"What Ails You?" Topic

From reading the many posts, seems like a lot of us are broken or worn out to some degree. So what ails you?

Mine are my knees. Mostly my left. I got hurt at work, tore ligaments, tendons and cartilage…old football injuries as well. I also have slight high blood pressure but that's controlled through medication…

Everything. But this is a family show.

'Nuff said…..

John T

Busted up left knee.

Nerve damage in left elbow, causing varying degrees of incapacity with my left hand.

Brain damage resulting in a half dozen mental illnesses.

Tendon damage to both heels and both elbows. Advanced arthritis along entire spine, as well as hands and feet.

My degenerative spine disorder has already required 4 surgeries to my lower back, 2 of which were fusions. For my last fusion surgery they opened me along the abdomen as well as along the spine. I look like I had a cesarean. More fusion surgeries are in the foreseeable future. At this point it's inevitable.

I am in pain 24/7 nowadays, which means that I'm cranky a lot.

My Dad is 95 and my Mom is 93, and yet they are up and moving around better than me.

Dan

Lessee…

Type 2 Diabetes
2 slipped/bulging disks in my back

The diabeetus is well controlled with drugs (just tested an hour ago & sugar levels were at 98), & my back issues are mostly controlled by a combo of drugs (gabapentin) & steroid injections directly into my SPINE! Other than that doing OK… :)

Damon.

Joints don't work as well as they used to but considering everything I'm doing well.

Sore left shoulder (old skiing injury)

Sore left knee (old soccer injury)

Both well controlled with exercise

High blood pressure and some blood lipid problems, both well controlled with meds

No matter what hurts these days, I'm grateful for the health I enjoy. I realize things could always be much worse.

Major surgery on Feb. 28th for a herniated bowel and blockage. Nearly retired my dice if you know what I mean. Recovery has been annoyingly slow. But I'm grateful to still be here and thank the Maker every day.

It all hurts!

Just need my right elbow fixed as my tendons are bad and it's affecting my painting abilities. Can hold a brush without my had and forearm shaking.

Both knees and plantar fasciitis in both feet.

Back pain as a side effect of cancer. Multiple myeloma cracked all but 3 of my vertebra. I have had 5 vertebroplastys that let me walk again but can't do any more of them. My jaw is "rotting" as a side effect of the chemo that I had and the pain won't let me wear my dentures I have a pacemaker and ten+ stents in my heart. I damaged my brachial plexus in my left arm and it is stiff and sometimes unusable. I have Duputryn's in the little finger of my left hand so it is bent at a 90' angle. Other than that I'm in great shape!

79th Pa, I had plantar faciitis about 30 years ago in both feet. I was a letter carrier at the time and my doctor had me buy some Nike shoes and had inserts made for me. It took about a year but I got rid of it.

Both knees are a bit achy and slipping around. Bad discs in the back causing back pain and quad numbness. Doing core work to try to work on the back issues.

Mostly age and general wear and tear, but the cataracts are a real annoyance. (Last job was pretty much exclusively in front of a monitor and extra hours at that, which probably brought things about years earlier than otherwise.) Still, I'm assured it's fixable come fall/winter.

All things considered, very blessed.

@Phil: Thanks. I have inserts (ordered new ones on Monday), and I get injections when I need them.

Mild persistent Asthma, and occasional bouts of mild irritable bowel syndrome. I also have Acephalgic migraines (these are like real migraine but I dont get the pain!)

Physically migraine.
But biggest is general anxiety since I was 18

The only ailment that effects my gaming is the arthritis in my hands make painting for more than 10 minutes at a time difficult. Good thing I already have lots of armies.

Need a hip replacement, probably soon.

Need cataracts removed.

Probably will be getting a hearing aid soon.

Recovering from a bout of hemorrhagic pancreatitis, along with numerous complications arising from it. Finally back to work after almost 7 months.

Arthritis.
Diabetes, type II.
Blood pressure and cholesterol, due to diabetes.
Herniated disks in back.
Neck fusion.
Aches and pains from breaking just about every bone in my body, at one time or another.
Hearing loss. (probably need aid).
Migraines.
Sleep apnea.
All in all, it could be worse.

Diabetes type 2
Hip arthritis
Nerve damage from aforesaid diabetes
Aaaaaaaand
2 stents, 1 in each of my arteries, RCA & LAD!

Too much junk food and not enough exercise is about it.

Just had my teeth cleaned. At 70 that's about it! So far so good.

At 58, quite healthy actually.

Reconstructed groin.
Nerve damage in my leg.
Constant pain.
Limited mobility.
Drugs for the above destroying my liver.
Good side foot hurts from 20+ years of mild limping.
Low tolerance for stupid.
Unrelenting misanthropy.
Bouts of whimsy.
Two jobs, one paycheck.
Grown kids.
Groan … in-laws.
Aging relatives who need care/support.
Teeth in poor repair. (That's on me.)
Butt ugly.
I'm 5'7" tall, which is "average", but it is the lower limit of the first standard deviation for average adult male height, to even at average height ~84% of men are taller than me.
Migraines.
Tinnitus. (Also on me. Metal concerts.)
No sense of style.
Mild, chronic allergies. (Snotty nose most of the time, occasional bouts of typical allergy fits.)
Full head of long, luxurious, naturally curly hair.
Obese. (I guess.)

Right… now that we've got that out of the way, let's move on to griping about the under-thirties.

