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SketchMaster

SketchMaster

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Played a two day paint ball game this weekend and when I got home and started cleaning up I noticed the tip of my left big toe had gone numb. At first I didn?t think anything of it, figured I had just been too hard on my feet and left it alone.

Next day at work my toe was still a bit numb and I could not remember doing anything that would have hurt it so I did a quick Google on it and after reading a few options I decided to go say hello to my doctor. Turns out I slightly damaged my L5 nerve but it should heal up fine, I?m guessing I did it in the final battle when I was leaning around a oddly shaped bunker to get a shot on someone.

When I was younger, I thought I could do anything and not get hurt. Now I?m 22 (still young) and I think my body is starting to drop little hints that, sooner or later, I?ll have to slow down a bit. :frown:
 
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E equals MC2

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Felt like college, teenagedom and invulnerability was just yesterday.

I'm 26 now. I've now developed:

*Heart burn. Can't drink red wine. Some food wake me up due to bad heart burn.

*Gained about 20 lbs. WTF. I used to be able to wear tight shirts and grind with random girls in the club.

*No longer gets drunk. Because I somehow get SICK before getting drunk (not hang-over). I mean wtf is this?


 
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rasczak

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Originally posted by: Gibson486
pfff...I got athritis (sp?) on my knee when I was 10. How do you think I felt?
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pfft i got blueballs at age two. How do you think I felt? ;)

hehe actually i have an arthritic hip from track at age fifteen.
 
Scarpozzi

Scarpozzi

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We're a lot more frail than we feel. Just wait until you have your first major accident or fall or car wreck. It's gonna come down like a ton of bricks....you may heal and forget about it....but pain is part of life.
 
GasX

GasX

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When I was in college, I'd do things like bottle chugs of bourbon or Jaeger. I'd go out drinking Friday night until the wee hours, play 2 games of rugby on Saturday and drink even more on Saturday night. I'd certainly have a hangover on Sunday, but I would shrug it off by lunch.

15+ years later, I have a hangover for three days if I drink more than 3 or 4 drinks and the though of playing a full game of rugby makes my bones cry.
 
Atomic Playboy

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I was just thinking about this last week. I got sick. I remember getting sick as a kid and loving it; you got to stay home from school, but you never actually felt that bad. Sick days meant TV and video games while you ate Pop-Tarts in your underwear, and your mother would bring you the A-Team on video to keep you company. No matter how sick you were, the power of youth would overcome; you could be running a fever of 104 and go down to the park to play basketball. Sick days were awesome that way.

So when I got sick last week, I was thinking it was going to be more of the same. Wrong. I was in bed for four days straight, including a block of 36 hours where I only left the bed one time (to pee). I couldn't eat, I took so much Vitamin C I thought I was going to shit a lime, and I was so doped up on Nyquil and cough syrup that I hallucinated a phone conversation with my boss (which got me in trouble later when she asked why I hadn't called in sick). I spent several days coughing every ten minutes, which kept me from getting any sleep at all, and I coughed so hard for so long that I threw my back out. I just turned 25 and I'm falling apart.
 
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Kev

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I'm 26 and feel like a walking disaster:

Ruptured discs in lower back
TMJ
Chronic shoulder pain
Numbness in right foot
And now my stupid hair has decided it doesn't like me anymore
 
Chunkee

Chunkee

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Originally posted by: Kev
I'm 26 and feel like a walking disaster:

Ruptured discs in lower back
TMJ
Chronic shoulder pain
Numbness in right foot
And now my stupid hair has decided it doesn't like me anymore
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Damn

u a mess..

i am going to neurologist today for a cervical disk that is giving me a good thrashing...that and arthritis in the knees..

ah yes, the bulletproof teenage years...they be long gone.

i am 40... damn, howd that happen.

 
SketchMaster

SketchMaster

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The feeling is starting to come back, that or I'm getting used to it being numb...

You guy's make growing up sound like so much fun. :p I need to find out how I look with a shaved head since every man on my father's and mother's family side has gone bald and I'm already starting to find hair in the drain catch.
:(
 
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ShadowOfMyself

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Heh Im 22 myself and Im still there... Nothing ever happened to me, but then again Im always careful... Never been to a hospital since I was born! Except for vaccines and routine stuff obviously... Its amazing how you always feel youre a part of a generation that will live forever or something, and even if you know others thought the same, you still think YOU are the one and they were just wishful
 
hanoverphist

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wow, i love seeing threads like this. i thought i had it bad at 38, but im feeling pretty healthy reading about all you guys.
 
pyonir

pyonir

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I just turned 30. I'm old already. Of course given my family history, i'm middle aged right now. So yeah.
 
SketchMaster

SketchMaster

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Originally posted by: hanoverphist
wow, i love seeing threads like this. i thought i had it bad at 38, but im feeling pretty healthy reading about all you guys.
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Luck of the draw and life style, that's all it really comes down to.
 
TheAdvocate

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Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I was just thinking about this last week. I got sick. I remember getting sick as a kid and loving it; you got to stay home from school, but you never actually felt that bad. Sick days meant TV and video games while you ate Pop-Tarts in your underwear, and your mother would bring you the A-Team on video to keep you company. No matter how sick you were, the power of youth would overcome; you could be running a fever of 104 and go down to the park to play basketball. Sick days were awesome that way.

So when I got sick last week, I was thinking it was going to be more of the same. Wrong. I was in bed for four days straight, including a block of 36 hours where I only left the bed one time (to pee). I couldn't eat, I took so much Vitamin C I thought I was going to shit a lime, and I was so doped up on Nyquil and cough syrup that I hallucinated a phone conversation with my boss (which got me in trouble later when she asked why I hadn't called in sick). I spent several days coughing every ten minutes, which kept me from getting any sleep at all, and I coughed so hard for so long that I threw my back out. I just turned 25 and I'm falling apart.
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TESTIFY!!

 
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MegaVovaN

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Hey guys, what are your lifestyles that you fall apart so early? I'm not talking about genetic stuff like hair loss.

I am almost 20 and still invincible.
But then again I've been an elite swimmer since age 7. Few years ago ditched swimming for biking, and now added weight lifting and running.
 
HeroOfPellinor

HeroOfPellinor

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Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Hey guys, what are your lifestyles that you fall apart so early? I'm not talking about genetic stuff like hair loss.
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Come back when you turn 25.

As for your question. Look at their posts. "OMG I used to be able to abuse my body but now, for some strange reason, I can't any more."
 
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MegaVovaN

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Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Hey guys, what are your lifestyles that you fall apart so early? I'm not talking about genetic stuff like hair loss.
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Come back when you turn 25.

As for your question. Look at their posts. "OMG I used to be able to abuse my body but now, for some strange reason, I can't any more."
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Gladly :)

I aim to run an Ironman triathlon by 25.

For those of you who don't know, it is 2.4mi ocean swim + 112 mi bike + 26.2 mi run. In grueling weather, and must be completed in under 17 hours to be called an Ironman.



edit: my peers now abuse their bodies too, and I am sort of outsider among them because of it. They call me "health freak" because I work out 6 days a week.

Guess I'll be an outsider still when THEY turn 25-30. Heheh.


edit2: woo go me, nice 3200 post.
edit3: today, been exactly 3 years since I joined AT.
 
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