This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

I'll have you know my ovaries are extremely well-behaved; veritable paragons of polite ovarian society.

The ovaries are fine, but I'm prone to brain farts now.

The world's worst song.

Comparing your ovary to a Bronte C/D?

Wuthering Ovaries

Thrustcrotch Minge

Carry On Bronteing

One upside: being a dirty old man sort of suits me.

-- Rock Hardy

^^^

haven't you all heard - us 40+'rs are saving the music industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/stevelamacq/2008/08/to_bb_or_not_to_bb.html

Come on - you're not too old to have forgotten this thread already...
I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.

Don't even remember that thread but this one could do with a few more ovaries...

my right knee

wait, is your right knee also my right knee. Because - my right knee.

No knee problems, but a lingering cough and all.

my left knee

Knees still fine, but ow my aching fibroid. Roll on the menopause, please.

back pain... bruised rib?

Have you banged a rib?

Not that I remember ... had a sidewalk fall about 6 weeks ago but I'm positive I landed on knees.

I always have back pain. I just attribute it to "lol old, also sit up straight dummy" at this point.

Had surgery three weeks ago to correct a compressed ulnar nerve in my left arm. Incision is taking it's sweet time healing all the way.

The rest of my 40s are going to suck, aren't they.

Upper, lower, middle back, Morbz?

left middle-lower

Saggy mattress? I can definitely trace my back pain to mattress + increasing girth.

Yeah, I try to sleep flat on my back w/a pillow under my knees when I get back pain.

well I sleep with my bed titled to ease the acid reflux. But yeah, mattress is old and crap.

Lord Paillasse?

Tilted means your back is still bearing weight.

usually sleep on my side (the right since pain started obv)

but pain is not as bad as it was in January.

Seen a chiropractor at all or anybody, really?

as an ILXOR in my 40s, I can confirm that GOOD POSTURE is urgent and key - even making the effort to sit up straighter at yr desk can have a tremendously positive effect on neck and back pain

I sleep on my side as well, and trial and error has led to this successful formula: an extra pillow to straighten my neck, and a pillow between my legs to elevate my top leg and straighten my spine. I'm still grinked up in the morning, but it eases by my 2nd cup of coffee.

I see my GP every summer, and that takes effort.

ppl our age really can't eat Indian food w/out sacrifice, eh?

tmi

wow, earliest sign here of my back pain that turned out to be Something Serious, unrelated to posture. Had no idea it started in winter.

Hesitated this time before throwing out mailing w/ AARP card.

My vision has gone 'bifocalish', ie I gotta take the glasses off to read.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:05 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is driving me fkin CRAZY. I just got new frames, which I love, but I only get to wear em 15% of the time. I opted not to get the progressive lenses bc I was afraid it would be annoying but...

Also damn but I (b.1970) spent 2012 feeling just physically OLD.

I feel great, I realize I'm fortunate to remember things other people don't, and I wouldn't trade that for anything. My sister doesn't remember our grandfather, for example - he died in 1975. I think she feels this loss, it's a piece of her history she can only access through pictures.

a sign of middle age truculence ids you're stil lwilling to put up with the morning after Indian food.

(yes i have passed out of strict eligibility for this thread, whatcha gonna do abt it?)

Hi dere

ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ7NMg3-E50

Welp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB74GuvPBh8

lol u old

When I was a young, I lolled as a young. When I became an old, I put away slacks that only went as high as my waist.

Oof. Hello.

Whassup fellow elders!

Two months to go then I'm hitting the next thread up, bye-bye 40s it was (not) fun

Three years and two months for me still, so let's see how the last quarter of fortydom plays out.

http://blog.mtgprice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Pain.jpg

I have 47 months of my 40s left. Wheeeee!

on the plus side - I've felt so jaded in my 40's, that rather than worrying about illness and mortality, I started thinking: let's not be so reductive about death here.

one month left for me.
~ sigh ~

That's me now on office days in orbit (not that I'm particularly proud of it) but I do a 45 minute bike ride in the process so by the time I'm there I'm pretty awake and ready for the coffee.

!!! That would be lovely! Walking is painful and difficult for me, that's the thing I can't do without 20 mins of stretching. But cycling...you could talk me into cycling.

Bout to make make some hot tea and hold the mug against my sternum for maximum coziness. No one will be able to tell me anything until spring. I'm fine with ending my 40s with a couple of years of this.

Despite all known advice against Q-tipping, the pull of the eargasm is always there.

― guillotine vogue (suzy)

lol, y'all ever hear about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_induced_sneezing

Another possible explanation concerns the existence of erectile tissue in the nose, which may become engorged during sexual arousal, triggering a sneeze. Cranial nerve zero (autonomic) is also located in the nasal cavity. Its purpose is unknown, but it is thought to play a role (or used to play a role) in detecting pheromones.[1]

oh that's cool apparently my nose gets hard-ons?!?

I graduate in a few weeks into the next thread … definitely a lot of changes in the past 10 years… I have kinda become a morning person, I am definitely having to pay way more attention to what I eat out of sheer lizard brain necessity, sitting cross legged on the floor with no back support isn’t something I can do for long periods of time anymore… I am trying to be self-aware about cultural change, language change, and not have knee-jerk old person responses to it … sometimes I feel like a character in “slip sliding away”

Doloreeeeeesssss I live in fear

49 years of Sara hell yeah

I've been able to clear out impacted wax since then with one of those kits from the grocery store with the fizzy solution and the ear bulb. it took a few tries and some patience. much cheaper than the ent, even with insurance, and just as effective.

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, October 7, 2024 9:48 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I tried this and I must have squeezed the catheter pump thing too hard or something because I got really dizzy and had to lie down. This was years ago, and an isolated incident (the dizziness, I mean)

tbf that can happen even when the ENT does it with the (highly technical term) suction thingy. It usually passes pretty quickly for me.

Turned 49 recently. Just one more year of this bullshit

Happy birthday

Ty!

I can’t believe I’m 49. It feels so weird

Think about how it feels to us.