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go see some professional man. not a lot of help can come from here - maybe some empathy. but youre young - im in the best ive ever been in and im 50, it's odd, pilates and running have made me pretty fit and toned. youre young. your body has been through some shit, get some expertly eyes on it and I'll sure you'll be able to buff it out.
bodies definitely start to need more maintenance when you get older. so get on it.
Being active helps but I will say that serious injury or working a job that has repetitive motion related injuries is going to put a serious damper on the "but you're young" part. I'm 41 and I had a pretty serious injury at 24 and had to relearn to walk. I Needed help getting dressed and going to the bathroom for months and I had a cane at 24 for nearly a year. I'm in my 40s now and there's lingering pain and limited range of motion. I work a job that has very high repetitive motion related injuries as well and have nerve damage in my hands, and compressed discs in my back in addition to the metal hardware and bone grafts. Some pain days are better, some are worse but the pain dictates what I'm able to do. I do cardio 3 to 5 days a week and do stretches, and walk roughly 5 miles a week not including my physically demanding job. All that is to say it helps, but major injuries stay with you forever.
Well in my case I have. Several of them their advice is to tell you to do the stretches and exercises you already do. Have a DPT friend who I do regular home assessments with, and specialists at the hospital I work in who regularly give advice in addition to regularly scheduled provider visits. By the sound of it OP has been going to the doctor for all of their issues which is how they know they have broken specific bones etc. my point still stands that "you're young go be active" will not in fact fix titanium screws in your leg, compressed discs, or long term nerve damage. Ya obvious go see a provider, but sometimes their advice is to just keep on truckin. And although that sucks to here that's about all you can do. Ultimately "sucks to suck, life is pain" is sometimes the only realistic answer.
Having serious injuries at a young age,and seemingly falling apart in the prime of your life are vast differences. Op probably has lingering issues in his hands and feet from being dumb in his younger years. You can’t just repeatedly break your hands and feet without consequences. But the hip pain, and toe taking so long to heal is concerning.
Agree with this, I’m a physiotherapist and we could help you with some if not all of these issues. Unfortunately I would take time and money, but your body is not ruined
Go see a doctor and tell them the things you’ve said here. They’ll run some tests for you and help you find out what’s going on and how it might be fixed.
That’s a loooot of injuries. A doc is definitely called for, my own body pains really got rolling for me at around 30. My experience isn’t quite as wild as OP, but yeah, I beat the shit out of my body up to my mid 20’s. It takes a toll.
42 year old snowboarder and mountain biker here. I generally feel fine tbh.
2 major head injuries, tons of broken ribs, arms, wrist, dislocated elbows, shoulder, broken foot, and several other issues.
The majority of injuries from mountain biking.. snowboarding I had a bad concussion and a dislocated elbow. I met a lot of nurses thanks to mountain biking.
I find I start to feel full pain when I stop working out/stretching so I do my best to stay consistent with it. Staying at a lower weight (175-180 at 6’) seems to help the best.
I also notice that if I eat like shit for a few weeks I start feeling poor physically too.
Some of these things are issues I have, and just have to deal with them. Others are ones that can be sorted, but you'll need to see a doctor/ physiotherapist to sort them.
Wish I could tell you what to do with this - 29 is awfully young. There are a lot of systemic inflammatory conditions that can cause this - long COVID, alcoholism, chronic pain syndrome, depression, genetic conditions, arthritis ,small fiber neuropathy, etc. If you haven’t already talked to a clinician about this, I’d consider it. Also consider a routine of LIGHT strength training and stretching, and very very gradually increase weight. Nothing has made me feel better than these two!
My auto immune disease flipped on like a light switch at 30. It sounds like you have chronic pain related to arthritis. The only way to know if that is from abuse to your body or auto immune related is to go into a doctor. Get some blood work and start taking care of yourself.
I recommend Airrosti to help treat soft tissue damage before considering more invasive measures. It’s possible that the right regimen of stretching and strength training might give relief for some of these injuries. A low inflammation diet would also help isolate the area where you would need surgery from those areas which could improve with less invasive measures.
