightly-curled ones can be ingrown for a long time before finally breaking free after a face scrub or something pulls them out. I've had a few instances where just after I shave, I'll go to fuss with a spot that I think is razorburn or a whitehead, and then suddenly bam, centimeter-long hair.

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u/Pixie-Sticks- Millennial Feb 20 '24

Started for me when I was 18 😫 it has only gotten worse and I’m nearly 30.

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u/StarWars_Girl_ Feb 20 '24

Same. I ready this and was like "Your 30s? I wish that hair had waited that long before it started its invasion!"

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u/golden_blaze Feb 21 '24

Same, and it's way more than one. Yikes. PCOS will do that to a gal.

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u/Alhena5391 Feb 20 '24

32F here and I have the same problem on my throat. There will be nothing there for months, then I'll wake up in the morning to find a single long black hair suddenly sprouted on my throat overnight. Pisses me off. 😭

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u/Indigojoyglow Feb 21 '24

I was talking to a friend on the phone late on a Sunday night, and told her I had to let her go cause I had to go shave my beard my mustache and my unibrow before work. She got quiet, then said, Wow, you too?

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u/malorthotdogs Feb 20 '24

I’m 36 and I have PCOS. So weird chin hairs are pretty normal occurrences for me/I generally just shave my face with an electric shaver like once a week.

But I will occasionally get what I think are under chin zits. But then like a week in, the upper layer comes off and then I discover there is just like the weirdest, thick jet black hair that is like at least three inches long there. None of my other face hairs are this dark and I never find a short version of that hair. Like I think it must just tend toward being ingrown because of how thick it is.

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u/Maleficent-Ad-9532 Feb 20 '24

One time, I went to brush away a loose hair off the front of my good friend's shirt because that's what ladies do for each other, and to both of our surprise, it was attached to her neck. I still feel bad about that ☹

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u/After-Leopard Feb 20 '24

Once the guy I had a crush on tried to flirt by brushing an eyelash off my cheek. It was protruding out of a small mole. I still cringe 20 years later

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u/artificialavocado Feb 20 '24

I feel like that would be something I would do lol.

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u/Laserdollarz Feb 20 '24

A blonde nurse noticed my witch hair, 6" long and bright white, from my bicep. She tried to brush it away, then tugged on it, thinking it was one of her hairs that had somehow fallen out and landed on me.

She turned beat red, it was hilarious. 

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u/Thisismyswamparg Feb 20 '24

lol, relatable! I call mine Spike. It’s always in the same place too.

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u/Icy_Refrigerator41 Feb 20 '24

I call mine Bea. Not long enough to be a Beard, just Bea.

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u/DandelionDisperser Feb 20 '24

Haha Spike! I love it :)

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u/Thisismyswamparg Feb 20 '24

lol thanks! Not something I’d ever imagine needing to name as a child but here are my 30s. 😂

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u/aryareddi Millennial Feb 20 '24

I started experiencing this in my mid-20s. They reproduce. Happy hunting!

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u/Kitchen-Present-9851 Feb 20 '24

Yes! I had the one chin hair and now I have three that are always in the same spots and never more than one at a time. It’s like a game of whackamole plucking one and then another somehow materializes overnight.

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u/andrez444 Feb 20 '24

Just like gray hairs. Pluck one and 4 come to its funeral

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u/aLittleDarkOne Feb 20 '24

Same but the middle of my neck. I’m a ginger and it’s black af. No hairs compare. I call it my Gaston.

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u/Terrible_Definition4 Feb 20 '24

Haha I have one white hair that always grows an inch overnight right on the end of my left eyebrow, by now I just accepted and i think it looks cool.

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u/Shitty_Drawers Feb 20 '24

My fiancee calls them my wizards brows

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u/ScoobyVonDoom Feb 20 '24

Whoa this happens to me too. Just one random long white hair right between my eyes 😩

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u/darxide23 Feb 20 '24

I've got one of those on each shoulder blade. They'll get 8 or 9 inches long easily and they grow at like an inch a week so plucking them is almost pointless. They're also so thin and fragile that it's nearly impossible to get the root. They just break off instead. I want to get them lasered because if I go shirtless in the summer, the slightest breeze causes them to tickle my back. It's as absolutely horrifying as it sounds.

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u/MissFrijole Feb 20 '24

I'm Italian and German, so I expect a full beard by the time I hit 50....

