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Turning 28 in a month and in the past year everything has gotten drastically worse.

Is this just a normal part of aging or am I unlucky? I mean I am almost 30 but it just seemed kind of sudden idk.

Like for example my varicose veins have gotten exponentially worse this year, I feel like my skin is sagging a lot over my whole body, and I feel like I've lost muscle mass, like significantly. To be fair I wasn't as active as usual but in other similar situations I was never looking this way.

Doctors said I'm fine btw. I'm just so exhausted and it's depressing seeing this shit.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's less that "everything goes to shit at 28" and more that "as you age your body becomes worse and worse at recovering from shit it used to shake off like it was nothing"

Allergic reactions, pains from being sedentary or from doing exercise wrong or from overwork, drinking and hangovers, obesity, genetic conditions you were always prone to -- Stuff that as a younger person wasn't so much of a problem even if it was there, start being more and more of a problem. And more and more of a danger.

Breaking a leg as an 18 year old and breaking a leg as a 30 year old are radically different experiences.

The better you take care of your body, the less bad it is. But well. You're aging.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The trick is taking care of your body more like how you take care of your car than how you take care of the ant hills in the cracks of your sidewalk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait for the service light to turn on then ignore it for months until you hear a grinding sound?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's the way I've been doing it since the second kid. But YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doesn't work on me, my car is all banged up and I don't give two shits about it as long as it remains road-legal.