An aspect about your body you took for granted?

5starpool · 04-07-2018 10:18AM

You read about hairs growing out of your ears, but it doesn't prepare you for the reality of having hairs growing out of your ears, your nose and extra mad wiry hairs in your eyebrows.

wexie · 04-07-2018 10:23AM

5starpool wrote: »

You read about hairs growing out of your ears, but it doesn't prepare you for the reality of having hairs growing out of your ears, your nose and extra mad wiry hairs in your eyebrows.

always a bit of a watershed moment the first time the barber asks would you like him to do your ears and eyebrows

5starpool · 04-07-2018 10:30AM

wexie wrote: »

always a bit of a watershed moment the first time the barber asks would you like him to do your ears and eyebrows

Stopped going there years ago! At least that had been flagged a few years in advance anyhow.

_Brian · 04-07-2018 10:38AM

5starpool wrote: »

You read about hairs growing out of your ears, but it doesn't prepare you for the reality of having hairs growing out of your ears, your nose and extra mad wiry hairs in your eyebrows.

Bought my own “personal trimmer” it was getting so bad

Teyla Emmagan · 04-07-2018 10:44AM

My knees (skiing accident) and my back (slipped disc). About twice a year my knee goes and I have to hop up and down the stairs for a few days. Can't put any weight on it. Is a PITA. And chronic back pain for about 2 years now. Very tiring, it really takes it out of you.

wexie · 04-07-2018 10:45AM

_Brian wrote: »

Bought my own “personal trimmer” it was getting so bad

me too, but not after I cut myself with a nail scissors, the feeling of blood dripping out of your ears was really something I only wanted to experience once

pickarooney · 04-07-2018 11:18AM

My ears. I'm going gradually deaf and there's apparently nothing I can do about it.

My knee. Just got an operation on my ACL and everything is a massive chore. Can't drive for 3 months.

Hector Bellend · 04-07-2018 11:20AM

I have a whopping of man tits.

They are blowing my back out

Wibbs · 04-07-2018 11:24AM

keano_afc wrote: »

Long story short, one keyhole surgery that didnt work and a lot of pain later, I had a total hip replacement this February. I'm in my 30s, so its pretty rare, but if I'd taken it more seriously when it happened I wouldn't have needed the replacement.

Hip replacement in your 30's. Jesus that's tough.

5starpool wrote: »

You read about hairs growing out of your ears, but it doesn't prepare you for the reality of having hairs growing out of your ears, your nose and extra mad wiry hairs in your eyebrows.

So far so good on that. The odd stray one, but no tufts as yet. Then again my hair has always grown very slowly. If I shaved once a fortnight it would keep my face looking clean shaven. To grow a hipster type beard would take me a lifetime. As a kid two haircuts a year were all it took.

keano_afc · 04-07-2018 12:16PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Hip replacement in your 30's. Jesus that's tough.

I could have soldiered on until later, but i've 2 young kids and one on the way. Got to stage where I couldnt even run after them in the park. I only get 20-25 years out of this prosthesis apparently, but the kids will be grown up by then. I was missing out on too much.

somesoldiers · 04-07-2018 12:40PM

5starpool wrote: »

You read about hairs growing out of your ears, but it doesn't prepare you for the reality of having hairs growing out of your ears, your nose and extra mad wiry hairs in your eyebrows.

I get random ones growing out of my forehead also, nothing there for ages then all of a sudden there's a thin, fair hair about an inch longing that just appeared...

seamus · 04-07-2018 01:02PM

The hairs inside the ear and even just on the tragus, I can deal with.

It's these weird ****ing long ones that appear randomly on various other parts of the ear that make no sense. What possible purpose could they serve?

A couple also appear on the tip of the nose every now and again, but they don't get very long and are easy to pluck. You still see aulfellas these days with a small forest growing on the tip of their noses. I've sworn that will never be me. &#55358;&#56610;

somesoldiers · 04-07-2018 01:05PM

seamus wrote: »

The hairs inside the ear and even just on the tragus, I can deal with.

It's these weird ****ing long ones that appear randomly on various other parts of the ear that make no sense. What possible purpose could they serve?

A couple also appear on the tip of the nose every now and again, but they don't get very long and are easy to pluck. You still see aulfellas these days with a small forest growing on the tip of their noses. I've sworn that will never be me. ��

We used to have a Christian brother like that, Brother Hairy Nose!

TheTruthIsMine · 04-07-2018 01:17PM

somesoldiers wrote: »

I get random ones growing out of my forehead also, nothing there for ages then all of a sudden there's a thin, fair hair about an inch longing that just appeared...

I remember about 5 yrs ago, I had an extremely thin hair coming out of my forehead, that gradually grew very long really long. It was so thin that I could only see it when the light from a mirror was reflected in a certain way. I left it grow away for several months for the laugh.

TheTruthIsMine · 04-07-2018 01:19PM

keano_afc wrote: »

I could have soldiered on until later, but i've 2 young kids and one on the way. Got to stage where I couldnt even run after them in the park. I only get 20-25 years out of this prosthesis apparently, but the kids will be grown up by then. I was missing out on too much.

At least you don't have ED!

TheTruthIsMine · 04-07-2018 01:22PM

seamus wrote: »

Good posture can help, but we're not biologically designed to sit down for 8-10 hours a day, we're designed to move around quite a bit and bend in all sorts of different ways.

