# I'm Officially Old **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279 "2023-08-29T12:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/61 "2023-08-31T22:30:32Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > In my experience, allopurinol is the preventative and colchicine is used during an acute attack. Cite: my throbbing big toe! Colchicine doesn’t work for me during an attack Indocin (Indomethacine) is the thing that magically stops an attach (almost always). Fortunately, I haven’t need to use it in years. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/62 "2023-08-31T22:44:43Z")
Just the opposite for me. That’s what makes horse races, I guess. I suspect a lot of meds should probably have an"idiopathic warning" on them. Glad you’ve been free of attacks. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/63 "2023-09-01T07:59:36Z")
**[Get this app on your phone.](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sfcapital.publictoiletinsouthaustralia&hl=en_AU&gl=US)** Works around the world (GPS based). We were in Vienna looking for a toilet - in the main city square. The app said we were right on top of it, but we couldn’t see it. Then a guy walked up a set of steps leading to an underground basement and we thought ‘Let’s ask him’… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/64 "2023-09-01T10:01:31Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Get the bathroom railing! Most people get it after they fall and hurt themselves. The best way is to have an occupational therapist come by and check things out. This is particularly important if more than one person uses the bathroom and they are of significantly different heights. Then have a company that specia.izes in this work install the railings. Don’t even think about the suction cup ones or just screwing something into the wall. It’s expensive to do it right, but the alternative is to court disaster. When I redid our downstairs bathroom, I checked out ADA regs for where to install the rails. I then installed 2x6 backing before sheet rock and tile went up. But you are definitely correct. Install them sooner than later. And do it/have it done right. This was very helpful for me when I had to have my hip replaced years later. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/65 "2023-09-01T18:52:16Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I recommend supermarkets for that. They tend to have cleaner bathrooms and more convenient parking than hospitals. And the prior visitor to the bathroom is less likely to have some infectious respiratory bug that might be lingering in the booth. The supermarket I walk to has an excellent bathroom, but the one I usually go to has a lock, and a person has to stand there because once you’ve disarmed the lock the door doesn’t lock again. It’s nutty, but I suspect it is to keep out the nut cases who hang around nearby. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/66 "2023-09-01T20:59:55Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Love it. We are cut from the same cloth. Burlap is cloth, right? Well, it’s cloth enough to count… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/67 "2023-09-01T21:48:03Z")
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has found it necessary to map out bathroom locations. I vote for Lowe’s Hardware. They always have their bathrooms at the front of the store, next to the cashiers. The facilities are always clean and roomy, and since Lowe’s is open early in the morning, I can have that extra cup of tea before going out to run A.M. errands, secure in the knowledge that I’ll have quick access to a loo. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/68 "2023-09-10T19:07:14Z")
That looks a lot like the series of questions that I get at each visit to Cleveland Clinic. Since I was old before I started visiting the Clinic, I do not know at what age they begin asking the questions. The last time I signed up for an MRA, the lady apologized for asking the questions, but said it was a rule at the Clinic and she was required to ask them. (Of course I am old; I was branded as a “geezer” back when the Straight Dope was on AOL.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/69 "2023-09-11T02:56:49Z")
It’s not so much a matter of age, as what era the medical industry began asking the “are you safe?” questions. I don’t have the details, but it became sort of “official best practice” to ask every patient at every encounter. So all the corporate medical companies adopted the policy of demanding their workers ask the questions. ---
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279/70 "2023-09-15T20:07:03Z")
Over the past few years i have noticed my arms have acquired… _liver spots._ 🫢 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/989279.md?page=3)