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I turned 60 and had heart surgery (largely hereditary, according to my cardiologist) and colon cancer, with 6 months of chemo. I’m better now, but these things definitely set me back, energy-wise. I walk 10 miles per week and that seems to help. I work part-time these days, about 20 hours per week.
Good post. When one hormone goes south others are sure to follow. Our hormones are supposed to be like a beautiful symphony. But as they wane the melody changes. Losing our sex hormones can bring on other issues too, oh joy. And they each have a laundry list of miserable symptoms. And it isn't just women. Men get Andropause. So don't feel left out, lol.
Add to this the difficulty of the aged to assimilate B12 properly. Some low B12 symptoms are similar to dementia.
Yes, DH has to have B12 injections every week since he can no long absorb it (age 67). It really affects him; he talks about "shot day" all week leading up to it! Both of his parents had dementia, so I hope this will slow it down if he's prone. Ugh. Sex hormones are really on the back burner relative to this other QOL stuff we both endure.
I was generally okay at 69--little fatigue, that's about it. Once I hit 70 it seems everything started going downhill. My fatigued quadrupled. Even piddly tasks left me drained after a few minutes. I developed balance problems and now drive as little as possible where 2019 before COVID struck I used to enjoy taking my wife to Malibu (30 miles one way) to let her photograph birds at the wildlife sanctuary while I sat in mcDonald's and ate a breakfast. Now at 70 it's a chore just walking to my car. My PCP generally gives me a clean bill of health. I don't seem to have any disease processes going on, just a slow decline in my abilities as a lose my health piece by piece. Anybody else experiencing similar?
Shoot, I felt all that starting at 37. You're doing good man!
At 68 I don't have the stamina I used to have. It started when I got a bad case of Covid in the very beginning of the pandemic.
The things that help me are trying to be as active as possible. When I can't get out I still do stretching several times a day. Feels good.
Another thing that helps me is eating soup made from homemade chicken stock and fresh vegetables. This stuff is an elixir of life, full of natural healing goodness.
Yes and I am 50. Everything hurts, my right knee hurts since having meniscus surgery in September, I have a middle toe on my right foot pressing on a nerve so that hurts when I walk (getting treatment for that) I have a severe skin condition which could be eczema or Psoriasis.(seeing a new Dr. for this but currently treating it with a cream given to me by another Dr.) I am stiff a lot lately oh and I have pain on the right side of my Jaw. Hurts to open wide. Might be TMJ, calling my Dr. tomorrow to make an appt. I walk like a caveman sometimes. I should not have this much pain at this young age. Have to address the knee as well. So many dr. Appts. in December.
I'm noticing that at just 62... Yikes! I even got a physical, as I was sure I was anemic or vitamin deficient or had an underactive thyroid or something, but nope. Just getting old! I'm sure retiring earlier this year didn't help...
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I work from home in a desk job. I have to make special effort to walk at lunch and lift weights. If I am not walking and lifting for awhile, I go to pieces. I enjoy hiking, and make an effort to do that. I also throw in an extra leg weights day a week.
I'm 68, still very healthy and can hike all I want and do yoga. I have some residual muscle damage from statins which I no longer take. My main complaint is that I cannot ride my horse as long as I want without various muscle weakness issues. Some days I just hand walk him out on the trails for an hour, which he seems to enjoy just as much as if I were on his back. My trainer rides him regularly because she wants to continue showing him in eventing, and I don't jump - just don't have the leg muscles for it - so he needs her to keep him in shape for that.
Sometimes I get a little depressed that I can't ride him as long as I'd like, but then I think, I'm fortunate I can ride him at all at my age. I think my problem is that I didn't ride for about 40 years, since I was in college, so when I started again at age 63, I really had to start all over. There are women in their 70s at our barn who go out trail riding for hours with no problem, but they never stopped. Hiking I've done all my life, so although I'm a little slower now, I never "lost" it.
I definitely feel the slow decline, but I still feel like I'm in better shape and can do more things that many people who are younger than I am. It's frustrating to feel things going downhill, though.
I was generally okay at 69--little fatigue, that's about it. Once I hit 70 it seems everything started going downhill. My fatigued quadrupled. Even piddly tasks left me drained after a few minutes. I developed balance problems and now drive as little as possible where 2019 before COVID struck I used to enjoy taking my wife to Malibu (30 miles one way) to let her photograph birds at the wildlife sanctuary while I sat in mcDonald's and ate a breakfast. Now at 70 it's a chore just walking to my car. My PCP generally gives me a clean bill of health. I don't seem to have any disease processes going on, just a slow decline in my abilities as a lose my health piece by piece. Anybody else experiencing similar?
Think of your brain/ body as a complex organism that has an extremely simple set of tasks. Obtain input (liquids and solids), process input (extract nutrients) and produce output (you know)... Any upset in this delicate balance results (in your case gradual) complications.
Since your PCP can't yet identify why there's a break in your processing step, you should work on your input choices and establish a regiment of activity (increasing at your own pace) until you know more
I'd suggest perusing this guy's video series Health care professional and educator Andrew Huberman gives the most in-depth advice on a layman's scale. From what I've seen so far, he's an advocate of supplementing (but he spends equal time on how to achieve the equivalent with diet/ exercise only - gives time to vegetarian/ vegan diets too if that's your thing).
I have some kind of chronic fatigue thing. Exercise just uses up what little energy I have and then I crash for a half a day. My PCP hasn't been able to pin it down to anything. he's sending me to specialists but my pool of choices is so bad I had to drop out of my Advantage plan and go with Original Medicare so I could get a better selection. The ones I get send to all have 1-star ratings (1-star = total idiot). Something like chronic fatigue is so ubiquitous it could involve 5 or 6 different things or any combination of them.
A lot of autoimmune disorders can cause fatigue - for example, low level rheumatoid arthritis, low level Epstein Barre (so called chronic mono), or Guillain Barre. You don't have to have severe crippling RA or other autoimmune disease to have fatigue symptoms.
Another common cause is long-term chronic fatigue triggered by a severe viral infection years before. Today we are familiar with this with Covid - the "long haulers". But this can happen with other viral diseases too. Think back - did the fatigue symptoms begin after a flu or a sickness with a high fever?
Very few physicians (usually a rheumatologist) have any solutions for chronic fatigue syndromes. One problem is that it is often dismissed as laziness, lack of exercise, poor diet, depression or even as psychosomatic. But those that have chronic fatigue understand that it is a very real debilitating condition that steals their quality of life. Ideally you'd find an expert in chronic fatigue but those doctors are very scarce, and even if you find one they may not have a treatment. Now that you are on MediGap you will have access to more doctors, but it is still a challenge to find the good ones.
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