The joys of ageing - or not! What are your experiences? What could we do differently?

I so agree with you. I think I frightened the Tesco delivery driver the other day, he asked if I had a  good weekend and I said yes as I have new pills and they are working. I looked at him and said, it's true, everything falls apart as you get older. He looked at me horrified and changed the subject!  I was never informed about how to prevent my diabetes either. It's only in the last few years I even heard of prediabetes (I was diagnosed in 2019.)  I also find once one thing goes, it's like dominos. I have a severe vitamin D deficency and at the weekend started medication for overactive thyroid and beta blockers to help with the symptoms of overactive thyroid whilst the medication to treat it kicks in.

I'm sorry you have aliments too. I used to hear about doctors being atonished when they heard of older people not on medication. That used to perplex me. USED to, lol, bitter experrience. 

LateToTheAlphaQuadrant said:

I think I frightened the Tesco delivery driver

It reminds me of a film I saw once, where teens were harrying an aged person, because they were horrified when she told them they too would age one day.

LateToTheAlphaQuadrant said:

started medication for overactive thyroid and beta blockers

That's on the cards for me, too!  Wish decent doctors like the Van Tulleken brothers would write more about ageing!

Older people have told me for years to not get old, like the alternative's better!

I think a lot of it is to do with genetics, my Mums side of the family is long lived with reasonable health, she's 92 and quite sprightly. She's always eaten a good diet with lots of fruit and veg and she's always kept mentally active too, doing puzzles, reading and until recently embroidery, she's such a brilliant embroiderer, shame she never taught me.

My Dads side seems to be what I've inherited, all the aches and pains and varicose veins. Although he was very active, with a strong interest in history.

When he went to hospital the doctor said she thought they lost his medication list and was amazed that he wasn't on any and that at 85 he didn't need any. Mums not on any medication either and I don't have any for things like blood pressure or heart problems which apparently makes me unusual for my age.

I think my Mum's living proof of the old adage,"An apple a day keeps the doctor away", she has an apple every day, plus other fruit.

I think one of the hardest parts for me has been the advances in tech and the subtle things its changed, like writing letters, at school I was taught to indent the first word of a paragraph, to indent addresses, the correct use of faithfully and sincerely. I really struggled to learn these things and to have them negated by a piece of machinery, feels like an afront, especially when told its how the computer does it and it dosen't matter. Well it mattered to me! I find the world a far more confusing place to be, less helpful and understanding, we have food from all over the world which is great, but why do we have so many clothes that look like they've been made by people who've never seen a human before? In many ways life feels more restricted than it did when you had to physically trudge round the shops to buy anything, the internet has given us access to a world wide market place, as long as you want the same half a dozen things in any catagory.

Older people have told me for years to not get old, like the alternative's better!

I think a lot of it is to do with genetics, my Mums side of the family is long lived with reasonable health, she's 92 and quite sprightly. She's always eaten a good diet with lots of fruit and veg and she's always kept mentally active too, doing puzzles, reading and until recently embroidery, she's such a brilliant embroiderer, shame she never taught me.

My Dads side seems to be what I've inherited, all the aches and pains and varicose veins. Although he was very active, with a strong interest in history.

When he went to hospital the doctor said she thought they lost his medication list and was amazed that he wasn't on any and that at 85 he didn't need any. Mums not on any medication either and I don't have any for things like blood pressure or heart problems which apparently makes me unusual for my age.

I think my Mum's living proof of the old adage,"An apple a day keeps the doctor away", she has an apple every day, plus other fruit.

I think one of the hardest parts for me has been the advances in tech and the subtle things its changed, like writing letters, at school I was taught to indent the first word of a paragraph, to indent addresses, the correct use of faithfully and sincerely. I really struggled to learn these things and to have them negated by a piece of machinery, feels like an afront, especially when told its how the computer does it and it dosen't matter. Well it mattered to me! I find the world a far more confusing place to be, less helpful and understanding, we have food from all over the world which is great, but why do we have so many clothes that look like they've been made by people who've never seen a human before? In many ways life feels more restricted than it did when you had to physically trudge round the shops to buy anything, the internet has given us access to a world wide market place, as long as you want the same half a dozen things in any catagory.