Are you 60? Do you struggle?

[Florence1960]

AIBU to ask if you ache? I don’t ache most of the time but I struggle getting up from the floor. I think I’m probably fitter now than I’ve ever been, I go to the gym, do Pilates twice a week ( before lockdown). Been walking every day of lockdown. I don’t know if this is normal for my age?

Not quite 60 and my legs are riddled with arthritis
In agony if I have been sitting and need to stand up.

Was in Spain a couple of years ago and was able to run, jump and walk miles in the heat with no pain.

from sitting on the floor i can not get up without my hands or getting on my knees. kneeling on all four does cause my knee caps to smart/pinch i avoid doing that in yoga without extra padding.
i ordinarily consider myself very fit and active (although right now i'm sporting an injury) and have no aches that are not accounted for (so my back might hurt if i do extra gardening) but that would be a rare event.
i usually walk 4 miles a day just for exercise.
i have not had many injuries in my lifetime so no arthritic changes etc.

I don't have arthritis but I don't get up from the floor that easily (or out of the bath).

I'm late 60s though. But everything is definitely a bit harder than it used to be. I also don't really exercise which doesn't help.

I'm 63, two stone overweight and I'm not at all flexible, struggle to pull socks on unless I sit on the second-from-bottom stair. I can walk miles and miles but don't exercise enough apart from walking, and keep putting off digging weeds out of the veg plot because my lower back screams at the mere thought of getting the spade out!

I’m 58, have a bit of osteoarthritis in my knees, though an orthopaedic consultant said it’s just about average for my age. Not so long ago I could get up and down from the floor without using my hands but not any more. I can’t get down on my haunches but can kneel provided there’s something to hold on to. Sitting down in the bath is not as easy as it was. Have to get on my knees first. I have no other mobility issues, can walk a good distance and was going to the gym and using leg press etc before lockdown.

I'm 70, not too bad really, no aches and pains. Lockdown isn't particularly good for my health because I'm not motivated to do exercise indoors, keep telling myself I'll start tomorrow or next week. However, I can't complain.

I'm 60 and I've had aches and pains for years, but nothing major. I do have sciatica at present, which is annoying, but it doesn't stop me doing anything. I'm not flexible, but never have been. I walk a lot. Inside my head I'm young - but my body definitely says I'm not!

DM is 64 and has fibromyalgia so sometimes her whole body aches, but in general she doesn't ache getting up off the floor (we go to the same yoga group)

Yes, I also ache. I'm 61, it has been coming on recently.
I'm only very slightly overweight, very fit and active (walk a lot although don't do the gym) and I would say reasonably supple (decorating my own place, can climb ladders and balance across the draining board to paint the kitchen ceiling!) so I don't know where the aches have come from. I definitely think it's age. General aches, back, neck, arms. I ache when I go to bed, ache when I get up again....not the mattress either, it's a new one....

Not 60 yet and have the usual aches and pains but the getting off the floor thing is becoming a problem and seems to have come on quite quickly. Fairly fit, not overweight, working full time etc. Will have to try find exercises that strengthen my "get off the floor" muscles soon, it's a worry.

clarazabel Sat 02-May-20 06:38:42
Not 60 yet and have the usual aches and pains...
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Are aches and pains 'usual'? The only time I've had any is if I've injured myself in way, like knocking my knee or ankle.

People keep talking about getting out of the bath but there are such things as showers, most people have an over bath shower if not a cubicle surely?

@Florence1960 - I am mid 50s and the first thing I googled this morning was “why does my body ache all the time”!!

I am about 2 stone overweight and certainly that won’t be helping my knees and hips. But even my shins and arms ache!! I now have to take brufen before I get up in the morning. Went to GP before lockdown having diagnosed myself with hypothyroid but it came back normal. Will need to follow up when I can but I don’t think it is anything serious as it’s stayed more or less the same for months.

61 and arthritic. I had my right hip replaced last November and it's been life changing. I plan on getting the other done sooner rather than waiting so long in agony. I can walk about 4 miles, but have to stop and touch my toes every 10 mins to relieve my lower back pain. Weirdly, running hurts my back less than walking. However, yesterday I managed to do something to my knee so it now hurts like hell and collapses under me, so walking and running are both off the menu now

No I don’t ache, I am overweight but I manage a good walk (4-5 miles) every day and gentle on line workouts. It’s sometimes an effort to heave myself out of the bath but that’s due to my weight rather than aches or pains - and I much prefer a laze in the bath to a shower.

I am late 50s and I don’t ache at all and I can get up from the floor these days.

BUT I have had about five years of constant aching and creaking, bad back and sore hands and feet. I was living on painkillers.

No idea why it all went away. My activity levels are the same (not much exercise tbh) and I am the same weight (small and slim.)

64 with no aches or pains and no underlying illnesses . No problem walking for miles in my sketchers , 30,000 steps one day on holiday recently.
I will have a go at getting up off the floor later when I get out of bed 🛏...

@Lynda07

I hate showers! I can get in and out of the bath but I can't pull myself out. I have to turn into all fours and get out that way.

If I actually did some strength exercise it would probably sort it but I'm lazy!

Yes I’m 60 slim and exercise regularly but ache all of the time. I spoke to the doctor about it and he said it’s a combination of age/under active thyroid for which I take tablets.
The only suggestion he had was some stronger painkillers which I didn’t really want to get into.

I'm 64 and have arthritis in my knees, hips, spine and hands. I had a bad shoulder, too, but that was sorted by keyhole surgery a couple of years ago. I rarely have a soak in the bath these days because getting out is so difficult (I have to do the all fours thing, like a PP - it's not a pretty sight).

I've also got what may turn out to be some damage to one of the ligaments in my knee (been waiting for an MRI since before Christmas, now on hold because of lockdown, despite it being done at a private medical imaging company with an NHS contract, not at a hospital) and it gives way from time to time. I'm getting really paranoid about coming downstairs, as that's when it seems to do it the most. I get really frustrated by this, as it means I have to hang on to the banister and can't safely carry anything that needs too hands.

A couple of months ago, my knee gave way coming down the front steps and I came within a gnat's cock of faceplanting the lawn. Thankfully, my ample norkage hit the ground before my face and absorbed most of the impact.

DP now refers to my tits as airbags.

And I hate, absolutely hate, the trouble I have undoing bottles, jars etc. It's so utterly frustrating!

I'm 61 and have got some aches and pains especially in my hips . I'm very active cycling walking strength training and yoga.I do find yoga is the thing I do that helps me to be more flexible.
I need to use my hands to get up from the floor but always try and get up from a chair by using just my legs.