Non-fatal and non-debilitating bodily changes as you age that no one really ever told you about

That eyebrow hair that thinks it's a public hair.

^ pubic

Sore joints after moderate exercise.

I'm 64 and have started noticing an occasional eyebrow growing longer as well as a few grey ones. Grey hair really varies depending were it is on the body. I'm not particularly hairy except for heavy beard. What chest hair I have is grey/white. No grey in pubic or axillary area at all. Hair on head is about 50% grey or close to it. Facial hair is splotches of grey, but I keep clean shaven.

Joint pain and muscle aches that never seem to fully go away.

food sticks to the back of the tongue instead of going down. It feels like the passage there has an obstruction that never existed before.

No longer wake up with an erection most of the time. Well, maybe a semi sometimes.

R6 It's probably nothing, but I would still mention that symptom to your doctor or dentist just to rule out any problem.

I have been a big shooter with lots of volume my whole life . I could hit my face and beyond. But just this past year, my cum only shots couple of inches. It pisses me off. My long distance gooey globs were a source of pride.

R7 Mid-60s and no issues (surprisingly) with that yet. The only time I had any ED issues at all was when I was very briefly on Paxil (an SSRI antidepressant) 20+ years ago. I could still get it up, but it was nearly impossible to orgasm. I would basically give up. I do notice less ejaculate now days. I had my testosterone checked and it is at the high end of normal. My doctor asked if I was juicing (I'm not).

R9 You wrote your reply at the same time that I did. I don't like the decrease in seminal volume and force either. I have read that Kegel exercises can help. I plan to give it a try.

I've been dealing with stray eyebrow hairs growing long and getting in my vision for about the past year. It's so annoying. I rip them out with tweezers. I'm 42.

How all your body fat migrates to your lower abdomen.

R12 I trim them with scissors when possible because if I ripped out every long hair, I'd have no eyebrows left. But I don't want to look like late-life Larry Hagman, either.

I told you not to eat and drink that stuff. Now look at me!

Sarcopenia. And the Ozempic I take isn’t helping either…

No tolerance for booze or fried food.

Millennial, so not as old as some here, but i'd say having to get the weird pains, feelings, and changes checked out. Most will turn out to be nothing, but one can't take that chance. Also, no one really talks about the middle years much. I had this naive view when younger that people just got old one day. No, the stiffness etc comes on you over time and working out isn't as easy as it was when I was 20.

Harder time digesting dairy.

Female here - in perimenopause. Goat-like chin and neck hairs that seemingly pop out of nowhere are are an inch long. If I ever end up in the hospital unconscious, someone is gonna need to bring in my Norelco trimmer.

Female here, as well. I'd expected many of the symptoms of menopause, but the one that threw me for a loop was the acute anxiety.

My understanding about it: When estrogen and progesterone decrease, their component molecules produce cortisol and adrenaline, the stress hormones which leads to increases in anxiety, and some panic symptoms. For me, the anxiety would come out of the blue -- I can be unstressed, nothing really going on and boom, seemingly from nowhere. My breathing gets shallower, my heart rate changes. Sometimes, even my hands even shake from it.

All those molecules that used to go into estrogen and progesterone production, form androgens -- male hormones. The reason for stray chin hairs and thinning head hair.

r12 I'm around your age and the eyebrow hairs growing long has taken me by surprise. I had no idea that was a thing. I have a pair of tweezers in the bathroom to pull out the hairs out when they get noticeably longer.

earrings that come out with Caftans!

I was going to say shingles, but you know all about that.

Being startled by chunks of earwax dropping out of the canal…thinking it’s an insect at first. Freaks me out every time.

dry, itchy skin

Teeth shifting around

Leg hair falling out.

Ridges on finger nails

Thinning eyebrows. I purchased some batana oil; they say that it can thicken facial hair if applied no less than three times a week.

Bunions. WTH!?

CONSTIPATION

disappearing eyebrows, scaly shanks, zero ejaculate (drug side-effect and age)

Mentally I'm still in pretty good shape (creeping up on 77). I'm still in love with my husband. We no longer fuck (he had prostate cancer), but we cuddle and that's almost as good as what we had before.

