to ask how much you ache (if you are fit and fify ish)

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thats it really! im not overweight, im active and have always exercised. but i ache somewhere all the time and i want to know if that is just what 50 is like, or if it's me. i thought id feel like this in my 70s but not yet!

I never ache

And I'm fat

It’s probably menopausal. I ache loads too. I’m seriously considering getting HRT.

I ache a lot unfortunately.

I'm a bit older than you and I don't ache. Maybe you should get a health check just in case?

I felt the same OP, bloods taken, turns out vitamin D deficient.
3 weeks Vitamin D3... feel hugely better. No more rubbing awful achey painful joints. X.

I'm 48 and I'm always aching! At the moment it's my ankle from falling down a step and twisting it slightly, and my shoulders from the dogs pulling on their leads. Oh, and my hips from Pilates.

My left knee aches sometimes, nothing aches all the time.
New meds made my feet ache and inflamed lose dose sorted.
Side effect of meds inflamed hand tho, and 3 rings sizes up.
All to sort my very nasty post menopasal depression, I hate it, hormones yuk

I'm not 50 but I have little niggles here and there - joints are a bit stiff in the morning or if I've been sitting around for a while. Doesn't stop me doing anything though.

Do you also make noises when getting up from the sofa? Wear comfortable slacks and sensible shoes? Like a nice mug of ovaltine before bed?

If so, I am sorry, there is no hope.

I found out I was low in vitamin D. I have a prescription for one tablet a month. It's not water soluble so it's important not to overdose. I feel much less achey now than I did before.

I’m 46 and my lower back aches sometimes. I have a nasty feeling that it’s the start of osteoarthritis as my Mum had it ( and it’s hereditary).☹️ But, I’m also going to try a Vitamin D supplement as my neighbor, mid-50s, has told me they worked wonders. Fingers crossed.

My vit d was deficient but I was given a loading dose followed by taking a good size supplement for a year or two and I'm still the same.

Apparently turmeric tablets can help with aches, according to the reviews I've seen on Amazon

I used to ache, my thigh muscles would ache massively and I'd get paraethesia , it turned out I was vitamin b deficient, it went after the menopause and now I'm ache free.

@Rangoon what strength is the dose you take?

I ache, it’s the menopause I think. I’m a bit overweight but not hugely.

I ache ... things that used to be sorted by a day of rest, a hot bath or a bit of physio now just sort of hang around for ages (or never go - am looking at you, rotar cuff) But I have found that doing one strength session for every cardio one helps (strong core seemsto have become a lot more vital) . And pilates. And taking a rest (non exercise) day or two or even three when I am even a tiny bit sore (still not figured out how to not feel guilty about it..).

I ache! I run, do weights and Pilates but I've always got a 'niggle' somewhere.

I go to the gym lots. Recently had lots of aches in legs which are new. About to turn 50. Tbh I wondered if it was long Covid

I am late 50s and I ached for years when I reached 50, especially in my lower back and I was living on painkillers. Weirdly I don’t ache at all any more. It stopped about a year ago and I have no idea why.

I only ache with DOMS if I have varied/intensified my exercise programme. I don't routinely ache otherwise - I am on HRT.

Well I ached a lot and was always twanging things when I was doing exercise classes several times a week. I do take a high dose of vitamin D. Now I'm not doing the classes I'm fatter than before but I don't ache. I'm quite active generally, got a lively terrier to walk and horses to look after but none of that makes me ache, just the exercise classes.

I'm 55 and a little,well a bit more than little overweight.
I havent got any aches. I wasn't expecting to have any just yet though.

Get tour vitamin levels checked. This sounds like Vitamin D deficiency

I ache a lot but I'm hypermobile and most of my joints are knackered. Nursing a sore, clicky fucking collarbone, tonight (amongst other things)