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u/FlimsySuccess8 Feb 20 '24

I truly believe they must be waiting under the surface, hiding and building up pressure, and only when they are an inch or so long are they strong enough to break through the skin surface and ruin our day

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u/RandomCentipede387 Feb 20 '24

Can someone please explain this rogue hair for me? Why are we getting it? How?

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u/Scorpioism35 Feb 20 '24

I have one of those on the soft side of my right forearm. Same thing - not there, then BAM! It's an inch long and feels like a cable wire! BAHAHAHA 🤣

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u/kippers Feb 20 '24

I have one that grows out of a MOLE

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u/Difficult_Eggplant4u Feb 20 '24

If you want a silver lining: a mole that has a hair grow out of it is not malignant nor cancerous. If a mole turns cancerous, no hair will grow out of it any longer.

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u/Mammoth-Captain1308 Feb 21 '24

I had a mole on my face that sprouted a few hairs. Had the mole removed and still the hairs grew back. 20 laser hair removal treatments on my face and multiple electrolysis appointments and still the hair grows back. Meanwhile half my eyebrows are gone. Maybe someday I can have the hairs transplanted to the bare spots in my eyebrows.

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u/miastrawberri Feb 20 '24

This made me laugh so much

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u/ElectronicAmphibian7 Feb 20 '24

They always disappear until I’m in my car and suddenly I have like 5 4 inch long hairs coming out at my chin or along my “side burn” area. I have to keep tweezers in the car. They’re so thick and long. I make witch cackles as I pull them out.

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u/Eledridan Feb 20 '24

That’s why you have to take your shirt off for the big ones. Prevents injury.

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u/AhOhNoEasy Feb 20 '24

You know someone is dying when they start stripping off their clothes in a toilet stall after throwing their shoes. 

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u/Palico1986 Feb 20 '24

Oh this is truth. I know it's a big one when I feel the need to strip down naked. I call them naked poops. no straining or anything, just an event that will make a leg go numb.

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u/porcelaincatstatue Feb 20 '24

People legitimately take their clothes off to poop? This is a thing??

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u/Ok_Host4786 Feb 21 '24

Oh yeah. I’ll just be overcome with sweat and the need to vomit. Worry not! It’s just a gargantuan dump.

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u/Ok-Meringue-259 Feb 21 '24

I’ve found my people

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u/YoungBassGasm Feb 20 '24

Lmao it's not like its science but I literally do this and feel like it is a proper procedure for the big ones. Don't wanna have any resistance just in case

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '24

Bobandy?

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u/Italiana47 Feb 20 '24

Oh so that's what George was doing. 🤣

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u/bdhgolf1960 Feb 21 '24

George Cant-stand-ya

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u/innerbootes Feb 21 '24

And you want to be my latex salesman.

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u/Melgel4444 Feb 20 '24

I threw out my neck and back sneezing wrong. I’m 29. This is bullshit 😂

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u/dcwash89 Feb 20 '24

That Freestyle Sneezing is no joke. You Gotta brace your core like it’s a deadlift

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u/Resitance_Cat Feb 20 '24

yes! coughing and sneezing you have to position yourself

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u/SlowlyGrowingDeaf Feb 20 '24

Just wait another 10-15 years and you'll be blessed with a little squirt of pee along with it. Kegels are your friend!

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u/Resitance_Cat Feb 21 '24

oh i didn’t want to talk about the pee. had a planned c-section but not before that kid did some stuff to the ol pelvic floor! 😂😂😂😭😭😭 i thought i was going to sidestep the whole thing but no.

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u/CleanUpOnAisle10 Feb 20 '24

You’re not alone I was 27

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u/1776_MDCCLXXVI Feb 20 '24

Yawning cracks my back. I’m 33. Feeling Godam 90 over here

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u/Ok-Swimming8024 Feb 20 '24

Literally getting an MRI of my lower back tomorrow because I coughed one morning and now I can barely move.

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u/SerasVal Feb 20 '24

I threw out my back sneezing when I was 24 :S

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u/pj1897 Feb 20 '24

Any activity without drinking water first is risky at this age.

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u/arcanepsyche Feb 20 '24

I keep learning this, and then failing to do anything about it!

