Will he be M40 or M45 at Kona 2026?
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Not an injury as such, but maybe someone has an idea, particularly as we have some medical experts present. I hope not to take the piss and if anyone needs any IT help in return happy to oblige.
On my left hand I had this cluster of knuckle pads. 3 on the outer knuckle of the little to middle finger and one huge one on the middle knuckle middle finger. See pics (almost as bad as a trotter shot).
I read an article about using high strength Uera and Salysilic acid. Which I have been doing for months and months. It has completely cleared two of them and all but cleared the last but the end of level boss just refuses to fuck off. Its not getting smaller.
Goggle tells me surgery doesnt work. There is some suggestion that laser treatment is effective but I cant find anyone offering treatment in that way.
Its not painful or restrictive, its just ugly and a few people have commented on it and I hate that.
Any ideas? I know it wont be NHS as its cosmetic and I dont care, ill pay to have this barnacle gone for good.
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Is it warty?
Urea and salicylic acid are keratolytic, they soften keratin and break warty things down that way. But that probably only helps if the problem is too much / too thick keratin.
Cryo with liquid nitrogen bursts cells on the thaw, releasing wart virus and triggering an immune response.
It would be a bit of a weird place to get a large viral wart, but not impossible.
Or is it more like callus due to friction or repeated pressure , again a weird place to get that but avoiding whatever is causing it usually works.
Or possibly even a thick scar like keloid in which case maybe some role for steroid in some form
Not sure, have you shown it to anyone in the flesh, they might be able to narrow things down & seems appropriate if itās bothering you.
PS think we need trotter shots left and right for comparison, and be sure to tag @APM
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I have very good long vision but wear glasses for reading and laptop stuff. It seems to be within about 60-90cm where the tipping point is. My new whizz bang Ā£400 dual zone glasses have been working great because I need a slightly different script for reading as I do for screen work.
Stress levels have been very high lately but Iāve noticed a change in reading vision even in the last week, things are slightly blurry, even with my glasses on, unless I enlarge the font a bit. Is it possible for your eyesight to deteriorate that quickly 
Hopefully itās just because Iām knackered.
Time for an all round check up I think!
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Iāve recently had something similar particularly if Iām a bit tired with my new varifocals, there seems to be a very small area that I can get a decent focus in. And also if the air is cold outside it takes a while for my eyes to get used to a dry atmosphere again indoors.
Iāve started wearing my previous bifocals at work and itās a lot better. Not sure my prescription has changed in the months since I got these but these glasses are completely useless and Iām not getting varifocals like this again.
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Most things work except my thumbs 
Which makes life very difficult.
Thanks, looking at pictures it looks more knuckle pad than wart, but I cant think of anything that would have caused it, friction, pressure etc so nothing to avoid.
The keratolyics cleared up the smaller ones. This just seems to go through the cycle of putting it on for a few days, it swells and loosens, I cut it away, rinse and repeat, but it never gets any smaller.
Its definitely dead skin, I can cut bits of it away with nail scissors.
I havent shown it to a GP (or anyone). I just assumed they would say its cosmetic and cant/wont do anything about it.
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When youre expecting DOMS but wake up the next day and think ah get fucked have I buggered my shoulder again but thats worse than DOMS, and worse on one side.
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Oh no 
Hereās hoping the shoulder feels better once youāre up and moving around 
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Yeah see how it is next couple of days. On the one hand it feels just like it did when it was injured, if I poke the in joint it hurts. However, when I had it before the two things I couldnt do was hold my arm above my head for any length of time or hold a weight out to the side, but I can do both, I can even hold my entire cricket bag at arms length to my side and that weighs a lot. So hopefully just bad DOMS.
Either way its probably a useful warning that I need to take it slow and factor in some of the original physio exercises into a warm up.
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Good news is shoulder feels much better, bad news is Ive slept funny and got bad neck.
Ive used the same pillow for years, anything else gave me a bad neck now it feels like this one has run its course. Seen these odd shapped ones that supposed to support the neck but they look fine if you sleep on one side and dont move whereas I turn over a fair bit.
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Iāve got an odd looking pillow to make sure I sleep in a healthy position.
And I was given a knee pillow yesterday to further lock me into position 
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Yeah thats the sort of thing. One of them says it has a money back guarantee so might be worth a punt.
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Got a bit of a niggle in my hip, just a tight muscle, nothing serious. I had bought a cheap Chinese massage gun from the Bezos Bazar a while back, it wasnt great but seemed ok.
Was at the DL today and they have a stretching and recovery area and have the proper branded Theraguns, FMD they are so much better, I thought the cheap one would have a crap battery but be largely the same, but I was very wrong. Not going to buy one as I can just go and use them there but was really surprised at the difference
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As I mentioned on the over 50ās thread Iāve had red bloodshot\pinkeye for at least a fortnight now! Itās not particularly getting worse but struggling to get better, and I donāt look like Iāve been on a weekend bender. I did read that if it is viral conjunctivitis it can take a while to completely clear up.
But, a friend also mentioned something to me about dry eye on Tuesday, Iād not actually heard of it but when I looked it was pretty much another lightbulb moment, pretty much all the symptoms are things Iāve had for years, and cold weather\wind going from warm buildings can be a trigger.
I thought your eyes streaming when you went between the environments was normal! But apparently excessive watering is actually a symptom and a protection mechanism the eyes do, similar to if you get dirt in them.
Iāve got some eye drops and theyāve definitely eased some of it, not sure the redness is going yet but Iām keeping an eye on it, no pun intended! Also trying a warm cloth but need to do it more really.
So, not sure exactly what it is but going to give the drops a couple more days before bothering the GP. It isnāt affecting vision or other issues but still a bit anxious about it for obvious reasons!
And, on top of this the leg has been nagging a bit recently, although thereās definitely a bit of tightness I need to work on, maybe the extra training over Christmas didnāt help.
Thinking of writing a book called āthe shitness of getting oldā!
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Iām happy to contribute a few chaptersā¦.
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Indeed. Some classics like how I hurt my foot by tiying my shoelaces too tight, and how I injured my knee while sleeping.
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One thing Iāve noticed in the last couple of years is that if I happen to flick my finger with the end of a cord (which seems daft now Iāve written it!) or drop something very light on my toe, it really hurts, a lot more that it used to.
I guess my skin is getting thinner? Cuts and bruises take forever to heal these days.
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Thats the second time this week you have lost me. 
Everyone knows us oldies havent got the dexterity to tie shoes laces.
Old people are the number one purchaser of elastic laces, second being triathletes (although theres a crossover)
Get someone to tie them for you then you can just slide them on and off like slippers.
Actually I have done what you said in the quote a few times in the last month.
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