Give it hell Ron. I think you can put the brakes on. But you can't reverse it. What's done is done.
When I get out of the shower. I have to walk buy two full length mirrors. And I do not know that guy...........I wish I could avoid it. NOT POSSIBLE!
Jim

Its not looking old, Its called more distinguished looking with age,

You cant avoid it unless you willing to have cosmetic surgery like many of the stars,

You look at most of the old stars and they have the same wax museum face after multiple face lifts, Do you realy want that look as if it looks like your face is pressed up against a glass window,.? Lol

They pull there faces up so many times they have to wear the skin in a pony tail,

My brother - sister-in law and two nieces stopped by to visit on a trip from their home in Kansas.

My brother usally has something to say about me ... usually along the lines of "Gee - you look like crap"

Well his comment this time was that "I look like the twin brother of House".

I guess it was the scraggly beard, cane, thin and lankiness, and sunkken eyes and generally pissy additude had something to do with it!

If only I could master that cheeky british accent!!

The happiest of New Years for you and your family -
and our functionally dysfunctional family here on the net.

d

I was at a social funtion a couple weeks ago and one of my classmates from school came up and said God, Gary you look like hell. That's when I realized that he was waiting tables and I was the one being served by his tray of snacks. I guess God got him back before I even had a chance to say anything!! And to add insult to injury, he looked just as old or older than me.

What's hair?

Ron,

Unfortunatly, I eat healthy ( hardly no sweets, cokes etc), tons of vitamins and supplements such as protien, amino acids, glutamine, plenty of sleep, exercise regularly, do yoga, stretch and I cannot change the steam roller of pain in the way I look ( only 33 in human years, 100 in pain years). My eyes stay with bags and my mom always says how tired I always look. I really think it is just stress and our outside is showing some of what our body feels inside. Just my two cents, if you figure out a way to reverse the premature aging let me know.

Side note my little brother watches GOLD RUSH on discovery and a guy on it was suffering back pain for years after car wreck and we were talking the other day after some doc donated services and gave several ESI injections that brought great relief to the man, anyway my brother said he looked older than he was before but after relief looked 10 years younger. When I got that small window of relief after 8 years from my esi, my mom and friends were asking have you been working out, been in sun, cause you look better. I looked the same, but now smiled alot and stood with my head up high instead of defeated. Best 4 months of last 8 yrs, unfortunatly I would exp. the worst, ongoing still, since I have been hurt a couple months after that. Story of my life always happiest right before the worst starts.

A little relief goes a long way, sad that we have to wait so long for it or might never get it. It is very suprising how your thoughts, hopes, dreams, outlook changes when you get the smallest relief and how after having that relief how devestating it is to revert back and then be even worse ( new injuries). Cant win for losing with back pain. Hardest I ever worked living with it and I look lazy from outside. Go figure.

I gave up putting on mascara years ago because my eyesite has gone so downhill that I'd need one of those super magnification mirrors and I can't imagine having to look at my face 10x magnified. Ack!

But, I have earned every line on my face, every gray hair on my head and every scar on my body. Battle wounds? Maybe, but I've won those battles, earned the results and they're my badges of courage and sustainability!

Cath

Well I've been coloring my hair for years so nothing wrong with changing the color back to what you want it to be. I know I have dark circles that never go away but I wear mineral make up powder and I know some men wear it also to even out the color and hide little imperfections so nothing wrong with that if you want to look better for your own self.

I've had dermabrasion surgery done for scars twice when I was in my late 20's & 30's and did it for myself so do what ever you need to make yourself feel better. Fighting the beast is what we have to do daily. Take care. Charry

Hair dye and make up goes a LONG way in disguising just about everything… A little nip and tuck here and there doesn’t hurt matters either. Guys just don’t have that option. I feel like I look like hell when I roll out of the rack in the mornings – but by the time I have my make up on and hair done, I look pretty damn good. Tis’ a painful process and one that I probably won’t put so much effort into once I retire and don’t have to be out dealing with people everyday. I’m sure I’ll still be fairly vain and wear it, but it won’t have to be perfect – maybe…

I have noticed myself how much my looks have aged since my injury

I have 5 grandkids (and 3 step grandkids) and when I had 2 GK (before injury) people always thought I was their mom and was shocked to hear I was their Nana.

NOW (about 9 yrs after injury) when I say I have 8 GK, there is nothing said about how I am too young to have 8 ......sigh

I know it is the pain that has aged me. I do care but at the same time I don't. Well I try not to, as there is little if anything (other then to cover it up with make up, etc.) that I can do about it.

I'm far from old but back problems have aged me. I've found the best cure for me has been loosing weight. My goal is to work up to a strength to be able to lift weights. I watched a documentary a few years back and lifting weights can take 10- 20 years off an 80 year old. Most of us think that by then it's too late but they saw the improvements in many people. Obviously something high impact like that will take a lot of work to get up to but it's the most proven thing I've found to reduce aging.

35-year-old Caucasian female, older appearing than her stated age.

As the first line to the notes from my original consult. I had been dealing with pain for three years at that point and I had always looked younger than my age before my leg started hurting. I wanted to swear when I saw that! What?! No way could that possibly be...

So my boyfriend and I pulled out the photo albums and sure enough. What the heck happened to me was all I could think. Then I realized the pain and lack of sleep had taken even more of a toll then I realized. It's unreal to think we can age so much in such a short amount of time. Of course, this entire process is pretty surreal. The pain, frustration, lack of dignity and respect in the health care industry. Just makes sense it would attack our outward appearance also I guess. This keeps up though I'm gonna be 40 looking like I'm 80!

But grrr... I hate it! Well at least I'm gonna be 40 and rollin around in a wheelchair and able to feel mens butts up because they'll just think I'm old and senile!

Well i am looking at.my Mayo records from 1991.

It says 30 year old male dumb and ugly looking for his age, hmmmm!
Wonder what they ment by that,