Hate to say it Neanderthal but that sounds goutish
― Jaq, Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
That's what all my friends said too. Doc time!
Lol pplains
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
One of the fun things I learned over the pandemic is that there is a type of inherited arthritis that is definitely not gout, but presents with classic gout symptoms and is not necessarily caused by dietary issues that we traditionally associate with gout. That was a fun thing to learn!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
Sinister, you say?
― tvod+ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
I too am amazed sometimes by how old people my age are.
When my kid got his vaccine shot there was a guy in front of us picking up a prescription and gave his birth date - which was in 1974, same year I was born. But he looked ancient, like serious old-man old. I thought maybe I was just ignoring my own self but on the way out of the store my wife was like 'holy shit that guy was your age but looked 75'
― joygoat, Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
Also i had a couple of gout outbreaks 15 years ago and have been taking a prescription ever since and I never even think about it. The drug costs like $2 a month because it's been around since the 1960s and has zero side effects for me.
― joygoat, Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
i'm at an ortho right now, just got x-rayed, seeing what's what. can barely walk on my foot rn.
mom has a broken toe as well. the Neanderthals are near extinction.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
we'll never escape the wooly mammoth now
joygoat - what is your prescription, if I might ask?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
It's gout.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
The good news is there are plenty of options to explore, good luck.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
Ya giving me Prednisone atm for da swelling
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mjNY53ORuA
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 December 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
i take allopurinol
― joygoat, Thursday, 9 December 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
Wife teasing John Lennon last night, and I was all "LISTEN, the man was killed 21 years ago tonight. Show some respect."She looked at me for a few beats, and then asked, _"Twenty-one_ years ago?"Seems like only 21 years!
― Raw Like Siouxsie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 December 2021 05:37 (two years ago) link
John Lennon's death is now old enough for this thread!
― Mark G, Friday, 10 December 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
Old enough to know better.
― Raw Like Siouxsie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 December 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
Was my guess, just curious. Works great for many people I've heard. Kinda frustrated because my doc has been hesitant to prescribe that because I don't have "true gout" apparently. I have a prescription for when I have a flare, but haven't had one in more than two years to worry about.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
I fell on some ice a few days ago. My wrist hurt a little in the immediate aftermath, but the next day I woke up feeling like I'd been savagely beaten
― rob, Friday, 10 December 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
death to false gout
the prednisone has helped a ton but my stomach doesn't like it. i'm still walking with an awkward limp but a little more swelling reduction and that's fixed
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 December 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
lol
I know all the jokes about gout and what is historically represents, but holy shit that joint inflammation is some of the most intense pain I've felt in my life. The first time it ever hit me, before I was able to see a doctor and get anything prescribed, was in a knee about six years ago and every step was excruciating.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
once it got to lifting my foot and putting a shoe on hurting like fuck yesterday is when i decided to go to the doc.
I learned at least 20 of my friends have gout, when I described my symptoms on FB. they all swore by cherry juice.
gonna try it.
i haven't had much in the way of meat or alcohol in two days.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 December 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
Heard that about cherries and cherry juice, but that didn't work for me (assuming since it's the false gout or whatever).
What was most frustrating for me is that it had virtually nothing to do with my diet. I'd talk to people with gout and they all described how they could almost always feel it coming on and knew the food triggers for it, but I didn't have that experience at all. Like my last flare from a couple years ago came right in the middle of one of my healthiest food streaks in a long time where I was completely off red meat and wasn't drinking alcohol at all. But in more recent pandemic years when I've been, uh, less good about my diet, absolutely no issues. It's weird.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
I don't know how I DON'T have gout tbh. Seriously.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
Anyway aging is a shark you have to punch in the nose every day. Hard. Stretch like your life depends on it (you will not have time to do this).
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
^^^
this is all otm
My son's school flag football team had an end of season thing a few weeks ago and roped some of the parents into playing against the kids. It was last minute and I did not stretch at all. Holy shit did I pay for that.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
Stretching before a walk has recently become really important, or my lower back lets me know in no uncertain terms that I should’ve stretched.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
Absolutely no one definitely not me:My lower back: You thought you were getting out of this bed without stretching? That's cute.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Lol yes
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
Eat the wrong things on day one, feel slightly ill/high on day two
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
about to turn 46 and i for sure feel like most people my age that I encounter seem so much older. These people have kids already out of college and shit, it's weird!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
Yeah it always blows my mind anew a little bit when I realize that when my dad was my age, I was just about to start grad school!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
I am relatively back pain-free, which I'm very glad about, but my shoulders have been hurting for several months now, which is not the best feeling to wake up to.
Only got one week left in this thread...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 10 December 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
I've got a kid doing his GCSEs (16 in 2 months) and it blows my mind every day. I believe this knowledge is supposed to 'ground me' but nope, I find myself floating freer and further from reality every day.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 December 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
I have friends whomst are roughly my age who I know through the music scene who are grandparents. That's mindboggling
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 10 December 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
Yeah, one of my friends has just become a grandmother at 45. Wtf.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 December 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
chacun a son gout
― fetter, Friday, 10 December 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
hashtag skintag
Gout poser
― calstars, Friday, 10 December 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
I'm a year older than the biological grandmother of my adopted son.
Most of my friends/peer group didn't have kids until well into their 30s, so it's weird that my neighbors had kids in their very early 20s (unusual for all the academics I know) and are younger than me with one of their kids off to college already. They're going to be 40 year old empty-nesters in a year or two which blows my mind because my son wasn't born until I was 40.
― joygoat, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
I'm coming up on 25 years in the same apartment ... friend from college posted about the demise of their long-owned toaster oven, and I realized that I had the same model of toaster oven and it is actually older than their now deceased toaster oven. I have adult friends who are younger than my toaster oven.
I am 47 now and will take hot baths to reduce stiffness and aches in my knees. I think my mom started having arthritis in her knees when she was approximately my age, but when my mom was my age, I was away at college, so I don't know this for a fact.
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 December 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
* I purchased this toaster oven around the time I moved into this apartment
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 December 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
Our endless numbered days
― calstars, Sunday, 12 December 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
swelling almost completely gone on my foot. thank god!
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
One of the many things I appreciate about the Peloton app (the classes, not the bike) is how much they emphasize stretching. Religiously.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 December 2021 04:49 (two years ago) link
barely BARELY into the next leg of my shoulder surgery recovery. Four weeks 24/7 in a brace and six in a sling, FUCK YOU. I am cheating on this last week and hoping it doesn't bite me in the ass but hey i work from home. Will see what my new PT guy tells me tomorrow. Waking up four times a night represents good sleep at this point.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
My partner had two surgeries, same shoulder, this summer and it was hellish. Mind your shoulders, ppl.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
i mean it is not fun
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link
Got an energetic dog a fortnight ago and my knees are doing most of the barking by now
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 07:52 (two years ago) link
which variety of energetic dog or puppy would this be? I post this as my 3 year old vgb is sat at other side of kitchen waiting for his walk in a calm + composed manner that t'wasn't always thus.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 08:48 (two years ago) link