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Is excessively fast healing a thing?

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Emcont · 14/09/2019 22:11

Bit of an odd one. Not some weird stealth boast, I'm curious if this is actually a thing...

For the last 6 years or so I've noticed that I heal/recover from things very quickly.

Eg, I had rhinoplasty and was bruise and pain free within 2 weeks. Pain free from my c-sections after a week and just yesterday I banged my toe which bruised and went a deep dark purple shortly after. But today is pretty much pain and bruise free. Adenoid removal and tonsillectomy at 25 and pain free in about 10 days.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining!

Anyone else like this? Is is even a 'thing' or just luck?

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SandyGusset · 14/09/2019 22:14

Yer a wizard Harry

eladen · 14/09/2019 22:15

Dumb luck.

mintyroller · 14/09/2019 22:16

Yer a wizard Harry

Grin
Fruityb · 14/09/2019 22:18

I heal pretty quickly too. I don’t know if it’s just a thing where I don’t allow stuff to slow me down so just get on with it or whether I just heal up quick. My dad does too.

I had a c section and was on my feet quite soon. I lost a lot of blood when they did it and they thought I’d need a transfusion but was all back together soon after. I bled a lot on a previous op I had a few years ago but refilled quick again.

I just think I want to get on with stuff so don’t have time ol

eladen · 14/09/2019 22:19

If you think your insides had finished knitting together and healing a week after a c section that's pretty hilarious, though.

There are disorders that prevent people feeling pain properly. They usually die young, due to not being aware of injuries/illness.

And then we are back to dumb luck again.

crosser62 · 14/09/2019 22:21

I’m a wizard too lol!

I recover dead dead quick too.

  1. I don’t have time to be Ill/injured
  2. I don’t have the patience to faff about with illness/injury 3)I have very little tolerance to illness/injury.. just fuck off and annoy someone else. (In my head to myself)

I’m a bad ass..

eladen · 14/09/2019 22:22

I don’t know if it’s just a thing where I don’t allow stuff to slow me down so just get on with it or whether I just heal up quick

It's luck. Dumb luck.

Plenty of people with that same "I don't allow anything to stop me" attitude find when their luck fails their attitude is fuck all use against bad luck.

Just be grateful luck has been on your side so far, instead of arrogant and smug.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 14/09/2019 22:23

Are you Wolverine?

crosser62 · 14/09/2019 22:23

Was pushing to pram through the snow one week after section taking older kid to school with my coat flapping in the wind as I was too bloody fat to do the coat up! That cold fresh air was heavenly.

crosser62 · 14/09/2019 22:25

I’m ill fat though! Can’t cure my fat no matter how good at getting better I am !

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Emcont · 14/09/2019 22:26

@eladen I didn't say healed, I said pain free..

Thanks for the serious replies!

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Nat6999 · 14/09/2019 22:27

I'm up & about almost as soon as I get back on the ward after surgery, something in anaesthetic doesn't agree with me & makes me hyperactive for about 48 hours, I can't sit still or sleep.

eurochick · 14/09/2019 22:29

I'm the same. I first noticed it in primary school - when I crashed into other kids in the playground and we skinned our knees, mine would heal a lot quicker than theirs. I'm in my 40s now and still heal quickly.

I'm not super fit or really healthy. It's just the way I am. I rarely bruise either.

On the other hand, I've been knackered since puberty, can't tolerate the Pill, suffered unexplained infertility. I suspect I have some as yet undiscovered condition. My mum is exactly the same. 🤷‍♀️

TrainspottingWelsh · 14/09/2019 22:29

I have adhd and a high pain threshold. So in most cases I appear to not get laid as low, or at the least recover quicker. Obviously that works well with severe bruising, stomach bugs, post cast removal etc because movement and circulation helps recuperation and healing.

It doesn’t work so well when I don’t feel compelled to seek medical help early on when with hindsight I should. Or, when I’m aware the injury/ illness does need rest to recover and I find it impossible to do so.

Whodrankallmygin · 14/09/2019 22:29

Yes, apparently its a thing-I had major stomach op, and was told the incision would take months to heal, healed in weeks, but healed so well that I needed treatment with silver nitrate as scars had formed into bumps and were causing issues with rubbing on clothes etc... 🙄Also caused major internal scarring - nurse told me its because my body healed itself too quickly and went into overdrive!
Not noticed superhero healing (or other powers.... 😂) in everyday life though - so must have just been reaction to the op!

HotCheese · 14/09/2019 22:29

Ds cut his thumb a few months ago.
It was a nasty cut, bled loads and was gaping open, so we went to minor injuries.
By the time he was seen (about an hour later) the cut was no longer gaping and looked like it was healing.
The nurse thought I was over-anxious, so I showed her the photo I took of it, which showed a would that should have needed taping.
She said he must have a very fast metabolism, and that some people heal much quicker than others.

JaceLancs · 14/09/2019 22:30

Some people do heal quicker than others
DF was always ultra fit n healthy and healed/recovered well
When he was in his 60s had an accident involving major burns and the healing too quick caused problems as external skin was knitting together too quickly for internal wounds
In his 70s cancer x 2 had remarkable recovery
In his 80s had major heart surgery and within 48 hours was trying to help staff with other patients!
Sadly had a stroke at 93 and no longer has cognitive capacity and is failing fast
It breaks my heart - none of us are bullet proof

Livedandlearned · 14/09/2019 22:32

I heal quickly too.

SchrodingersMeowth · 14/09/2019 22:32

I have slow healing due to a genetic disorder (which has its bonuses for me sometimes) so I guess you probably can get excessively fast healing.

Weird one but I have a feeding tube on my stomach and it healed slowly but because of that it’s healed really quite nicely, if I healed quickly I’d have lots of granulation tissue causing pain and scarring as it would constantly be trying to heal over.

So I guess quick healing can have downsides sometimes although that’s reaching a bit.

JaceLancs · 14/09/2019 22:32

Interesting re metabolism as DF was same, could eat anything n never gain weight in fact used to feel faint n ill if didn’t eat tons (twice what I can cope with)

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Emcont · 14/09/2019 22:35

Interesting re the metabolism. I'm quite overweight so ways assuming I had a slow one..

Absolutely nothing to do with any of the shite I've eaten... Grin

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Hoppinggreen · 14/09/2019 22:40

DS doesn’t heal especially quickly but he tends not to get ill or if he does he gets better really quickly.
If we all get colds etc, the whole house can be a plague pit and he’s fine. If he does get ill it can last a matter of hours, he tends to just go into a deep sleep for a few hours and then wake up feeling 100%
If he does get anything it’s pretty mild, when he had Scarlet fever the GP said “but he should be a lot more poorly”. Even with a nasty virus that would floor most of us for days he’s usually fine after a good nights sleep. He teethed without any problem whatsoever too

DizzyPigeon · 14/09/2019 22:43

Former nurse here. Honestly, those timescales are fairly normal. Probably the same as a significant minority of people. That's the low end of the time scale we'd expect healing to occur. We just don't usually tell people the low end as it increases hopes and expectations for the majority of people that will take a few days longer.

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Emcont · 14/09/2019 22:43

I hate feet so I'm unsure ANYONE wants to see this! But an example, my toe last night and then today!

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