Early 30s, I haven't noticed much change for illness, joint pains slightly worse. But I have noticed a pretty significant heal time increase for cuts and scrapes. I find myself constantly going "why hasn't that cut/scrape healed yet, it's been like a week".
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30s, I am much slower to bounce back from muscular injuries, and if I smash my knee, it's gonna be a week before I don't need a brace. Being overweight is a big part of that though. I'm sure if I had kept my weight off after my last surgery 10 years ago I'd be quicker to recover joint injuries.
Illnesses are about the same? Maybe? Idk whenever I got a cold I would be miserable for a week, and that hasn't changed. Every so often I'll get something that knocks me on my ass for 2-4 days, and when I was younger it was probably only 1-2 days. I was sick much more as a kid though so that's likely one reason, my immune system isn't exposed to as many things anymore so illnesses that DO hurt are worse than they used to be. I'm not a biologist though, and pathology sounds like what a startup company that makes designer walkways would call themselves.
I also think I'm much funnier than I used to, but that's likely unrelated to illnesses...
Mid 40s, wash your hands and avoid touching your face. I don't really get sick that often and when I do its only about a day.
I first noticed slow healing when I hit 27, had a knee injury that FUCKING SUCKED. It was over a year before I could do a knee bend.
Even now, decades later, it still aches when it gets cold.
At a certain age you don't actually recover anymore. It's just added to the list of things you're slowly dying of.
Recently turned 40. Generally speaking, I don't see a big difference in the heal time of cuts or bruises. My joints on the other hand feel like they don't hold up like they used to. Recently spent a day helping a buddy cut down and mulch some dying trees on his property, made it through the day no problem. The next three days of recovery were rough though. I feel like a random day of labor like that when I was 30 wouldn't have had the same impact. I do weigh probably 20 lb more now but I'm also more physically active on a daily basis than I was when I was just a 30-year-old IT geek. That being said, seeing some of the responses here from the 60 and 70-year-olds gives me hope that it's all in my head.
I'm around 16. I can recover pretty quickly still, but definitely not as well as I could as a wee lad.