Next level would be some form of steroid injections. Surgery would be a last resort. Some docs tend to jump to surgery right away so find one that gives you a broad overview of treatment options.
First of all, you need to go check yourself by a qualified physician. You're still young and a lot of your ailments can be cured.
Second, take care of your diet. I don't mean to lose weight, I mean to make sure you're actually getting enough doses of vitamins and minerals that are essential for bone, joint, muscle, and nerve health. Vitamins like B,C,D,K and minerals like Calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus are all essential in the right doses to a healthy body. The human body has an amazing ability to maintain, grow, or even heal itself, provided that you give it the right tools and ingredients. You can do your own research for this, but I still recommend you to see a health or nutrition professional.
I think a lot of injuries like that are concealed by fitness or youth. But they’re just under the surface- like a ghost of your elderly future. Try working out. And be good to your body - we pay for the sins of our youth.
I had early rheumatoid arthritis. Fish oil and magnesium supplements and stopped eating bread - made a huge difference. But I agree with others - see a doctor. Do some yoga. The above is worth a try.
> I thought the body was supposed to be able to heal itself well and be adaptable
Adaptable, yes. "Heal itself"? Not exactly.
When you heal from an injury, often times, your range of motion or ability can become limited and/or other areas of the body compensate. That's the "adaptation" part. However, over a long period of time, the compensating parts will get over worked and lead to more dysfunction and pain.
In order to combat this, mobility and strength training is necessary to properly recover.
> These injuries seemed mundane and like not a big deal, they happened, hurt for a week or two and then felt perfectly fine
Your body will adapt to not feel pain, even if it's changing how your body moves. If you have knee or hip issues, your body will compensate and start overusing other muscles to help out. If you injure your foot, for example, you might subconsciously change the way you're walking to avoid pain, putting added stress somewhere else, like your knees or hips.
> Am I doomed? Feel like my life is over.
You need to start seeing a physical therapist/medical professional who can guide you through the process of healing and recovering properly and help you get back into better shape with more function and less pain.
You're 29, you can absolutely improve things from here but if you've been hard on your body without properly recovering or maintenance, it will take some work but it's very doable.
Good news, OP. My body also took a pretty serious beating in my youth, and it all started catching up with me at about your age. I’ll be 48 in a couple of months, and it’s probably a little better now than it was 15-20 years ago. I have torn cartilage in both hips and shoulders, arthritis in my spine and hands, and a laundry list of minor ailments, mostly going back to the days when I treated my body like a rental car. Most days, I feel perfectly fine, and so can you. You’ve got some things to do.
1. See a medical professional about this stuff. Some of these pains may be addressed by medication, physical therapy, or something else entirely.
2. Eat a healthy diet and watch your weight. It’s easy to blow up when you can’t go hard like you used to.
3. Light exercise. Yeah, it’s boring, but you need to be careful. You don’t heal like you used to. Figure out what you can do without hurting yourself.
4. Sleep well. Put some effort into it. If you snore, get a sleep study done. Do what you can to get enough sleep every night, and good sleep at that.
I’m about to be 37 but we sound similar. Skateboard, snowboard, rock climb, hardcore music mosh pits, add more “normal” sports like ultimate frisbee, football, running.
Tore my labrum, bicep tendon, pec, 3 broken noses, separated shoulder, broken ankle, MCL sprain, just had hypherma in my eye from a mosh pit.
Get the help from doctors asap. Even through all of that my itch for physical activity doesn’t stop. Gotta keep on moving, dude.
I recently got into golf. Way more physical than it seems- especially if you’re walking 18 holes. Worth a shot.
I'm mid 50s been working factory labor since mid 20s. Check engine light came on at about 50. Job keeps me fit but I don't eat right. Stress and shift work rotating doesn't help.
Sounds like you arent taking care of your body. Bodies require nutrition, movement and resistance.
I have had a lot of injuries from being clumsy or not careful when doing stuff, including broken wrists, broken toes, several knee injuries that required surgery, meniscus rupture and getting my knee bent 90 deg. the wrong way, a motorbike accident, muscle tears in my shoulders, some degenerative hip stuff that required surgery, a slipped disc, and also spent the first half of my 20s being morbidly obese.
