What’s forcing you to come to terms with getting old?

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gogomom@reddit

My husband died. He said he was feeling old last summer and I teased him because we are only in our early 50's and although it takes longer to heal and I can't do much without stretching first, I did not feel old.... turns out he had stage 4 cancer.

Beginning_Key2167@reddit

So sorry for you loss.

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tfoste_r@reddit

So sorry for your loss.

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drrj@reddit

I have an actual medical condition that causes chronic pain. Please talk to your doctor if it is effecting your mental health this badly. I drove myself close to suicidal ideation ignoring the mental effects of chronic pain. You can feel better, mentally at least.

Take care of yourself internet stranger.

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Relative_Ad9477@reddit

Thank you. I'm working on getting the help.

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Just2Breathe@reddit

My mental holdup is what to give up vs what I’m willing to live with. Because I know that an anti-inflammatory diet can reduce pain (and weight, which can add to pain), but that means minimal desserts and avoiding processed foods, and eating healthy, whole foods that help fight inflammation.

Which, I do pretty well at not eating processed food, greasy food, and additives, I think it’s mostly the sweets and needing more veggies. But giving up sweets to not have joint pain and fatigue is kind of depressing to me, even though I’ve seen it work for people! And I’ve done it before, pre-kids. It takes a week by week slow process of changing habits so you stick with it.

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NedsAtomicDB@reddit

My feet have become a major liability. Fallen arches, stiff big toe, bone spurs, ankle that didn't quite heal perfectly after a stable fracture (and is now a little iffy)... walking has been my salvation for losing weight for years, but now I hobble more than walk. :(

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slaptastic-soot@reddit

Sorry. That sucks. 🙁🫂

Especially if my recommendation sounds ludicrous, you might try Birkenstock sandals with the molded footbed. As in just go where they are sold and try them on with socks long enough to stand in them. They slowly influence your gait so you stand and move in ways that properly distribute weight, align your joints, etc.

johntwilker@reddit

3 days?! I've got a cut on my ankle from 2024 that's just... there. Like "Hey. Still here, bro."

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VariationDifferent@reddit

Paper cuts should heal quickly — and for the me I still think I am, they always used to!

Plus, I've been trying to avoid thinking about how long it'd take for a larger cut to heal for me now — when I was young and stupider, I accidentally gashed my shin with an angle grinder when I lost hold of it. Took a fair bit to heal, and I've still got a scar, but I'm sure if something like that happened today, I'd be talking with the doc about how to avoid sepsis, amid several other complications.

justlkin@reddit

I compare myself to the tin man. I have RA, so if I lie down or sit for any length of time, I've got to oil up my joints before I stop walking like a hunchback robot without joints. I'm off to see the Wizard!

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toblies@reddit

I felt this comment in my back.

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ShortySmooth@reddit

One of my favorite pins says:

The fact that my entire body cracks like a glow stick when I move and yet refuses to actually glow is disappointing

I relate to this all too well. The arthritis is just something.

I don’t know that there is much I could do differently to prevent it, but if I had a Time Machine, I would sure try!

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whydya-dodat@reddit

“Grown up” and “groan up” are now interchangeable.

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ObscureReference501@reddit

Lots of nagging pains. None of which is an acute injury, just arthritis and overuse and…

Fingers hurt so work takes longer so stress headache so elevated bo so more sedentary at desk so knees hurt so exercise less so fat piles on so…endless spiral.

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Interesting_Lion3045@reddit

You still have a wicked sense of humor though!

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suhoward@reddit

Best and truest comparison EVER. I resemble this remark

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VisualConfusion5360@reddit

I slept wrong the other night and I couldn’t sleep the next night because my back hurts so bad my lower back pain keeps me up at night now

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aninjacould@reddit

My appearance. I’m 54 but I look 70. I’ve always taken care of myself but I have a collection of features that just don’t age well.

I’m fine with it. I just don’t go out much. Cats and TV are all I need. I’m thinking of moving to a place with lots of seniors so I blend in.

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articulett@reddit

It’s not your responsibility to entertain or look good for others. It

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Beginning_Key2167@reddit

Don’t let that stop you. Go out and enjoy life.

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WimpyZombie@reddit

I can sort of relate to this. I was a lot luckier than most of my friends in that I was almost 50 before my mother passed, and my father is still alive (and *mostly* mentally sharp) at 82.