My mom used to say when I didn't want to eat some food, "It is good for what ails you and if nothing ails you it is good for that too."

For me it mostly fair wear and tear from 30+ years as an Airborne Ranger. Nothing that I can't still put mind over matter and "suck it up and drive on". Still creaks and groans from the hips on down.

Busted back, busted knee, COPD, brain tumor, dandruff, chronically empty wallet, otherwise I'm fine.

Came home a few days ago after nine days in hspital with an infection. Was told that if I had gone to hospital a day later, I would have died. Kind of put my other health problems in the shade for a while..

Work.

As Old Ralph has it: "The First wealth is health."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson).

I am as fit now as I've ever been. I run &/or go to the gym every day. Eat well & enjoy life. But I am well aware it can all change in an instant. The list of ailments (above) is quite sobering.

Osteoarthritis in both knees,hips too,still a challenge to walk without getting worn out too fast.. Type 2 diabetic(this morning's reading-119) with blood pressure issues,cholesterol issues(taking meds for all these),and keeping an eye on my eyesight also(severe myopia);recent exam revealed no sign of cataracts or glaucoma.

Oh … I forgot … I think the VA Shinks said something about … a high functioning psychopath …

Well this is quite a depressing organ recital! Such doom and gloom. Life is hard but it beats the alternative donn'it, gentlemen. Enjoy that vital portion you still have left before you and live. I shall spare you the Dylan Thomas citation at this point.

Cheers and be well.
Rod Robertson.

Errata : That is a high functioning sociopath … Doh !

Such doom and gloom. Life is hard but it beats the alternative donn'it, gentlemen.

We really don't know that …

Diabetes

I take meds for low thryoid

back is on and off

All things considered, I'm doing OK

Pushing 69. I have the heart of a horse, a back like a crane, knees and bones are fine, still have all my teeth, most of my hair, and all my original parts. Type two diabetes but that's OK, No diseases, blood pressure is fine, low cholestoral, but eat heavy, spicy, rich, and fattening foods. Do my own home repairs and spent two weeks outside cutting up 24" thick Oak trees knocked down several years ago and splitting them with splitting maul sledge and wedges and can snatch and lift 80 lb bags of concrete.

Bad back, two torn rotator cuffs and a hostile resting face, whatever that is.

Heart (quintuple bypass), both knees, mental/emotional stuff

I'm not in Ottoathome's class but given the most of the rest of the posts I'm just fine.

Dear Syrinx0

It's all hereditary. I have my fathers genes.

He died at 89

They told my father that he had emphysema and that if he didn't stop smoking 3 packs (camels unfiltered) a day he was going to die.

They told him he had a bleeding ulcer and if he didn't stop eating the very hot spicy foods and the rough foods he was going to die.

They told him he had cholesterol and hardening of the arteries and that if he didn't stop eating the rich creamy and gooey deserts he was going to die.

They told him that he had to stop drinking hard liquor so heavily because his kidneys were failing and he was going to die.

They told him that he had diabetes and if he didn't start taking insulin and change his ways to eat essentially rabbit kibble, he would die.

They told him that he had to change his ways because his liver was on the edge of failing and if he didn't he would die.

They told him that if he didn't walk and get exercise he was going to get a heart condition and he would die.

He didn't do anything they said.

They were right. 45 years later he died. He still had most of his teeth (some were knocked out in an accident and during the war. (First World War, Austrian Army) and he could crack Brazil nuts with his teeth. Had most of his hair and could still work me into an exhausted stupor. I've never smoked, and after a dozen binge parties in High School and college I gave up on drinking and switched to a bottle of wine every month or so.

The moral of the story is-- keep away from doctors.

My mother, who had terrible genes, lived to 91. Stomach cancer got her.

I never participated in high school or college sports. I had seen too many friends laid low by sports injuries for no good purpose. I did try out for the football team in college once. I couldn't give a rat's patootie about football, (or any sprot for that matter except fencing and equestrian riding and jumping). To this day I don't know how many baskets make a home run and couldn't care. I was interested in the subject of blue-jean biology back in college so if the girls wanted football players I thought I could be one. The tryout was a fiasco. The coach had rigged up a test. It was a fence of field obstacles with an 8 foot gap. On each side of the big gap were two of his football players in full battledress. Our task, the newbies tryouts task, was to try and get through the remaining two foot gap between the Neanderthals on each side. Of course I saw it was hopeless to try, so when my turn came up I raced at my fastest speed for the gap, then at the last second bent over and put on speed and veered for the guy on the left and plunged my head right into his gut! He went down, was knocked clean out and I stomped over him and got beyond the line. The coach was furious. He wouldn't let me on the team. "But I did what you said" was my plaintive reply.

Heredity helps. I've had three broken legs (once two at once when I was run down by a car going 65 mph, I've been shot, stabbed, clubbed, knifed, and axed, and pushed off a cliff.

Heredity helps.

More and more that appears to be the case.

I've had three broken legs (once two at once when I was run down by a car going 65 mph, I've been shot, stabbed, clubbed, knifed, and axed, and pushed off a cliff.

I wouldn't buy any lottery tickets Otto. Seems you used up most if not all of your "luck" …

Have you considered moving to a quieter neighbourhood, Otto?

Dear Henri

Indeed I did. Now I live in the quiet, beautiful, peaceful bucolic forests of Sussex Country New Jersey. Soon I will move to the even more sylvan paradise of Maine.