This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Also this album which seemed mostly unremarkable to me at the time sounds really good to me right now, about three tracks in.

BODY MOVIN

right knee is fine now. left one still unusually stiff. no actual pain, but all of the muscles extremely tight.

i have arthritis per last ortho clinic visit, so probably a combination of that and pushing muscles beyond what they're used to.

aka body movin

lol

i pushed furniture around all afternoon and tweaked a knee ligament or three at football an hour ago so i hear all of that

did the other guy get sent off

he fell backwards into me

at our age and level these mishaps are almost guaranteed to be bumbling rather than malice

big unit last week tried to turn too quick and locked himself. we had to load him sideways into the back seat like he was a set of drawers to get him home

it aint glamorous

Tfw you realize you’re wearing clothes like it’s 1995 and everyone around you looks like they’re going to or coming from the gym

Didn't know that people wore PAJAMAS to the gym.

I won't be at the doctor's until this weekend to confirm, but I think I've developed my first ulcer, likely due to prolonged ibuprofen use to treat jaw-clenching pain.

In just the last couple of weeks my eyesight has become noticeably worse. I booked myself into the opticians and they rang and asked why I was seeing them before I was due. I told them and they sent me to the eye hospital. Luckily I'm fine but I do need glasses.

At the same time I can very suddenly and noticeably feel the skin around my neck feels looser and wrinklier in a way it hadn't before.

That's it guys, I'm officially middle aged!

Identified my year of retirement: 2037

not so bad!

Jonah who will turn 62 in the year 2037

It's coming up.

I have less than 9 months to go before I graduate from this thread and now I’m getting all the back and leg aches y’all have been talking about… I used to be able to sit cross-legged on the floor for hours without problems… oops

I lost complete hearing in my left ear six months ago. No biggie

eh?

jk sry

Ha! I’m having surgery in a month. They think one of those tiny lil ear bones lost connection so they’re gonna put a prosthetic in. Should get a lot but not all of it back. It’s seriously disorienting not to have hearing in one ear. I cannot geolocate sounds for the life of me.

this happened to my husband about 10 years ago. never got the hearing back. he can't tell where any sound is coming from, it's pretty bad. plus tinnitus :(

I don’t wear bifocals or glasses of any sort but I do now (in my forties) understand why older people who do will tilt their head down when they look at something across the room and up when reading something in small print

I've got a painful foot/big toe. I've done some reading about gout and spoken to my dad, who suffers periodically, so pretty sure it's not that. I think it's probably a pressure/RSI from all the walking I do? It's manageable but is just another one of those 'it's always there' aches that makes up my body map.

I'm also now the proud owner of a 'bunion sleeve', which sounds like a rejected name for a 'combine two nouns' death metal band.

My left knee inflammation only really cleared up this week. Reaggravated it shortly after it got better when I went ziplining due to the upstairs climb. Can finally bend it again lol.

Now minor left hip twinges showed up but not painful, but enough to where I'm walking a LITTLE different

i bought a cute pair of Vans for fun after mostly wearing semi-orthopedic shoes for the past 5 years . i wore them to the movies, and i maybe walked half a block to and from my car. YET NOW I AM IN PAIN WTF

i now have this stupid pain in my instep/arch and can barely walk and it’s like cool great fuck me ever buying “fun” shoes again i fucking hate being old

Gotta get into a stretching practice again, and make sure the chair I sit in for work had some lower back support. I’m paying the price for not doing these things tonight.

i bought a cute pair of Vans for fun after mostly wearing semi-orthopedic shoes for the past 5 years . i wore them to the movies, and i maybe walked half a block to and from my car. YET NOW I AM IN PAIN WTF

i now have this stupid pain in my instep/arch and can barely walk and it’s like cool great fuck me ever buying “fun” shoes again i fucking hate being old

I think they have a line of vans with better support now

Wait til your Insoles start reeling like the devil’s breath

Oops reeking

these Vans were like v low profile maryjanes w glued-in insoles, i realized i would have had to semi-wreck them to wear insoles in them comfortably so i just returned them instead

i tried to wear ballet flats once. _once_.

in the meantime i have all kinds of fun stretches for my feet to do. fun stretches for _everything_ haha

when I think about my feet and feminine shoes, I really wish I had insisted on wearing men's shoes much earlier in life ... I have wide feet so I have to buy wide width shoes in women's anyway