Memory issues, here. I didn’t think I would have bad memory issues until just a while ago, I had a thought on the tip of my nose, but forgot it in seconds and how it took me minutes to recall it. That’s a key sign right there.
Some people have better memory in old age, like it’s unreal sometimes with what some of them can remember. While the average person forgets thoughts in moments.
Getting a bad back. My back is not bad as some I know, but it is sore and awful lot. 😔
back pain, one day you’ll wake up and everything just falls apart
Unplug your phone lol
I tried. Damn this accursed battery!
From what? It’s all wireless these days.
No it’s not. A lot of new phones are still wired in terms of having to charge it. The wireless suck, unless of course they’ve improved a lot in the last 5 years.
I’d rather plug a cable into my phone than deal with having to position just right to a millionth of a millimeter precision just to get a shitty 6 hour charge time. Lol.
Not to mention that NFC charging is not very efficient due to free space loss.
I’m finally growing some gray hair. I’ve earned each one of them and it’s my favorite hair color.
Back pain, sometime i need to stretch hard to ease the pain and i’m not even midlife
Do you have a massage ball? 5 bucks. Against wall. Don’t go over the spine.
Mine got fully away after buying a really good (and expensive) gaming chair and a new mattress. The gaming industry has done so much for our health, it’s insane. :)
Don’t get gaming chairs. Get a good office chair. Like a herman miller chair
Had another poster point this is out, and after thinking on it, I have the same issue and cure. Go walking.
If I sit on my ass for a day or three, my lower back gets really sore. As long as I’m active, no problem.
I’m skinny and always have been, YMMV.
I work blue collar so i’m plenty active, i think it’s just me having accumulate all them back stress over the years it becoming bad now. I’m gonna try with a good mattress and see if it help though.
Deadlifts fixed my backaches at age 29. Haven’t had any issues since as long as I keep up the routine.
Needing a cane. I’m not even that old, barely 50, but I’ve been on a cane as a necessity for almost twenty years now. The early part of that was spotty, after I had enough physical therapy to get off of a walker entirely, I slowly got to the point where I could skip the cane for most things while I tried going back to work.
That utterly failed lol. By 2008, it was pretty much mandatory anywhere but home, and over the years moved to being anywhere outside the house at all, with some days where it’s inside too.
Kinda crazy looking back on it because now it seems like I’ve been in this situation my entire life, but it also doesn’t feel like twenty years. Which, it isn’t quite 20 yet, but IDGAF about precision on this lol.
But back as a kid, I always thought of canes as being for really old people. I kinda knew it wasn’t only for old people, but the concept of it was like that.
Arthritis is the other one. I had no idea until it started up in my hands in my twenties that arthritis wasn’t purely for people older than that. I’d never run into it, and had somehow also never read about it. But rheumatoid arthritis isn’t ageist, it turns out.
Not an old person yet, but I thought I was prepared for everything since I’ve had shitty joints, a shitty back, and a shitty memory since I was a kid.
As soon as I hit 30 I started putting on weight despite never changing my diet or exercise routine 🥲 no more hourglass figure for me!
You can do some stuff to help fight the memory issues. Push hard to keep learning new things. Find complicated problems to solve and keep solving them.
Nothing accelerates cognitive decline faster than becoming complacent and avoiding mentally challenging activities.
is there any reason research you know of that supports this? I am interested in the idea of keep learning to prevent degrading.
A bunch of studies have been run over the years. I’ve heard it every three or four years for probably the past decade or two.
A quick search will net a bunch of them. Search for scientific articles that show new learning decreases cognitive decline in old age.
You’ll get stuff like this:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/learning-new-skill-can-slow-cognitive-aging-201604279502
Aging. I didn’t expect to live through my twenties due to a reckless lifestyle that included lots of drugs and partying and rubbing shoulders with questionable types of people. I saw an old lady being helped walking with a younger woman at age ~27 and went, oh shit. That might be me one day. I had severely chilled out and converted to a more typical lifestyle by then.
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The switch to progressive lenses happened far sooner than I was hoping.
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Graying in the beard stayed away for a long time, and then in a matter of a year, decided to attack with all of its might. (Probably the same on my head too, but I’ve been shaving it forever so I wouldn’t know)
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Heartburn troubles. Though that was less about ageing and more about gaining weight after quitting smoking twelve years ago.
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Loss of imagination, patience, optimism
Now this is what I fear. The gradual loss of the childful optimism and joy. I have already lost some of it, but I’m sure it could be brought back. ^^
Joint pain. Muscle pain. Drastically slower healing of minor cuts and scrapes.
You thought those wouldn’t affect you???
Not before the age of 30!!! At least not this badly
It’s going to get worse.
Genetics are not on my side in this regard. Extensive family history of everything under the sun, including degenerative joint issues, hypermobility, diabetes, blood pressure, etc…
I started having trouble with one of my knees when I was a teenager, probably due to reckless behavior. Still have chronic joint pain, with most of them, but at least I don’t get the acute knee pain anymore. I can usually tell when my knee movement is going to cause problems and stop the action before it kicks in. But it’s been at least a year since i was pain free without medication.
I expected the health problems, the memory loss, all that stuff. The only old person thing I hoped would never happen is becoming a right-wing shithead. Nothing so far!
I’ve been worried my mother might go that way, just from age, but luckily she’s been getting more left as the years go on. This gives me hope for myself as well!
No way! Better dead than red!
CHS, CSS, CRS. can’t hear shit, can’t ses shit, can"t remember shit
The longsightedness really came on quick and took me by surprise. Within a matter of maybe 6 months I went from taking my glasses off to read my phone to increasing the text size on my phone and learning shortcuts of all my work applications. And no, it doesn’t counteract the shortsightedness! You’re fucked both ways!