But there was a period of over 15 years where I didn't see my father at all, so when I finally did - about 3 years ago - I almost didn't recognize this OLD OLD MAN and had to ask myself "What happened to HIM??"

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TangerineTassel@reddit

Me too, sorry we are in the same boat on this.

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spillingstars@reddit

🩶🩶🩶

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wombatIsAngry@reddit

Being the oldest member of the family without dementia. I'm not ready to be the repository for all the memories. Did I listen to enough of the stories? Did I take good enough notes?

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Desertzephyr@reddit

No. Is a complete sentence.

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VeryLowIQIndividual@reddit

No is the most powerful word in the dictionary.

It’s instantly changes who is in charge and how things are going to go moving forward. I learned it way too late in life

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Anatoly_Cannoli@reddit

"Nuh-uh" doesn't seem to work for me. I'm going to try "No."

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sweetthang70@reddit

The more you do it the easier it gets.

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highknees69@reddit

My dad’s favorite shirt when he was in his 50s was “what part of NO didn’t you understand?”

With NO in big letters. I get it now.

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Desertzephyr@reddit

Exactly! I simply don't care, but not in a mean way, just a "what you are saying has value, but to someone else. I am not that person. Have fun!"

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Head-Proof7273@reddit

My "bullshit" people-pleasing meter hit its limit when I almost died from Swine Flu and Viral Pneumonia on April 26th, 2016. I was in a coma and had Ecmo Therapy/Dialysis for 3 weeks. I got out of the hospital on June 7th. Every major organ except the heart and brain were messed up. I have Chronic Kidney Disease and a dead Thyroid and Parathyroid. I take a handful of pills twice a day and I will until I have to go back on Dialysis, then I will have that 3 times a week plus the pills.

I basically consider it a successful day if I don't have to leave my house or interact with anybody.

My tolerance for other people. My patience is so thin now I try to avoid a lot.

This and knowing that if I don’t do some lower back stretches a few days a week, I will stay in pain in my lower back.

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Infinite-Pepper9120@reddit

Seriously! It’s like we woke up one day and our bodies said, you have to stretch now or you’ll be in pain 24/7.

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ladywolf74@reddit

I feel this in the depth of my soul.. I have no patience for people anymore.

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Desertzephyr@reddit

I’ve thought a lot about this, and honestly, I think it’s the accumulation of life experience by the time we hit our 40s that finally peels back the illusion. You realize most of it is a rat race, and that no one actually has it more figured out than anyone else. At least, that’s been true in my case.

My patience is so thin

To quote Hamlet, Act III, Scene III, Line 92:

“No.”

I almost lost it with a Harley rider patch member just being a nuisance on the road.

Arthritis in my knee from all the dancing

That's a good question. I went from having no attention as a child/teen to getting lots when I hit my 20's. I would say I probably developed a bit of vanity/ego. I had a career for awhile as a casino dealer and I loved it. Felt like I got to put on a bit of a show every shift which definitely fed into my vanity. Not strictly from men, from anyone I was "performing" for.

And I'm sorry for anyone that has always felt invisible. My husband is short, and I think he is handsome though he would definitely not be considered conventionally attractive.

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OnPaperImLazy@reddit

It's hard to know, since you only know what you've experienced. I was just average pretty as a young woman so I got an average amount of attention. I imagine that women that were genetically gifted beauties, who went from decades of male fawning and female envy, to an invisible menopausal woman, have an even harder time of it.

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fox1011@reddit

It happened to me recently and I thought "I must not be as cute as I used to be" 🤣🤣

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fox1011@reddit

It happened to me recently and I thought "I must not be as cute as I used to be" 🤣🤣

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eejm@reddit

I had a brief cute phase in my late teens and early 20s, but I’ve been largely invisible to men my whole life. It hurt before, but it’s nice not having to mourn the loss of my looks.

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trashpanda_fan@reddit

It does, thank you!

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Ladymistery@reddit

The answer is - it depends.

if it is ALL removed, it's instantly full menopause and all that comes with it.

if they leave the ovaries, you have a bit of change because the progesterone levels are gone - but other than that, it goes along as it "normally" would.

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trashpanda_fan@reddit

Thank you!

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purplishfluffyclouds@reddit

Thankfully, it's not the same for everyone. I've not found it to be a huge thing at all.

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OHMAMG@reddit

I'm still in peri, but haven't had any bad symptoms either. Until recently with weight gain and bloating. No change to diet and exercise routine, so I guess I have to do more now to sustain my usual weight and shape.

