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Sucks when our bodies betray us!! Grrrrrrr
I'll be walking down some stairs and I'll get this horrible twinge in my knee.....or I get arthritis in different places here and there that come and go. Yup, "the motor is sputtering" LOLOLOL
I laugh to make myself feel better but inside I'm saying "Hell, I don't feel old in my mind".
(and I just turned 56)
All downhill from here I guess. HA!!
I'm 61, and feel pretty good, actually. I have taken up horseback riding, which has a lot of built in exercise (mostly shoveling poo). I lost 25 pounds and found my flexibility and balance has magically increased.
I'm in the middle of packing for the relo of a lifetime, and yesterday, skimming some old journals and letters from when I was in my twenties, I thought, thank Jesus I'm not THAT person any more! What a self-absorbed conflicted confused mess she was. Much happier being the person I am now.
Oh to see/feel 60 again, I was still going to the gym into mid 60's....arthritis took control and NOW at 79 body is pained too much. Face looks good but body...arthur itis likes it.
Sucks when our bodies betray us!! Grrrrrrr
I'll be walking down some stairs and I'll get this horrible twinge in my knee.....or I get arthritis in different places here and there that come and go. Yup, "the motor is sputtering" LOLOLOL
I laugh to make myself feel better but inside I'm saying "Hell, I don't feel old in my mind".
(and I just turned 56)
All downhill from here I guess. HA!!
You are a baby and work to keep that knee(s) working for more years. Cosamin DS is a quality product and I'd recommend it for management and prevention for advancing arthritis.
It's worse when "in your head" remembers yourself as an athlete, professional dancer, etc. It's depressing.
A few years ago, I tried to jump over a short wall in the airport parking lot, remembering that it was easy (all those years of ballet!) Imagine my horror when I didn't clear it and fell down, flat on my face! Stupid me. I was seriously embarrassed.
Similar thing happened to me last summer. I jumped DOWN from a wall probably about 3 feet high. My knee gave out and I fell down! And in front of a bunch of people, most of whom probably assumed I was drunk on a sunny summer afternoon at a beach side bar. (I wasn't.)
I have a bunch of exercises I do for my arthritic hips and shoulders. Most I learned in physical therapy when the arthritis was diagnosed, some were taken from a yoga DVD my daughter gave me. Trouble is, they're not a cure-all, and sometimes I have to lay off some of them. Then I never know if my latest ache or pain is from doing the exercises, or NOT doing the exercises!
I am around 16 years old in my head. I'm not anywhere close to that age in my body. I can't run anymore. I can't exercise anymore. My balance sucks half the time. If you were to meet me you'd think I was healthy as a horse (where did that saying come from?), but it's a sham.
I protest! But it does me no good.
Oh, and I irritate a lot of others as well, but for a different reason. LOL!
Just got back from the gym - though I've been going to water aerobics, I haven't been weight lifting or doing any other cardio and I just started feeling so guilty. I mean, I am AT the dang gym. There is the equipment. I'm paying for the membership, so just do it, right?
Oh my gosh. So yeah, I did it but I sure do remember when it wasn't this hard to do a reps cycle around the machines. Now I'm lowering the weights more and more and huffing and puffing. Sheeze.
I have a bunch of exercises I do for my arthritic hips and shoulders. Most I learned in physical therapy when the arthritis was diagnosed, some were taken from a yoga DVD my daughter gave me. Trouble is, they're not a cure-all, and sometimes I have to lay off some of them. Then I never know if my latest ache or pain is from doing the exercises, or NOT doing the exercises!
Same here. But at least if we'd get off our dead butts and DO the exercises, perhaps we could clear those walls on a single leap and so forth.
You are a baby and work to keep that knee(s) working for more years. Cosamin DS is a quality product and I'd recommend it for management and prevention for advancing arthritis.
I will look into that Cosamin DS! Thanks for the tip!
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And in front of a bunch of people, most of whom probably assumed I was drunk on a sunny summer afternoon at a beach side bar. (I wasn't.) 
