<p>CPAP users, will anyone want to sign up for the STAR tial?</p>
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<p>DH is a CPAP user at my insistence. Yet, here I am on the computer at 2AM. Damn, that machine wakes me up!</p>
<p>My knees hurt, and have been for several years. Hard going up and down stairs, but still work fulltime as an RN(pounding cement floors for 37yrs). Dont tolerate alcohol like I use to. Use to like walking outdoors, trails, afraid to with my knees. But I feel freer emotionally, less care of what others think. More comfortable in my own skin. More peaceful as a person. Those are also symptoms of aging in my opinion as well.</p>
<p>I find myself driving down a street, and I realize I’m not 100% certain which street it is.</p>
<p>interesting reverse development- when H no longer was on call his near sleep apnea gasping/snoring disappeared. no other changes.</p>
<p>I am not close to 60 (late 40’s) but already have memory issues with remembering names, which would scare me except I have never been good with them:). In terms of physical ailments, I get a lot more aches and pains then I used to, and my prostate started acting up which fortunately I have been able to treat naturally…I also can’t eat the foods I used to, can easily get indigestion…</p>
<p>One thing about sleeping, getting a deep sleep as we get older gets more and more difficult. One way to counteract this is to take low dose melatonin, the standard doses they sell in the store are way too high…low dose melatonin can help get into a more deeper sleep, which helps with a number of age related issues from what I have read.</p>
<p>I haven’t had any problems sleeping for quite some time - I like to get in 1 to 2.5 hours of tennis or a 3-5 mile run or weightlifting in most everyday. A strenuous workout during the day makes for a very restful night’s sleep.</p>
<p>Signs of aging:
I know who Ke$ha is; I have no desire to buy any of her songs</p>
<p>I am increasingly irritated by the Kardashians</p>
<p>I don’t correct H when he talks about seeing the Steve McQueen show at the Met. You know – the fashion designer who killed himself.</p>
<p>Forgetting names. Actors, singers, baseball players, people I used to know. It happens a lot more frequently than it used to now that I’m 56, and it’s very frustrating. Especially when I sit there trying without success to figure out some indirect way to get my brain to remember it – like looking for the key to a filing cabinet. Sometimes, I get stubborn and refuse to look it up until it comes to me. To give one example, I realized all of a sudden a few weeks ago that I couldn’t remember Kate Winslet’s name for the life of me. It popped back in my head eventually, after I ran through a bunch of names of her movies in my head, but until it did I couldn’t think of anything else.</p>
<p>Otherwise, my memory is fine. It’s just random names that escape me. Even though I could probably still recite from memory the names, dates, and places associated with more than 100 of my direct ancestors – probably because they’re all connected to each other in my mind. A little like the old “memory palace” concept, which I’ve always been too lazy to utilize effectively.</p>
<p>Physically, even though my medical issues are no worse (or better) than ever, I do notice that I get tired a lot more often and more easily. Unless I get 8 hours of sleep (which I almost never do during the week), I often find myself having to take a nap at my desk by early evening. And sometimes I spend most of the weekend napping.</p>
<p>Also, I think I’ve noticed the faint beginnings of the first crows’ feet at the corner of one of my eyes. No other wrinkles yet, knock on wood.</p>
<p>Just the beginnings of crow’s feet at 56? I must have some of yours.
lilmom, I thought my changing eyesight was because of too much computer time - but it turned out that I have cataracts. They’ve gotten so significant that I’m having surgery this week. There are many conditions that can lead to diminishing eyesight in middle age. I hope yours is only due to eyestrain, but it’s worth being checked out for glaucoma or other conditions.</p>
<p>I have the urge to invade or at least bomb a foreign nation…</p>
<p>My memory has grown sharper, and I no longer worry much about things. Having died once, I know it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and I’m difficult to threaten. I want to try new things.</p>
<p>I don’t run much.</p>
<p>re: wrinkles – if your S or D gets Retin-A prescribed for their skin, you can “borrow” it from time to time – really works.</p>
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<p>I can’t stay awake to watch the eleven o’clock news… but I’m wide awake at 3am thank you very much!</p>
<p>I haven’t read the whole thread, but the one symptom of aging that I am experiencing is having to take care of my 94 year old mother. She was always the pillar of strength for all of us, but now needs all of us to be her caregivers.</p>
<p>I used to sleep like a rock. Now I often don’t sleep well, and even when I think I did sleep well, I don’t feel rested.</p>
<p>I have less mobility in my joints, esp. my shoulders (as I found out this week when I had trouble tying an apron.) </p>
<p>My feet hurt if I stand for too long.</p>
<p>Every extra calorie is going to my belly.</p>
<p>And, the worst: I tend to look back on my life more now, and can’t say I am satisfied with it. I haven’t accomplished much at all, and now I feel like it’s too late and I will die a failure.</p>
<p>I have mellowed, am more compassionate, have more patience for idiots, but maybe I am just losing my edge.</p>
<p>^^ought oh. I have much less patience for idiots. Also, pretty much every other problem in the first 35 threads. </p>
<p>I most definitely need a nap at my desk during daytime and I would certainly get sleepy during an hour long commute at the end of the day, but these things were the same in my early 20’s, so I’m not sure it’s aging. I am almost certain I have sleep apnea, but almost equally certain I couldn’t adapt to that machine, so I haven’t gotten tested yet.</p>
<p>“Mirrors and photographs are extremely unkind in the past decade…”</p>
<p>True, but since my vision is getting worse and I need glasses, I don’t notice it so much anymore.</p>
<p>Old knees!!!</p>
<p>weird feelings in them sometimes at night and when having to be in a car for long periods of time.</p>
<p>I hate that odd feeling…can’t really describe it…just creepy.</p>
<p>I am still under 50, but I started having alot of these nasty things happen to me that people have mentioned. I have decided to do what I can to make this aging process go as well as possible. I have joined a medical clinic with what they call “leading edge medicine” and I think this is going pretty well.</p>
<p>They measure 8 different hormone levels and give you whatever you need to move each level up to what would be optimum for a 30 year old (not normal, but optimal levels). They take massive amounts of blood tests to figure out what you specifically are deficient/high in, and give you targeted supplements to put you at a healthy level. They figure out what you are at risk for (family history, lifestyle, job related), and give you specific vitamins and supplements to help.</p>
<p>So far so good. Melatonin (titrated to what I need) helps me sleep. Chromium has completely taken away my sugar/carb cravings, appropriate hormone levels have helped me in many ways mentally and physically (I feel pretty happy…vitamin D helps, unstressed most of the time and have lost 6 pounds without dieting). So…I actually think there are ways to help slow down or reverse some of these processes. Why accept normal, if normal is thinking you’re losing your mind, feeling tired, depressed and gaining weight? Hey, I sound like a commercial, but it is odd to actually start going the other direction.</p>