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sweetthang70@reddit

It wasn't a huge thing for me for the first 3-4 years. I was loving not having a period anymore. Then the estrogen loss caught up with me like an anvil dropped on me. Started HRT.

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One_Hour_Poop@reddit

Almost 60 and having very little money saved for retirement. I've lived paycheck to paycheck almost all my life

My deepest sympathies. My older sister still lives like this. She was hospitalized last week after putting it off for months because she couldn't afford to miss work. Now that she missed one week of work, she couldn't afford her rent due June 1st and had to ask me and our aunt to help her pay it.

I don't understand how people live that way, and i really don't understand how she in particular lives that way, considering we grew up in the same household with the same parents. I'm not rich, but I've always saved money, even we were little, and I've advised her for our entire adult lives that she do the same. Now she's almost 60 and with one missed week of work she'd be homeless. I don't get it.

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WimpyZombie@reddit

For me, my experience was very different from my older siblings. I skated through high school with absolutely no effort and actually graduated a year early. Unfortunately, when I got to college, I totally drowned....WTF...you mean I have STUDY??? What's THAT?

I fumbled around at the university for a few years and decided I was just wasting money, so I went to the community college and decided to go to nursing school. I got about halfway through my final semester...and I had an epileptic seizure, which means I also lost my driver's license, so I had to quit my job and had to drop out of school. From that point on, my criteria for any job I applied for was "Is it on the bus route and are the hours strictly Mon-Fri days with no nights, weekends holidays or emergency calls?" (Because that was how the buses in my town ran back in the 90s)

I eventually landed at the State government....which is good job for benefits, but the pay sucks. I was with them for 14 years and I will be gettins a very small pension, but even then I really couldn't bring myself to pull anymore out of my check to put into a 401(k). The math of my rent and other bills just didn't seem to make it possible.

It was 17 years before I got my license back, and I thought about trying to go back to school again, but I just couldn't get myself to do at that point. Yeah...another big mistake.

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LybeausDesconus@reddit

This hits WAY too fucking hard.

I (mis)spent a lot of years, and now I’m paying for it. So retirement? Nope. Best I can hope for at this point is to keep everything as “easy and comfortable” (ie: affordable) as possible.

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Charleston2Seattle@reddit

Muscle mass is also the single biggest predictor of cancer survival, if the YouTube scientists are to be believed. (I learned that just this week)

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CaptainZippi@reddit

That I did not know…

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Charleston2Seattle@reddit

100% to not giving up being active. I switched to yoga a few years back and can't stop now. If I skip it for too long, my body lets me know.

My sister, F50, switched to swimming a few years ago and swears by it.

Wookanash@reddit

I never considered that… and yet I have just downloaded it !

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greymonk@reddit

Reading is the one thing I can still do without glasses. But I most definitely have my computer glasses and regular glasses, or as I call them my indoor and outdoor glasses.

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BearcatPyramid@reddit

I love these armless readers. Almost impossible to damage. And inexpensive enough that I have a pair in almost every jacket and nook and cranny.

No-Brick6817@reddit

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Subject-Drop-5142@reddit

Worrying about not having enough retirement funds.

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Rich-Suspect-9494@reddit

Health problems. I can’t drink or eat fried food because of my pancreas. My sticker doesn’t peck out like it used to because of my blood pressure meds. If I was a horse they take me out back and shoot me.

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Smiffylevel6@reddit

Looking in the mirror false’s me to face the truth! 😭

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magnusx67@reddit

My back

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empericisttilldeath@reddit

No choice?

I hate it.

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intensive-porpoise@reddit

I just get all Danny Glover about anything and everything anymore, includingGetting Old; just don't care.

"I'm getting too old for this shit."

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crazyearthlinghuman@reddit

My eyesight

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Public-Ice-1270@reddit

The mirror

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ReadingAndThinking@reddit

Video games that rely on fast hand eye control get super hard.

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PurpleNurple105@reddit

For me it is the „hundreds“ of buttons on the controller and all of the combinations. I don’t know how my kids do it and I can’t keep up any more.

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

My back hurting basically all the time.

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Even_Bumblebee1296@reddit

Osteoarthritis of the spine

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Tardislass@reddit

All of my extended family aunts and uncles are now dead. It's totally weird to know that except for cousins and my immediate family-everyone that invited me or holidays or vacations is now gone.

