Whats making you feel old … this week for me its been a bad.lower back and developing a suspected groin hernia … so my breakfast is paracetamol and iburefen… plus some fruit lol
Joys of been over 50 but hey ho .. onwards and upwards .. carefully at the minute 
General aches and pains, particularly right hip and left foot, plus my hands are usually stiff and achy. Like you I start the day with Paracetamol and Ibruprofen to get me going. Also gravity. It’s hard to explain, but my weight has been consistent for the last 35 years or so, but nowadays I feel the weight of gravity if that makes sense? I could leap upstairs in a few bounds and often jumped the last few steps down, but lately I can’t, it’s as if gravity is pulling me down, and as I said i’m a pretty healthy weight and no heavier than 35 years ago!
I’m nearly 63 so maybe I should expect it? But in my head i’m still 17! 
Another thing that makes me feel old but not physically is all the younger people’s reliance on tech and their phones. They seem to live in the unreal world of the Internet and don’t appreciate the real world around them.
My upper back is killing me this week. Not even 40 yet…
Because of staff shortages, I ended up tinting 260 x 5l tins of paint over 2 days myself this week whilst also managing my store, answering calls, dealing with the usual customers and everything else. My shoulders are absolutely paying for it now.
Hi Both. My dad used to say that “ growing old is not for wimps “ just wait till you are plus 70. I’ve tried to keep fit and healthy, more so following my retirement but do find jobs that took me a few hours now take longer to complete. It’s either that or the clocks are going faster these days 
I am relatively fit, walk at least 6 miles a day at work and am quite muscular through lifting throughout my working life, I just think it’s age plus a life of hard graft taking it’s toll gradually each year now! I have recently cut my working hours to 27 a week, so taking my foot off the gas a bit!
The older you get, time does seem to go faster! As a kid the 6 week holiday seemed forever. Now we’re halfway through the year in the blink of an eye!
I am 66 and it’s the aches and pains for me. I get an ache in my right hip and knee just about every day, which makes going up and down stairs a right pain. Mental facilities are pretty good, have to wear reading glasses now due to having cataracts done but at least I can now see distance clearly.
Hubby is 62 and apart from needing to lose a bit of weight (he’s now on a diet) he gets an occasional bit of back pain but not enough to have to take pain killers.
The reason he has gone on a diet is because of the state his mother is in, doctors say it’s due to her diabetes and her being a smoker that has caused her arteries to shrivel so making her circulation very poor to the extent that the veins in her brain are shrivelling.
Some days everything makes me feel old! There’s nearly always some new ache or pain to deal with. Just a few hours gardening can leave me with a painful back and I already have issues with one ankle which I suspect is probably arthritis. I struggle to read small print on everything even with glasses.
I’ve had a health issue in the past year which has resulted in having to take medication most likely forever which I’m not thrilled with but the benefits outweigh the risks.
Even though I’ve very recently had my 63rd birthday in my head in still 18! I do have a young outlook on life though and when I have days when I feels bit rubbish I just try to think how lucky I am to still be here, alive and relatively healthy compared to some other people.
My brain thinks i’m still 21 where as my body thinks i’m 94. In fact i am 64 but the pain I suffer daily really does wear me down. Its certainly no fun getting old. Plan for retirement but no one told me about the aches / pain.
Some aches and pains can be caused by medication. Doctor put me on cholesterol tablets and I started to get really achy legs and they felt weak, which was a side effect of the tablets so they took me off them and as My cholesterol was no really too bad left it up to me if I wanted to take a different sort. I opted to take the daily yoghurt drink instead.
I had a statin prescribed to me after my first heart attack and I had some terrible pains so i stopped taking them. 5 years later and a further heart attack I had new statin prescribed, no pain at all from the new one . @Wood-Nymph
Definitely, I had much loved family members only live to be 55 so every day after that age is a bonus to me.
Was talking to an old schoolfriend I bumped into a couple of weeks ago that I have known since we were 5, she still calls me by the name i was known as as a child! That made me feel old, but also made me smile!
I did take another sort before taking the achy one but they made me feel so sick every day to the point I was throwing up nearly every day and losing my diabetic tab!ets.
That is certainly not nice, I’m glad you have reduced your col another way. @Wood-Nymph
I’ll be turning 75 next month, and that number is making me feel old. I’m in good health, my weight is down since our vacation indulgences over the last 6 months. I’m into 32 waist pants again. I work out 1 - 1 1/2 hours everyday, plus whatever other things we get in. Body pains are not bad but my back does give me grief at times. One of the things I miss I being able to recover from sex for a second round quickly. Not that we do much of that these days. And not ejaculating after prostate surgery, makes me sad. But for my age I’m pretty good.
Same for me, so true. Not quite 63, but I’m right there with ya thinking I’m much younger than I really am in my head.
So very true.
I’m the same, not gardening really as I don’t garden, but I really do feel it if I do things for several hours anymore.
I miss the days of being able to go non-stop from morning til night. That’s just a pipe dream for me now. I will do an activity or a chore and then take a break. Then do more later on. I pace myself now in other words.
I’ve started saying ‘When I were a lad you could leave your doors open’
It’s my birthday this week, and normally I buy myself a wee something fun or trendy, this year it’s a new coolant pipe and battery for my car, and the wave of ‘this is it, adulthood’ hit once I hung up the phone. Doesn’t help that I also booked the car in on my actual birthday, for an 8am drop-off!
Welcome to adulthood! 