My tolerance for alcohol disappeared practically the day I turned forty. I could drink my ass off in my twenties and thirties and the next morning I'd be a little hungover for a couple of hours but then I'd be fine. After forty, if I had just two drinks at night the next day I was tired as hell. Now that I'm creeping up on fifty I just don't drink at all anymore.

My first job after college was working for a doctor. I think I'd seen or heard about most of the possibilities before I was 30.

Since then, in no particular order, I've dealt with a myocardial infarction, ulcerative colitis, type II diabetes, heart failure, CKD, mast cell release syndrome, BPH, cataracts, kidney stones, and a bad temper.

Nothing fatal or at least, not yet. Non-debilitating? There's been a pill or a shot or a procedure for everything so far. Organizing the appointments and getting and taking the meds is a look more work than the illnesses, thankfully.

Trim, don't pluck eyebrow hairs. . Minoxidil works on eyebrow regrowth except at outside ends.

Coffee! I've been someone who could drink MAXIMUM two cups a day or else I'd break in a jittery sweat. I'm 60 now and I could drink gallons of the stuff and then go to sleep.

Nobody warned me about benign positional vertigo!

R38 yep. I've got that too

Chipped teeth

The flatulence! In my younger years I would have been horribly embarrassed to fart in public. Now it happens all the time and I enjoy the reactions around me.

Somebody mentioned ridges on fingernails. I have them coming in vertically and horizontally. Fingernails have thickened. I expected it in the toes but not fingers

Everything hurting when I wake up.

Having to take a shit at unexpected times.

r29 ridges in fingernails can also point to a nutritional/vitamin deficiency.

Illnesses knocking you over so much fucking harder than they used to.

Flu A almost sent me to the ER in early ‘23. Now I have Epstein Barr Virus (mono) and the fatigue is unending. Been increasingly wiped out since late March and it took weeks to understand I needed medical guidance. Like anyone would, thought it was just life stress / world-induced stress and exhaustion at first.

Unless you exist on chicken broth or you're a hillbilly eating possum and tree bark, it's doubtful you have a vitamin deficiency.

r47 that's absolutely not true. I have been deficient in Iron, B12 and Vit D in the past (on separate occasions, even). People can easily become deficient in folate and Vit C as well (although sometimes that happens as a result of alcoholism). Modern-day scurvy (Vit C deficiency) still happens, especially with fanatics who refuse to eat any "sugar" (like fruit).

Nutritional Deficiencies and Nail Ridges:

Iron Deficiency:

Iron deficiency anemia can lead to various nail changes, including longitudinal ridges, says Healthline.

Vitamin B12 Deficiency:

This deficiency can cause hyperpigmentation of nails, including longitudinal and reticulate darkened streaks, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Other Deficiencies:

Deficiencies in folate, zinc, and certain other vitamins (A, C, D) can also affect nail health and potentially contribute to the appearance of ridges, says Healthline.

I always saw old men at the gym drying their balls and feet with a hair dryer forever and now I understand why. Jock itch/ athletes foot is constant if you don’t stay on top of staying dry.

After a lifetime of running and jogging, my knees are beginning to give out. It's difficult walking up and down steps.

Skin tags.

I have been diagnosed with Vitamin D and B-12 deficiencies. The B-12 is probably more about the way my body works than my diet. I take supplements.

Hairs growing out of the inside of my ear I pluck them before I get my haircut or if they get too long.

R53, it's something I do when reading DL.

Inability to digest sugary foods.

r34 - same here.

Plucking ear hairs is my thing too. I do it with my fingernails. I rub the inside of my ear and if I hear that crinkle crinkle of a hair, I can’t rest until it’s pulled out by the root. I do it all the time so nothing gets me crazier than those times, just reaching around in darkness I come across a long hair that’s been growing from deep inside. I literally stare at it on a piece of paper asking, “how the fuck did I miss you for doling?” I feel like I’ve been lied to.

My tolerance for alcohol is basically gone at 46. I had two glasses of wine on Easter and slept like crap.... Not worth it. Fat all accumulating in the middle. Unable to read things up close. The need to go to bed by 10.