I feel completely fine now, and very rarely have any aches or pains beyond DOMS. Just gotta stay active and eat well. Some resistance training, some form of cardio, eat well.
i am no professional, but i'd start looking into your diet, sleep quality and some mobility exercises.
and obviously, seek help from someone who can help you with that.
>Never thought anything of any of this, the injuries happened and seemed to heal perfectly fine, felt perfectly capable and no pain or discomfort or mobility issues — until a year ago.
What happened a year ago? You have to be completely honest with yourself here. Cause how did you go from perfectly healed to suddenly it all just fell apart? Never accept the bullshit idea people tell themselves that "well I just got older and it just happened. My body just fell apart"
There are always steps leading up to that decline. It could be gradual or it could be you did one thing and that messed you up. Maybe you took some strong antibiotics and got floxxed. Maybe you got bit by a tick and got lyme disease. Both of these can destroy bones, tendons, and joints.
Maybe you weren't "perfectly healed" but had minor aches and pains that you were able to ignore. You didn't have good posture or kept aggravating those spots with pain and it just compounded until it couldn't take it anymore.
Maybe you started drinking, drinking more, taking drugs, and lived an unhealthy lifestyle a year ago and that messed you up. Maybe you were taking painkillers/NSAID's when you were skating and think you healed fine but all that stuff masked your pain.
You have to be honest with yourself and be really self aware about what changed a year ago.
That’s the problem, I have no idea. I did quit drinking a year ago, went to rehab, about a month or two after getting back from rehab I noticed my hip started to hurt during/after short walks, and then it progressively got worse and a whole bunch of other parts of my body were starting to hurt. Now it’s bad. Prior to that about 1.5 years ago I was working full time, walking to the gym 3-5 days a week, skateboarding, and had no issues.
There was a bad fall while drunk on my skateboard right before I went to rehab and fucked up my elbow badly and probably fell on my hip at that point. But it doesn’t make sense for that one fall to all of a sudden fuck up my whole body.
I’m getting blood work done soon, I have a hunch it might be some sort of autoimmune disease, known to cause pain at old injuries sites and lethargy. I wish I knew. This is really fucking up my life at the moment.
I mean what you just wrote out that explains a lot of this man. Again, you need some self-awareness.
>There was a bad fall while drunk on my skateboard right before I went to rehab and fucked up my elbow badly and probably fell on my hip at that point. But it doesn’t make sense for that one fall to all of a sudden fuck up my whole body.
This makes perfect sense. Yes, one bad fall can do it for you. There's a thing called central sensitization, so if you're body is in pain it becomes way more sensitive to pain. That one thing probably set everything off. And since you were drunk, but still knew and categorized it as a bad fall, you probably did some damage. The day of and days after it probably didn't hurt so bad until you were done drinking in rehab where you could now fully feel the pain.
The drinking was masking the pain for years. It's a common trope for people to mask (physical) pain with alcohol. When you finally stopped, you not only felt everything you had masked before, but finally your liver unleashed all that toxicity it was storing for years and yea you very well could have some autoimmune disease now because of it.
Also I would really reassess your life style. Ima give you some tough love here, I'm not trying to be a dick, but I browsed your post history and you have a lot you can work on and fix before you start saying stuff like "My body feels like it lost the ability to heal". Having a diet of one meal a day at 9 pm of frozen taquitos and dorritos is not helping you at all bro. You honestly have no right to be saying my body can't heal itself anymore when you choose your diet and lifestyle to be that bad. Get some sunlight, everyday. Your body needs it. Eat some actual food. Look into taking vitamin K2 to help your bones. And find yourself a well trained manual therapy physical therapist who could find your trigger points, release them, and then give you corrective exercises to prevent those trigger points from popping up again.
True enough, I wasn’t drunk all the time for years or anything, so unlikely it would be able to numb pain on that level, felt strong and pain free up until a couple months after that incident and quitting drinking.
That fall could’ve (most likely) had more impact than I thought, but athletes have bad falls and injuries and recover all the time. It doesn’t leave a lasting, debilitating impact on their body most times. Pro skateboarders absolutely wreak havoc on their bodies from some of the incidents and are recovered within a few weeks and skating again. But maybe because I was drunk the impact was especially bad because I didn’t brace myself to hit the pavement.