I'm 7 days out from having major surgery. I've never been in the best physical shape, but as of a couple of years ago, I started wheezing and struggling to catch my breath going up and down a flight of stairs. I knew something beyond just aging (and piling on the pounds-damn that middle age spread). Turns out, my right diaphragm is paralyzed, I didn't even know that was a thing.

I feel every one of my 50 years of life, plus an extra 15-20 for good measure. I took my two teenagers and a couple of their friends out to lunch, and we hit a couple of stores afterward, I thought I was going to collapse! I hope this surgery allows me to keep pace with my kids again. I'll never have the same lung capacity I had before my diaphragm got paralyzed, but it should improve by 80%, I'll take it!

Exhausted_but_upbeat@reddit

Yeah I feel this too. Maybe a lot shorter.

Average life expectancy in my country is in 25 years for me. What? 25 years ago I was in my early 30s, and I remember many of those days well. Doesn't seem that long ago.

The road ahead, at least for me, is a lot shorter than the one behind.

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Ok_Life_5176@reddit

Does that thought just pop up from time to time, or is it a constant in your head? Has it changed the way you view things or live?

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Exhausted_but_upbeat@reddit

Just pops up when I come across something that I well remember, but then realize it was 40+ years ago.

Eh, Jeopardy started to suck in the 90s. It became more of a pop culture quiz.

Historical-Gap-7084@reddit

My skin. It's got age spots and getting crepey.

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listen to some of our current politicians… if you don’t understand it you aren’t paying attention

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One_Hour_Poop@reddit

Oh. I thought you meant in your personal life, like friends and coworkers.

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daisiesarepretty2@reddit

well there are certainly coworkers and acquaintances who repeat silly stuff they hear from politicians

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daddyBobCT@reddit

Taking a statin.

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DDean95@reddit

The mental toll of adulting. The weariness and heaviness of life in general. When you’re young you don’t realize how much one traumatic event can suck the life out of you and from then on, you might be content or happy even, but you know another loss will come your way eventually.

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notsuntour@reddit

Do you resist this label because you have a full time job

And the funniest part is they think they're in a place to talk shit at me, someone just starting my 40's trying to level up my life !

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Anxiouslycalm10@reddit

Theres nothing i can do about it

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Grimnir001@reddit

Getting old is forcing me to come to terms with getting old.

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Few-Pineapple-5632@reddit

My teeth. All of the fillings I had as a kid are now falling out. Turns out that once a tooth has been drilled into, micro fractures will eventually expand and become decayed, leading to a crown, implants or dentures.

Picked up some arnica and some emu oil. Will test.

foolonthehill48@reddit

Age

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StormWilling5279@reddit

Being told this weekend that I need both of my knees replaced. I'm 57!!! I can't even begin to explain how that's making me feel.

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SillyWithTheHEMI@reddit

Losing people around me.

New music not making sense to me whilst I complain how my music in the 80's and 0's was far superior.

Video games are becoming so visually impressive that I forgot what the hell I'm even doing as my mind stops to admire the graphics on my screen. 2nd part to this, my hands are no longer as fast a they use to be in Street Fighter...

I complain to my kids when they slam my car door.

I now have to hold my phone nearly three feet away to read shit.

The pain. I have chronic sciatica. It’s literally stops me in my tracks. Went to the ER for it yesterday. That and depression from living in chronic pain.

NevDot17@reddit

I cannot lose the damned weight. I'm reluctant to try ozempic or whatever though....

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Beatrix_Kitto@reddit

I make references or use one liners that my coworkers don’t get. The other day, my client arrived for their appointment and I said, ‘welp, time to make the donuts’ and my 30 something coworker popped her head out the door and asked someone to save her a donut…sigh…

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ComplexAd7820@reddit

I supervise student assistants at a university. One day, we were about to start a physical task. I told one of them that I hoped he ate his Wheaties....then I paused and asked, have you ever heard of Wheaties? Of course he had no clue what I was talking about.

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NevDot17@reddit

Wait ... Wheaties don't exist any more?

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Usual-Revolution4543@reddit

Traffic Teeth Technology

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adamk77@reddit

People around me getting sick and dying

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ExternalOk4293@reddit

I was tasked with doing an icebreaker for work. Since I hate that shit and I may or may not have spent years of my life following the Grateful Dead around the country I asked people to pick

What Muppet do you most identify with?