Everything r58 said, I'm also in my forties. Fat accumulation in the gut is the worst! I used to be able to eat like a pig and my metabolism took care of it. Now I have to watch everything I eat and work out like a MF to maintain a 32" waist. If I didn't watch my diet and exercise I would look like I was carrying twins. No more drinking, even a little alcohol makes me feel like shit the next day. "Staying out late" means 11:00, 11:30 at the latest.

Tweezers work well to pluck out ear hair. No need to use your fingernails.

Those gray/white eyebrow hairs are like fishing line.

I can't squat any more without difficulty rising so I no longer do it.

I just found a picture of me from 15 years ago (30 to 55 now). My, have I aged. It bothers me. I'm not overweight. But the the plump ass that I used to have seems to be tucked to my tummy now. My legs are balding. Hair moved from the top of my head to the ears... all that. I wasn't stunningly handsome when I was younger, but I knew I could get some when I wanted. Realizing that I cannot just pick a guy anymore bothers me. And I don't even want to hook up. I am happy with my husband. But the fact that my look is irretrievably gone feels depressing on bad days.

30 to 55 is 25 years, I'm afraid.

I developed neuropathy in both feet due to a b12 deficiency. They discovered it when I talked to them about a feeling of clumsiness.

Yeah I'm really falling apart and it happened too soon, I'm only in my late 50s. Constant pulsing tinnitus / partial deafness / vertigo episodes from Meniere's Disease. The tinnitus hell causes insomnia which causes chronic fatigue. This makes it hard for me to summon the willpower even to go to the gym, much less exert myself when I'm there. So I'm increasingly unfit and slumpy. Can't digest dairy, kind of can't digest gluten, alcohol totally sidelines me, etc. Sun exposure tires me. Close-range eyesight went bust. There's more but I'll assume you've had sufficient.

This was always part of the deal, being born and having a human life... but, truly, it sucks. I can't believe I'm the same person who in the '90s, '00s and even the early '10s used to be able to dance for hours, host all-nighter parties, eat pretty much everything, get plenty of sex and I was good at it... all the things. I feel like a ghost now, in relationship to those memories.

I took semaglutide and lost 25 pounds.

"Signs" of aging that went away: lower back pain, huffing and puffing up a flight of stairs, poor sleep.

Age is going to get us all if death doesn't get us first.

But getting the weight off will roll back the years.

I've lost 31 lbs on semaglutide and 39 lbs overall since January; just 9 more to go before I'm in the "normal" weight/BMI zone.

Despite that, my lower back pain is still there. And I have random foot pain when I walk or hike that I didn't have just 2 1/2 years ago.

I'm 56.

R48 = Vitamin Shoppe

Fatty liver and I only have a couple of drinks a week

My eyebrows, nose hair, armpit hair, and pubes are growing like a wild bush.

Meanwhile, the hair on my scalp is starting to think.

Increasingly long delay for starting micturation. (look it up)

"Meanwhile, the hair on my scalp is starting to think."

At least something on your head is starting to think.

R7, what is your intake of sugar?

Fatty liver disease is caused by 2 things; alcohol (alcoholic fatty liver), and excess sugar (non-alcoholic fatty liver). I'm asking about your sugar intake because couple of alcoholic drinks per week should not be the cause of your fatty liver.

Sorry, my post at R74 is meant for R70.

The stress of constant attention by young guys who somehow have gotten into granddaddy porn and want to "play." They see me in the park or at the store and before I have time to use the bathroom the doorbell's ringing.

I'm thinking of having a sign made for the door that says, "By Invitation Only."

R74 I don’t eat much sugar at all because I low carb, I started taking milk thistle supplements

In the morning...

I get up to take the first piss of the day. Go back to bed. Ten minutes later I need to piss again.

Upper arm skin laxity the area right over the triceps. I've been putting retin A on my arms at night just to see if it helps

Chronically dry eyes, as well as failing eyesight, especially in things close up.

My friend was shocked when we in a parking garage recently and I was able to read his licence plate numbers at a distance of 70 feet away, but dammed if I can read anything if it's one foot away.

This thread should be turned into a book for everyone approaching 50 and beyond.

I have no idea what switch got turned on that said nose hair shall grow like jungle weed and it's thick, coarse and gray. Not to mention the stray hair that grows outside of my nose and on my lobe and ear rim. WTF?