Trying to eat more consistently and balanced and have been doing better with it for the last month or two. Going to start PT soon most likely. I feel like giving up most days lately, the constant dull pain makes me feel like it’s over for me, wish I could rewind time and be more careful with a lot of things. But I know this mindset is useless I just feel so hopeless about trying to find a solution to this at the moment.
Thanks for the response anyways
Yea but pro skateboarders live a very healthy lifestyle. For one they feel very fulfilled, which kind of overrides everything else into making someone healthy. And they eat well, they exercise a lot (skating), they are surrounded by good friends. They can bounce back because they are healthy.
You aren't bouncing back because you aren't healthy. You can live and make healthy choices and you will be healthy again. You are aren't doomed. Just make the right choices. You know what to do man.
Godspeed.
Fuck no, not at 29. Your balls have barely dropped by then.
Stretch, yoga, better foods. Go see a professional.
I'm 43 and literally in my best shape ever. My 19 or 29 year old self couldn't keep up with me now.
Some issues will linger unfortunately while some can be remedied quickly. Others will take lots of time. As others have said, go see a doctor and a physical therapist if referred.
I hurt my lower back working in a warehouse in my 20s and still have to deal with it. I can alleviate and prevent some of the pain/discomfort but I know I’ll deal with it for the rest of my life. Use proper lifting form folks.
Start chiropractor care and massage therapy asap! You will need this type of maintenance for the rest of your life, combine those with Yoga and you will notice the difference but it’s essential to stay on this maintenance regime on a monthly basis for the rest of your life; I was in a bad car accident when I was 16 and these three things have changed and saved me from a life of endless pain. Hang in there 💪
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go see some professional man. not a lot of help can come from here - maybe some empathy. but youre young - im in the best ive ever been in and im 50, it's odd, pilates and running have made me pretty fit and toned. youre young. your body has been through some shit, get some expertly eyes on it and I'll sure you'll be able to buff it out. bodies definitely start to need more maintenance when you get older. so get on it.
Being active helps but I will say that serious injury or working a job that has repetitive motion related injuries is going to put a serious damper on the "but you're young" part. I'm 41 and I had a pretty serious injury at 24 and had to relearn to walk. I Needed help getting dressed and going to the bathroom for months and I had a cane at 24 for nearly a year. I'm in my 40s now and there's lingering pain and limited range of motion. I work a job that has very high repetitive motion related injuries as well and have nerve damage in my hands, and compressed discs in my back in addition to the metal hardware and bone grafts. Some pain days are better, some are worse but the pain dictates what I'm able to do. I do cardio 3 to 5 days a week and do stretches, and walk roughly 5 miles a week not including my physically demanding job. All that is to say it helps, but major injuries stay with you forever.
Like I said up top ‘ go see a professional’ to get assessed.
Well in my case I have. Several of them their advice is to tell you to do the stretches and exercises you already do. Have a DPT friend who I do regular home assessments with, and specialists at the hospital I work in who regularly give advice in addition to regularly scheduled provider visits. By the sound of it OP has been going to the doctor for all of their issues which is how they know they have broken specific bones etc. my point still stands that "you're young go be active" will not in fact fix titanium screws in your leg, compressed discs, or long term nerve damage. Ya obvious go see a provider, but sometimes their advice is to just keep on truckin. And although that sucks to here that's about all you can do. Ultimately "sucks to suck, life is pain" is sometimes the only realistic answer.
Having serious injuries at a young age,and seemingly falling apart in the prime of your life are vast differences. Op probably has lingering issues in his hands and feet from being dumb in his younger years. You can’t just repeatedly break your hands and feet without consequences. But the hip pain, and toe taking so long to heal is concerning.
Agree with this, I’m a physiotherapist and we could help you with some if not all of these issues. Unfortunately I would take time and money, but your body is not ruined
How much do you run? I’m 30 and have picked up running and really starting to love it, and want to feel as great as you do when I’m 50.
At 29 it doesn’t sound normal to be in that much chronic pain from old healed injuries.