Or

Your favorite Darkstar?

Half of these knuckle draggers didn’t know what the muppets were!!!

I am no longer aloud to do the ice breaker anymore. So all in all a good experience

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RightHandWolf@reddit

The really fun part is how all of those old injuries like to re manifest on occasion and pay you a little visit.

I can’t read small text anymore

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bughunter_@reddit

All my favorite news sites open up at 150%.

Seeing a sign at a local restaurant that their "seniors discount" was starting at 55 yrs old. I will hit that next year.

I'm a Boomer, so I'm ancient. I was still trying to hold off "old age" after 5 back surgeries and a knee replacement. Fighting the good fight! Buck up Hearing aids. Hearing aids did me in. I concede, it sucks.

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Consistent-Earth3327@reddit

I'm a Boomer, so I'm ancient. I was still trying to hold off "old age" after 5 back surgeries and a knee replacement. Fighting the good fight! Buck up Hearing aids. Hearing aids did me in. I concede, it sucks.

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Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

Stiff back and not being able to trust a fart

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Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

Stiff back and not being able to trust a fart

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The calendar. The numbers just keep going up

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yourmommasfriend@reddit

No force necessary...I saw it coming...I felt it arrive...i live with it...because it's necessary...if we didn't get old, we'd never want to go...nothing lasts it withers and dies

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dezertryder@reddit

Fighting weight gain.

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One_Hour_Poop@reddit

Seeing people on TV who are fifty, and realizing "Wow, fifty years old is young to me."

Youngest GenX here (‘80)…small print started getting blurry up close almost two years ago. I’m still annoyed.

Currently laying in bed with left leg elevated, icing left knee after a very active long weekend

The mind is still in my 20s, my body says otherwise.

But my wife and I still like to do fun things that keeps us feeling young.

See... I have always wondered. Is that true? How do we know? Did someone come back and say it is worse?

smakdye@reddit

Shiiiiiit I'll never grow old, I'm just going to fade away one day a child in an old decrepit body.

One thing I have learned is like everyone was saying. No is one of my favorite words. If I don't wanna, I ain't gonna. I'm not giving a reason. The reason is no.

I've never been good at having a filter since I was a kid so I say what is in my mind. But I did learn the power of no. Before id just complain that I didn't want to. Now I just don't do that thing I didn't want to.

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CryEnvironmental9728@reddit

In order to complete my main-character arc, I now have to hit the gym 5x harder than anyone in their teens or 20s, but its W/E....

im out here, puttin in dirt, shinin, addin on. Dropped 100lbs...making Zs and Alphas regret talkin shit and all that.

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ljam16@reddit

My body, oh the aches and pains.

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SubstantialPressure3@reddit

The amount of work it takes to make sure that I'm in good enough physical shape to play with and keep up with grandkids is ridiculous. Otherwise I'll be screwed when they are preteens and teens.

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juice-box@reddit

Gray hair

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ArtisticDegree3915@reddit

My spine is fused from bone spurs. The back portion doesn't necessarily bother me. But my neck does. It doesn't hurt. I just can't look side to side or look up. I can't look down either. I can't look down at something on my leg for instance.

And I refuse to get reading glasses. That's becoming an issue. But I just refuse to do it. I'm not ready. I haven't done anything. I haven't accomplished anything. I'm not ready to get old. I know it's coming whether I'm ready or not. But, anyway.

I'm starting to see the crypto is just a narrative.......

Braindead investment for braindead money. Just gotta hold it.

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acreekofsoap@reddit

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The point of being alive is to live a long time. Everything hurts. I move slower. But I’m still alive and aging. Not gracefully but I want to be around to be a grandparent and maybe a great grandparent even. Get to see my Kids married and become parents. Retirement. That’s what I’m looking forward to now. Wish I had better health and more energy but that’s just how it is

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One-Pepper-2654@reddit

Male Born in 1965. Turning 60 in July

I could talk about all the physical stuff but it's really the sense that life is going so freaking fast now, but it's also very boring and predictable. No sense of possibility or excitement, the feeling that something "new" could happen. I feel like I've done it all: marriage, raising kids, travel, career almost over. Physical and sexual prime over. Friendships over. No work friends, I'm the old guy.

My parents are 82 and 83 My social life is now seeing them every couple of weekends and hearing about how poor they are and all their ailments. I have to scream at them because they are both deaf.

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beetmeaf@reddit

My body can't do what it used to.

