Two weeks after turning the big Four-O I got a haircut. Now, whenever I run my hands through my hair I find a couple between my fingers. And in my hairbrush. And in the shower drain. Oh My.
I have bought size 34 waist trousers as long as I can remember. Suddenly, they are too tight. My pants leave marks on my waist. Oh God.
Used to be, I could remember a phone number if I dialed it once…weeks or months ago. Now, I can’t remember my own cell phone number. Good God.
I don’t wear glasses. My vision is perfect. But I can’t read the credits running on my tv screen after the movie I just watched. Great Googly-Moogly.
Two weeks after turning the big Four-O I got a haircut. Now, whenever I run my hands through my hair I find a couple between my fingers. And in my hairbrush. And in the shower drain. Oh My. this has been going on with me for years. runs hand through hair, pulls a few hairs from his fingers
I have bought size 34 waist trousers as long as I can remember. Suddenly, they are too tight. My pants leave marks on my waist. Oh God. I had to go through that a few years ago, too
Used to be, I could remember a phone number if I dialed it once…weeks or months ago. Now, I can’t remember my own cell phone number. Good God. Which is why I learned to love the magic of speed dial.
I don’t wear glasses. My vision is perfect. But I can’t read the credits running on my tv screen after the movie I just watched. Great Googly-Moogly. squiiint sorry can’t read that.
You probably just didn’t notice yourself changing before that. Remember when you were 12 & your body started changing & you’re like, boy, Im old already ?
Hey! What a coincidence! I just turned sixteen today! ::ducks and runs:: Forty’s young, though - heck, Tom Cruise is forty-one and still very popular (even among teenage girls)!
I made it to about 45 before I needed the trifocals. And I do find I pause more frequently trying to remember what the heck I was doing or where I was going. But I wouldn’t go back to my 20s for anything. The older I get, the less I care about image and what people think about me. I’m gradually turning into one of them old folks who says any outrageous thing that comes to mind - you can get away with that when you’re old. And in January, I turn 50, so I’ll get all them AARP discounts!
I never needed a calender to remember appointments.
Last Friday, a couple of friends and I were out quaffing beer. We walked away from a place, just teeming with beautiful young women* because:
We wanted to sit down, while drinking
We wanted to be able to talk, without screaming to be heard over the music.
A friend of mine got himself a remote controlled model airplane and a Mercedes Convertible this spring. He’ll be 40 next year (Go figure!)
I’m getting a membership at a health club. I’m up to 38" in waist size (Well, I am 6’4"). Tomorrow. Any day now… this week fer sure.
It seems I might be needing glasses.
Still got all my hair. As thick as ever. I think I got that from my dad, who at 71, after three months of chemo didn’t lose his hair.
I don’t seem to wake up w/ a hard-on every morning.
Yeah. Life’s getting blurrier. Which I guess is good, since I can’t drink as much as I used to, without getting a really wicked hangover.
*Who all thought that we were old farts, who should go to a place with people our own age and not monopolize the bar counter.
Second of all, I know this was really intended to be kindof a funny thread, but I hope you won’t mind if I add something in all seriousness.
Shortly after turning 40, I, too, started noticing little things like my hair and skin becoming dryer, I was putting on weight for the first time in my life, my joints ached, I was becoming more forgetful, I was crankier than usual, I felt a wee bit depressed, and I tired more easily. Like you, I chalked all those symptoms up to “getting older” – it happens, so just live with it. Well, while age might have had something to do with my condition, it had nothing to do with my symptoms. IOW, there was a reason besides mere age that I was suffering all those things – hypothyrodism.
I finally got tired of being tired and forgetful and cranky and depressed and my hair falling out and getting fatter and joint pain (amongst other things), so I went to the doctor for a complete physical and asked him to check my TSH levels. Sure enough, they were sky high (see the above link for an explanation of what that means). I just started on thyroid hormone replacement and already I can feel a big difference!
So while it’s fun to make fun of getting older, if you’re seriously experiencing the symptoms you describe in your OP, there’s no harm in getting a checkup and a simple blood test.
Again, Happy Birthday! And may our '40s be the best decade yet!
Ahhhhhh don’t you worry about losing hair.
You’ll find it sprouting fast and furiously soon enough.
From your nose
Your ears
Those extra long eyebrow hairs…
Just wait until you reach the point where “Pulling an all-nighter” means you were able to sleep the whole night without having to get up to use the bathroom.
When I turned 40 (4 years ago), I dyed my hair orange and got goats. I can hardly wait to see what I come up with for fifty.
And there are a lot of hot 50+ year olds around, never mind you young 40 year old types. And they’re nowhere near as old as they were some years ago. And it’s not just because I can’t see them as well. Really. It’s not. Actually I think that men in their early to mid 50’s are incredibly sexy. I have for a long time. And now that I know so many more of them, it’s not for the same reasons I thought it would be. But I still find them very attractive. Go figure.
Forty’s young, though - heck, Tom Cruise is forty-one and still very popular (even among teenage girls)!
And they’re nowhere near as old as they were some years ago. And it’s not just because I can’t see them as well. Really. It’s not. Actually I think that men in their early to mid 50’s are incredibly sexy. I have for a long time. And now that I know so many more of them, it’s not for the same reasons I thought it would be. But I still find them very attractive. Go figure.