to think that your body falls apart at 40?!

[Bogeyface]

9 months ago I was 40. Since then I have...

developed arthritis (doc says I had it earlier, I dont believe him)

started farting ALL THE TIME and (this is the important bit) being able to identify what made me fart "Oooh, sorry, that'll be the cauli"

started pulling up and placing my boobs in my bra, something I havent had to do since me breast surgery 13 years ago

waking up with a bad hip and saying "ooh that bed is going to do for me"

saying "I'd better not, I'll be up all night" if someone offers me a cup of tea after 8pm.

I hate being 40, its shit.

I spent weeks after Xmas trying to find my perfect family planner!

It must have at least 5 columns, must have a pen attached, must have a shopping list bit AND post its, but must not cost the £12 that the one cost in the Calendar Shop.

I didnt find it :( So I bought a 5 column one and kept the old one next to it with the pen, list and post its that I hadnt used from last year :o

YABU. Mine started falling apart long before I hit 40

I had the worst stack of acne ever after I turned 41. Honestly, I had less spots when I was 14, thankfully it has gone now after my lovely GP gave me some magic cream to get rid of it.

However, I have noticed that I need longer arms for reading these days...

Attack, not stack

A stack of acne would be horrendous

I am 40 next July.
The squinting to read is new.
The sag at the corners of my mouth is new.
The having to wear blusher or people ask if I'm ill is new.
The being unable to unload the supermarket trolley without holding my back and saying 'oof' is new.
I have had the odd white hair on m head since my twenties, but now I find them in m eyebrows and other places!

The only benefits of age is that my face looks thinner because it has slipped downwards and I always wear blusher.
I also give much less of a shit than I did in my twenties.

YABU! I was, in general, absolutely fine until I was 46; with 20/20 vision until I was 47...then it plummeted downhill at breakneck speed my neck is always stiff and painful upon waking these days. My arms shrank in length; I know this is fact as they are no longer long enough to read anything whilst holding printed pages at normal distance without my reading glasses on...I also have to peer down my nose at the script.
If I sit too long, my back remains at an angle for several steps until I'm brave enough to creak upright and my knees, hips, shoulders entire body hurts like hell! oh, and I've finished the peri and am now a menopausal woman who will be 50 in a few weeks time.

My saving grace is that everyone still thinks I'm late 30's facially, so I have to pretend not to creak with every movement.
I refuse to become my mother!!

I dont have a single grey hair on my head. But I do have several grey eyebrow hairs which my sister takes great pleasure in plucking and showing me, she is just bitter as she has a huge clump of white hair on her head! And she is 38 :o

She earns more than me, has a bigger house than me, is younger and prettier than me. Them grey hairs will learn her, smug cow :o

You see bogey im only 38 and my planner has five columns but not the extras of pens and sitckies.

Maybe this is what 40 brings, he life experience of being precise about the qualities of family planners.

However it shows a respect for time doe sit not

oh myfg. I have the grey. not just on head now see this is pretty bad. I have the gair dye fiasco every frigging month or I look like Lisa Dingle off Emmerdale.

Be grateful be very very grateful re minimal grey hairs.

Bogey I don't have a single grey hair either! they're all married and had countless kids, grandkids and great grandkids!

Yanbu. My ankles and knees make me go "Aaagh" or "ooooh!" every time I get up. I also limp slightly. It won't be long before I've got a bastard walking stick and a beard.

Happy birthday Daisy. It's mine today too (47 - eek).

I think I have actually got younger in the last few years; after a lifetime of gym dodging I took up running and gave up carbs at the age of 43. Tis the secret of eternal youth, I tell ya.

40 was fine - fifty did it for me. I creak and crack as I go down stairs in the morning, need glasses all the time now, go "oof!"when I get up or sit down. My bum now starts at my ankles and my waist and boobs have merged in sympathy.

BUT - no grey hairs! It's not all bad.

Yabu! My body starting falling apart at 16! By the time I turn 24 I don't think there will be much left working.

Good Lord. I'm 31 and already it ain't what is used to be. When I was in my 20s and wanted to lose a few pounds, I"d cut out fizzy drinks, take a few brisk walks, and BAM...fit into a smaller jeans size. Now I have to starve and sweat to lose half a pound.

Thanks for this thread. :-)

I'm 47. My bleddy feet hurt. :-(

And, oh god, I have got so FAT.

I'm not too bothered by the cosmetic stuff, but since I turned 37, I have been falling apart quicker than I expected.

Dental problems (should have started flossing ten years earlier).

Lower back, hip & pelvic pain (SPD coming back to haunt me, only Pilates keeps it at bay).

And a new one since I turned 41: aphasia. Sometimes it can take me 5 seconds to access the word I need. DS1 gets really impatient with me and if I give up and say "thingamibob", it doesn't help.

I eat a very healthy diet and do exercise almost every weekday and feel ok but definitely need more sleep and don't have as much energy as before.
For this reason I cannot fathom why on earth a woman over 40 would ever consider having a baby!!! No way.

I had grey (snowy white) hairs in my early twenties. The grey eyebrow hairs are a terrific new addition. Thank god for my bad back - I can't bend to see my foof hair!

I take off my glasses to read.

I'm going through second puberty. Spots ahoy. My right shoulder is like a dot to dot page at the moment. And my chin... :-(

My arse now kisses the back of my knees.

I am 39.

Disclaimer: I realise it's not actual aphasia. I can still communicate, and I have every sympathy for those who are suffering from true aphasia due to a stroke or brain injury. It's just that I have gone from being extremely articulate, with an enviable vocabulary, to sounding like a blithering nincompoop.

I'm 43 and am much happier in my forties than my twenties or thirties. I spent much of the last decade having babies and walking around in a fug of Pnd. I have more time to myself to do exercise so feel healthier. My arse may be massive and my stomach looks like an empty family sized crisp packet. But I've got me health!

Can I just say, to all of us having or about to have birthdays starting with a '4'…happy birthday you old bitches. xx Much love.

But honestly - the sex is getting better isn't it? It's not just me?

I just do everything a bit late. I had a baby at 40yrs - started running at 60 yrs.

I'm 46 and feeling ok but I've had several major health probs through my younger years so by comparison I feel great!

I had the achy hips and shoulders in bed thing but nobody could do a thing for me then one day I put a memory foam mattress topper on my bed and unbelievably I have never had pain again

I agree about the sex too brag