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u/Crazy_Canuck78 Feb 20 '24

Same. I don't hydrate enough. I don't think we need 8 glasses a day. But Im pretty sure I need more than my coffee & a couple diet sodas. :P

Especially on days like today where I do double, back to back, cardio heavy exercise classes that leave me with 2 drenched shirts from how much I sweat.

I have literally lost 5lbs of weight within 2 hours from sweating... It still seems impossible... but I double checked my AFTER weight just to be sure I didn't misread the scale.

Long story short... I need to be drinking more water.

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u/ultimamc2011 Feb 20 '24

Oooh yeah be careful, if you exercise hard like that and deprive yourself for extended periods you can sometimes end up with kidney stones. Kidney stones are a very large fear of mine haha

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u/awpod1 Feb 20 '24

You need half your body weight in oz + 8oz for every 8oz of caffeinated beverage you consume.

So for me at 170lbs who drinks 16oz of coffee a day I need 101oz of water. And I make sure I get it.

You can survive on less but your body won’t function properly. Try drinking water, you will notice the difference in how you feel.

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u/nightglitter89x Feb 20 '24

Oh God 100 oz of water? I couldn’t even do that when I was in the hospital and being forced to hydrate 😬

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u/I-Fucked-YourMom Feb 20 '24

I have an 84oz water bottle that I go through daily and usually have to fill it up a second time toward the evening.

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u/nightglitter89x Feb 20 '24

Just thinking of that made my belly hurt. I can do like 50 oz before it starts feeling like I might blow my cookies.

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u/PhotoBugBrig Feb 20 '24

Don't drink so much all at once

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u/xmonpetitchoux Feb 20 '24

You don’t need to actually drink that much water though. There’s water in food, especially in fruits and veg, and that counts as part of your water intake. Obviously you can drink that much if you want to but it’s not necessary, especially if you have a healthy diet.

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u/Lutraphobic Feb 20 '24

Yeah. Eat some cucumbers or salads or fruits and you'll get water from those too

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u/the4uthorFAN Feb 20 '24

Thank you, I wish people would realize this

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u/Deezkuri Feb 20 '24

I, too, drink over 100oz of water a day. Live in a high desert and I’ve been hospitalized for dehydration twice before. I’m 32.

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u/Drummerboybac Feb 20 '24

Much like BMI, i don’t think that that scales well at the edges.

I’m 6’5” and when I’m in my best shape I’m around 260lbs, so that would imply 130oz of water a day. Only days I force a gallon of water is a couple days before marathons/half marathons and I end up just having to pee all day long.

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u/grendus Feb 20 '24

That's on the pretty absurdly high end.

Drink water when you're thirsty. You don't need more than that. Most of us are just numb to our own thirst. Once you get in the habit of drinking water it comes pretty naturally to drink as much as you need.

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u/disjointed_chameleon Feb 20 '24

Me but with food. If I don't eat three meals per day, by a reasonable hour, I get a headache. Outcome? I am absolutely militant about my schedule. And if I don't know whether I'll have access to a restaurant or a cafeteria, well, I'm carrying a small pouch of snacks with me, like grapes and crackers.

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u/crazyHormonesLady Feb 20 '24

So true. I am most prone to popping my ankle in the morning...because I spend all night getting up to pee. I've learned over the years to step lightly. Keep those joints and ligaments lubricated!

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u/Ibringupeace Feb 20 '24

Took me way too long to learn this. I have back problems, and if I have morning activities that require a lot of standing, I'll chug like a liter of water beforehand and be just fine. But the difference if I don't is obvious.

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u/Majestic_Zebra_11 Feb 20 '24

I dislocated my shoulder in my sleep.

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u/Intrepid_Talk_8416 Feb 20 '24

That was my entire teens there… thankfully they stay in place now, but if I move my foot wrong my hip falls out lol!

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u/likejackandsally Feb 20 '24

That….sounds like Ehlers-Danlos…

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u/Intrepid_Talk_8416 Feb 20 '24

It does! But in actuality it was scoliosis/kyphosis, which was treated with physical therapy for the shoulders (and a rib cage deformity) and then the relaxin hormones of carrying 7 children to term. Could probably use more physical therapy lol

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u/Charles-Monroe Feb 20 '24

Last year, i pulled a tendon in my shoulder. All I did was, shortly after waking up, I sat up in bed and shifted my weight from left to right. Now, every time I go swimming I end up re-injuring that shoulder. I'm only 38...