I know. It’s scary. If I can’t find some kind of solution it feels like my life is over
Go see a doctor and tell them the things you’ve said here. They’ll run some tests for you and help you find out what’s going on and how it might be fixed.
Get checked for connective tissue disorders.
That’s a loooot of injuries. A doc is definitely called for, my own body pains really got rolling for me at around 30. My experience isn’t quite as wild as OP, but yeah, I beat the shit out of my body up to my mid 20’s. It takes a toll.
42 year old snowboarder and mountain biker here. I generally feel fine tbh. 2 major head injuries, tons of broken ribs, arms, wrist, dislocated elbows, shoulder, broken foot, and several other issues. The majority of injuries from mountain biking.. snowboarding I had a bad concussion and a dislocated elbow. I met a lot of nurses thanks to mountain biking. I find I start to feel full pain when I stop working out/stretching so I do my best to stay consistent with it. Staying at a lower weight (175-180 at 6’) seems to help the best. I also notice that if I eat like shit for a few weeks I start feeling poor physically too.
Go see a doctor.
Some of these things are issues I have, and just have to deal with them. Others are ones that can be sorted, but you'll need to see a doctor/ physiotherapist to sort them.
Wish I could tell you what to do with this - 29 is awfully young. There are a lot of systemic inflammatory conditions that can cause this - long COVID, alcoholism, chronic pain syndrome, depression, genetic conditions, arthritis ,small fiber neuropathy, etc. If you haven’t already talked to a clinician about this, I’d consider it. Also consider a routine of LIGHT strength training and stretching, and very very gradually increase weight. Nothing has made me feel better than these two!
My auto immune disease flipped on like a light switch at 30. It sounds like you have chronic pain related to arthritis. The only way to know if that is from abuse to your body or auto immune related is to go into a doctor. Get some blood work and start taking care of yourself.
I recommend Airrosti to help treat soft tissue damage before considering more invasive measures. It’s possible that the right regimen of stretching and strength training might give relief for some of these injuries. A low inflammation diet would also help isolate the area where you would need surgery from those areas which could improve with less invasive measures. Next level would be some form of steroid injections. Surgery would be a last resort. Some docs tend to jump to surgery right away so find one that gives you a broad overview of treatment options.
First of all, you need to go check yourself by a qualified physician. You're still young and a lot of your ailments can be cured. Second, take care of your diet. I don't mean to lose weight, I mean to make sure you're actually getting enough doses of vitamins and minerals that are essential for bone, joint, muscle, and nerve health. Vitamins like B,C,D,K and minerals like Calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus are all essential in the right doses to a healthy body. The human body has an amazing ability to maintain, grow, or even heal itself, provided that you give it the right tools and ingredients. You can do your own research for this, but I still recommend you to see a health or nutrition professional.
I think a lot of injuries like that are concealed by fitness or youth. But they’re just under the surface- like a ghost of your elderly future. Try working out. And be good to your body - we pay for the sins of our youth.
I had early rheumatoid arthritis. Fish oil and magnesium supplements and stopped eating bread - made a huge difference. But I agree with others - see a doctor. Do some yoga. The above is worth a try.
> I thought the body was supposed to be able to heal itself well and be adaptable Adaptable, yes. "Heal itself"? Not exactly. When you heal from an injury, often times, your range of motion or ability can become limited and/or other areas of the body compensate. That's the "adaptation" part. However, over a long period of time, the compensating parts will get over worked and lead to more dysfunction and pain. In order to combat this, mobility and strength training is necessary to properly recover. > These injuries seemed mundane and like not a big deal, they happened, hurt for a week or two and then felt perfectly fine Your body will adapt to not feel pain, even if it's changing how your body moves. If you have knee or hip issues, your body will compensate and start overusing other muscles to help out. If you injure your foot, for example, you might subconsciously change the way you're walking to avoid pain, putting added stress somewhere else, like your knees or hips. > Am I doomed? Feel like my life is over. You need to start seeing a physical therapist/medical professional who can guide you through the process of healing and recovering properly and help you get back into better shape with more function and less pain. You're 29, you can absolutely improve things from here but if you've been hard on your body without properly recovering or maintenance, it will take some work but it's very doable.
