After 40 do you start falling apart

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T_Bone_TL said:
...When considering your approach to 3&4, remember that cancer and heart disease are either waiting in the wings or already sneaking up on you.

Also, you will soon have more use for a nose and ear hair trimmer than you can even begin to imagine.
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I workout and try to eat right but I do indulge more than I should. However, my fiance is a nurse at a hospital and worked oncology for many years. Based on what she has seen and dealt with, she told me if she gets cancer not going to bother with chemo or any of that. Just go with it. I am probably going to follow her advice for I never got this whole oh I am too young to die. When it's my time then it's my time. Simple as that.

As for the nose hairs: way ahead of you. I have one in the bathroom, my car, and my office desk at work.
 
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I'm forty-two-and-a-half. Before I got to, say, thirty-nine I never put on weight (aside from normal growth-related weight). Now I do. My skin is less elastic than it used to be. I never had an anxiety attack until last year. I used to be able to get out of bed without stretching. Now if I do that my lower back will hurt (it will sometimes hurt anyway). I sprained my back a couple of years ago for the first time (doing a routine downhill ski turn on an easy run). I went from being forty to being ninety in a split second. I was in bed for several days and needed help getting to the bathroom. Fun! Then I used a cane for the first time (more fun!). My muscles ache more now than they ever did before, and my joints crack in ways they didn't before. I've made a point of getting more exercise but I need to be more rigorous about it. It's too easy to just stay inside.
 
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Yep. Exactly at 40, all kinds of crap started happening. Blood pressure. Cholesterol. Losing my hair. Eyes going bad. Loss of strength. I think I even lost an inch in height. And other stuff like bad memory. Had surgery in 2016 for a torn ligament that happened with me thinking I was still 25! I'm also becoming less tolerant to BS and I look forward to retiring even though I won't have a penny to live on.
 
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at 40, i developed lactose intolerance and an allergy to wheat. from there on, it's been pretty downhill - bursitis, tendonitis, torn muscles, frozen shoulder, tooth issues, diabetes, high blood pressure. i've developed allergies or sensitivities to a variety of things including my favorite perfume, several antibiotics, an anti anxiety medication i took a few times that gave me a HUGE panic attack and a painfully itchy rash with it.

and those are on my good days :D

that's not even all of it. before 40, i could eat what i pleased, move without pain or issues, had no diabetes or high blood pressure or tendonitis or anything else. everything worked.

still, turning 60 last year was much better than the alternative!
 
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pcake said:
at 40, i developed lactose intolerance and an allergy to wheat. from there on, it's been pretty downhill - bursitis, tendonitis, torn muscles, frozen shoulder, tooth issues, diabetes, high blood pressure. i've developed allergies or sensitivities to a variety of things including my favorite perfume, several antibiotics, an anti anxiety medication i took a few times that gave me a HUGE panic attack and a painfully itchy rash with it.

and those are on my good days :D

that's not even all of it. before 40, i could eat what i pleased, move without pain or issues, had no diabetes or high blood pressure or tendonitis or anything else. everything worked.

still, turning 60 last year was much better than the alternative!
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"Every day above ground is a good day" - unless you're a spelunker, I suppose. ;)
 
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pcake said:
at 40, i developed lactose intolerance and an allergy to wheat. from there on, it's been pretty downhill - bursitis, tendonitis, torn muscles, frozen shoulder, tooth issues, diabetes, high blood pressure. i've developed allergies or sensitivities to a variety of things including my favorite perfume, several antibiotics, an anti anxiety medication i took a few times that gave me a HUGE panic attack and a painfully itchy rash with it.

and those are on my good days :D

that's not even all of it. before 40, i could eat what i pleased, move without pain or issues, had no diabetes or high blood pressure or tendonitis or anything else. everything worked.

still, turning 60 last year was much better than the alternative!
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I get to retire this year, being old has some advantages. :hyper:
 
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bholder said:
"Every day above ground is a good day" - unless you're a spelunker, I suppose. ;)
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Well, if you get tired of living, just take up cave diving.