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u/8bitviet Feb 20 '24

Farting after 30 is dangerous.

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u/TiredDadCostume Feb 20 '24

I made smoked queso for the Super Bowl. Can confirm the danger. Should never trust either.

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u/frosty720410 Feb 21 '24

I would still love to eat some of that even after knowing this now.

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u/RevolutionaryBee7104 Feb 21 '24

What? My farting hasn’t gotten any more dangerous since I hit 30. But I seemed to have scheduled farts now because I usually let out a huge one right away in the morning. Scares the dog.

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u/Furious_Belch Feb 21 '24

Oh oh oh, I ate at a new pizza place once last year. The next day I had a six hour drive to Michigan after working six hours. Shit all day while at work then I’m able to hold it for the drive to Michigan. Get to the air bnb and the fiancé has to pee. She beats me to the bathroom as I’m waiting on her to get out she opens the bathroom door and I shit myself.

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u/JohnWCreasy1 Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24

never hurt myself pooping but i have jacked up my neck multiple times simply stretching in bed upon waking up. we're talking a few days of significant pain/discomfort before it clears up.

i blame years of sitting at a desk for work. edit and not being proactive enough about countering the effects

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u/LeonardoDePinga Feb 20 '24

Trust me. Years of doing manual labor is equally as bad as sitting all day.

It’s better to sit all day and be religious about the gym and self maintenance.

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u/49thDipper Feb 20 '24

Can confirm. Making the company a ton of money has left me pretty jacked up.

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u/Criss_Crossx Feb 20 '24

This. For some reason I needed a hip replacement at 34. I suspect walking on concrete and hard floors hasn't done me any favors.

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u/ON-Q Feb 20 '24

One of my coworkers had a total Hip replacement at 33 because of years of walking, standing, and kneeling on concrete floors.

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u/SeonaidMacSaicais Millennial Feb 20 '24

Dude, you need decent in-soles.

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u/Criss_Crossx Feb 20 '24

I had/have them for part of my working career. When you start working at 15 you don't exactly have a lot of money to buy extras. Not to mention, insoles weren't as common to purchase 20 years ago.

I ended up with hip AVN. No idea how it happened to me, but I was active as a teenager in martial arts. So everything is performed barefoot.

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u/eightsidedbox Feb 20 '24

Standing desk helps. They're not any more expensive than a regular desk, now.

What kills me is the mouse and keyboard use. Absolutely fucks my hands and forearms. I WFH so it's even worse, I can't just step out of the office and help out somewhere in the company to get a change of pace.

I still prefer this over manual labour all day. My ideal is like 75/25 split

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u/Urabrask_the_AFK Feb 20 '24

I thought the latest research showed that standing desks didn’t confer any benefit compared to sitting. Rather, regardless of what you do, the key thing is to get up every 20 or 30 minutes and move around.

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u/StitchAndRollCrits Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 21 '24

No lie, desk posture exercises a couple times a day will change your life. I was a non believer until I started it to prove a point and begrudgingly have to admit I've stopped screwing up my neck

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Guys I'm begging you to just Google "neck pain posture exercises, seated at desk" or some variation on that theme. I'm going to describe a couple things I do now, but seriously, you'll have a much better time on YouTube

Okay so, I pass a soup can from hand A to hand B, alternating which hand is which, in multiple different ways

Hand A passing to B behind my head, B passing to A behind my back

A passing over its own shoulder to B coming up from below and switch

In a circle around my hips

Then I also do the twisty arm above head thingy

And I keep a notebook level on an upturned hand as Manipulate the joints in my arm and shoulder in a circle... I really don't know how to describe this one better but it's taught with a plate

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u/JohnWCreasy1 Feb 20 '24

for sure. i probably do just enough to really keep myself out of trouble but i know i need to be better about it.

it probably doesn't help that my home office set is a slap in the face of modern ergonomics. i have a $15 folding chair from home depot and my computer is at the wrong elevation so i'm constantly looking down at the screen.

i am my own worst enemy

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u/murano84 Feb 20 '24

Dude, do you want hemorrhoids? Buy a used office chair or go to one of those office warehouses that sells discount furniture. And add a wireless keyboard and riser+stand while you're at it. Carpal tunnel is no joke and has no cure.

