My mom and I were talking about my Sister’s health (she has MS and is also obese), and she also mentioned my brother-in-law’s various pains too (he’s the same age as me).
Aside from very mild back pain (from a slightly slipped disc), I feel great.
You?
Poll options should be pretty self-explanatory, tho I put in a catch-all exceptions category at the very bottom.
I work at a computer in a chair for long hours most weeks which despite my best efforts to mitigate any poor posture or what have you, gives my back, neck, legs and forearms/wrists hell.
Some days or weeks are better than others, but at 40 yrs old, it’s taking its toll. Mild to moderate pain for me.
56, and the pain-o-meter is close to “none” but I do have two herniated discs and mild sciatica, so I do experience some discomfort, mainly at night which I suppose is chronic but mostly not that big of a deal. I voted mild, in my age category.
I often feel sore from working out, so I put “mild,” even though I think that it is a “good” pain…
Mild to moderate pain for me, at 42 years old. I have some sort of sub-clinical auto-immune thing going on. Lately, it’s been hand and foot joints in the morning, swollen and painful. A hot soak helps. I also tend to get headaches very easily, and, like cmyk, I sit at my desk all day long. My posture suffers, and I get myself some back trouble because of it.
It’s like when Hooper and Quint are comparing scars in Jaws and Hooper tops him by pointing at his heart and saying the name of some girl who broke it.
I’ve had 4 major joint injuries that ache arthritically and often have generalized pain and frequent migraines from traumatic brain injury. Plus I’m Clumsy Carp and just this week I’ve broken my little toe, cut my scalp on the too low door to the equipment shed, and have bloody lip from a fever blister the type B flu left me with.
But who ever promised us a life without pain? Goddam if I don’t wake up every day with the prayer “This is the day God has made” and I don’t even believe in God but I sure do love life…
Don’t send Counselors for my pain, just give me another margarita.
I have little to complain about. I get back pain for a day or two at the time I menstruate each month. My knees complain only on the way down the stairs, and they don’t complain very loudly at all. One wrist has a ganglion cyst and complains a little if I have to flex my hand backwards with something heavy sometimes. I get headaches a couple times a month, possibly also menstruation related. That’s about it.
Closest to ‘none’, although on the relatively rare occasions when I do have pain, it’s some monstrous thing like kidney stones or gout. I’ve noticed a few twinges that are probably arthritis lately, but they are transient and infrequent, so it’s all good.
Blessed. Could be worse.
50 - 59: 0 - None
I’ve had to get two prescriptions filled in the last 2 years, and these have been the only prescriptions I have had in my adult life. (Abscessed molar, and some weird soft tissue foot pain.)
40-49, no pain most of the time. Losing a bunch of weight helped a ton, in that it erased foot, knee, and lower back pain.
I’m 32. On days off it’s mild but on work days it’s moderate because of the way I have to sit with my back twisted. I have scoliosis anyway so that doesn’t help. But the majority of the time when I’m not at work, my back isn’t too bad.
I feel old because 14-15 years ago when I was pregnant, I had no back pain, and most women who don’t have scoliosis still have back pain then. When I was 13 and got diagnosed with scoliosis the doctor mentioned I’d have pain when pregnant but I didn’t at all. And now I do without being pregnant. Pregnancy was uncomfortable enough when I was 17 so I can only imagine how much it would suck now!
I’m in the 50-59 group with moderate pain from degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis. I too work at a sedentary job (desk, at home) which is doing nothing to help my condition (except worsen it). However I’ve got a new (upright) desk on order which will allow me to work standing up!! And when that gets too much, a new ‘chiropractic’ office chair so that my pain is minimised. Can’t wait until they’re delivered…it’ll be like Xmas all over again.
It’s moderate 95% of the time…the other 5% finds me immobile and screaming in agony. Thank fucken’ OG for opiates is all I can say. 
I’m 40 and right now my back is spasming and cramping so bad it hurts to breathe. Popping Vicodin like Tic Tacs. That’s life with muscular dystrophy. 
I’m 57 and day to day I’m pretty pain free, but I think I’m going to need another shot in my neck soon for my herniated disc. My hand is just starting to send me the signals.
I used to suffer from major toothaches and associated migraines and headaches all the time. Since I’ve now had most of my teeth removed, that problem has largely abated, but I still sometimes get aches in my remaining good teeth or “phantom” toothaches from the teeth that aren’t there anymore. I also suffer some pain in my wrists and feet from the stress of being on my feet and active all day; it’s minor enough that I don’t even feel it while I’m working, but once I get home and have time to relax I can definitely tell it’s there.
I’m 48. Besides some worn joints here and there, I’m in pretty good shape; however, I’ve been working some construction part-time lately, and lifting 40 floor joists in an afternoon tends to put a bit of strain on the ol’ back muscles. So far, so good.
I’m 53. I put down mild.
My neck is always a bit sore it seems. It cracks (like cracking your knuckles every time I turn to the left).
Currently I’m STILL recuperating from playing pool volleyball with a bunch of 20 something’s 3 weeks ago. I was on vacation and played a lot though. Twisted my left knee and my shoulders are talking to me. Bursitis.
While not a ‘pain’ tinnitus is a pain in the ass. I’m on the edge of needing hearing aids. All that will do though is turn up the volume. The ringing will still be there. :mad: (I find it hard to believe that science hasn’t come up with some solution to this. LOTS of people have it and would pay a LOT to get it fixed)
Age 44. I voted “mild,” but there are entire weeks, usually a few months apart, when it averages “moderate” – not surprisingly, usually when I’m pushing myself to exercise more than usual (long bike rides, basketball pickup games, gardening work, chasing after and carrying a 3-year-old…). I am just starting to wonder how I will manage pain (meds? stretches?) as those “moderate” periods inevitably coalesce into the majority of my life, within a few years from now.