When you sit for long periods, the muscles in your back become accustomed to the position and will weaken/strengthen in the areas that are least/most used.

Thus, when you then get up to move around and do normal stuff like lifting and twisting and bending, some of the muscles in your back are not as strong and supportive as they should be and you end up straining muscles and getting stiffness. The effect is cumulative over time so you may not even feel it until you've been doing a desk job for 20 years.

Well I sit in a way that's very good for my neck. I've the middle of my PC screen at eye level.

I exercise anyway, so that should stand to me when I'm old, if I keep it consistent.

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seamus · 04-07-2018 02:09PM

TheTruthIsMine wrote: »

Well I sit in a way that's very good for my neck. I've the middle of my PC screen at eye level.

I exercise anyway, so that should stand to me when I'm old, if I keep it consistent.

Sure. The lower back will do you in though.

Exercise is good, any kind of getting up and moving around. Regular exercise that specifically focuses on bending and flexibility is good too; yoga or any of the non-voodoo equivalents.

But as a general rule you need to be getting up and moving around at least 3 times an hour, even if that's just walking to the end of the floor and back. If you're going into work and sitting all day, then you're unlikely to be adequately compensating outside of work unless you're into all sorts of stuff 6 or 7 days a week.

TerrorFirmer · 04-07-2018 02:55PM

Back, definitely. A good few years ago now I just simply woke up one day (I was in my late 20s) and an actual scream of agony rushed out of mouth with no warning the moment I attempted to sit up. I had pulled something in my back overnight somehow and it wasn't right for weeks - I could barely dress myself, the slightest movement even whilst seated would send lightning flashes of pain down my back and often lay in bed for hours in the morning (or just slept sitting in the chair in the living room at night) because I couldn't face the ordeal of trying to get up.

Ever since then I've had a totally different appreciation for people who suffer chronic back pain/conditions.

gmisk · 04-07-2018 02:58PM

Cina wrote: »

My bowels.. i.e. IBS.

Constipation is evil and buggers up my life at times.

Tough sh*t, literally.

I have been taking acidophilus (high dose one) for years...it works with IBS.

I can second the hair out of ears....it is bizarre! (im 36 only started happening last few years).

Also can I add eye brows...jesus the sprouting of some of the hairs in them...overnight massive.

bnt · 04-07-2018 03:05PM

I've had some knee problems, but eventually figured out the cause was the way I walked - and I walk a lot. My right leg is slightly shorter than my left: not by much, less than a centimetre, but it was enough to mean more stress on my right knee. By taking care to walk in sensible shoes - trainers or similar, usually - and by padding my right heel a bit, my knee is much happier now.

CelticRambler · 04-07-2018 03:40PM

Another one suddenly stricken by agonising back pain earlier this year, just as I was getting into the swing of a long-overdue renovation project. I've never had a desk-job, always worked on my feet (lots of bending and twisting, mind you) and have fairly vigourous leisure interests, so it wasn't sitting that was responsible.

Graces7 wrote: »

Nowadays one knee is prone to suddenly giving way with no warning.

Now I know that that was my first (subsequently ignored!) warning sign. It happened about twenty years ago, twisting to get through a partially blocked doorway in the house. Just as I got clear, my left knee gave way and I went crashing to the floor and couldn't get up till my wife arrived.

No wife around anymore, so I had to go the doc this year, and after he'd finished poking and prodding me and a series of x-rays, I realised that a lot of the odd aches and pains all tied in to the same source - knackered discs.

wexie · 04-07-2018 03:50PM

perhaps we need to have this thread moved to the aul fella's and aul wans forum?

Sgt Hartman · 04-07-2018 03:57PM

I'm 38 now. I've had two crippling spells with sciatica, first in late 2014 and most recently in April and May of this year

I can't lift weights ever again.

Also I started to sprout more nose hairs as I got into my 30's. I've nicknamed one particular nosehair in my right nostril "The Spear". It grows really long and thick, resembling a spider's leg. No matter how many times I pull the damn thing out it keeps regrowing

Now my hair is getting grey at the sides and it's thinning on top although I don't actually have a receding hairline thank God.

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TheTruthIsMine · 04-07-2018 07:32PM

CelticRambler wrote: »

Just as I got clear, my left knee gave way and I went crashing to the floor and couldn't get up till my wife arrived.

Why did it give? Was it really under that much pressure when you were trying to get by the gap?

TheTruthIsMine · 04-07-2018 07:42PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHmV8u2J-bE

Donald Trump · 04-07-2018 08:33PM

Me massive willy

I assumed everyone had a 12 incher

:pac:

_Dara_ · 04-07-2018 08:38PM

My lungs. At one point, they were working at less than half capacity and even now will never be 100% again. I get out of breath easily.

How strong my back was. Again, now doing the square root of fuck all has it sore.

My great tits. I don’t care how big-headed that sounds. Pre-cancer, I had great tits. Not too big, not too small, 34C. They were super. Goldi-tits, I was.

Benicetomonty · 04-07-2018 08:45PM

My hair. God, I had great hair. Alas, the top of my head has now become shiny so its a 2 all over nowadays. I still look good, not the end of the world.

IBS a more upsetting development. Brought on (I think) by a bout of food poisoning in England back in 2012 and gut has been protesting ever since. It really is a nuisance, not painful that often but uncomfortable always.

+1 re nose hair.

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