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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 55.

I will assure you that getting older is not for the faint of heart.  I had two crowns placed last week, and the thing they give you to bite to keep your mouth open while they were working on them caused a crack in another causing the need for another crown. Your body literally starts falling apart, even if you have always been very healthy and took great care of yourself. Don’t even get me started on menopause and hellish hot flashes or how our culture hates people over 45…[/quote]

I’m 55, too, and have my physical challenges.  But I also feel a lot of positives.  I’m done with the side effects of menopause and feel more even keeled than ever before. Lots of good physical things—I actually have an easier time controlling my weight.  I sweat less.  My hair doesn’t get oily.  Women complain about being “invisible” when they get older but I love it.  I’m not drop dead beautiful but I am a curvy blonde and between the ages of about 12 and 45 often felt leered at or talked down to by men.  Now I walk through the world unnoticed.  It’s great.  I’m not retired yet but am so excited about it!  I’m waiting until the last kid is through college to move from my big, PITA house to a condo somewhere warm.  So, I totally get where OP is coming from.  [/quote]

If you are living a healthy lifestyle all along it’s not as if turning 55 or 60 is like some turning point for your heath. I know 70 year olds in better shape than some 50 year olds simply because of lifestyle choices. Most very unhealthy people I know are that way because they don’t go for checkups, eat terribly and don’t move their bodies. That stuff can go unnoticed until your 40s much of the time but after that it seems to be a pretty rapid downward spiral for those folks.

I agree with you that I think the whole “going through life like I am invisible” thing is a weird thing some harp on and I simply don’t get it. I think that is only a problem for women who have built their whole self worth on how others see them. [/quote]

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