Age [Sara Andersen]
Sarah Andersen | Bluesky
::: spoiler Transcript The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying “I’m 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!”
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says “I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!”
The third panel shows a spine’s face. It weakly says, “I am old”.
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, “so very old”. :::
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I feel this joke in my bones.
Early 40s, in the best shape of my life. Jogged, lifted weights, had my diet, supplements, and sleep dialed in perfect. I had tremendous amount of energy and felt great, high achieving in many areas of my life and the old lady and I screwed like rabbits.
Fast forward 7 or 8 years, degenerative disc disease caught up to me, now I can barely sit down on the toilet to take a crap. I'm barely functional due to the depression and loss of mobility and am in constant pain and discomfort.
But aside from the back, muscle loss, weight gain, limp dick, failing eyesight, heart murmur, hair loss, receding gums, cancer lying in ambush, and brain fog, everything else is fine. 🤣
Crazy to think the system wants to squeeze 20 more years of labor out of me. Why are we all putting up with this??
Idk how to react to this but, hang in there dude
Hey, thanks for the kind words! Yeah, it's a bitch but honestly it's a journey we all go through.
If we're lucky.
Getting old sucks but it beats the alternative
100%
waves from another corner of the fucked up disc zone
waves
waves, oww noo, shouldn't have done that!!
Are you overweight mister?
Not yet but I am starting to get a little paunchy.
Y'all need to go to the gym or otherwise train your backs. I've been going for about three months (1-2 times a week) and the back pains are gone. Am 34, software engineer, and still a little overweight, so you can do it too!
32, lazy as fuck. I work as a chef 0 back pain and I engage in bisexual sitting. No idea why I don't have back pain but I'm convinced my sitting style is akin to doing yoga constantly or something
the fuck is bisexual sitting?
We can't sit straight
Can't sit gay either
Looks like a skill issue tbh
Actual phenomenon where bisexuals sit anywhere except in a chair. My wife will sit on the floor, a table, on the arm of a chair, upside down on the couch, etc
Bisexual sitting is how I know you're a night chef.
It's a complete mott and bailey. Obviously 95% of people can avoid back issues by just working out a few times a week. But when you point that out you apparently just happen to be speaking to the one person who has severe scoliosis and it's implied that that's who all of the people complaining about bad backs are dealing with.
It's an identical situation when you talk to people who complain about sleep or diet issues.
The victim role is much easier to accept than responsibility. Speaking from experience 🫠
I'm 50, worked out for years, took care of myself, did stupid shit all my life, no issues with my back. Maybe take care of yourself a bit everyone?
If you only eat "volume foods" you'll probably start to lose the weight too.
How do you eat noise? Is it one of those LA fad diets?
Visit a place thar has sizzling steaks on the menu.
Don't even need to order, just grab little nibbles of sizzle when the waiter goes by. Not unlike the wily sea sponge.
The burden of walking upright.
The brain is always "developing". The whole 25 years thing is a myth and not based on real science.
It's the new "we only use 10% of the brain".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_matures_at_25_myth
Neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons) has been observed in the brains of seniors.
I dont know why but hearing that made me a slightly bit more happier. Thank you!
When you can literally injure yourself while sleeping.
I once woke up with 3 dislocated ribs; one in the front, two in the back. Spent the first few hours of the day relocating them
Had they rolled under the bed?
Honestly, I can't really relate - in my 30s but I got a strong back, I don't really get back pain
Neither did I until recently. Time comes for us all
😭
For me it was an early 34th birthday gift. Without refund. It usually hits people who aren't doing sports, so if you're going to the gym with a good exercise routine that'll delay it greatly.
Some of my biggest back pains are from going to the gym! 😉
Watch out for your forms when lifting. It's so easy to hurt your joints if you're unfamiliar with certain movements under loads. I can now pop my shoulder like a knuckle because of it.
I also learned I meet hEDS criteria, hypermobile joints needed more care than I was giving them, was having too much dopamine from chasing weight numbers. Hopefully I can at least be a cautionary tale.
Welcome to the hEDS club!
It sucks here.
At least the people are nice
oh nooo your warranty ran out :C
for the record i do gym and grew up playing hockey/rugby
Do you exercise or have an active back?
yiss
I suspect regular moderate exercise within ergonomic safety limits is the best way to avoid back pain.
welp, good news for me then! :D
Perhaps you're rich and have a premium mattress. That helps a lot.
my mattress is like 30 years old
I like how people are telling us that we need to go to the gym and shit as though some of us don't have actual medical issues with our backs. I've been dealing with issues since my teens with my back and knees, do all the physical therapy techniques I can to keep the pain at a minimum but it's only going to slow the inevitable.
"I have depression."
"Have you tried doing things to make you happy?"
I remember my back started popping at age 21.
That said, I've found that getting regular exercise, using one's legs, and doing some cardio every day has been great for my back. Doesn't hurt to take 5-10 minutes a day to stretch either.
Unfortunately the human body is 'use it or lose it'.
This is why humans need tails, to take stress off the spine
An inversion table works pretty well for that.
The one positive of being a spineless wimp: No back pain.
Resistance training helps.
Guess evolution still needs a couple million years to finish making us bipedal lol
when i was 22, i had some docs tell me i had the bones of a 60 year old
Where’d you get them from? Hopefully not stolen. Somebody might need those.
oem equipped
Comic made by someone who hasn't had a life of psychological problems. My brain feels just as old as my spine and it's easier to give my spine breaks and let it rest, not as easy with anxiety etc.
I used to have back pain but then I started working out properly including my back muscles and I feel no pain at all, I'm 36.
Lol, 36.
Let's invest in anti-aging research.
Evolution was a scam all along to make future chiropractors more money! /s
Everything was better back before cells had mitochondria.
It's hard sometimes to be the best at carrying other people.
I'm not that person, though. I still have back problems, BTW.
I’m active and fit at 39. That said, my back did “the thing” while I was slightly bent to throw trash away. And I have arthritis so I still just hurt like I’m out there punching walls sometimes, just as a treat.