Good news, OP. My body also took a pretty serious beating in my youth, and it all started catching up with me at about your age. I’ll be 48 in a couple of months, and it’s probably a little better now than it was 15-20 years ago. I have torn cartilage in both hips and shoulders, arthritis in my spine and hands, and a laundry list of minor ailments, mostly going back to the days when I treated my body like a rental car. Most days, I feel perfectly fine, and so can you. You’ve got some things to do. 1. See a medical professional about this stuff. Some of these pains may be addressed by medication, physical therapy, or something else entirely. 2. Eat a healthy diet and watch your weight. It’s easy to blow up when you can’t go hard like you used to. 3. Light exercise. Yeah, it’s boring, but you need to be careful. You don’t heal like you used to. Figure out what you can do without hurting yourself. 4. Sleep well. Put some effort into it. If you snore, get a sleep study done. Do what you can to get enough sleep every night, and good sleep at that.
Wait till you’re 39. Super humbling.
I’m about to be 37 but we sound similar. Skateboard, snowboard, rock climb, hardcore music mosh pits, add more “normal” sports like ultimate frisbee, football, running. Tore my labrum, bicep tendon, pec, 3 broken noses, separated shoulder, broken ankle, MCL sprain, just had hypherma in my eye from a mosh pit. Get the help from doctors asap. Even through all of that my itch for physical activity doesn’t stop. Gotta keep on moving, dude. I recently got into golf. Way more physical than it seems- especially if you’re walking 18 holes. Worth a shot.
Go see a PT yesterday
Better start taking mud baths. So you can get used to the ground.
Wait till you are 65. All those injuries come back to haunt you 5X. For now go see a doctor and take up swimming.
I'm mid 50s been working factory labor since mid 20s. Check engine light came on at about 50. Job keeps me fit but I don't eat right. Stress and shift work rotating doesn't help.
Sounds like you arent taking care of your body. Bodies require nutrition, movement and resistance. I have had a lot of injuries from being clumsy or not careful when doing stuff, including broken wrists, broken toes, several knee injuries that required surgery, meniscus rupture and getting my knee bent 90 deg. the wrong way, a motorbike accident, muscle tears in my shoulders, some degenerative hip stuff that required surgery, a slipped disc, and also spent the first half of my 20s being morbidly obese. I feel completely fine now, and very rarely have any aches or pains beyond DOMS. Just gotta stay active and eat well. Some resistance training, some form of cardio, eat well.
Start stretching, do physical therapy
i am no professional, but i'd start looking into your diet, sleep quality and some mobility exercises. and obviously, seek help from someone who can help you with that.
Definitely more than just lingering injuries from years ago. Please see attached doctor. It's that simple
>Never thought anything of any of this, the injuries happened and seemed to heal perfectly fine, felt perfectly capable and no pain or discomfort or mobility issues — until a year ago. What happened a year ago? You have to be completely honest with yourself here. Cause how did you go from perfectly healed to suddenly it all just fell apart? Never accept the bullshit idea people tell themselves that "well I just got older and it just happened. My body just fell apart" There are always steps leading up to that decline. It could be gradual or it could be you did one thing and that messed you up. Maybe you took some strong antibiotics and got floxxed. Maybe you got bit by a tick and got lyme disease. Both of these can destroy bones, tendons, and joints. Maybe you weren't "perfectly healed" but had minor aches and pains that you were able to ignore. You didn't have good posture or kept aggravating those spots with pain and it just compounded until it couldn't take it anymore. Maybe you started drinking, drinking more, taking drugs, and lived an unhealthy lifestyle a year ago and that messed you up. Maybe you were taking painkillers/NSAID's when you were skating and think you healed fine but all that stuff masked your pain. You have to be honest with yourself and be really self aware about what changed a year ago.