Also, I started getting crazy UTIs all the time and couldn't figure out why. Turns out after a CT Scan, an ultrasound, and the thing where they stick the camera up your dick, my prostate had grown and was wreaking havoc on my bladder causing some urine to stay in my bladder and sit like a swamp, causing infections and eventually causing some minor kidney damage. Get your prostates checked, people.

Graying hair.

Having enough hair.

Invisible nose hairs that constantly tickle.

Can't each coleslaw/raw cabbage anymore. Red wine hates me after all these years too.

I didn't mean R74, I meant R83, and what she said about R45 - sorry, R59 - when he/they went off on R160 in the future.

Callouses on my feet.

Can't drink caffeine later than 3 if I want to go to sleep around 10.

The inability to fall asleep and sleep well.

Tonsil stones

Thick rigid scaly skin on my heels that cannot be filed down (it strangely goes straight to raw skin). I found that high percentage salicylic acid salve and a silicone heel sock overnight helped make it go away after a year. Still have to wear the damn sock to stave it off.

Lights are beginning to look like stars at night (yeah getting cataracts).

Intolerance to sirens, loud noises. I have to wear ear plugs to exercise class now.

Yes, my ophthalmologist told me everyone gets cataracts, if they live long enough. The progression is just earlier for some people.

R81 A friend of mine had bladder stones for exactly the same reason. He had to have a TURP (transurethral resection of the prostate). They whittle away at the prostate using an instrument going up through the urethra. After that, most people will have retrograde ejaculation (ejaculation goes into the bladder and comes out when you pee).

I've been on finasteride for 30+ years to prevent hair loss so my prostate has remained small, fortunately.

R67 I have lost the same amount in under 2 months, and have a flat stomach for the first time in a decade.

I had the early stages of a hernia which has gone away, IBS is no more, and GERD is cleared up. I was a side sleeper whose belly was pressing upwards into my esophagus.

I eat a lot of rabbit food now, but Semaglutide changed my taste buds, and I find a container full of carrot and celery sticks delicious.

Use 40 percent urea cream on your scaly heels and file it gently with an electric roller.

A double crease on the lower butt cheeks. No amount of squats, lunges or hip thrusts helps.

Crepey skin and veiny hands and feet.

I am sure you noticed crepey skin and veiny hands and feet among older people when you were young, so those do not really fit the rubric of the post.

r91, I tried that, and it didn't work.

The floaters got intrusive and chronic enough that, after a year, I had vitrectomies on both eyes (two months apart). Out-patient surgery, quick (the drive to the surgery and the administering of the anesthesia took longer than the procedure), only wore a patch one day, an air bubble inserted for a week (it went away in three-four days each time). It has made a world of difference in quality of life, as reading is both my vocation and avocation. Between Medicare and Excellus, my payment for a surgery listed as 11,000 was only 300.

But the question wasn’t what you NOTICED, it was what you were TOLD ABOUT, R94. I may have noticed veiny hands but younger people can have them too. Not everyone old gets crepey skin when they age. Just because you may see it sometimes doesn’t mean it isn’t a shock when it happens to you and nobody told me it would happen. That’s the point of this thread.

Gold Bond skin cream for crepey skin actually works really well and it's affordable. I was skeptical, but it does minimize it significantly.

Compared to everyone else, I feel like I've been very lucky. Knock on wood. I don't want to jinx myself.

The only Gold Bond I've seen has the most obnoxious odor.

Gold Bond reminds me of my Grandma. She used to powder her chest. It was either Shower to Shower ( do they still make that) or Gold Bond.

[quote]I have no idea what switch got turned on that said nose hair shall grow like jungle weed and it's thick, coarse and gray. Not to mention the stray hair that grows outside of my nose and on my lobe and ear rim. WTF?

I have NEVER come across a nose hair trimmer that actually works - or works more than two times and dies. It's crazy. Does anyone have any recommendations for one that actually works without yanking hairs out or just gently brushing them and not cutting?

R101 - try one with a flat blade. Like this one - but a bit larger.

The round ones with the blade inside are not precise - I wonder why people even use them. You can angle the blade against your ear or nose to get all of it out.

So many of them have a round end which always seemed weird to me. You don't have round razors?

