[Closed] Over 40, aches & pains. What pills & potions actuall work?

Wait till you get to 56 mate.

I find an alkaline diet and turmeric helpful.

Potions?

IPA & Single malts work for me!

Tramadol?

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I find an alcoholic diet and crisps helpful.

Yep. I've tried that Growacet. It's the bollocks...
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Taxiiii!

Lol at flashy!

not quite over 40 but ive found cod liver oil and glucosamine really help my achy joints

Osteopath....

EPO, Testosterone (synthetic), HGH and the odd blood transfusion for good measure should keep you going for a bit...

Viagra!
Never been as good, in my opinion! 😉

I take vits cod liver oil and keep pretty fit....I'm 41 and feel ok....

Alcohol in various forms such as beer, wine and whisky.

beer and yoga - not together

Looks like I'm doing everything right then 🙂

I sometimes think it's all in my mind, but whenever I stop taking cod liver oil capsules, within a couple of weeks I start to ache.. start taking them again and it eases a couple of weeks in.

send lance Armstrong a tweet, he might be able to help

Raw egg whites. Three every morning as soon as you wake up.

beer, whisky, late nights, early mornings, painful death marches across the moors, nightmarish road centuries up the biggest hills in England (in heavy rain), long working hours, chocolate cake, cheese and fry ups.

I think that about covers it. Seems to be working for me so far anyway.

My god I forgot wine. Plenty of wine.

Warm fish yoghurt

paracetamol works pretty well now & again

A while ago every where I pressed really hurt - turned out I had a broken finger 🙂

Being serious for a minute, nearly 55 and cod liver oil capsules seem to help, definitely feel the difference when I run out and miss a few days. Ibuprofen also has it's place...

I know its an evil pharmaceutical but Brufen (ibuprofen) works on my very occasional spasmy back.

It's one of the small stabby nasty pains that goes away soon after chomping down a 400mg dose. I can then get moving normally.

Excersize is what works, in particular focusing on maintaining flexibility.

IMO the reason you suffer aches and pains as you get older is you expect the body to deal with excersize as it used to when you were younger, ie zero preparation just got for it. You need regular excersize to avoid massive shocks to the body.

Omega 3 - joints
Glucosamine Sulphate - joints
Branch Chain Amino Acids (BCAA) - muscle recovery and repair
Multi vitamins - general health
Liquid Collagen - tendons and ligaments
ZMA - sleep etc

Pre and post ride stretches help a lot.

Sex

So a big thumbs up for cod liver oil, not so many glucosamine. And I agree about ibruprofen when things hurt too much.

I've just got the point, after years of not bothering with the doctors, where my niggles have got too bad to ignore. My wrists/hands buzz constantly from 24 years of barbering, my 3 smallest toes on my right foot have varying degrees of pins and needles (especially bad when snowboarding) and too many crashes on bicycles and motorbikes have hurt my shoulders, ankles and wrists!
On the plus side & it's a massive plus, my back is good 🙂

I'm planning on starting yoga when I hit 50, unless 50 hits me first...

Becoming a dad at 39 means I've no choice but to stay fit, we've got a lot of fun to have over the next 20 years.

Along the lines of captain f, a healthy dose of mtfu.
Cod liver oil, yoga and Pilates. Our bodies are incredible things that we do terrible things to when we're young, only later do we really find what we've done!
After two years of lots and lots of chemo, one round of radio therapy and a stem cell transplant there isn't much of me that doesn't ache or groan in a morning and for the rest of the day. I haven't ridden my bike more than ten miles in the last two years and idle dreams of running the bob graham seem to have disappeared up my a*se in a cloud of smoke. But, I'm still alive. And for that I'm incredibly grateful.

I rode to work yesterday and my right knee really hurt every rotation. Just another one to add to the list I guess.

Yup, I never have to look to far to find someone a whole lot worse off!

Top of my shoulders and lower middle of my back, thems the places that I get pains.

Upper shoulders, many years of windsurfing/kiting/sailing has brought large muscles that currently are sitting unused, now the pain kicks in as they retreat back into thier fat sockets of blobbyness and on comes the pain. Over that last couple of years I've ceased most watersports and I'm suffering now. I tend to take Boots Ibu and thats about it and only when it gets really bad.. which isn't that often, maybe once a month.

The lower back though, aches like a gooden, quite often on the bike but thats due to sporadic use (hard riding one weekend, nothing for a couple of weeks, then back to hard riding again) these breaks bring too much relazation in muscles and thats my main problem, fitness drops off, I ride like I still think I can and then suffer.. Again Boots Ibu is used, again sporadic.

My old dear has suffered with rheumatism and arthritis for as long as I've known her, and she reckons that glucosamine is an absolute godsend..

Cod liver oil. Not the pathetic capsules, MTFU and glug from the bottle.

Something called Devils claw works for me.

Dignitas...?

DrP