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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:

• warm up before running
• run in smaller steps, large steps are harder on the knees
• stop or take a break before it starts hurting
• run more often, 3 times per week minimum

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.

50.

What do you mean "recover"?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

42. One wrong sneeze and I hurt my neck.

And my knees hurt constantly as the cartilage has worn away from doing too much stuff in my 30s

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.

ETA - I don't break more easily yet though. Overenthusiastic dog ran at me and knocked my feet out from under me on my deck the other day, nothing happened at all to my body, just got up and yelled at the dog.

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 ;-)

72. I haven't noticed a great slowdown in healing/recovery - I had a knee replacement six years ago and recovered well from that. Never had COVID, rarely get colds. I feel like my health is generally better now than in my youth, when I drank, smoked and took drugs. When the doc suggests I lose weight I want to show him pix of my speed-addled self in the 70s. I was super slim! But so bloody unwell.

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 40s. Y’all are recovering from injuries?!

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...

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.

30- something. I've not noticed a difference in recovery since my teens. I do have to warm up more compared to 20s.

Mid 20s no change yet. I heal as fast as my always have

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.

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.

41, I still don't get sick or injured (🤞)

Late 20s. I get hangovers now, but a bunch of water in the morning clears it up pretty quick. Soreness takes extra stretches and massaging to get rid of. I haven’t been sick in years. Injuries take about the same time, but hurt a bit more.

I (mid-thirties) had a 12 hour stomach bug on Friday and my body is still just exhausted. I’m trying to figure out if I simply need to gain a little weight to make a couple of days without many calories less impactful or if this is just aging.

Early 30s and I'd say I haven't noticed much of a difference when it comes to recovery. I'm actually getting sick much more rarely than when I was younger, but I guess that's down to working from home and not having to sit in a cramped classroom each day.

Late twenties and I do recover quickly - from flu and such stuff - touchwood... However, there is this trapezius ache I get often days maybe because of being on laptop or phone more. For wounds - they do get healed as usual they would at the moment also. But I've noticed there is more anxiety and fear of what if...this isn't getting cured soon enough what will happen...kinda inner monologue because maybe I have so much information now...

I also saw my grandparent die from gangarin - and so even thou I get a small injury I fear it turning it into something worse always after that incident. So I carry too much trauma now thou...

40's, nothing noticeable with illnesses, with injuries it is like they hurt more now but I think it has more to do with that I weight 15kilos more than 20 years ago. I'm in a good path losing weight, with any luck I'll notice a difference.

Just aches and pains mainly in late thirties. Don’t stay too sick yet.

Not injuries luckily, but with 28-29 I have started to realize I cannot get drink anymore without feeling like I got into a car crash the next day. Up until then I could go out partying Friday and Saturday and have the energy to go to the gym on Sunday.

As for illnesses, I have a "chronic" one that turns most of the colds I have into bronchitis / or even pneumonia... but luckily I got it under controll with meds. Better said we did figure the med mix out. So I can't say if it's gotten worse.

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".

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.

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...

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.

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).

Mid 40s, wash your hands and avoid touching your face. I don't really get sick that often and when I do its only about a day.

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.

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.