I get a chinese eyebrow razor and stick that sucker up my nose and twist

I’m 65 and have several things mentioned on this thread. The nose and eyebrows long random hairs are a nuisance as I need to put on my reading glasses to see them, then I have to get a magnifying mirror and scissors to trim them and the glasses get in the way.

Last summer I had problems with my knee which lasted for months, now finally it is ok, I’ve no idea what it was. Like a poster above mentioned, over the past few months I’ve noticed the skin under my arms is wrinkly and a bit saggy and I hate it.

My main problems are my enlarged prostate rubbing against my bladder. I’ve had all of the scans, some twice, plus the camera down my dick thing over the past couple of years. The hospital says there is nothing sinister and not to worry. But I sometimes have to get up several times during the night for a pee. Usually I pee and within minutes of getting back into bed I have to go again.

My hearing is also getting worse, but it was never perfect. But all things considered I think I am doing ok. I am still fairly fit and in shape, for my age anyway. I wasn’t taking any regular medication at all until 6 months ago when my doctor suggested I take statins, which I do.

Unlike others on this thread who have mentioned that they can no longer tolerate alcohol, I still enjoy it. I am not an alcoholic and I don’t drink everyday, but I couldn’t imagine going without red wine at weekends. I stopped smoking about 30 years ago, eat a fairly healthy diet, exercise, I am not overweight, but I am damn well not going without my last real indulgence, even if it cuts a couple of years off my life.

Re: nose and ear hair, and eyebrows. I use purpose-made blunt-tipped scissors to keep density at bay. Said scissors were one small but useful inheritance from my late father, who used them to trim his moustache. Thanks Dad.

Dry, itchy scalp

Really finding it difficult to get up off the floor or from a squatting position. I have to have something to pull myself up with.

[quote]Gold Bond reminds me of my Grandma. She used to powder her chest.

Did it help her avoid a crepey poitrine?

Loss of ballistics in ejaculation—I used to be a shooter, but its been a few years now.

One wild white eyebrow hair.

Depleted leg hair—uncoincidentally, on the areas where I wear socks and where I cross my legs.

Some excess ear hair, but fortunately, no increase in nose hair. The eyebrows have been steadily eroding for decades. I just turned 60.

[quote]Depleted leg hair—uncoincidentally, on the areas where I wear socks and where I cross my legs.

God, yes. I used to have legs like a gorilla. Now they're hairless and actually shiny.

R63 you lost your math skills.

R107 - or you need to do that exercise 20x a day. The ability to get up off the floor is important. If you can't do that, you need to practice doing it until you can.

This just showed up in my feed.

Sometimes when I cough I suddenly get a sharp pain in my abdominal muscles that would take an elephant down.

Talks of floaters and cataracts ... I had a minor retinal tear, which, thank god, healed on its own.

It's another condition caused by "natural aging" where the vitreous gel inside the eye pulls away from the retina, potentially tearing it. This is known as posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).

Some people see flashes across their vision, especially when they move their head and their line of sight changes. Mine was a dark. shadowy spot in my peripheral vision.

Does anyone else have trouble being on their knees? This started recently. I can get up from a crouching position with no problem, but I cannot get on my knees on hardwood floors or any hard surface without a towel or something underneath.

The scary Red Foreman like bulging head/face veins.

From the bathroom, "Nothing but bitter disappointment in here!"

[quote] Does anyone have any recommendations for one that actually works without yanking hairs out or just gently brushing them and not cutting?

It's really bad to yank nostril hairs out or pluck them--you can get really nasty infections that way since its in your nostril.

I use special narrow long scissors made for cutting nose hairs.

You could also try braiding them.

But seriously, you don't want to get rid of nostril hair altogether, because it serves a purpose by filtering dust and pollen. Some think these hairs even have an effect on stopping bacteria and viruses.

Just how easy it is to put myself out of commission for the day.

I have thrown my back out petting my dog.

I have had a charlie horse in my lower rib area from yawning that lasted an hour.

I have thrown my back out AND had the mother of all hot flashes putting on a sport bra.

stupid shit like that all the time.

Itchy moles. Dermatologist says to live with it.

Estelle Costanza at R118.

Chins.

I used to cum like Old Faithful. Now I cum like Old Man.