(I am a confirmed open water diver; stuff I thought was "neat" when reading about it or watching the Cousteau divers on TV became a lot less fun when I started diving myself. With all due respect to any cave/wreck penetration divers still among the living, I think they are a crazy bunch of nuts...)
 
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T_Bone_TL said:
Well, if you get tired of living, just take up cave diving.

(I am a confirmed open water diver; stuff I thought was "neat" when reading about it or watching the Cousteau divers on TV became a lot less fun when I started diving myself. With all due respect to any cave/wreck penetration divers still among the living, I think they are a crazy bunch of nuts...)
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yeah, under both ground and water at once is extra crazy scary (to me)...
 
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fingerguy said:
Based on what she has seen and dealt with, she told me if she gets cancer not going to bother with chemo or any of that. Just go with it. I am probably going to follow her advice for I never got this whole oh I am too young to die. When it's my time then it's my time. Simple as that.
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Suit yourself. I got mine chopped out, since all the reports we've had from folks that got beyond the stage were you could still do that appear to indicate that it's a really miserable [insert expletives] way to die...and my odds past 62-67 looked miserable, based on my research.
 
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T_Bone_TL said:
Well, if you get tired of living, just take up cave diving.

(I am a confirmed open water diver; stuff I thought was "neat" when reading about it or watching the Cousteau divers on TV became a lot less fun when I started diving myself. With all due respect to any cave/wreck penetration divers still among the living, I think they are a crazy bunch of nuts...)
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Got to swim with the sharks in Belize at the age of 65. Snorkeling with huge nurse sharks, it was great!
 
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You should try the (wicked touristy, but worth putting up with despite) Manta ray night dive (or snorkel, if you don't dive) off Hawaii (big island.) Snorkelers up top, divers on the bottom, lots of dive lights to attract little critters, lots of manta rays to eat the little critters. They are remarkably precise (I had one in my hair, but it didn't hit my head, and we are not talking a small critter.)
 
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fingerguy said:
I workout and try to eat right but I do indulge more than I should. However, my fiance is a nurse at a hospital and worked oncology for many years. Based on what she has seen and dealt with, she told me if she gets cancer not going to bother with chemo or any of that. Just go with it. I am probably going to follow her advice for I never got this whole oh I am too young to die. When it's my time then it's my time. Simple as that.

As for the nose hairs: way ahead of you. I have one in the bathroom, my car, and my office desk at work.
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Personal choice for sure, and I respect that, but, if you love someone, ANYONE, more than yourself you'll go through what-ever it takes. Trust me. There are worse things than fighting to stay alive for your children. The only caveat would be age. I'm in my early 50's. I'm not going out without a fight.
 
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I'm also 44.

  • My hair started receding beginning from my 30's. Disappearing from my forehead, and gradually moving back.
  • Eyes are getting worse, but I have chosen to place most of that blame on using my iPhone too much.
  • For some reason, I developed an allergy to Kiwi fruit and chocolates with walnuts. No problems before.
  • Only lately, if my arms/hands/wrists are elevated, they start to feel numb until I lower them again.
  • I got OP's number 7 too. I'll walk in a room and start asking myself why I went there. I think we're still safe that we realize we forgot something. The real danger will be when we stop questioning our reason to walk into the room.
 
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As has been mentioned previously, you're a a few years ahead of schedule. I'm 56, and in the past 7-8 years, it seems like the escalator of life has derailed at an alarming rate.

I'm still relatively healthy, but in that time frame I've developed diabetes, my vision and hearing have both fallen off noticeably, can't lift heavy weights anymore (heck, I have a hard time lifting not-so-heavy weights anymore!), energy levels declined, and the clincher was having to get an full upper denture last year. And anytime I get an injury or minor cut, it takes weeks instead of days for it to heal. That is probably the hardest thing to deal with...waiting a week or two for a shoulder or back to heal, only to tweak it again. Endless cycle. And although I work out regularly, I can't lose a pound no matter how hard I try. I'm trying to fight this aging thing as much as I can, but I have a feeling I'll never win!

But at least I'm still breathing! :hyper:
 
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