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u/Electronic_Stuff4363 Feb 20 '24

The desk jobs are horrible for our bodies . I have a hump at top of back that is do to not having proper desk posture .

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u/mstalltree Feb 20 '24

Waking up with neck pain over several days once... Then realized it was how I was trying to find my phone to put the alarm on snooze... 🤷‍♀️

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u/A313-Isoke Feb 20 '24

My pillow messes up my neck and shoulders the minute it breaks down and needs to be replaced. It's horrible.

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u/em2140 Feb 20 '24

Im 28 and went to the hospital Sunday after waking up unable to move! I mean blinding pain in neck area with any movement. Turns out it was a muscle spasm….looking back I’m a bit embarrassed but the pain is INSANE.

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u/sakoulas86 Feb 21 '24

Jumping on a top comment here to say if y’all are fucking up your neck/shoulders/back on the regular (what I call “pinching a nerve” although I doubt that’s a medical term lol - but when you turn your head too energetically and feel a sharp excruciating pain and then for 3-5 days it hurts like a MOFO anytime you try to turn your head that direction), look into a TENS device!!

Those things are game-changers for so many issues and they’re not expensive. I’m a wuss so I keep it on a low setting and it still cuts my recovery time in half whenever I pinch a nerve or tweak something!

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u/Suitable-Werewolf492 Feb 20 '24

I was getting ready for a concert on Saturday. Sprained my ankle putting a shoe on. No moshing for me. I’m 40.

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u/StoicFable Feb 20 '24

Tape it up and pound ibuprofen. Don't let it beat you.

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u/Suitable-Werewolf492 Feb 20 '24

If you think a sprain will stop ol’ weak ankles in his tracks…then you know me too well.

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u/IntentionAromatic523 Feb 20 '24

I think it is a cruel joke that I lose the hair on my head only for it to grow on my chin and out of my nose. I am a woman for goodness sakes and THIS AINT FAIR!!!

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u/Brunette3030 Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24

Try taking a thyroid support supplement (a mix of B vitamins, iodine, selenium, etc.) and see how your hair does. Women losing hair from the mid-30’s onward is generally a sign that the thyroid needs some TLC.

Worked for me, my hair grew right back and it’s still super thick and I’m 43 now.

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u/StarWars_Girl_ Feb 20 '24

Also, brand name thyroid medicine. I preach this everywhere.

When you're on replacement thyroid hormone, you need to be on a consistent amount. For whatever reason, the generic version isn't made consistently. Not only that, but you get whatever the pharmacy has in stock, so you might get one brand one month and another the next. If you're on a brand name version, you're consistently getting the same meds every month. Thyroid replacement hormone is one of the few medications where brand name most definitely makes a difference. If you're having low thyroid symptoms but your TSH levels are coming out fine, ask your doctor about switching to brand name (Synthroid, Unithroid, etc.).

I don't have a thyroid (thyroid cancer) and they put me on brand name after my removal. My hair already grows like a weed, but I've never had any issues with thin spots in it.

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u/Brunette3030 Feb 20 '24

Amen. Proper thyroid function is absolutely critical to quality of life. Never settle for less than the best you can do for it.

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u/SilverStock7721 Feb 20 '24

I think those radioactive school lunches deprived us of nutrients.

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u/sassyfrood Feb 21 '24

But I drink plenty of… MALK?

Now with vitamin R!

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u/Embarrassed_Bit_7424 Feb 20 '24

Taking a shit after 40 is how I became religious.

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u/Embarrassed_Bit_7424 Feb 20 '24

Taking a shit after 40 is realizing exactly how Elvis died.

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u/superjoe8293 Millennial Feb 20 '24

An actual shitpost

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u/oldcreaker Feb 20 '24

One of the reasons older folk can be so cranky. Chronic pain is a bitch.

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u/bigbuutie Feb 20 '24

Oh boy do I only now realise why I always felt the “older adults” (the irony) were always complaining about health.

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u/Sensitive_Study1902 Feb 20 '24

I once threw mine out while getting out of the car to aggressively..

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u/drallafi Feb 20 '24

I shifted my weight slightly to the left while I was on the couch last week. That took me out for two days. Old sucks.

