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Age doesn't matter to Tacrolimus much unfortunately.
They said, the way they treat post surgery in Finland is interesting and seems to work really well.
Basically, they want you moving and doing stuff as soon as possible.
They had me walking around on Day 2 of post kidney transplant for example.
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:
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.
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.
50.
What do you mean "recover"?
54 but much the same story. I'm healthier now in many ways than I was in my youth.
At almost 40, I'm finding I still recover from most injuries fairly quickly. Roll an ankle in the grass? Good as I've always been within a minute or two. Strain a muscle? A day of rest and I'm back in working order.
I dread the day when this starts to change.
30ish. The main difference is that my hangovers have gotten worse. In my 20s I could party all night at the club and still be functional the next day. Now I can’t spend an evening at the pub without destroying my weekend.
I found the solution to worsening hangovers was to drink about 1.5L of water spread throughout the evening. Better solution would probably be to quit drinking but I am not ready to rawdog the current reality
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.
40 ish.
Age 34 was the line for injuries coming easier and lasting longer. And for hangovers no longer being worth the fun. That was the age "sleep injuries" started. Oh your hotel pillow was too thick? Please enjoy 4 days of neck problems! Needless to say I don't powerlift anymore because it isn't worth the risk: more of a body building / endurance approach is seeming more sustainable.
As others have said, my immune system still behaves just fine. I haven't noticed any differences there.
34
I've largely avoided any major injuries pretty much my whole life, so I don't have the best frame of reference
Most scrapes, bruises, cuts, sprains and other common injuries are right as rain in a couple days, maybe a week or two if it's a particularly bad sprain.
I tend to not get sick too often, but I have noticed that when I do as I get older stuff like a sore throat or cough will linger a few days longer than they used to, fever still breaks in a day or two, and I'll be feeling just fine otherwise, just that little tickle in my throat sticks around for a while.
45 here, and it depends on the illness/injury. I don't get ill very often, can get over a cold in a week, still never had COVID (that I'm aware of, knock on wood). But God forbid I get any sort of scratch or cut anywhere on my body, it will always always get infected, always. Yes, I bathe regularly, wash my hands religiously, use anti-bac wound cream, cover the wound, etc, it ALWAYS gets red and itchy and irritated. That never used to happen to me in my 20s or 30s.
Early 20s. There isnt too much of a difference but any wounds I do get now take longer to heal than I remember and the scars stay for somewhat longer too. I could recieve the most cartoonishly outrageous injuries as a kid and in upto a year or so there would be little to no sign of them ever happening but now Im here collecting scars like a whale collects barnacles since they dont go away as fast.
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.
I'm in my mid-60's, although I haven't entirely accepted that yet. My recovery rate hasn't changed much, if any, but I do get more minor injuries than I used to. My joints are not as forgiving as they were 40 years ago.
Mid 50's. I haven't noticed any increase in recovery time from injuries or illness so far.
I went through a period in my 30's when I'd get sick with a cold in October/November and stay sick until March. I think more than anything else it was just catching every bug the kids brought home from school, and just going through a series of overlapping illnesses every year. It stopped when I hit 40.
One thing I'd point out is that we never really recover from an injury. Our bodies are just in a perpetual state of trying to hold everything together.
Lack of vitamin C will result in Scurvy. One of the effects of scurvy is that scars from injuries and surgeries just open up again. I interpret that as your body not being able to fake it anymore.
If you're having trouble healing, maybe eat an orange ;-)
Maybe eat an orange
Or a banana. Depending on the type of injury you’re recovering from, potassium is like your heal over time vitamin. It helps with musculature soreness and pain!
So, if you're sore, eat a banana. If your surgery scar from an appendectomy when you were twelve opens up, eat an orange.
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.
I'm around 16. I can recover pretty quickly still, but definitely not as well as I could as a wee lad.
Recently turned 40. Generally speaking, I don't see a big difference in the heal time of cuts or bruises. My joints on the other hand feel like they don't hold up like they used to. Recently spent a day helping a buddy cut down and mulch some dying trees on his property, made it through the day no problem. The next three days of recovery were rough though. I feel like a random day of labor like that when I was 30 wouldn't have had the same impact. I do weigh probably 20 lb more now but I'm also more physically active on a daily basis than I was when I was just a 30-year-old IT geek. That being said, seeing some of the responses here from the 60 and 70-year-olds gives me hope that it's all in my head.
