Outside of wrinkles, what was your rude awakening to getting old?
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| Giant pores all over my face out of nowhere. 1st sign of aging. Nothing to fix it. |
Anonymous
Lol! Maybe my eyebrows have migrated to your chin too. They've just disappeared and turned wispy blonde despite my dark brown hair. Oh, my eyelashes have also disappeared. So those two things and my sudden jowls at 45. |
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My neck got wrinkly all of a sudden.
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| The skin above my knees is wrinkly. |
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Qualifying for senior passes at movie theaters. How did that happen so fast?
- Still getting carded at times when buying alcohol - insane … Hardly ever saw doctors when younger but suddenly I need them for this and that … Grateful for every new day and still feeling pretty good most days … |
Anonymous
| Gray hair came early for me, lots of it. Sagging skin on upper legs (wtf). Blood pressure shot up out of nowhere. Perimenopausal at 43 and needing to consider hormones for rough symptoms. |
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Having to watch what I eat in order to maintain my weight. Not to get smaller, just to maintain the size I've been my entire adult life. It happened all at once at 45 -- just woke up one morning realized I'd gained 8 lbs without trying. And I was eating healthy -- veggies, lean protein, very little snacking or sweets. But I had to cut out most bread and reduce portion sizes. I now eat a small yogurt with fruit and some seeds for lunch most days, or an apple with some nut butter. Green kale smoothies for breakfast. It feels so weird to be "on a diet" just to stay the same size, but I guess I am.
This bothers me more than the gray hairs or losing some firmness in my jaw. I see that stuff but it's gradual and I don't think it looks terrible. But the weight is something else. |
Anonymous
| Dropping something on the floor and then needing to plan a strategy to get down on the floor to pick it up and then get back up. |
Anonymous
When does this happen? I am now 52 and I don’t have this problem yet. It sounds alarming |
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Can relate to so many of you!
Mid 50s, and my eyebrows are just wisps now, have to paint them on every morning Vision - how did sering become so difficult? If lenses are for far away, need readers. If lenses are bi-focal, can't really see near or far. Large print books and audio books are my friends. But packages of anything have directions/ingredients so small, I have to take a picture on my phone and then blow up to read Age spots on my hands Haven't slept through the night in I can't remember how long. 3:30 seems to be my new wake up, which SUCKS, because I am always exhausted See above, which is probably creating the tired eyes: black bags underneath, droopy eyelids on top Hair on top of my head, my previously thick, curly mane is now thin and scraggly, and hair is growing in odd places - side of my chin, and one sucker I'm constantly plucking from my cleavage S@x, which I used to like, I have no interest in now. Just can't be bothered. DH needs the little blue pill, so spontaneity is out of the question The aches and pains. Go to bed fine, wake up with a back/neck/shoulder pain So. Many. Doctors. Each one has to refer you to another specialist for something else. But it takes weeks or months to get in. Pedicures. Used to do my toes myself, but not it's harder to reach them, and I can't see them. So off to the salon I go |
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| Jowls |
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Man here. Hair started leaving my head and growing on my ears, out of nose, eyebrows got longer.
A small personal trimmer is essential these days. |
Anonymous
This. Except my dad. It's like seeing a ghost. |
Anonymous
Ageism is every bit as hateful and harmful as racism. |
Anonymous
Ha. For me it isn't the getting down that is hard. It's the getting up. |