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'm not 30 yet and have bunions and sciatica. It's not looking good for me is it?!

I had sciatica in my early 30's, had physio for the acute problem now I manage it with regular yoga

I'm 43 and the best physical shape (in terms of fitness, slimness and healthy eating) I've ever been as an adult but I definitely get ill more frequently these days, take longer to recover, feel more stiffness in my limbs despite exercise, suffer more insomnia and am generally more tired.

Why can't i drink loads and loads if wine and be the star

Of the party anymore ?

Please?

You should try being 54!! How do you all think I feel?! Sometimes it seems like every system in my body is affected

My feet are stiff and painful for an hour or so after waking. Ditto back.

Hands are looking like my mum's so spent £££ on posh handcream.

Face still OK, no wrinkles, Very pale so have always worn SPF40+ - I think it's paying off. But yes, in many other areas, I am becoming decrepit. I am 43.

Ledger it's me from the money but real parent thread, I was feeling.

I've been thinking about thread this am I'm at a v. Low point in my parenting. I feel like I don't want to do it anymore.

Sorry for thread hijack.

Ledkre moany

YABU. I'm 38 and my body has been falling apart for years. I've had arthritis in my knees and lower back since my early 20s and now have it in pretty much every major joint apart from my elbows. I creak when I get out of bed in the mornings and limp when I get up from sitting down for a few paces until my hip eases up a bit.
I don't have any grey hairs though, found one before Christmas and pulled it out before it invited all it's friends over to party!

I WAS in the best shape I've ever been ... until last Thurs when, in zumba, did a kick that would of shamed a can-can dancer and I've pulled something in my hamstring. I'm seeing a physio tonight.

I also found out yesterday that I need reading glasses - apparently your eyes degrade after 40.

I also have to pluck my chin more now than my eyebrows.

I can't afford to dye my hair at hairdressers anymore because the greys come through so quickly.

bah.

The only shining light was that handsome Zoltan in the coffee shop said he thought I was only 32 ... SWOON. I'll take that

I am 44. My teeth are buggered. I make an 'oof' sound when I get up from the settee. I cannot lose weight no matter what I do (no thyroid problems just my sodding age). I look at shoes these days and say oooh they look comfy.

Luckily my dp is much younger than me and keeps me on my toes or it'd be the knackers yard for me.

I am (gulp) 49 and now have varifocals, high BP, am nearly through the menopause so on HRT and am starting to eye up Hotter shoes as an attractive option to find 'comfy' shoes. Hope my 50s can only bring better things!

Grey hairs. Saggy bits. Aches and pains. Lack of energy. 'I'll be off to bed then' (at 9pm). Food giving you indigestion/wind/heartburn (that you have been eating absolutely fine until then). Hair gone mad. Nails like horn. Memory terrible. Sentences that begin 'when I was young...' or 'what is she wearing...?' or 'I cant wear/do/say that any more'.

I'm 41, and I may be white haired and have reading glasses now (as well as distance glasses), but I've never been fitter. I'll be running my second half marathon in a few weeks and have started training to do triathlon

Its all in the mind. I am 47, had twins at 42 then accidentally had another at 45. I was not remotely tired out by any of this, not one second of being exhausted, and I run my own business too. So much for older mummies not hacking it. I run every day, walk the dog for over an hour every day. Don't feel remotely different physically to when I was 20, in fact I am slimmer and fitter these days. Sprinklings of grey hair if not attended to, but that started in my 20s. I really think that society tells women that they go to pot at 40 and on some level they believe it and act accordingly. Sod that.

Or perhaps, montysma, you're just lucky? Rather than everyone else being brainwashed into ageing?

When I was in my 20s and 30s I was a damn sight more sprightly and on the ball. I had a baby at 36 and was told that physically my body was a good ten years+ less than my chronological age. I felt great!

I suspect as you age you have more crap thrown at you and that certainly ages you. I've had most of the things that we are told are the 'most stressful' things happen to me and yes, stress is a factor in aging!

But montysma , you got to play out for 42 years , why would it be any different to doing it when you were 23 ?

I was 40 in December and I certainly recognise a lot of what everyone is saying - the aches and pains bit anyway. But I have to also say that I'm very happy being 40. I think it's maybe because my youngest DC is almost three and I finally have some time to myself again and I'm better rested that I have been in years, so I feel better and have more energy.

I recently went back to the gym after a break of a couple of years and I've taken up running (I notice quite a few others have mentioned this too), and I've given up certain foods that make me feel fat and bloated and, I dunno, I just feel that, on balance, it's all good. I feel like myself again. Perhaps a slightly creakier version of myself - but nonetheless a healthier and happier one than I've been in several years.

Now, if only I could rid of the loose skin on my belly and raise my arse a few inches ...

I'm 48 & fitter than I've been in a long time, thanks to regular cycling over the last few months. Some wrinkles but not too bad, considering I had a seriously misspent youth Need reading glasses though & have a lot of grey hair, so much now at the front that I've grown a streak through my fringe on purpose. Some white eyebrows (urgh) & the odd white pube

40 last week.

I have an appointment with a consultant on Monday for my bad hip.
I developed trigeminal neuralgia over the last few weeks (bloody ouch!)
My neck clicks when I move my head.

I've started to not be able to read very, very fine print.

And I've started to look like my Mum.

This thread has made me feel so much better - I'm not in the slightest bit smug, but I'm coming up to 55, still smoke (trying to make the full switch to e-cigs), drink much more than I should, don't go anywhere near a gym - but, although I most definitely look my age, sag in the places I don't bulge, have shit teeth and rather unpleasant big toenails - I can still see, still get up from sitting on the floor without a struggle, my pelvic floor seems fit for purpose, and my arse is happily pile-free :)

I'm now counting my blessings, and waiting for something horrible to strike me down - am adopted, so no idea what genetic horrors await me!

Well I think you should be grateful if you didn't start falling apart until 40, you lucky thing!

I'm 31 and I'm pretty sure it all started with that pesky first grey hair I discovered at 29.

To date:
receding gums
prolapse
chin hairs
dry eyes
massive belly
crows feet
sciatica (although I've this since 19)
partially deaf in one ear (that's a new one )
and my GOD yes, the terrible memory.