I’m in my mid 40s. I seem to recover from injury at about the same speed I did in my 20s (perhaps a little bit slower), but recovering from illnesses can take a little longer. I also noticed that I tend to get injured a little bit easier, especially twisting my ankles. But I’m in generally good health and eat a decent diet. If I didn’t take as good care of myself as I do, I could see my recovery times getting longer.
One thing I don’t recover from as quickly is a night of drinking. I’m much more likely to get hung over than I was when I was younger. I need to drink a lot more water.
And my knees hurt constantly as the cartilage has worn away from doing too much stuff in my 30s
Mid 40s. Y’all are recovering from injuries?!
Hovering around 30 and to be honest my immune system has always been made of papier-mâché and butterfly wishes lmao, so I guess no difference.
I did get COVID in the last couple years and never quite properly recovered, but that’s not really related to age.
I try to stay on top of my wiggly joints more to prevent further injury than my teen years gave me, but otherwise am typically fine (by my standards).
I’ve got wiggly joints too! It stayed a purely positive until I lost weight, and now I sometimes wake up with dislocated joints, but it’s not really painful at least. The easy/serious bruising that comes with them is more irritating, I find, because I occasionally wallop myself walking into something.
I'm in my mid-late thirties, and my recovery time is about the same as it was in my mid twenties. This is because when I was 26 I had major abdominal surgery. That experience ended up delineating my life, having boundless vigour before and but needing to carefully measure my energy and actions after.
Fifty-two. I don't normally have any issues shaking off illness, though covid was a doozey. Injuries, on the other hand, both take longer to heal and just happen on their own constantly. And when I really do something like take a several mile walk or carry a bunch of holiday decorations up and down from the basement, I hurt things that last for weeks.
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.
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.
41 years old. I generally catch a cold once every couple of years. It will last a couple days to maybe a week if it's bad. This is about the same as it's been since I quit smoking 15 years ago. I haven't noticed any change in injury healing time.
45, and dunno. Haven't been sick with anything but food poisoning since boot camp.
I seem to recover from vaccines better than most of my peers though.
I've only hurt myself while sleeping once so far, and that just made that day suck.
I first noticed slow healing when I hit 27, had a knee injury that FUCKING SUCKED. It was over a year before I could do a knee bend.
Even now, decades later, it still aches when it gets cold.
At a certain age you don't actually recover anymore. It's just added to the list of things you're slowly dying of.
Mid 20s no change yet. I heal as fast as my always have
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.
Early 30s, I haven't noticed much change for illness, joint pains slightly worse. But I have noticed a pretty significant heal time increase for cuts and scrapes. I find myself constantly going "why hasn't that cut/scrape healed yet, it's been like a week".
30s, I am much slower to bounce back from muscular injuries, and if I smash my knee, it's gonna be a week before I don't need a brace. Being overweight is a big part of that though. I'm sure if I had kept my weight off after my last surgery 10 years ago I'd be quicker to recover joint injuries.
Illnesses are about the same? Maybe? Idk whenever I got a cold I would be miserable for a week, and that hasn't changed. Every so often I'll get something that knocks me on my ass for 2-4 days, and when I was younger it was probably only 1-2 days. I was sick much more as a kid though so that's likely one reason, my immune system isn't exposed to as many things anymore so illnesses that DO hurt are worse than they used to be. I'm not a biologist though, and pathology sounds like what a startup company that makes designer walkways would call themselves.
I also think I'm much funnier than I used to, but that's likely unrelated to illnesses...
I’m not quite 40. Last year I fell off a step and pretty significantly sprained my ankle. The instability and initial pain came down in about two weeks. However I was having a nagging/niggling pain for about a year. I finally got a referral for PT and that resolved it.
30- something. I've not noticed a difference in recovery since my teens. I do have to warm up more compared to 20s.
Just aches and pains mainly in late thirties. Don’t stay too sick yet.
41, I still don't get sick or injured (🤞)
