One thing we guys should be doing is pay attention to our health. I’m 54 and just got scoped from one end to the other. This is the type of preventative care men need to do to take care of themselves.

Obama just defunded prostate cancer research. Breast cancer funding is untouched. Just as many men die every year from prostate cancer as women die from breast cancer.

http://advancedprostatecancer.net/?p=5055

Get a general doctor. Get a yearly PSA to check for prostate cancer. Get your blood pressure checked. Get a blood test occasionally. Don’t smoke. And many many other preventative things that can help cut that 7 years less men live than women. The gap is already closing but they think that’s due to american women becoming more skanky and their asses are resembling large jars of lard.

http://www.alternet.org/gender/new-study-american-women-are-dying-younger-their-moms

Nah in all seriousness, in the UK it’s incredibly hard to be fit and healthy. Fatty food is cheap and anything healthy is expensive as f~~~. To exercise, a gym membership is around £50($80ish) a month. If you don’t want to do that then you can run outside but be prepared to be ridiculed, attacked and harassed.

If there is some sort of guide for single men outside of the US to stay fit and healthy I would love to read it. Unfortunately online it appears that the world doesn’t exist outside of the US. You lot have it so goddamn easy over there. </rant>

@Triklops It so happens I once knew a guy who has grandchildren from kids who were born before he was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis (about 20 years ago). If he can live that long, so can you.

Aww man..way to dash a man’s hopes into oblivion! And there I was thinking that I wouldn’t have to carry on this charade called existence for too long..
You just treated me like an indisposable disposable male..you feminist you.. 😀

But on more serious note the worst part of Sarcoidosis isn’t its fatality but its symptoms. Imagine if you wake up one fine morning to feel like someone has stabbed you multiple times at your joints and areas close to your spine and the pain goes on for days at times. Painkillers do the trick but it still limits free movement making you feel like a cripple. I really feel like shooting myself at those times. It destroyed my whole career and a career in professional soccer making me think..Sarcoidosis just might be female.

Its a real shame my ego wouldn’t let me go out like one of those Hollywood folks by taking a lot of painkillers at a time..

But it has one positive side too. It helped me get out of some really messy situations involving females. Like the one in my high school reunion party where an old school buddy’s sister was so infatuated that she kept on insisting and even begging that we start seeing each other. I told her that I had Sarcoidosis and it was an STD(even though it wasn’t). And poof! she vanished into thin air like the character Serena from that 60’s sitcom Bewitched.

I’ve literally gone an entire year without getting sick.

I admit, I do often want to sue Reese® for their peanut butter cups.

I had to make an effort to DE-program myself from feeling “guilty” for ordering a wrap from MacDonald’s or enjoying some fried chicken and fries once in a while. A 1/2 glass of red wine before bed is the norm, and only consume about 5 OZ of hard liquor per year. No beer (just never acquired a taste for it). I microwave almost nothing and am a fantastic cook (years of restaurant part-timing in some very fine establishments in my 20s).

And PS. One more thing: Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when their gone.

p.s. Triklops – I’m truly sorry, man, I’ve grown accustomed to chronic back pain for over 35 years due to a missing piece of ‘cushioning’ between 2 vertebra and learned to live with it. Yours is obviously worse – here’s hoping you beat the f~~~er but BAD. 🙂