At what age are you allowed to feel old and knackered?

[Thegrassroots26]

Is 43 ok? Because some days I feel completely broken physically and good for nothing!

The forties are tough!
I was exhausted in my 40s with very stressful business career, small children and a toxic h (now exh)
Changed career to teaching aged 54 and gained so much more energy. Now 65 and my kids independent - even more energy and vigor now!

I’m so worried for the teen stage cause right now my 9 year old and I go bed at 8 to read then sleep at 8.30. Im destroyed by then 😬

Im knackered at 64 but I do work full time in the NHS. I think its hormonal though. Im going to try private testosterone to see if it perks me up a bit.

My mum is just 80 and has started to seem older in the last couple of months. That's what I'm aiming for as at 50, I'm active, fit and not at all knackered (although there's no denying I'm getting older!)

I'd say and hope late 80s / early 90s?

Crikey I’m 54 and was going to post hopefully not until I’m over 60.

Definitely. I was like this and it turned out I had an overactive thyroid and all my vitamin and iron levels were ridiculously low. I'm 39 and still feel knackered but that's more to do with my 3 year old 😅

I'm 45. Feel old and knackered. I am waiting for surgery so hopefully will feel better once I've recovered from that. If I could retire tomorrow I absolutely would. I think at this age, a lot of it is hormone related, perimenopause. All these supplements out there that are supposed to make us feel better, I have honestly not found anything that works...yet.
Life is like groundhog day - work, eat, sleep (if you can through night sweats, racing mind and insomnia) - repeat.

I'm 42 with an under active thyroid. I've been exhausted since I was about 30 and I don't see any end in sight. Dr's have mentioned CFS but not really done anything about it.
I still work full time and have a 19 and 16 year old at home and am managing to get everything that needs doing done. I don't have left over energy for anything fun though.

60 and find myself falling asleep as soon as I sit on the sofa.

I have a very rare neurological autoimmune disease and at 55 I’m exhausted just by getting through the day. I console myself by remembering there are people who won’t get through today though. But I don’t dwell on it and celebrate small victories!

At 64 I’ve felt springier but I’m relatively ok - my most knackered was working full time in London at 36 with an 11 week old ( maternity not the same then) first 2 years were horrendous -

Mother says it came on at 87!

My Dad has slowed up a bit. He is 98 this year……..

I’m 41 and knackered, but that’s because my disabled child only sleeps 3-4 hours a night which means I do too. I don’t feel old yet though!

78

I know this sounds like a stuck record but perimenopause is a bitch. I felt good at 43 but by 45 I was knackered. At 48 I started hrt and im now a few months of 50 and feel almost as good as I did at 43.
friends are 60 and say they feel better now than they did in the years leading up to menopause / before taking hrt.

I think you’re right. I was knackered in my early 40s, working FT with teenage kids, probably peri but untreated. Now I’m my mid 50s, partially retired, kids grown up and on HRT, so much better!

I was mainly fine (despite peri and then full Menopause) from 45 until I was 58, in 2020.

Then I got COVID in April 2020, then got it three more times in the next 4 years (despite all the jabs, already had a fucked immune system )

I've been a total wreck ever since, sadly.

You can feel old and knackered at n-1 where n=your current age.

Whenever you like. There will always be a 90 year old mumsnetter who feels youthful and spritely and runs marathons, but if you feel knackered younger then so be it.

Good for you, I am nearly 60 and knackered due to 2 Heart attacks and the god awful medication i have to take to keep me alive but it is better than the alternative. Glad you have your health and loads of energy and long may it continue.

It entirely depends on what you have going on in your life. At 43 I was exhausted all the time. I worked, had a pre teen going on 16 Dd who’s drama’s kept me awake at night, a non sleeping 7 year old and a non sleeping toddler. I would drink wine most evenings and my diet was probably pretty bad. Now in my 50s they all sleep obviously, they do stuff for themselves, are mostly good company, and I have plenty of time to myself. I no longer drink much and eat much better as I’m not so tired that I crave rubbish! I feel fitter and more alive than at 43.

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I think you can feel knackered at any age. In my teens and 20s after too much partying or exercise or illness. It's fine to sometimes be done in!

However if it went on at any age and not for reasons I'd see a doctor

@ProudWomanXX I had awful long Covid issues, all neurological, back in 2022 - took me 8 months to have any semblance of normality and it’s left me with a few weaknesses - very sore eyes, a burning forehead ( like sunburn) - I do think it seems particularly common to have these lingering issues in women in Our age group - I’m exactly same age as yourself .,