Does anyone feel the aging process at 40? - Aging Issues Message Board

N2golf · 05-20-2003, 07:59 AM

I'm just curious if anyone feel the aging process at age 40 and what do you feel? Sometimes it's hard to determine if it's just an age thing or that something may be really wrong. How do you know?!

reneeintx · 05-20-2003, 09:59 AM

N2golf~

I'm 39 and understand completely. I've been going to doctors alot more these days. I'm now hyperthyroid, I have neuropathy in my feet. My back aches, and I have a benign neurological condition that I have to deal with.

What am I going to feel like when I'm 60... if I make it that far???

Renee

N2golf · 05-20-2003, 10:33 AM

Renee,

Do you have a pineal cyst? I have that. I also have a neuroma in my left foot. Wow! Maybe this all comes with age. I HATE going to Dr's. They really don't care, they just want to reap the financial benefits! They want to tell you something so that you will "need" to keep coming back. It's just amazing! Maybe, we will haer from others our age who are going through the same thing. At least we are not alone!

reneeintx · 05-20-2003, 03:48 PM

Right on N2golf!!

I totally agree

Renee~ I'm glad I'm not alone

Romi Wallis · 05-21-2003, 04:07 AM

Hiyall! I was 18 until I turned 40. Funny ain't it? Age issues never bothered me. Getting older didn't enter my mind. I was 18. I felt 18. I acted 18. I think I even looked 18. Then I turned 40 and suddenly I realised (and this had nothing to do with the magical number at all, since I take no heed of birthdays!) that I feel a hundred

. I kinda went from sixty to zero overnight. Full of worries, aches and pains, regrets, fatigued. How on earth will I be as I get older. I am now 46 and feel like hell. Many doctor visits, few answers. Can't watch late-night moves anymore. Have to be in bed and asleep by a certain time otherwise I feel like hell the next day. Oh dear! this is awful - but I am relieved to know I am not alone. I sometimes think it would have been better if I aged graduallly and with awareness that I was aging. This 18 year old feeling deserting me so suddenly has left me in shock!