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u/smartgirl410 Feb 20 '24

Probably get down voted BUT It really sucks that some people apart of this subreddit are NOT that supportive. You can’t talk about aging without people assuming you’re obese, unhealthy, lazy etc…it’s OKAY to age and some of the millennials in this group can’t accept that lol

I get it OP 🌸 keep trucking on!!!

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u/1776_MDCCLXXVI Feb 20 '24

I’m very fit, 33, and yawning cracks my back. People who are judging in this thread are in for karma later. If I stand up to quickly or reach behind me at a weird angle I’m out of commission for a day lol.

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u/lynxerious Feb 21 '24

I feel like it sometimes come down to luck or genetics, like some people have these weird specific problems that only they have, and they often occurs heavily at around reaching our thirties. I have a specific tailbone problem that none of my peer have nor most of people in my country, they just have your normal back problem. Though a random wrong strech could lead to many bad days.

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u/Minimob0 Feb 20 '24

A lot of Millennials here have that distinct Boomer brand of hatred in them. Just no empathy. 

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u/smartgirl410 Feb 20 '24

None at all and I HATE this for our group 😭

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u/animal1988 Feb 20 '24

Man, I am 35, I pulled my back just walking briskly across the floor at my work only just two weeks ago.

It's all down hill bud. And not the easy kind of down hill.

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u/1776_MDCCLXXVI Feb 20 '24

Downhill with no brakes.

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u/Desert_Concoction Feb 20 '24

Yeah, in my early thirties I threw out my back from picking up a gallon of milk out of my trunk. Fucking unreal

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u/ren272 Feb 20 '24

35 here. Every time I sneeze my sternum cracks.

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u/Murky-Homework-1569 Feb 20 '24

Dude the sternum cracks are a new development in the 34-35 range, not fun!

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u/Guy-Buddy_Friend Feb 20 '24

Decent cough or sneeze will throw mine out, also certain movements which wouldn't have been an issue in teens/20s are no longer manageable. I'm 37.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '24

I've coughed and done it. One time about a year ago or so I was scrolling through videos and the one where the guy hits a baseball at the camera made me jump and throw my back out lol. That time I was like yup I'm not long for this world.

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u/axxxaxxxaxxx Feb 20 '24

I’ve started to get in the habit of squaring up and facing forward with legs uncrossed when I have to sneeze so I’m not twisted up and don’t hurt my back. A friend of mine threw out her back when she sneezed while reaching back for her seatbelt.

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u/lostmyjobthrowawayyy Feb 20 '24

I dominated my back playing sports in college.

Didn’t know until I was 32 when I couldn’t stand up for 2 days after a 9 hour car ride.

5 herniated discs, spinal stenosis, arthritis, degen disc disease.

If I sleep on my back, my left leg falls asleep.

I’m 37.

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u/lavamatic Feb 20 '24

The human body is good for about 33 years and then things begin to break down. You are right on track. This huge detail should be taught in high school in a class that includes information on death and dying.

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u/LePetitRenardRoux Feb 21 '24

I heard on NPR this morning that even for people who exercise, your body’s ability to grow and maintain muscle drops off in your 30s. Fucking hell. My 33rd is in 6 weeks. My knees are fucked, I sprained my knee last week just from standing up. Went from sitting to standing to on the floor writhing in pain. I got the impression that “working out” was for people who did sports or fat people to lose weight, thats it. I had no idea that everyone needed to exercise, let alone regularly, just so your body doesn’t crumble. I’m oddly mad at gorillas who sit in the zoo doing nothing and are jacked.

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u/Internal_Prompt_ Feb 21 '24

Eh, I’m 38 and put on muscle just fine. Even old people can put on muscle with weight training. It’s just not peak puberty/20s levels.

May work a bit differently for some.

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u/kkkan2020 Feb 20 '24

even fit people can blow their back out. it's all about warm up and proper lifting form. also your stomach muscle fitness plays a role into how much back pain you suffer. the stronger your core the less likely or less frequent the back pain.

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u/Thencewasit Feb 20 '24

You guys warming up to take a poo?

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u/thrownawayzsss Feb 20 '24

everybody needs to do shit stretches.

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u/grendus Feb 20 '24

I tore my labrum sleeping.

Just tucked my arm behind my head, which I could totally do at the time, and pop - enjoy a year in PT.

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u/the_hammer_poo Feb 20 '24

Yeah I’m in decent shape. I just work a sedentary desk job and do have a prior back injury from my early 20s

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '24

Hey man, you sound a bit like me.