Having to exercise my mouth. I snore and there are exercises for it. I have a mental block about doing the exercises because I have an irrational rage that I can’t even count on my mouth to just continue working like normal. Rage. Like, can’t I have one functional piece of my body that is set it and forget it? I’m 55 going on 85, and I do mobility exercises and walk a lot.

When I retire, I expect I’ll be exercising 3 hours a day just to stay human. I can’t see any other way. Forget getting stronger and healthier.

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rangerm2@reddit

Depends on what you mean. If you mean do I "feel old", then in my mind, no. I'm not old.

If you mean, I get frustrated that my body has (at times) failed to heal/recover as quickly as it did 20 years ago, then I've long accepted it.

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IndividualPlastic753@reddit

I reserve the right to complain about things that suck.

Of course it’s better than the alternative. But my mom is getting dementia, I also have to care for my 22yr old son with profound, non-verbal autism for life. I’m 51 and starting to lose my looks. Peri/Menopause has been kicking my fucking ass for 5 yrs. (Hormone pellets though—OMG life saver!).

I just took early retirement so that helps but Jesus facing your own mortality sucks. I spent 4 adult decades planning and looking forward to the future only to find that totally uncomfortable now.

But yes—I’m lucky that I am upper middle class and have money to buy shit and go on vacation. People are starving all over the world.

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kitcathar@reddit

My joints remind me daily

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Current-Anybody9331@reddit

I have 0 idea who most celebrities are.

I don't get the appeal of kids watching other kids open and play with toys on YouTube.

I'm angry I have so many streaming services and subscriptions.

I have limited to no tolerance for other people around me.

I don't leave my house after about 6pm and whether I go is largely due to the parking and crowd scenario.

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Few_Newspaper_3655@reddit

The only thing that is forcing me to come to grips with older age is dealing with a chronic disease that’s incurable…despite having a very healthy lifestyle for my entire adult life.

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One_Hour_Poop@reddit

Maybe it's time to say "Fuck it" and live an unhealthy lifestyle?

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Actual_Contract8644@reddit

my grand kids. lol its too exhausting to try and keep up to them lol 😂 Its probably why they get away with so much lol

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LeatherDude@reddit

My mind starting to slow down. I work in tech, I turned 50 this year, and I just don't feel as brilliant as I used to. Even like a year or two ago, but definitely not like my 30s.

Learning new things and doing complex things just feels hard now.

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Alternative-Letter36@reddit

Menopause is fucking killing me!! I had no idea the toll it would take on my mind. Words just fall out of my head. My recall has become total crap. Can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. Or if I even had breakfast. It’s really awful. Makes you think you’re going crazy. I started menopause pretty early too so none of my friends can relate yet. I absolutely loathe the medical research industry for knowing so damn much about erectile disfunction but they don’t actually know shit about menopause. It’s such bull shit.

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TheDudeofNandos@reddit

I can't relate but I can at least indirectly empathize after observing my Mom and her sisters go through it too: it looks like endless bullshit all around 😞

What you said about the medical research industry reminded me of this favourite quote from Cordelia Chase:

Legs hurting when I stand up just because I had the audacity to sit down.

A year later it spiked again to 7xx so they put me on Dexcom the continuous monitor and while most of the time my glucose is normal, maybe 3 times a month I need insulin (it goes by a sliding scale depending on bg) but never needed more than 3 units. The pens are only good for 28 days so I’m throwing away nearly full pens every month. I really hate doing that when I know there are some who can’t afford it.

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anitas8744@reddit

What does that mean? Did Jeopardy say you were too old to tryout?

Old injuries resurfacing... Several pulled muscles.

A couple serious health challenges. 3 surgeries in 5 years.

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ANTICONSPIRATORIAL@reddit

Sciatic nerve killing me, needing readers to see fine print, gray hair and/or the lack thereof

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crazed_guru@reddit

Just even considering reading the fine print.

Last August I started to have pain in my hip. By the time I got it checked out in January, all the cartilage had disappeared and I'm scheduled for hip replacement in July.

NeedleworkerLow1100@reddit

58 here: Menopause ...

And my field of fucks is completely fallow.

Hyphen99@reddit

Looking for a new job while over the age of 50 is fucking brutal.

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RealWolfmeis@reddit

Arthritis, fatigue. Everybody my age looking fucking auld.