Interesting, R122; I've developed an itchy mole over the last couple of months on my arm. I thought it was one of those pre-cancerous things you have to get scraped off. I have a dermatologist appointment in a couple of weeks.

crotch rot

Eyebrows becoming gray. What a trip!

Generalized aches & pains every morning when getting up, & every evening, right before turning in.

BRAIN FOG. Not dementia or Alzheimer’s, but just general brain fog. You’ve done “x” a million times before, but sometimes, you just go blank for a split second.

For women: MENOPAUSE. I honestly felt fortunate AF because I was somehow barely, if at all affected by it because statistically speaking, I’m much older than the age when women actually begin feeling and experiencing the effects of it, by nearly 20 years. Welp! It’s FINALLY here, & it’s DIFFERENT. Women should know that if it doesn’t get you by 40? It might very well get you MUCH later on.

Look, I still have all of my own teeth, & I am exceptionally not horribly wrinkled yet, nor do I have any cellulite. But I’m aging, even if slower than others, it’s happening, & all in all? I’m grateful AF to still be here & experiencing what this all feels like.

Relatively speaking, I’ll be dead soon enough, so I’m good with ALL of it. I don’t necessarily like it at ALL, but I’m so fucking happy I’m an old gal now! ❤️

Nasal hair is surprisingly painless to wax. It gets pulled away with a sudden 'pop' sensation, too quickly to be felt.

Just place the wax applicator inside the lower quarter of the nasal cavity, leaving enough hairs to filter the dust and pollen and then pull.

Same here R16. It hurts my knees terribly.

Mounjaro (Trirzepatide) seems to work better for inflammation and immune issues than Ozempic.

Does anyone take testosterone?

How about this one - dry ear canals. Endless itching inside the ear. Very very carefully scratch it or I’d go mad.

Aging semen that has a yellowish tinge...

R116, I took a yoga class on Sunday and it killed my knees. They still hurt. 20 years ago I could spend the better part of the weekend on my knees with no issues.

R135 naughty naughty! You rascal you

Beat me to it r133.

Losing the fat on the soles of your feet and bunions. Walking barefoot hurts.

I've had house slippers with arches for the past 3 years. My podiatrist said never to walk barefoot. I refuse to buy a house dress tho.

I've had a few white pubes for maybe 25 years, but they're still in a distinct minority. Grey hairs starting to dominate my temples, though.

R132 I do. 1ml IM injection every two weeks. It has improved my life.

i wake up at 3am to pee every night, then toss, turn, and worry about the world.

Crepey skin, arms are prone to it.

One of my faves:

Seborrheic Keratosis: Harmless, waxy growths that can appear on the back.

[quote]I have a pair of tweezers in the bathroom to pull out the hairs out when they get noticeably longer.

Please don't anybody do this or it will lead to bald eyebrows. Don't ever pluck. You need to clipper your eyebrows with a #2 or #3 or #4 attachment (or combination of). Do it once a week and that will keep them tidy at all times. You can clipper around your ears at the same time and you'll always be in good nick.

I’m aging and very skinny, so it’s that package deal where you keep your slim waist but in exchange there’s flesh-wasting, muscle-wasting in areas where you never had an ounce to spare. It makes my neck/collarbone area and my shins/feet very emaciated and prematurely elderly-looking.

I envy the plumper healthier looking fit-fat guys, bodywise.

R144, yep. Had none at 40, had two small ones at 50, now they’re multiplying.

R115 that can be quite serious. I see a retina specialist once a year because I’m at major risk for retinal tears.

Being thin suddenly becomes being frail.

I don't know why it took me so long to say so, but my pussy stinks.

Does anyone have "ball droop"? I don't need a testicle lift procedure, but I do get annoyed with my balls falling out of my boxers occasionally.

Are there any treatments available to reduce the appearance of those prominent head/face veins that come with aging?

Ear and nose hairs that seem to spring out of nowhere overnight.

Constant dull knee pain.

The overwhelming desire to take a nap every afternoon.

[Quote] For women: MENOPAUSE.

Exhausting. Please leave. This is a board for gay men. It’s not as if there aren’t twelve billion forums for women.

We are gay men and we don’t care about menopause or endo and don’t want to read about it.

