Falling Apart with Age

Mitch86

Mitch86

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I wonder how others are doing with their health as they age. At 86 I can barely walk with pain in feet and legs and now even arms are getting tight with pain. Are there any benefits to getting very old? I even get something called "Transient Monocular Blindness" where I lose sight in one eye for one to eight hours from transitory clots in my carotid arteries which could kill me.
 

Hey Mitch, thanks for posting about not feeling "perfect" in
old age LOL....I suffer from very bad back vertabra disease and hip problems...can only walk about 15 feet before I have to set down, hips sometimes won't let me go that far...spend most my time setting on heating pad.....guess a benefit for me is that I no longer work so don't have to call in sick LOL....don
 
Mitch86 said:
One thing that make me satisfied as I suffer is that I KNOW in due course of time I will cease to exist and all pain and suffering will vanish. Some of those knowing that certainty, attribute it to a mythological person named Jesus.
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only flaw in that ..is that when the pain ceases to exists you won't be around to feel the relief and enjoy it... I've always thought that.

I do think if we started off being born in pain and worked our way though childhood out of pain (children can shrug off pain more than oldies) .. and then had a marvellous pain free adulthood..it would have been a better plan... :giggle:
 
Some pain and suffering is just part of growing old...I guess. At 79, I have a bit of hip arthritis, but an occasional Aleve pill is keeping me from having hip surgery...so far. My teeth are increasingly going bad, and I suspect it won't be long before I have to consider false teeth. I am especially careful with taking care of my eyes....losing fairly good sight would totally upend my world.

I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not a youngster anymore, and need to be Very careful in doing my activities and chores.
 
I feel like I have much more pain than my father did and he lived to be 93. My mom was in pain for 24 years and lived on pain medication and was bedridden in her last years and died at 78. So I figure right now, I am between them on the pain scale. I just baby myself when needed. I would not be able to stand losing my sight or my hearing so don't know what I would do. I think you have to just persevere and keep going.
 
katlupe said:
I feel like I have much more pain than my father did and he lived to be 93. My mom was in pain for 24 years and lived on pain medication and was bedridden in her last years and died at 78. So I figure right now, I am between them on the pain scale. I just baby myself when needed. I would not be able to stand losing my sight or my hearing so don't know what I would do. I think you have to just persevere and keep going.
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I absolutely agree Kat..I think most would hope to retain eyesight and hearing...altho' many lose both as we age.. but if I were given the choice, and who would want to have that choice....?... I'd prefer to lose my hearing if I had to lose anything at all..

Kat..I'm sorry , but I can't remember what your illness is, that keeps you chained to pain , and means you have to use Jazzie..
 
hollydolly said:
I absolutely agree Kat..I think most would hope to retain eyesight and hearing...altho' many lose both as we age.. but if I were given the choice, and who would want to have that choice....?... I'd prefer to lose my hearing if I had to lose anything at all..

Kat..I'm sorry , but I can't remember what your illness is, that keeps you chained to pain , and means you have to use Jazzie..
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Osteoarthritis is basically all I have so I can live with it. Just keep moving.
 
katlupe said:
Osteoarthritis is basically all I have so I can live with it. Just keep moving.
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well that's no picnic in the park ..I have that in my fingers and my lower back..and that can be excruciating sometimes, and yours is much worse than mine.. poor you, but I understand when you say it;s all you have.. but thank the lord you're not suffering from anything more.. 🤞
 
hollydolly said:
I absolutely agree Kat..I think most would hope to retain eyesight and hearing...altho' many lose both as we age.. but if I were given the choice, and who would want to have that choice....?... I'd prefer to lose my hearing if I had to lose anything at all..

Kat..I'm sorry , but I can't remember what your illness is, that keeps you chained to pain , and means you have to use Jazzie..
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I think I feel the same between hearing and sight. But I love music and it enhances my mood so I hope I don't lose that. My FIL lost both and it was a horrible way to live.
 
hollydolly said:
well that's no picnic in the park ..I have that in my fingers and my lower back..and that can be excruciating sometimes, and yours is much worse than mine.. poor you, but I understand when you say it;s all you have.. but thank the lord you're not suffering from anything more.. 🤞
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Right, there is always someone else who is much worse than I. I don't even take any medications except Tylenol for arthritis. But not every day. Mine is in both knees and that is why walking is such an issue for me. But I can deal with it.
 
katlupe said:
Right, there is always someone else who is much worse than I. I don't even take any medications except Tylenol for arthritis. But not every day. Mine is in both knees and that is why walking is such an issue for me. But I can deal with it.
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I'm the same, no meds unless the pain gets really bad....

I was born into a profoundly deaf family.. I learned BSL before I could speak, and my hearing thankfully is acute unlike most of my paternal family ... and like you I adore music..music and photography are my life, but having grown up within a deaf family it doesn't hold the fears for me as it would others.. .... my eyesight has never been great .. but to not be able to see colours, landscape, people's faces.. use my computer, be able to Drive, that would be worse for me to lose that...
 
I’m almost 70 and grateful for my good health, especially as I see more and more of my friends falling prey to a variety of health issues which has had its effects on the quality of their lives.

I’m proactive about my heath and my focus is on prevention, and eliminating or solving health conditions rather than medicating the symptoms. My dad had heart issues, my Mom COPD and emphysema, both suffered from dementia, my brother passed away from cancer, and so I’m actively working to not fall prey to their level of ill-health. My husband feels the same way about his health.

I have some arthritis in one hip and my knees. I dance, garden, walk, ride, and stay active and push through even when I’d prefer to stay on the couch.

We just ordered a home gym system, it should be here tomorrow. We’re both continuing to lose muscle mass in spite of staying active so the home gym is to address that and re-build that lost muscle as just one more way to stay as active and heathy as we can.
 

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