Memory issues, here. I didn’t think I would have bad memory issues until just a while ago, I had a thought on the tip of my nose, but forgot it in seconds and how it took me minutes to recall it. That’s a key sign right there.

Some people have better memory in old age, like it’s unreal sometimes with what some of them can remember. While the average person forgets thoughts in moments.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        3 months ago

        I think the border symptoms do get worse and your medication resistance might increase (also, if your weight is increasing the same dosage will be less effective)… but in terms of the primary symptoms - I think they decrease. Or rather, I think our ability to cope and mask increases as we age. I’m currently a manager and keeping on top of other people doing their tasks and having their needs met is something I never imagined being able to do but now that I’m doing it it’s all sort of just working.

        We get more skilled at dealing with our executive disorder as we age. We plan better for the possibility that we’ll be in an off mood or down a rabbit hole… we are (hopefully) more comfortable with sharing our condition with our relations so that partners are aware of our difficulties and strengths and can react accordingly - especially once we can overcome the deep shame about ADHD being a personal failing that was beaten into most of us… we give our brain time to indulge and better set internal expectations and accept that some weekends we’ll never touch a feather duster while other weekends we’ll deep clean our living space and just… be okay with that.

        I’m sure in the extremes it’s rough and there are studies that our ADHD is an increased risk factor for dementia so… eventually we’re all probably fucked… but hopefully that’s a long way off.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    3 months ago

    I expected the health problems, the memory loss, all that stuff. The only old person thing I hoped would never happen is becoming a right-wing shithead. Nothing so far!

  • edric@lemm.ee
    31·
    3 months ago

    “Get off my lawn”, but not in a very bad way. lol. Now that I live in a house, I have to admit I get mildly infuriated when I see people walking across my front lawn or parking right by my driveway. But I don’t confront them or anything, I just stare menacingly behind half closed window blinds where they can’t see me.

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      3 months ago

      Now this is what I fear. The gradual loss of the childful optimism and joy. I have already lost some of it, but I’m sure it could be brought back. ^^

      • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        3 months ago

        The gradual loss of the childful optimism and joy.

        When I was a (hungry and impoverished) child, I was optimistic that hunger and poverty could be solved.

        As an adult who teaches the study of humans, it is quite clear that the solutions are convenient enough, so will not be attempted.

        Hungry children it is.

    • Elise@beehaw.org
      7·
      3 months ago

      Do you have a massage ball? 5 bucks. Against wall. Don’t go over the spine.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Had another poster point this is out, and after thinking on it, I have the same issue and cure. Go walking.

      If I sit on my ass for a day or three, my lower back gets really sore. As long as I’m active, no problem.

      I’m skinny and always have been, YMMV.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
        3·
        3 months ago

        I work blue collar so i’m plenty active, i think it’s just me having accumulate all them back stress over the years it becoming bad now. I’m gonna try with a good mattress and see if it help though.

      • tamal3@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Deadlifts fixed my backaches at age 29. Haven’t had any issues since as long as I keep up the routine.

        • RBWells@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          Husband says the same. Deadlifts fixed his back. I have this far been lucky but do yoga 4x/week and lift once or twice a week. The yoga I am sure really helps.

    • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
      32·
      3 months ago

      Mine got fully away after buying a really good (and expensive) gaming chair and a new mattress. The gaming industry has done so much for our health, it’s insane. :)

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
    17·
    3 months ago

    hearing loss; vision impairment; bad back; hernias; hypertension; diabetes.

    some people are afraid that they’re turning into their mother or their father; while i’m turning into both at the same time.

          • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Genetics are not on my side in this regard. Extensive family history of everything under the sun, including degenerative joint issues, hypermobility, diabetes, blood pressure, etc…

        • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
          3·
          3 months ago

          I started having trouble with one of my knees when I was a teenager, probably due to reckless behavior. Still have chronic joint pain, with most of them, but at least I don’t get the acute knee pain anymore. I can usually tell when my knee movement is going to cause problems and stop the action before it kicks in. But it’s been at least a year since i was pain free without medication.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    You can do some stuff to help fight the memory issues. Push hard to keep learning new things. Find complicated problems to solve and keep solving them.

    Nothing accelerates cognitive decline faster than becoming complacent and avoiding mentally challenging activities.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    I feel great physically, but:

    Finally got hips at 50 (neither pregnancy not age changed my lean build until age 50).

    Both nearsighted and farsighted now instead of just nearsighted.

    And my goodness, supper at teatime is the best! We go out to eat at 4pm all the time now. So funny, I used to wait until after 8pm but now prefer either a late breakfast and a teatime meal, or lunch and early supper.

    I’ve never had a great memory, wouldn’t say it’s gotten worse yet.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    3 months ago

    Needing a cane. I’m not even that old, barely 50, but I’ve been on a cane as a necessity for almost twenty years now. The early part of that was spotty, after I had enough physical therapy to get off of a walker entirely, I slowly got to the point where I could skip the cane for most things while I tried going back to work.

    That utterly failed lol. By 2008, it was pretty much mandatory anywhere but home, and over the years moved to being anywhere outside the house at all, with some days where it’s inside too.

    Kinda crazy looking back on it because now it seems like I’ve been in this situation my entire life, but it also doesn’t feel like twenty years. Which, it isn’t quite 20 yet, but IDGAF about precision on this lol.

    But back as a kid, I always thought of canes as being for really old people. I kinda knew it wasn’t only for old people, but the concept of it was like that.

    Arthritis is the other one. I had no idea until it started up in my hands in my twenties that arthritis wasn’t purely for people older than that. I’d never run into it, and had somehow also never read about it. But rheumatoid arthritis isn’t ageist, it turns out.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    • The switch to progressive lenses happened far sooner than I was hoping.

    • Graying in the beard stayed away for a long time, and then in a matter of a year, decided to attack with all of its might. (Probably the same on my head too, but I’ve been shaving it forever so I wouldn’t know)

    • Heartburn troubles. Though that was less about ageing and more about gaining weight after quitting smoking twelve years ago.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    7·
    3 months ago

    Aging. I didn’t expect to live through my twenties due to a reckless lifestyle that included lots of drugs and partying and rubbing shoulders with questionable types of people. I saw an old lady being helped walking with a younger woman at age ~27 and went, oh shit. That might be me one day. I had severely chilled out and converted to a more typical lifestyle by then.