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Pleasant_Expert_1990@reddit

Blood clots in my lungs. Surgically removed. Twice. Starting the first of my "for the rest of your life" medications.

I can at least take small comfort knowing my natural death will likely be caused a stroke and to watch out for that.

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NecroK1ng@reddit

I'm not coming to terms with it. Lol

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8rustystaples@reddit

Bad knees and too many of my friends dying.

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SupportLiving5038@reddit

Not feeling like one of the group among younger colleagues which is fine, but defiantly a new feeling. Still have “older” colleagues whom i cherish a lot. But now I’m one of the old who is out the loop when the younger generation talks internally.

I could not agree more. I swear I can drive by a burger place and gain 5 pounds.

By the time you're in your late 50s, early 60s you realize you can't box with reality, you can bob and weave around it but there's no avoiding it.

Most of feel like we're 30-40 years old inside but our knees, backs, wrinkles and gray hair tell us otherwise.

Hardjaw@reddit

I never had an issue with getting old. The benefit of knowing that we are not immortal should have given us the wisdom to deal with this. To me, it's another year.

I suppose the one thing I had to come to terms with was how dumb the younger generations are. Dumb and passionate, bad combo.

But we have what... 20 or so years left? Then, no more worries.

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Sonny_1313@reddit

Having kids in their 20s. My father passing away last year. My knees hurting when I walk from arthritis. Seeing my best friend since elementary school have three heart attacks.

Can't escape it anymore.

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Seymour---Butz@reddit

The bags under my eyes

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Gridsmack@reddit

I skinned my knee chasing a dog. It took like 6 months to heal. I felt like Wolverine when he’s so fucked up his mutant healing can’t even heal simple things like smoking anymore.

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Meep42@reddit

The reality of my face in the mirror, maybe? Flossing the teeth of the older person in front of me is weird, as, in my head I still don’t look like that.

wait, what...why is there an age limit for Jeopardy?!

You might be able to fix it with YouTube. Chiropractors do this but physical therapist don’t seem to be taught much.- I was lucky and a physical therapist taught me how to do these: Trigger point release in the forearm muscles. Another term is myofacial release. Another term is active release. Just leaving it alone, tendinitis never really heals completely. A lot of elbow problems are actually tight tendons going to it.

Gamers, guitarist, and motocross racers get this also . Even if they’re young sometimes. And the above is what they use to help it along with a wrist or forarm wrap.

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thtgrljme@reddit

I'll definitely look into this. The PT I see does a lot of other things besides exercise. We've done cupping, I think myofacial release too. I've been really impressed with her, and it has helped, I'm definitely not as stiff or in as much pain as before starting it, it just feels like it's never going to be 100% pain free ever again.

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MooseBlazer@reddit

There is also muscle scraping. The western term for ancient Chinese therapy that I can’t pronounce. Google muscle scraping tool.

For me it's the gym and working out.

I lost most of my strength in my 40's and the 50's mean needing 3 days to recover from a workout that used to take 1 day to recover from.

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Positive_Chip6198@reddit

Shit just aint as groovy no-more.

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trillium13@reddit

Looking at myself in the mirror. I know that sounds shallow as hell, and there are other things too that contribute, but it does make me feel officially old.

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Connect_Put_1649@reddit

When I watch movie, I can’t help but ponder if this will be the last time I ever watch this movie. Or better yet, when I’m trying to choose a movie to watch and I skip over the movie, I’d say to myself “welp, guess I’m never watching this movie.”

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chodan9@reddit

I’m smarter than over ever been just not as fast with my smarts.

ChicUnicorn@reddit

My back!!!!! Jesus help me! Hahaha

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BununuTYL@reddit

I (1965) enjoy being this old because I really don't give a fuck about things that don't matter. And after decades of being a people pleaser, it's so freeing to just say what I want to say, unfiltered.

Random health issues: Colon polyps. Hernia surgeries. Nerve compressions/pain. Can’t eat or drink anything I want. Arthritis in various places.

caf4676@reddit

My dad dying. It feels like yesterday he was playing basketball with us or taking us to Darien Lake, on his only day off from work.

That and my gray hairs.

SayinItAsISeeIt@reddit

I'm in complete denial and not accepting it.

I'm in the best shape I've ever been in, single, financially stable, and look young for my age.

I still like a lot of the same things I did in my youth. Dancing, cycling, skateboarding and socializing.

60 is supposed to be an aging threshold. i hope i last near my current level until then (55)

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