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.

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.

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 ;-)

At a certain age you don’t actually recover anymore. It’s just added to the list of things you’re slowly dying of.

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 first noticed slow healing when I hit 27, had a knee injury that FUCKING SUCKED. It was over a year before I could do a knee bend.

Even now, decades later, it still aches when it gets cold.

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…

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

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.

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

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I’ve largely avoided any major injuries pretty much my whole life, so I don’t have the best frame of reference

Most scrapes, bruises, cuts, sprains and other common injuries are right as rain in a couple days, maybe a week or two if it’s a particularly bad sprain.

I tend to not get sick too often, but I have noticed that when I do as I get older stuff like a sore throat or cough will linger a few days longer than they used to, fever still breaks in a day or two, and I’ll be feeling just fine otherwise, just that little tickle in my throat sticks around for a while.

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.

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.

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.

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