I am very much no longer young

[StealthPolarBear]

I am turning forty this year and am having a mild and amusing mid life crisis.
Lots if little things, but the latest is that I've just tried to brush away a stubborn eye brow hair that was lodged just under my eye... It was a wrinkle.
I have also developed joint pain, in my thumb of all places.
Please tell me this is as bad as it gets :o

Turmeric milk is currently a ‘thing’ - see also Turmeric Lattes. Having tasted it, the best thing I can say is it’s a pretty colour. Basically it’s hot milk (often soy or almond) with Turmeric added to it. Personally I like my Turmeric in a nice curry....

62 and happy as Larry. Retired, post menopausal so no damn periods and feeling great on HRT. On a constant diet to keep the weight down and walk five miles a day at least. Read a lot, cook and bake, garden, maintain the house and iron for England.

Downsides are the usuals:- face hair, arthritic twinges, not enough money for a Rolls Royce retirement, incipient jowls, greyish hair and so on.

Ageing sucks. I 45. The hair is fighting back - i’ve got nipple hairs, mole hairs, weird corse eyebrow hairs. I wake up looking like Lily Savage. My periods have stopped, but I still get acne - which sits nicely alongside my lines.

I am trying to be a comfortable in my own skin goddess - but it keeps getting worse and I eat too much chocolate

Have you started to wear beige yet?
A sure sign of old age. Just visit the Cotswolds if you need proof. All these OAPs dressed in beige. Against the Cotswold stone you sometimes have to wait until the OAPs move to see them!

@Gbtch

Against the Cotswold stone you sometimes have to wait until the OAPs move to see them!

That really made me laugh, incognito Ninja OAP's

Mid 50s and honestly don’t have any grumbles. Other than deathnof both parents over last two years have knocked me sideways and I know I look tired (not sleeping and grief as my ma died recently and it has hit me hard) but that will change I am sure.
Love lots of things about being this age !!

Sorry heron :(
I'm a bit spooked now. I start jokey threads about mid life crises. On Facebook a little while ago I was getting ads for meeting hot men in my area. Just now i got a divorce lawyer advert.

There's a documentary on bbc4 about oak trees. I thought it looked interesting. 😱 I'm 45.

Oh stealth sorry. Honestly once this grief thing is a bit easier to deal with I love being my age.

Oak trees - how could I have missed that . . . ?!

Don't you find the grief becomes normal when you get to a certain age though.

Think that might be right. Not just grief but also humbling thoughts about life and how short it is and the fact that my own parents went through the same. Plus losing friends etc Quite mind blowing really. Thought provoking.

I realised I was getting older when I went to watch a game of cricket, and I could remember the grandfather of one of the players.

I’m 65. I wear what the f**k I like 🤣🤣🤣

Ideasofmarch - 52 here. oh my god. Have just counted the cardigans....13. Several.in the same colour. #ancientgranny

I don't think grief ever becomes normal

My mum who was in her mid 80s had around 20 of the same fleece in different colours. We knew she liked them but good god ! - it gave siblings and me a chance to laugh - a lot - as we found more. Careful everyone !

What a great thread! I have all the stuff described on here and more. I think the worst thing about aging is seeing my family getting old. I am one of the youngest in a very big family and I can see my older siblings health deteriorating before my eyes. This thread has given me a much needed laugh, so cheers for that op.

26 here and had the m&s specials for at least 4 years, purchased by my gran as she buys me some when getting her own. Multiple cardigans. No greys or wrinkles ... yet

Lots if little things, but the latest is that I've just tried to brush away a stubborn eye brow hair that was lodged just under my eye... It was a wrinkle.
YES. I've been there (over 10yrs ago). These days I'm 53 & the under-eye wrinkles masquerading as hairs don't seem to be an issue any more. But tell you this is as bad as it gets?? Are you joking? This is just the start. I scoffed at my slightly older friend who said 50 was 'a turning point'. Then I found out she was right.

In my 30s/40s I noticed a bit of cellulite, but at age 50, almost overnight it took on a life of its own.

In the few years since my half century I see the "one or two" broken veins on my legs are multiplying almost as I watch. It's scary. Give it a year & I wont be able to go out in summer without leg make up! Or 40 denier tights.

Re: vaginal dryness, I carry a tube of lube around with me everywhere (avail. in pound shop). You know, just in case.
If wrinkles masquerading as hairs isn't an issue, hairs themselves ARE. I now pluck my goatee daily. Here's an anti-ageing tip though - get the facial hair remover from Boots and apply it to your face like shaving foam. Wait 2mins, use enclosed spatula to scrape it all off then rinse. A fuzz-free face confuses the eye, it knocks 3 years off at least. Teeth whitening after age 40 also knocks off a few years.

To all those people who "wouldn't have surgery", why ever not? I mean OK fine if you're not into it, but don't wear not having surgery like it's a badge of honour. I've had loads of surgery which is probably why someone guessed I was 32 the other day. And no I don't look weird. I do wish I was 40 though, if only because my partner's 20yrs younger than me.

Just enjoy the now.. really 40 is so young!

I’m almost 41. In a bid to de-fuzz my face and in my infinite wisdom, I applied Nair to my cheeks. Ended up smooth as silk but with what look like 2nd degree burns.
In a bid to stave off premature death, I have taken up running. A fun side-hobby is buying Tena pads.
I’m just too sexy.

Sorry, it only gets worse, I turned 46 yesterday and seem to have developed arthritic knees and raging heartburn overnight

Vinotinto -
I too have been through Nair facial hell, I got the bikini line one thinking it would do for my face but ended up with weeping cheek sores! It also made my upper lip swell. The Boots one works though.
Eyesight - crap. Was always short-sighted but now I have to wear pound shop reading glasses when I've got my contacts in.
Slow creep of weight - I used to think 8st10 was too much! Now I just can't get back under 9 stone! I would give my eye teeth to be 8st 10 again!
Feet - why did no-one ever tell me that wearing high heels all day in my teens/20s/30s/40s would give me metatarsal syndrome in my 50s? I wear Skechers, take out the insoles and put them into every other shoe I own, otherwise I can't walk for more than 2 hours.

Oh yes and I'm going deaf. Two years of shouting "for God's sake speak up" at people before I realised it was me, not them.

Face hair is my nemesis spent the last hour of a two hour meeting today itching to get out as inadvertently touched chin and discovered minute coarse chin whisker that felt 6 inches long instead of practicing my presentation in my head my mind kept running over whether I’d placed my emergency tweezers in my bag as well as running fingers along imaginary visible dumbledore beard ... currently writing this in bed wearing a knitted bed jacket from my mum as my vest pyjama top is making my shoulders cold I’m early fifties ...