Imagine if this were a forum stated as being for black men and it were overrun by white women. Go someplace else.

But it always has R150. Did the stench get worse as you aged? I can't imagine!

"Exhausting. Please leave."

That's such a frau thing to write.

R151 Oh, my gosh, yes. My balls are droopin' like a 65-year old woman's mammaries.

R134 Be happy you've got semen. I had a prostatectomy last year and it's dry orgasms from here on out.

At least I save money on Kleenex.

r158, when PrEP-resistant HIV emerges, you'll also be able to top raw with no consequences

R138 - yep, we lose the fat pads on the bottom of our feet as we get older.

They are starting to sell extra padded-sole socks now (FINALLY) that aren't those huge orthopedic kind with plastic bottoms.

But yes - after 40-45, regular shoes started to become less comfortable. I started buying extra-padded shoes and they're amazing. Samuel Hubbard is a great brand - very good quality and they last forever. Unfortunately many of the pairs I have can cost close to $300 a pair.

I will cosign R160. Samuel Hubbard shoes are amazing.

The upside of lowered balls: it creates the image of a more prominent VPL. I get more ¡ay papi! than ever.

R161 - they really are - they are very classic-styled shoes, so you're not going to look overly fashionable, but you can see that they are really high-quality shoes.

Thanks for the Samuel Hubbard shoes tip, I need those. Been looking for office-appropriate shoes that are comfortable for increasingly skinny feet, but not shoes that say “These are orthopedic shoes. I am old.”

PAF that suddenly appears and refuses to go away, even when you lose weight and do ab exercises until you collapse.

CAFFEINE -EVEN A LITTLE CAN MAKE VERTIGO WORSE! but I find it impossible to give up caffeine.

R164 - yep, that was the point of making the brand. The CEO was the guy who started Rockport shoes and wanted to create a brand of classic, well-made premium and comfortable shoes for men 40+.

They do have sales throughout the year. I have 12 pairs - but only because I was able to get great deals during these sales. They're pricey but worth it. Not every style looks great but they're getting better.

I am very short tempered at times. It is unexpected and it is worrying. I'm in my 70's.

R154 = that INCEL who haunts the DL

The small hairs that sprout up at the end of my nose or near it.

Too small often to actually see without a magnifying glass, but I can see it in my line of vision well enough to distract me....but not clearly enough to accurately snip it down.

R169 says that CAPS frau femcel that infests a Gay Website😆

Pricey? Not very.

Your beef is with Muriel, R154. I liked the old DL divisions of "Politics," "Gossip," and "Lesbian." They have been gone for a long time. But some of us lesbians have been here longer than you have, obviously, and we came here when there was a separate space for us. And lots of "in the know" gay men with [bold]lots[/bold] of juicy gossip that was well worth reading.

Talk to the boss about it.

I just developed my third case of planters fascists this week. Annoying.

Benito bunions & Franco foot are the worst!

I have four days of flu symptoms after getting the flu shot, the Covid shot (separately) - every year. Last time I actually got the flu three months after getting the shot.

You’re not funny, you’re sick!

The emergence of heartburn where no heartburn existed before.

Thinning skin that bleeds profusely after a mere nick.

We aren’t THAT old R179

R175 - I swear, I corrected autocorrect once and fascists popped right back in. Autocorrect can be as annoying as the foot condition.

R173 it's not the dykes it's the neurotic chronically victimized Frauen that have RUINED this site. They need to take their CAPS &SMELLY unused pussies buy a vibrator and leave us GAY MEN the the fuck alone..

R181 Fascista!

And, yet R182, you and your gross photo and rabid misogyny got you put on my ignored list.

R176 The flu shot doesn't prevent you from getting the flu. It helps but it's not a guarantee. Also, there's many different strains of flu and the annual flu shot you get doesn't (and can't) give you full coverage over every single variety of flu.

For the 23/24 season, I got my Covid booster and flu shot in mid October. 10 days later I got Covid though the booster helped a lot; it was a pretty mild experience. Then, first of December I got a NASTY case of flu which dragged on for 3 weeks. Finally, in late January I got ANOTHER case of flu, but it was quite mild. I did research and that year's flu shot was very good at fighting the 2nd flu I got but not so great at the strain I got in December.

