You're too young for back problems!

[Nayeli_Sabia]

ARG! My roomate in college was 19 and had major back uses stemming from her overly endowed bust.(we measured, they where both bigger than my head)

Her insurance needed a doctor's referal for reduction surgery, and her male shovenist pig of a doctor wouldn't sign off, because "she'd regret it"

[MystyGlyttyr]

I love it when people tell me I'm too young to be in any sort of pain.

"Yeah, I know. But my head hurts sometimes from the six or seven concussions I've had, my knees hurt from all the times they've been buried into concrete, my back hurts from 15 years of picking people up and throwing them into walls...and the more recent years of professional wrestling and jumping off eight-foot platforms onto people...you know, they say it's fake but you can't fake gravity!...my neck hurts because I dislocated it once and never saw a doctor, my ribcage is dented inwards from taking a baseball bat in them during high school, I have arthritis from being an athlete since the age of nine, sometimes all my old stab wounds hurt..." Etc., etc., etc.

People are usually after the concussions, but it won't sink in unless you pile every last bit of it on.

[digilight]

I've seen and experienced to much in my life to buy into the bullshit notion that "you are too young for ...". Lets see, why dont we start with my dad for example.

He's had somewhere between 20-30 back surgeries (no kidding). He has had over half his spine fused in various places, rods, screws and implants. He's had doner grafts and the like put in (human bone fused in place between the two vertibrea). Numerous hernia surgeries, gangrene in the small intestines, lupus, a heart attack (triple bypass), VTAC, they just installed a internal moniter for a arethmia (sp). Oh yeah and he just broke his leg. He may be almost 60 now but all this started over 30 years ago.

He twisted wrong lifting a hundred pound block and blew the first disc, the dr's fucked up the surgerey and then when he fell thru a scaffolding in a fab shop he blew a couple more. THe rest is more genetical.

In college I had a friend who had broken his back about 2 years prior, he was around 25ish or so. Is that too young?

Growing up I grew real fast in junior high at one point (a good 6 inches in 6 months). I developed Osgood-Schlatters in my knee's (or so they said). It has persisted to this day. I also have arthritas in my knee's, hips, back, wrists, and fingers. As well as narrowing of the spin in the lumbar region. At 32 I still have people tell me that I'm too young for arthritas.

When folks tell me that I have a simple answer, "I know, it sucks doesn't it". What else can you say.

[KnitShoni]

People tell me that at 29 I'm too young to have arthritis. They shut up when I tell them I've had it since I was 20.

They tell me I'm too yong to have knee problems. They shut up when I tell them I'm lucky to still have knees, since they were pinned against a fence by a car (cracked the fence, but not my knees, thank G-d) when I was 19.

They told my husband he was too young to have knee problems. He had knee surgery at 25 due to a water-skiing accident.

Funny, how all the people who insist people are "too young" to have whatever problem seem to forget LIFE HAPPENS, and it doesn't always leave you feeling good.

[Misanthropical]

I see a pain specialist every month for my back. You would be amazed at how many people just assume that it is my husband who is there for the appt.

My husband is in his 50's so people just assume that it has to be him that is there for pain, not his young wife.

They look at us like when they find out that I'm the one that has the pain, not him.