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?!

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

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!

Right on N2golf!!

I totally agree http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Renee~ I'm glad I'm not alone http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/dance.gif

http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/wave.gifHiyall! 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 http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/t_down.gif . 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! http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/bigcry.gif

Romi~

You took a downward spiral and fast. I'm glad my realization was gradual. Many doctor vists and no answers sums it up!! The merry-go-round of aging, you hold on and hold on til you fall off and the doctor gives you a freakin' bandaid and sends you on your way.

On headline news last night, they talked about this man that won the award for the world's longest ear hair. My gosh that is disgusting. I don't want to buy a nose and ear hair trimmer. http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/eek.gif

BTW~I wish I could win an "extreme makeover" those people look fabulous http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Renee

Renee http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/clown.gif 20th May saw my maternal grandmother turn NINETY http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/birthday.gif. She is a phenomenal woman. Does not wear specs, not on any meds, doesn't know what HRT means, only time in hospital was to give birth to her three children. Her life has not been easy - her husband (my grandfather, I presume, I never knew him) deserted her and three little children (one still in arms), her youngest son was killed in a motorbike accident when he was 17, shortly thereafter she lost her father and her mother within a week of each other. She worked hard all her life, never had much materially and yet she has always flourished internally/spiritually (not a church-goer either, nor religious, but lives a life that exudes only kindness, gentleness and love in the face of any kind of adversity). She is always smiling, always FINE and even on the most blustery, cold and dreary morning, will wake up and say "what a beautiful day!". She is an amazing lady (... but I definitely have not been fortunate enough to have inherited any of her genes). http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/dance.gif .... well, maybe I've got her sense of humour. Romi. http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/wave.gif

Romi~

What a WONDERFUL grandma you have!! She's been through so much but her attitude is a shining beam of light. She must be an angel in disguise.

Imagine what the world would be like if everyone had her "gusto". My grandma is quite similar. She is 87, but sadly she has alzheimer's. I don't know why such a wonderful person can be strikken with such a mean disease that robs you of your whole being. http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/frown.gif

The best times of my childhood were spent at her house.
No pool, no amusement parks, no showering of expensive gifts..just pure unconditional love, and midnight making of pizza http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/biggrin.gif In the morning we'd have tea parties and homeade cookies. That was soooo fun!!! Grandpap is a great man too,(92 years young) just a little more stern, not mean. He was the kind of guy that got us kids up early to do excerises with him, being he was an army drill sargeant in his early days.

My grandma is like yours..always finding the "good in everything and everybody"

GOOD GRACIOUS!!! We're both blessed with our wonderful grannies. I wish we took after them also. When these two exceptional human beings leave this world it will be very sad.. but their gentleness,kindness, and a wonderful outlook on the world will forever be imprinted in our minds.

I loved your story Romi...it made my day http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/smile.gif

BTW~ you did get her sense of humor http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/round.gif and never forget where it came from!!

Renee http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/smile.gif

I know the feeling. 39 and counting. I started back at the gym in Jan and am in pretty good shape. I am engaged and have a good job but I feel the same way. Tired and depressed all the time. I am becoming obsessed with my looks now too. My skin seems so dry and wrinkled. Probably isn't as bad as I think but.........and my hands look like grandma hands. Doesn't help that my fiance is 6 years younger.

Not really. Not to worry till you're 70. Life really does begin at 40. You suddenly understand a lot of your unanswered questions and feel you've arrived.

I had menopause at 44, no problem though. It's nothing. Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes at 51, had high b.p. for about 40 yrs, now too low, at age 67, maybe dehydration because I got in the habit of not using salt, and don't crave it, and get busy and forget to drink water. I hope that's all it is. Not Addison's or heart failure.

Enjoy your new status.

try 62 and over i wish i was 40 again

Congradulations James http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/dance.gif

You made it this far..I hope you make it many more.

renee

I didn't mind turning 40, still felt good
and thought I looked pretty good too.
Still haven't had too many health problems;
I do have a neuroma on my right foot (someone
else mentioned that) but if I wear wide
shoes it is no problem. Menopause came
at 46, I was depressed and weepy, couldn't
sleep, but my HRT's took care of that.

What I hate (49 now) is that I am starting
to look older, didn't realize I was so vain.
I don't mind being 50, I just want to look
like I used to. When I see recent pictures
of me, they don't look at all like the mental
picture I have of me. I wish to age
gracefully and have in many ways, I do wish
I had taken better care of my skin and
stayed out of the sun, when I was young
you lathered up in baby oil and iodine
and fryed. Too late now, I guess we all
have to live with what we did.

There is an old saying "Use it or lose it"
this is true, if we don't stay active we
will not have as much energy. If we don't
keep our mind active it will atrophy also.

Finding these boards has helped keep my
mind active - read them everyday.