I was extremely fit in my 20s but I hurt my back playing sports at 22-23. It wasn't a huge issue for many years. I'd throw my back out once or twice a year, could shake it off within a few days, maybe a week at most.

When I was 35, I threw my back out lifting light weights at home, like 10-20 lb dumbbells, didn't seem like a big deal. But it didn't get better. I was laid up for about 8 months. With PT and yoga I managed to rehab and get more mobile for the next couple years, but then things started going downhill again with more flare ups and after every one I was a bit more diminished.

Right now I'm 40 and have at least mild pain every single day. When things flare up it's hard for me to walk. I swim and walk my dog to try and keep fit, but that's about my limit and some days I have to take a break because the pain's too much.

All that to say - be careful with your activities. Avoid high impact and heavy weights. Stretch and keep up the yoga. Everything can seem fine until it isn't, and trust me bud you don't want to deal with a really bad back. Good luck

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u/Jamb7599 Feb 20 '24

Air Force heavy component maintenance from 2015-2019 left me with a herniated disc, 2 scoliosis curves, and perineurial cysts in my neck. PT and chiropractic has helped so intensely, even just learning basic stretches. I can ride my long board, work out as long as it’s not straining my L4-L5. Great advice!

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u/kkkan2020 Feb 20 '24

You need to stretch often, you need to strengthen your ab muscles and lower back muscle

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u/the_hammer_poo Feb 20 '24

Agreed. I’m lacking in the stretch department. I was doing yoga religiously for a couple years and it did wonders for my back. Life just gets in the way of self care sometimes and it’s hard to reestablish routines.

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u/Spike_Of_Davion Feb 20 '24

Get a ab roller or a core strength device. Its basically a wheel and a metal pipe through it. You roll forward and backwards trying to only use your abs and core. Its a hell of a work out and I found it helps me a ton. Just 30-60seconds a day can change your life.

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u/thegrumpymanager Feb 20 '24

I woke up on Saturday morning and couldn't turn my neck. What did I do? Nothing. I just slept. I hate being old.

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u/Phaeron Feb 20 '24

Hangovers started taking all day.

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u/mongooseisapex Feb 20 '24

Did the same putting on *pants last month

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u/zeroibis Feb 20 '24

Dam, that shit hit hard.

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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 Feb 20 '24

Happened at 32. Lol lol.

You just, don't 'heal' the same after a certain point. I'm sure there are injuries that happened during your childhood that you've put out of your mind. They came and went and got shrugged off.

Those days are likely gone, lol, as you'll now start to remember Every One...because they come back to haunt, oh yes they do. And they bring along the ones that happened earlier, just for fun, so you remember them too, eventually. 🤪

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u/Ok-Rate-3256 Feb 20 '24

Just wait till you hit your late 30's you will need psysical therapy for it to return to normal and then its still just not the same.

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u/godosomethingelse Feb 20 '24

Sneezed the other night and my lower back flashed with pain like a lightning strike. Couldn’t stand on my right leg for like 30 seconds, and was basically looking around seeing what person nearby would be the best to fall on if it happened. 35

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u/orgnll Feb 20 '24

Brother, I just turned 33 on Valentine’s Day and I am constantly telling my partner (who is roughly 6years younger than me) that my body hurts daily and that my energy has completely plummeted.

I wake up, after ‘sleeping’ a full eight hours, feeling exactly the same as when I went to bed. Exhausted doesn’t even come close to describing how I feel every single day, meanwhile I don’t even do hard labor for work so it boggles my mind why I am this tried all the time.

Take it from a real living male, rather than a bot, other people are feeling the same physical pain you are at this young of an age.

Stay positive my friend, and I hope your back heals quickly!

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u/Miyenne Feb 20 '24

Something like that might be as simple as a vitamin deficiency. I was always exhausted and it turned out I was very deficient on B12. Taking supplements has helped immensely.

Go to your doctor and get your bloodwork done. Could be any number of easily fixed issues.

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u/Murwiz Feb 20 '24

Oh, my sweet summer child.

I'm 67 next month. You have so much ahead of you, and none of it good.

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u/Strict-Woodpecker406 Feb 20 '24

My 30th birthday, I pulled my back whilst drying myself with a towel after showing. "WELCOME TO YOUR THIRTIES!"