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What old person thing did you think wasn't going to affect you until it does?

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.

Hikermick ,

Loss of imagination, patience, optimism

Adderbox76 ,
  • The switch to progressive lenses happened far sooner than I was hoping.
  • 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)
  • Heartburn troubles. Though that was less about ageing and more about gaining weight after quitting smoking twelve years ago.
halfapage ,

Cringe is the biggest one for me.

some_guy ,

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.

scytale ,

“Get off my lawn”, but not in a very bad way. lol. Now that I live in a house, I have to admit I get mildly infuriated when I see people walking across my front lawn or parking right by my driveway. But I don’t confront them or anything, I just stare menacingly behind half closed window blinds where they can’t see me.

eldavi ,

hearing loss; vision impairment; bad back; hernias; hypertension; diabetes.

some people are afraid that they’re turning into their mother or their father; while i’m turning into both at the same time.

kowcop ,

lol… where do I start?

Eyes, went from being able to read the tiniest font to not being able to read a large font book in about 2 years.

2 knee surgeries

Getting up to pee 2x a night

cheesymoonshadow ,
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Getting up to pee 2x a night

I hate that too but I’m just glad I still have enough bladder control to actually wake up for it. I dread possibly losing that someday.

Brickhead92 ,

Might be a good idea to err on the side of caution and get a prostate exam. Especially if it increases in frequency.

cheesymoonshadow ,
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Thanks. I don’t have a prostate but incontinence is more common in women. At the first sign of a leakage problem, you bet I’m heading to the doctor right away.

Brickhead92 ,

Might be a good idea to err on the side of caution and get a prostate exam. Especially if it increases in frequency.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

My knees hurting so much. If I were taken hostage and ordered to kneel I could not and would be vaporized.

RBWells ,

I feel great physically, but:

Finally got hips at 50 (neither pregnancy not age changed my lean build until age 50).

Both nearsighted and farsighted now instead of just nearsighted.

And my goodness, supper at teatime is the best! We go out to eat at 4pm all the time now. So funny, I used to wait until after 8pm but now prefer either a late breakfast and a teatime meal, or lunch and early supper.

I’ve never had a great memory, wouldn’t say it’s gotten worse yet.

LarkinDePark ,

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!

samus12345 ,
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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!

FederatedSaint ,

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samus12345 ,
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No way! Better dead than red!

RebekahWSD ,
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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!

Zorsith ,
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Joint pain. Muscle pain. Drastically slower healing of minor cuts and scrapes.

NewNewAccount ,

You thought those wouldn’t affect you???

Zorsith ,
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Not before the age of 30!!! At least not this badly

NewNewAccount ,

It’s going to get worse.

Zorsith ,
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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…

GreyEyedGhost ,

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.

son_named_bort ,

Taking fiber supplements

southsamurai ,
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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.

xilliah ,

I’m finally growing some gray hair. I’ve earned each one of them and it’s my favorite hair color.

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