Things that suck about getting old.

[sammyg2]

Got a new one a few days ago:
If I lean slightly to the left, the front of my right arm from the bicep to the thumb goes tingly like it is "asleep".
If I tilt my head the other way to goes back to normal in a few seconds. I'm figuring a pinched nerve.

My typical strategy is to just wait for it to go away but that seems to take longer than it used to.

[URY914]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Got a new one a few days ago:
If I lean slightly to the left, the front of my right arm from the bicep to the thumb goes tingly like it is "asleep".
If I tilt my head the other way to goes back to normal in a few seconds. I'm figuring a pinched nerve.

My typical strategy is to just wait for it to go away but that seems to take longer than it used to.

Try drinking more beer. It will go away.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by speeder

Oh for sure, I'm going to get old like everyone else. .

I wasn't going to get all zen but since you said the secret phrase...While I can't avoid aging I refuse to get old!

[cabmandone]

Not that I have experienced this one (truly I have not)... but the need for the blue pill

[flipper35]

Kids don't know what good music is any more.

Now that I am 50 I find myself reaching for reading glasses more and more and it seems I am constantly plucking nose and ear hair.

[Evans, Marv]

Sammy. It is probably a pinched nerve. I have one affecting my left side, which started in the 90s. Lately I've been experiencing some symptoms on my right side. Supposedly the pinching is caused by an arthritic condition in the spinal portion of the neck area causing a reduction of the hole (fossa) where the nerve exits and causes the pinching. The irritation on my left side subsided over the years. I think because the body becomes accustomed to the constant irritation and begins to block it out.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by targa911S

chicken neck, ears getting big.

One of my buddies pointed to a table at a restaurant. It had 4 men sitting there chatting. All were in their 80s or 90s, and they ALL had huge ears. My friend said he wanted to live long enough to join the big ear club. He never made it, he died at age 68.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by URY914

Try drinking more beer. It will go away.

And that's another thing: I stopped drinking a couple years back due to health problems.
Not fair.

[flipper35]

Another thing that I was reminded of with the colonoscopy prep thread.

[cabmandone]

Haven't hit the age and don't qualify as at risk but this one can't be fun
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/672222-colonoscopy-prep-what-fun-night.html

[911 Rod]

At 55 I've been feeling a little old lately.
You gents have cheered me up!!

[recycled sixtie]

My father in law used to say it was downhill after 50. 60 was not bad but in my 70's is more challenging. Still can walk five miles a day no problem. Still a moving target is harder to hit than a stationary one.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Still a moving target is harder to hit than a stationary one.

That is the key. Accidents and injuries caused me a lot of problems (mostly arthritis, which I am fixing joint by joint!) but I do my WAJ (walk and sort'a jog) or the elliptical, nearly every day.

Life is good...

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

That is the key. Accidents and injuries caused me a lot of problems (mostly arthritis, which I am fixing joint by joint!) but I do my WAJ (walk and sort'a jog) or the elliptical, nearly every day.

Life is good...

I agree and life is what you make it!

[ckelly78z]

So many of my freinds are lazy, they come home from work and do nothing but watch TV, eat, and drink. I barely sit down for dinner, and am usually up and walking about doing things till bed time.

STAY ACTIVE to keep alive !

[URY914]

Damn this thread got long fast!

[flipper35]

I almost had to take a nap between pages 3 and 4.

[kach22i]

FYI: If you want to read something sort of funny about getting older try reading the very last article in this month's issue of Field & Steam Magazine by Bill Heavey.

His column is called "A Sportman's Life", this month's feature (December 2018) is titled "Coming of Age" - Making The Most Of My Mature Years.

It is just one page of light reading, does not look like it's been posted in his online blog yet.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/a-sportsmans-life

[speeder]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

My father in law used to say it was downhill after 50. 60 was not bad but in my 70's is more challenging. Still can walk five miles a day no problem. Still a moving target is harder to hit than a stationary one.

It's actually probably all downhill from 40 but it's a slow decline, thankfully.

I remember standing outside of the Town and Country club in St. Paul, MN. after one of my many cousin's weddings back in the '90s. I was in my early 30s. A Catholic priest who my older cousins knew was with us. He asked my cousin Joe how old he was, (knew him since early childhood). My cousin answered that he was 40 and said something about, "life begins @ 40..."

The priest answered, "Oh BS! It's all downhill from here..." We all nearly fell over laughing.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

I don't jump out of pickup truck beds any more, and I can't dunk a basketball like I used to. .....

Yeah....me neither....anymore ...

For some reason...I thought you wuz a white dude too