When did you start to feel your age?

[EatingCalamari]

I'm 39 and I'm really feeling it this year.

Physically, last year when I turned 53 and started getting some aches and pains.
Mentally, never!

About 47, up until then I was pretty good. I’m now 50 and feel much older all of a sudden

32 and I feel like the stereotypical OAP those younguns take the piss out of with technology today.

Had to return parcels through Evri and had to scan my QR code on my phone...the shop keeper had to help show where me to put the phone...3 times!

In the last few months actually. I'll be 52 this month.

56 and starting to creak a bit.

Mid 50s

55 here and definitely more achey! I have a busy life, keep active but my back hurts all the time (worse if I haven't moved enough).

I'm also going grey and my face gets more wrinkly by the day. However I've just lost a friend to cancer, another is dying of MND... I'll take my folding face and ache and pains and be grateful!

46 a little, 47 a lot.

I’ve put on 3 stone and at 48 when I get up in the morning I feel how I expected to feel at 68.

Cannot actually remember but I am 63 and it is hard getting on and off buses (though I do often get a seat!). My bloody rheumatoid arthritis has come back. My left knee is buggered, My neck creaks and both my arms ache. Even getting out of bed is hard! It is all fun (if you don't weaken!).

Mid fifties

About 29...

Early 40’s when I was tired, sore, peri and diagnosed with osteoarthritis and two other other chronic health conditions.
A decade on and I feel about 70. In fact I know 70 year olds who have more energy than I do!

I’m 47 and I this year I feel ancient. I think there might be something wrong with me, it can’t be normal to wake up every single day in pain 😟

God I'm knackered. I was fit as a fiddle until I had DD at 42. I'm 49 now and would say the last 3 years, despite trying to keep fit, I've gradually got creakier, more wrinkly and a lot grumpier. HRT is helping though.

It hasn’t happened, yet.

I’m in my early 60s.

My mum is 94, and only started to feel 'old' just before her 90th birthday! She makes me feel young - most of the time.

I felt ok at the beginning of this year, age 51, before I got a breast cancer diagnosis: after the op, chemo and radiotherapy I feel about 90. I’m thankful to be still here though so embracing all the aching bits.

63-ish. If the bus doesn't pull right up to the kerb, I really struggle. On the plus side, don't get any of the back pain that I used to get when younger.
They hadn't invented 'peri' when I was that age and I think we were much better off not pathologizing ourselves.

It comes and goes. I feel like the pandemic aged me a lot- we were living in a country with very prolonged and quite scary restrictions ( not to diminish the Uk experience which I know was also bad) and I think the constant stress and anxiety around things like quarantine camps and potentially getting separated from the dc changed me. I think also society changed a lot very quickly as a result of the pandemic ( online massively accelerated, for example) which can make you feel a bit old even though I wouldn’t consider myself a Luddite 🤣. I also took a work sabbatical to study and ended up doing an international move in that time. It was just a lot of personal change on top of a lot of societal change.

Also started feeling foggy and tired in 2022. Then I started HRT a few months ago ( I’m 47) and it’s made a huge difference. I feel quite perky again.

That said, I do need to get back to work now. I understand how people can enjoy early retirement/ hobbies etc but it’s not for me at this stage.

I’ve always felt the age I was at the time, now I’m mid-60s I need a sit down in the afternoon, which is annoying. If I was still spending 9-5 sitting in an office it would be less apparent. More achy, no head for drink. Can’t do late nights, but never home.

Is that what mid-60s is supposed to look like? I have no idea.

Probably when I had DS when I was 35. I felt the pregnancy and C-section both took their toll on my body, especially my bladder!

I am 64 but I feel much younger. I can still easily climb over a tall fence — had to do it recently when locked out of house. I do feel “old” when I look in the mirror or offered a “senior discount” at some places! That began when I was early fifties. 🫣