They can't magically cover everything.

This season...nothing. No flus or Covid.

Knock wood!

Also: it really annoys me that there isn't a better plural for "flu".

"Flues" and "Flus" both aren't right.

Flooes?

Maybe it's both plural and singular at the same time?

R187 Apparently, that's the case but it still looks odd.

English is crazy sometimes.

How about "influenze"?

DUH, R185

Senior Les at R173 pay him no mind. There will always be love here on DL for our scissoring sisters!

Periodic skin tags...on my ball sac!

They itch like hell. I ask my dermatologist to burn them off, which he does, but it's awkward as hell.

[quote]But yes - after 40-45, regular shoes started to become less comfortable.

This just started with my 46 year-old brother. He can't wear most kinds of shoes anymore because they just kill his feet. He can only wear a small number of certain brands/styles now.

I'm sixty-two. and other than getting up to pee most nights I haven't suffered any of these conditions.

I should be more grateful.

[quote]The small hairs that sprout up at the end of my nose or near it.

For a few years now I've had one black hair that grows next to my nose on the left side. Just one, and it just appeared one day. It's so weird. I pluck it out as soon as it starts to grow back.

I used to run on a treadmill for 30 minutes like it was nothing. Now I speed-walk for 15 minutes and it's tough to even do that.

Me too R196 3-4 miles was nothing.

Granted: I’ve been fit my adult life because I was a fat kid. Plus, I’m a hyperactive vapid, vacuous mess.

At 57, my visible 6 or sometimes 8 pack is surrounded by saggy yellowish skin - think of a ripped Tyson Turkey skin and you get the idea.

At 57, my glutes disappeared and now I have two saddlebags resting right below an ass upon which they once they were on top.

At 57, my body does not like onions. I’ve never been a fan, but they are important for most of the dishes I prepare.

Tinnitus.

I'm amazed sometimes when I'm in a publoic bathroom and the guy peeing in a stall pees like a horse. It sounds like someone turned on a faucet. My urine stream has never been strong, but as I get older it also is hard to aim.

R194 at your age you should have learned to piss, not to pee.

R200 as well

R201 And at your age you're still an asshole.

R198 = KEY WORD - 57

my body does not like onions

I love onions, but I think I've developed a sensitivity that causes my stomach to react unpleasantly when I eat tomatoes and tomato sauce. I soldier through it because I love tomato sandwiches in the summer and occasional spaghetti with onions and peppers for dinner.

R195, I have exactly the same thing. The hair is just out of reach of the razor. Fortunately it seems rooted shallowly and so when it's long enough I can yank it out painlessly with my fingertips.

Coffee runs through me like a goddamn river now. I have to piss five minutes after drinking it. I can't drink it while driving anymore because I know I'll need to stop at a restroom and it's just too inconvenient.

Oh, yeah!!! The pissing!

My flow is so pathetic. It's embarrassing being at a busy urinal and the guy next to you is pissing like a horse while my sad little trickle dribbles out.

[quote] This just started with my 46 year-old brother. He can't wear most kinds of shoes anymore because they just kill his feet. He can only wear a small number of certain brands/styles now.

Tell him to wear olive oil cans.

Moving teeth!

I cannot eat hot dogs anymore. I’m still full of gas and upset from having two Nathan’s yesterday.

R205 It's not unusual not to be able to digest onions or tomatos (or sauce) as you get older. You should probably just not eat them.

There's a way to roast carrots to create a simiar flavor to tomato sauce but I'd have to look it up.

R212 Yeah, I loved tomatoes, but I can't eat them anymore without getting terrible heartburn.

Raw tomatoes sometimes give me the runs now. My motion sickness has gotten worse- thanks Mom- hers is so bad now, she barfs everytime she flies. I hope I don't get that bad.

I can't eat 90 percent of what I used to......it sucks. Bad food allergies/IBS/gastritis.

When it gets down to liquids only I'm going the euthanasia route.

R215, before ending it all, take the vodka rout first and stock up on tp. Eat what you think is safe in smaller portions more frequently.

I’m dealing cancer. I have had to increase eating to six times a day vs. two. And, I’m pretending I don’t drink. Nobody is fooled.