Immense pain
So much terrible pain
Imagine being totally mortified feeling a tickle in your nose before you sneeze
Because sneezing feels like your spine is being ripped apart.
Not being able to breathe because your rib cage is closing in and losing movement.
on a scale of 1-10, Suicide
Before being diagnosed and starting humira
I physically could not get out of bed witout help
or climb stairs without the rail
or pick things up off the floor without serious effort
things like walking would make me out of breath and hurt so much I limped.
So to keep it short, no, there is no way to have AS without a significant level of pain.
I have no idea what my inseam or leg length is.
That last question is a good one
I cannot say for sure how much difference there is between am and pm height
Any time Ive been measured has been either in the morning or early afternoon.
I will say that now that there has been some fusion
particularly in my sacro joints and lower back
there is a reduced amount of pain in those areas.
theyre already fused and immobile so the pain is not as bad.
I can also feel the compression more in my spine
Im more conscious and aware of it and am able to address it when it becomes an issue.
If I had to guess I would say that there is likely less variance because there are less moving pieces
tho I cannot say for sure
I am stiff in the mornings
and inflamed with pain at night
Im probably my tallest somewhere in the middle of the day
or before lifting
[quote]lunk wrote:
This is NOT a troll thread, I’m genuinely interested.
Some bodybuilders and powerlifters have said that they’ve lost noticeable height through the spinal compression experienced through years of doing heavy squats and deadlifts. Sure, it’s natural for you to lose height during the day (whether squatting or not) as your spinal discs compress, and you regain it back during the night when sleeping, but I’m wondering if really heavy squats and deadlifts can, over time, cause the spinal discs to plastically deform to an extent that can’t be corrected by simply ‘sleeping it off’…?
If you’ve done heavy squats and deadlifts - it would be interesting to see if you’ve shrunk any? When you’re measuring, try and correct for morning/evening fluctuations in height - you’re taller in the morning than you are in the evening which could give false positives if not taken into account, so if you knew your morning height before you even started training, measure yourself in the morning again… It would also help to state your age, so we can rule out shrinking simply due to aging…
Thanks!![/quote]
I have thought this before. I feel like I’m shorter than I used to be
[quote]tonypluto wrote:
On a side note
The bigger my legs and muscles get
The smaller my penis looks by comparison
True story
I’ve got these humongous wheels
Which make my cock look ridiculously small when soft[/quote]
I was shocked to find out recently that I’m 5’9 when I’m sure my entire life I’ve known my height to be 5’11. It’s on my driver’s license. I do heavy squats and deadlifts but it’s only been about 3 years.
I think the real reason may be much more facepalm-worthy. For most of my adult life, I had about 1.5 to 2 inches of hair on top of my head and I think anyone who has actually measured my height maybe added my hair in to the measurement. Now my head is shaved and at a recent physical, I found out I “lost” 2 inches.
It was a really shitty feeling to find out I was 2 inches shorter than I thought. When anyone ever asks me I usually round up to 6ft – I can’t do that anymore.
If deadlifting did make me lose any height though, I wouldn’t stop doing it because I love it so much. Squatting, I can take it or leave it and lately the way my knees feel I leave it most of the time.
I have wondered this for a long time as well. I went home from my first year of college for winter break at age 18 and decided to focus harder on training with no distractions for the 1.5 months until the next semester. I did lots of heavy power cleans, OHP, deadlifts, and squats. One of the first things I noticed when I got back to school was my friends who used to be the same height as me now appeared to be taller than me. I felt like I lost a solid inch during those several weeks of hard training. However, were all around 18 years old though so it could have just been the other people growing. I also have always wondered whether regular sessions on an inversion table could unlock lost height in the spine, never got around to trying it out though.
I might have lost an inch at sometime too. The problem is I can check my current height as much as possible for accuracy but I can’t go back and evaluate how accurate it was 10-15 years ago when I was supposedly taller. For all I know I had shoes on at my tallest height recording and that number stuck with me, I don’t think that really happened just an idea. Also how often do you get measured? I tell people my height way more often than its measured so finding out that was a lie when I go to the doctor now to get measured makes me wonder what happened.