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[jax]

Ah well....for a start they have roadies and spa treatments...lol
not like us semi pros who load and unload, drive there and back, set up, take down all ourselves AND strutt about onstage for 2 hours in between....lol

[Trey]

From where I am, I see 57 as being very young!  Don't waste these precious years feeling old.  Age is only a number.  I had worse fibro in late fifties and oddly it is better post meno so maybe that is why I don't see a necessarily downhill progression of aging.

I just read my post and not sore it makes much sense.

[Bette]

No, it does make sense, Trey! It's easy for us to panic and assume that the problems we're having now will automatically get worse, when we may well find that they actually improve or, at least, don't continue to worsen (especially meno-related ones.)
Bette x

[viv]

I think after 5 hours in the garden you should have a  . I would have found that tiring ten years ago when I was in my early 40s.

I find I can do physical things albeit slower than before...it just takes longer to get over it now. I try to pace myself and no longer feel guilty having a break and putting my feet up for a little while.

I really thought that at nearly 52 I would be doing less but it has not worked out that way. My son left home for a year so that meant less washing etc.......he then moved back in and is now in a job that requires a clean shirt every day and as he works really long hours I am back to having more stuff to do. My mother is nearly 90 and is needing more help all the time. Heaven only knows when I get to sit back and say......now its my time......I will probably be too old to enjoy it by then 

Honeyb
x

[pixie]

Maybe have a cup of tea and a break  :Devery so often, during the gardening!  Mind you, I would be up and down to the toilet then istead!!  I don't know how these ageing rockers do it Taz, especially Keith Richards!  My mum is good at 80years.  She has osteoporosis, a toe amputated, a toe straightened, life threatening illness in the past and she still manages to walk to town and back every day - 1 mile.  She's more fit than I am.  X

[pixie]

Thats great, I know an old lady of 98years that still goes gambling in the casino in Bournemouth once a week!

[jgr]

What i can't understand about excercise is that they tell us it is good for us and to keep fit and active and you will hopefully live to a ripe old age, well look at mr tortoise he can live to well past his 100's and you don't see him dashing about. I say take it easy.

[pixie]

Yes that makes sense about the tortoise! They keep telling us that 40 in the new 60 etc.  When I was a child, everyone of my age had a blue rinse. Theres a bloke I know who is 63 and goes windsurfing, plays in a band nearly every night and did a bungee jump on his birthday. He has a bad back and heart problems yet does all this! I can't help admiring him, getting on with his life like this.

[Lucky Stone]

Can't thank everyone enough for the posts  I was still a bit tired yesterday but today I feel back to normal. We've been here about 8 years and when we moved in, I did a lot of this stuff i.e. burning bits of tree, hauling things around the garden and I don't ever recall feeling that bad afterwards. But hey, it's 8 years!! I did stop for the odd sit down but it was only a couple of minutes at a time so I suppose it wasn't enough. And good point about the pelvic floor thingies, something my late aunt used to remind me about.

Makes you laugh, though! If I could afford the cost (which I can't), I've always wanted to walk to the South Pole. We're talking about 60 days on the polar plateau hauling a sledge weighing in excess of 10 stones, not to mention erecting and dismantling the tent etc. After my tree hauling, I commented to OH that, finance or not, that ambition will now never be realised  Shame

[palmagirl]

Hi Lucky stone
I just read your post about exhaustion - havent been online for ages - and I totally symapthise. Its hellish. I am 58 - oops no I mean 59, as of last week - and I could sometimes sleep all day. BTw I think 5 hours in the garden is a tad excessive. Imagine 5 hours of any exercise - you would be done in! I can go to bed at 1 am and get up around 10 - have breakfast and could still go back to bed for a few hours. And thats without any hours in the garden.
Hope you recovered from your marathon gardening session and my advice is - hire a gardener next time and stay indorors with a mug of coffee and a good book
PG

[Hurdity]

Hi palmagirl - Snap I was 59 last week - agree  5 hours hard gardening is a lot Lucky Stone and well done for doing it!

However I never think in terms of "Oh now I am 50-something so getting old so can't do so much". I think in terms of I'm a bit more sedentary than I used to be therefore I get more tired when i do physical exercise. When I make the effort and go walking ( even if only 30 mins) most days and attend fitness class - my energy levels increase so can cope with more. I just put it down to the more you do the more you can do. I need to get off my .... and be more active ( but being self-employed part of my day is on the comp at home).

However still feel exhausted next day after the strenuous body conditioning class I go to but am using muscles to extreme that I don't normally use. So I feel the same after gardening - but more like 2 hours. I should do more.

I absolutely agree with whoever said on the thread 50s is young - I do not feel old at all!!

No need to  overdo it all in one go - just gradually get fitter.

HRT definitley helpos - it is positive feedback - makes you feel less tired ( and more sleep) so you do more, and the more you do (activity) the better you feel ( endorphins kicking in).

Having said that I love the feeling of exhaustion that comes from physical exercise because I know it;s done my body good and it is proper exhaustion ( unlike from lack of sleep which makes you feel cheated..). As long as you give your body time to rest if you overdo it a bit - until more used to it - then it can only be good ( of course making sure you don't strain your back etc).

Bit of a ramble but hope you can see what I mean.....

Hurdity x

[Astolat]

I think exhaustion is all part of the lousy deal! I can carry on for a few weeks and then have a day of utter collapse when even getting up to make a cuppa wears me out and I shuffle around the house with the shakes like a 90 year old. Have had blood tests - all normal so it has to be a meno symptom.

Oh for the luxury of being able to have a day in bed (lol)

[cutey1]

I have been decorating since the weekend and boy...........did I start feeling it last night - felt as though my insides are going to drop out (the feeling of when you know a period is about to start!!!) - I think I have started my prolapse off again as I am achy so much down below and my lower back too - was also doing the normal housey things in between painting......you know.........washing, cooking tidying up 

Today I am taking it a little easier - casserole in the oven for dinner later, made Panetonne for hubby, his favourite, done the washing and now sorting through all my mags an taking out the interesting pages and recipes - magazines all over the lounge floor - but it is good to get rid of ones I no longer need 

Oh joy 

Feeling tired today, but at the moment can cope with it - I think it is the withdrawal from my HRT too that is kicking in now 

[Taz2]

I just want to say that if you have a prolapse and you have stopped HRT then this can worsen rapidly - I know because it happened to me and I didn't give it a thought before I came off it.

Taz x 

[cutey1]

Yes Taz - I know you are right as the feeling as come on ten-fold this past week - I think I may have to go back to have a word with the Dr and see if there is another HRT I can try - I just don't like the constant bleeds but then I cannot have this awful feeling down below either - it is now driving me mad - my core muscles are shot anyway since having my anterior repair 3 yrs ago - I feel like a 90 yr old - just constant aching 

Fed up with all this - I may ask to be referred to a gynae as this is now getting me down - it has never been right since my op - but no-one will listen 

I am getting paranoid now that I have something sinister going on