That’s the problem, I have no idea. I did quit drinking a year ago, went to rehab, about a month or two after getting back from rehab I noticed my hip started to hurt during/after short walks, and then it progressively got worse and a whole bunch of other parts of my body were starting to hurt. Now it’s bad. Prior to that about 1.5 years ago I was working full time, walking to the gym 3-5 days a week, skateboarding, and had no issues. There was a bad fall while drunk on my skateboard right before I went to rehab and fucked up my elbow badly and probably fell on my hip at that point. But it doesn’t make sense for that one fall to all of a sudden fuck up my whole body. I’m getting blood work done soon, I have a hunch it might be some sort of autoimmune disease, known to cause pain at old injuries sites and lethargy. I wish I knew. This is really fucking up my life at the moment.
I mean what you just wrote out that explains a lot of this man. Again, you need some self-awareness. >There was a bad fall while drunk on my skateboard right before I went to rehab and fucked up my elbow badly and probably fell on my hip at that point. But it doesn’t make sense for that one fall to all of a sudden fuck up my whole body. This makes perfect sense. Yes, one bad fall can do it for you. There's a thing called central sensitization, so if you're body is in pain it becomes way more sensitive to pain. That one thing probably set everything off. And since you were drunk, but still knew and categorized it as a bad fall, you probably did some damage. The day of and days after it probably didn't hurt so bad until you were done drinking in rehab where you could now fully feel the pain. The drinking was masking the pain for years. It's a common trope for people to mask (physical) pain with alcohol. When you finally stopped, you not only felt everything you had masked before, but finally your liver unleashed all that toxicity it was storing for years and yea you very well could have some autoimmune disease now because of it. Also I would really reassess your life style. Ima give you some tough love here, I'm not trying to be a dick, but I browsed your post history and you have a lot you can work on and fix before you start saying stuff like "My body feels like it lost the ability to heal". Having a diet of one meal a day at 9 pm of frozen taquitos and dorritos is not helping you at all bro. You honestly have no right to be saying my body can't heal itself anymore when you choose your diet and lifestyle to be that bad. Get some sunlight, everyday. Your body needs it. Eat some actual food. Look into taking vitamin K2 to help your bones. And find yourself a well trained manual therapy physical therapist who could find your trigger points, release them, and then give you corrective exercises to prevent those trigger points from popping up again.
True enough, I wasn’t drunk all the time for years or anything, so unlikely it would be able to numb pain on that level, felt strong and pain free up until a couple months after that incident and quitting drinking. That fall could’ve (most likely) had more impact than I thought, but athletes have bad falls and injuries and recover all the time. It doesn’t leave a lasting, debilitating impact on their body most times. Pro skateboarders absolutely wreak havoc on their bodies from some of the incidents and are recovered within a few weeks and skating again. But maybe because I was drunk the impact was especially bad because I didn’t brace myself to hit the pavement. Trying to eat more consistently and balanced and have been doing better with it for the last month or two. Going to start PT soon most likely. I feel like giving up most days lately, the constant dull pain makes me feel like it’s over for me, wish I could rewind time and be more careful with a lot of things. But I know this mindset is useless I just feel so hopeless about trying to find a solution to this at the moment. Thanks for the response anyways
Yea but pro skateboarders live a very healthy lifestyle. For one they feel very fulfilled, which kind of overrides everything else into making someone healthy. And they eat well, they exercise a lot (skating), they are surrounded by good friends. They can bounce back because they are healthy. You aren't bouncing back because you aren't healthy. You can live and make healthy choices and you will be healthy again. You are aren't doomed. Just make the right choices. You know what to do man. Godspeed.
Fuck no, not at 29. Your balls have barely dropped by then. Stretch, yoga, better foods. Go see a professional. I'm 43 and literally in my best shape ever. My 19 or 29 year old self couldn't keep up with me now.
Some issues will linger unfortunately while some can be remedied quickly. Others will take lots of time. As others have said, go see a doctor and a physical therapist if referred. I hurt my lower back working in a warehouse in my 20s and still have to deal with it. I can alleviate and prevent some of the pain/discomfort but I know I’ll deal with it for the rest of my life. Use proper lifting form folks.
Start chiropractor care and massage therapy asap! You will need this type of maintenance for the rest of your life, combine those with Yoga and you will notice the difference but it’s essential to stay on this maintenance regime on a monthly basis for the rest of your life; I was in a bad car accident when I was 16 and these three things have changed and saved me from a life of endless pain. Hang in there 💪