Straw poll - age vs ailments

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Don't know if I'm outside the norm or not, but early 40s and I have:

• an underactive thyroid (medicated but not well and NHS don't care)
• vitamin deficiencies (picked up some via NHS but poor advice causing me to do my own research and private testing/regime to follow up - can't afford to do that regularly)
• a dodgy tooth that's more filling than tooth but dentist recommends keeping it there a long as possible because pulling it would destabilise rest of them
• sore wrists, not always both and not always equally bad, can go for a while before I notice them again
• shoulders that live round my ears so that most of the time I don't notice the shoulder pain any more
• a dodgy hip that never recovered from PGP after my 2nd pregnancy
• a clicky painful knee

Am I alone in falling apart?

Why bother with a test? Most people in the UK are deficient over winter months and NICE guidance is to take Vitamin D from September to April/May anyway

47, been on HRT for the last year which has cured my aching joints and enabled me
to get back on the exercise wagon properly
again. No other medicated issues apart from hay fever I’ve had since childhood!

I’m 46 and don’t have any health conditions. I have tooth problems reasonably frequently but my teeth have always been crap and as long as I keep up with regular dentist and hygienist appointments, I’m able to stay on top of things for the most part.

I did begin to suffer stiffness in my hands but HRT has eliminated that.

Aside from that, I think I’m in good shape. That’s mostly luck I expect but I do look after myself too.

Thanks all. Wonder if HRT is the way forward?

Am almost 50:

• Have under active thyroid

• Fallen arches - which occurred in pregnancy and never recovered. Has given me weak knees and ankles too.

• A shite pelvic floor

• A crown on my back tooth and two fillings

• Varifocals

The thyroid is hereditary but is managed with meds and doesn't give me much grief. The fallen arches are unfortunate. Have to wear orthotic supports all the time and my knees are rubbish.

Other than that, am not too bad.

Late 30s

Full spinal fusion, arthritis in both hips and several vertebrae, tumour in lower spine (unrelated to fusion/pure coincidence), aneurysm in one arm, arthritis in neck, chronic cluster headaches, deaf in one ear, IBS. I'm falling apart.

50. Achy back- probable oesteoarthrits. Same for hip. Not quite got HRT right as yet, so irregular and heavy bleeding.

Memory is foggy, would love to get a clear head back.

Otherwise, soldiering on!

57 and no issues
I eat really well( possibly bordering on obsessive), keep active and do regular resistance training.
Probs drink too much alcohol though

Late 50s
Aches & pains that come & go for no obvious reason.
Weak ankle
Temperamental feet
Always been very health conscious, generally feel good & on top of any issues I have. I do have lower energy levels as I get older.

48, M.E., chronic pain (weight/anxiety) spend half my day feeling like I ate glass and drank a bottle of scotch every single day. Extreme fatigue and brain fog off the charts.

I think the path is probably quite simple. I had a tonsillectomy aged 18 after having it 7 times in 2 years. I understand they are loathe to do it these days because they catch infection. Spent the next eight years up to my eyeballs on antibiotics with ear, nose, throat and chest infection (also worked in London - pollution). Must have had a severely weakened immune system by the time all that nonsense fully stopped come about 26 or 28.

Moved into a flat age 37 for two years that had a damp and mould problem. Tiny. Like 18ft x 10ft including bathroom and entrance space. Had no idea until it was too late that mould is really bad for you. Ended up getting evicted after a period of unemployment - had caught up on rent but literally came home to changed locks one day. Obviously that's a nasty emotional shock. By then I was already feeling like I was constantly on the verge of getting a cold all the time but the cold never actually turned up. It was baffling. I think that was M.E. appearing. Then a couple of rough years including my overseas mum dying of cancer within 10 months and a huge amount of anxiety - I think was enough for full blown M.E. to kick in. And I have been unable to work since.

I suspect smoking from 16 to 37 probably didn't exactly help either. But I did what the pleading nurse asked me to do and gave up before I was 40.

I am so ill with so many symptoms on such a frequent basis that I have begun to imagine I won't even notice the peri menopause when it turns up. Silver linings? Too optimistic?