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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder this too. I don’t know what my grandmothers were like in their 50s.

Surely they pushed through menopause. Women of that generation were stoic and they didn’t discuss their misery. I don’t think allergies were as bad then. Anxiety was pretty common for some. That was the generation who took Benzos.

[b]However women did not eat heavy back then. Canned peaches, whipped cream, small amounts meat and potatoes, small egg salad or tuna sandwiches on white bread, that sort of thing.

They would never eat pizza or anything to cause heartburn.[/b] [/quote]

What a dumb and unrealistic generalization.

My grandmother took Paregoric regularly for stomach issues which is essentially opium. But yes, I think there was a lot more discomfort in earlier generations. I also know a lot of older people who are overly stoic about pain and refuse to take advil or tylenol for everyday aches and pains for some reason. [/quote]

James Joyce and Rudyard Kipling both died of a perforated ulcers.  I'm sure we could dig up other historical examples.[/quote]

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