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    Not to brag, but I’m 40 and have none of these, it’s surprising and a bit depressing to me that so many people have these ailments at such an early age. I wish you as many pain free and healthful years as possible.

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      1 year ago

      I wish me a speedy death.

      My knee has been screwed up since birth and somedays I can’t walk on it. My lower back was destroyed when I was 10 because some idiot didn’t follow simple instructions. I have constant headaches because of a glasses prescription that I can’t afford to get changed. I have arthritis in my feet. I own 3 canes. I am 31.

      Pretty much the only pain I don’t have is hip pain.

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        I am not one to blindly believe that life is inherently sacred without the context of death. If this is what you want, and considering your physical ailments, I can only assume I have the smallest of understandings as to why you desire it to all end. And I can only hope you find some peace in one form or another. I’m… well, at a loss at how I can express sympathy. I hope you can find some solace, though.

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        I really am so sorry to hear about that. Even though I suffer none of these ailments myself, I’ve witnessed my elderly parents and friends (yes, I have elderly friends) go through coping with this negative permanent change to their day to day existence, and it is heartbreaking. It is an experience I can only logically expect to one day viscerally experience myself.

        I wish I could offer you more than sympathy, truly. I hope you can find some peace and joy in the probably brief reprieves from your sufferings.

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      I know, right? I’m 30 and only have a slight knee discomfort because I lifted heavy on squats for a long time before changing to a lower weight higher rep regimen. I hear so many people complaining about having issues and unless it’s from an injury I just imagine it’s because lemmy self selects for the chronically online (and usually unhealthy as fuck.)

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        Nice of you to assume that everybody here is chronically online and unhealthy unlike you.