I think the worst thing about having bad knees and hips isn’t the chronic pain or even the flair up pain, but having to deal with old, abled people going “sore knees!?! wait until you my age!”
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Ugh, the "wait til you're my age" people 😡 My scoliosis means I've had back pain since my 20s. We should be legally allowed to slap people who say that.
It's the worst. It also meant it took a very long time (and an ambulance trip to A&E) for me to realise that I was in a lot of pain and massively undermedicating it.
(Because I tend to try to believe people unless there's evidence to the contrary, and people were in some degree of pain, so I assumed it was much worse than mine)
this happens to me with my back all of the time and it's like "sir/ma'am, I understand you have back pain in your 60s but my spine is shaped like an S and my ribs are pressing on my lungs so-"
"Would you like me to discuss the life expectancy of people with my disabilities? Because I'm not quite sure how all the 'knocks 25 years off' comorbidities play together, and also I may cry."
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Anti-spastic meds aren't a miracle drug but they might as well be 🥹