Study shows that adults get more completely unidentifiable shit on their bodies as they age.

[LeftyFingerPop]

I can't post a link because I read it in a hard copy newspaper a little while ago...I forget the name of the paper.

Anyway, the article was stating that an exhaustive study was performed showing that every year we get older is met with increased exclamations of "Holy fucking fuck, what the fuck is this thing? Do we have a hand held mirror"?

The study stated that these "things" can be found anywhere on the body, but most are found in the buttocks, thigh, groin, feet and head area.

Most worrisome is the fact that medical professionals generally have no idea what in the hell these things are.

95% of study participants questioned their doctors as to the nature of these things. The most common reply was "fuck if I know".

[Kali]

1. you made me scare the cat

again

:rofl:

and now, good night:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Goodnight, Kali

:hug: :rofl: Think I'm going to bed soon too.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. Now I feel better.

I'm not alone.

[BuelahWitch]

20. Me too!

[BuelahWitch]

21. I had some ugly thing growing on my ankle

went to a GP who had no idea what it was. I did some research of my own and it appeared to be a ganglion which is described on medicine.net as "a sac-like swelling or cyst formed from the tissue that lines a joint or tendon." Supposedly they're an early sign of arthritis (YAY! :-( ). After being a nuisance for many years, it appears to have gotten tired of disfiguring my right ankle. Got one on my pinky finger that popped after a few months, and thankfully has not come back.

[Mopar151]

4. Doc checked me out

Listened thru his stethescope, thumped me like a melon, said "Sounds like shit!" I'm thinkin "12 years of college for this?". 'Specially when my friend, the ICU nurse, correctly diagnosed me with one question the night before "What color is all that stuff you're coughin' up? Green, that's walkin' penumonia..."

[old mark]

5. I worked with a lot of doctors. You evidently don't have to be smart

to graduate from medical school, just have to be able to memorize a lot of stuff.
My "doctor" is now a nurse-practitioner.

mark

[Mopar151]

9. Actually, he was a good doctor, for other people

Absolutely wonderful for my Dad. All my doctors that I've actually liked, seeem to have issues - my pediatrican OD'd on Demerol, the orthopedist was a drunk, and the best PCP I've ever had was fired by his group practice for taking too much time with the paitents. And the wizard of a spine surgeon who the orthopaedist sent me to was a brilliant surgeon, and otherwise a lousy doctor. He Is teaching surgery now, which is probably the best outcome.
I like ARNP's - I prefer them to my current PCP. Big props for "H", who was an ER nurse for 25 years before she got the ARNP ticket. Found me a medicine which fixed an issue that had stumped the ER, my PCP, and another ARNP in the office. And "R", who actually LISTENS.

[momto3]

13. The toughest part of medical school is getting in.

Once your in, it is almost impossible to fail out. It makes the medical school "look bad" if they fail out medical students. I was a graduate student that took a lot of medical school classes. I was amazed at the lengths the medical school went to to make sure that all of the students passed. The graduate school sure as hell did not care if it failed the grad students.

"What do you call the person who graduated last from their medical school class?"



"Doctor"

:-)

[jberryhill]

6. This Thread Is Useless Without Pictures /nt

[TrogL]

7. My doc calls them "barnacles of age"

Of course he did mis-diagnose one. He said it was "nothing". A week later it exploded white goo all over my finger.

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. "Barnacles of age"

.
Now, THAT'S funny!!!!
.
I've named all mine. There's George Foreman I, George Foreman II........, up through George Foreman XXXVII.
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.
And Ethel.
.
She's hot.
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.
.
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And SINGLE!!!!!
.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I don't have anything on me that I can't identify...

But if I did, I'd sure as hell insist on finding out! :scared:

However, I was privy to a conversation earlier today between two guys, and the younger one was complaining of the exact thing you describe in your post. And this guy is only in his 20s... x(

[dysfunctional press]

10. i had two of them removed yesterday...behind my ear.

dr. sent them off for a biopsy. :shrug:

[JCMach1]

11. Unidentified shit on my foot that will have to be cut soon: corn? wart? Whatever,

it hurts like hell because it's on the pad of my right big toe...

[Sultana]

30. Too much info

:D

[RedCloud]

14. Fear not Earthings. They are doing their job on you. Thanks for harvesting them.

[unpossibles]

15. skin tags, etc.

although skin tag makes me picture some gnome putting graffiti on my body while I sleep....

[fizzgig]

17. they're probably stealing your underpants, too

damn gnomes x(

[unpossibles]

22. who can blame them in their quest for PROFIT? nt

[Call Me Wesley]

16. Snopes debunked it.

Here's the proof.

[es350_ibm]

18. I've been getting plenty these days

[Mari333]

19. cherry anginomas or something

little bumps all over the place. wtf are they? who knows. they are benign , however. everyone gets them in old age. even middle age.
they can be lasered off but it costs you .

[Kaleva]

23. What is with all these poo threads?

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. Why do you think this is a "poo thread"?

[Kaleva]

26. "completely unidentifiable shit"!

[LeftyFingerPop]

27. "figure of speech"!

:rofl:

[valerief]

31. Can't you just smell him?

[snailly]

25. LMAO Those are "nodes" my dear

Nodes are just pimples for old peeps.

[undeterred]

28. Some of it is from alien abductions.

[Kaleva]

32. It's all that anal probing they do.

[valerief]

29. Tags? Or bags? nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. not just a handheld mirror But, indeed, a magnified handheld the mirror!!

oh. the horrors that beset us! :o

[elocs]

34. "Shit" Is that the technical term? I hate it when know-it-alls throw around technical terms. n/t

[caitxrawks]

35. the more i read about aging, the more i want to die by the time i'm 30.

I'm only 21, and my body is already fucked up. I can't imagine what it's going to be like when I'm 40, 50, 60, and possibly even 70.

Eeeeeeeeeeep O.O Tell me there's SOMETHING good about aging!