Shocked by aging process

Posted by seniormiz @seniormiz, Jan 25 8:54am

My fingernails and toenails stopped growing and just keep breaking off. My hair is falling out. My memory is not as sharp and sometimes I feel a little woozy. I hate this. I want my body and my senses back.

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seniormiz | @seniormiz | Feb 24 4:16pm

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@danae25 Your response made me smile. You are right, you know!

jamiemj | @jamiemj | Feb 28 11:49am

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@frouke
LOL I love your Mothers attitude 🙂
and all you say is so true. Thank you.

jamiemj | @jamiemj | Feb 28 4:06pm

Ya know, I was thinking about your comment and perhaps a protein drink would help in some ways (nails and possibly hair)

Good luck ! I take on a day and it seems to help. 🙂

crabby55 | @crabby55 | Mar 1 6:57am

Years ago, 25 to be exact, a friend gave me Christianne Amonpour [ good possibility I totally misspelled] book on menopause. I was going thru chemo which threw me into menopause. I knew it would so was quite concerned. I started reading the book and ended up tossing it out as I couldn't relate to anything in it. Fortunately menopause ended up not being a big deal for me. I think it does totally affect everyone differently though.

annchristiansen2623 | @annchristiansen2623 | Mar 1 9:43am

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@danae25 I went through menopause at 43. Glad I'm not dead 😊 I'm now 70.

maryje | @maryje | Mar 1 9:56am

So sorry to see that, have you had your thyroid checked? Sometimes it can be that. Please talk to your doctor.

danae25 | @danae25 | Mar 1 3:59pm

In reply to @annchristiansen2623 "@danae25 I went through menopause at 43. Glad I'm not dead 😊 I'm now 70." + (show)

@annchristiansen2623 I'm 70 too. I was aware of hot flashes and irritability but was lucky enough to be regular with few problems before menopause. So when my skin became raw and the skin regimen I had used for years didn't work, as well as all the others I tried, it threw me for a loop. Some other things, too, that I won't discuss here, that were never mentioned in conventional wisdom on the topic. I hadn't seen a doctor in years, and when I started up again, they wanted me to get up to date on all these other preventative tests without really addressing the issues that I went in for. Now menopause is a hot conversational topic.

marianneg | @marianneg | Mar 1 8:39pm

I haven’t been on here in a long time. I just turned 69 and I am the same way something’s happening terribly with my nails and my hair has been falling out for quite some time. I had an earlier menopause at 46 but I also lost my son which added to stress and anxiety, which I’ve experienced all of my life, however, just the past three years, my nails have taken a hit. I used to get nail dips and my nails are too thin nailed to even have that done! I’m not sure how old you are. All I know is aging sucks. I take good care of my skin. I’m one of regime and I am into skin care and I love makeup, but I don’t know what the heck is happening to my body except aging. My girlfriend has been on HRT since she was 53 and she’s 69 now and she’s like a kid in every way I mean not all over but not aging typically with the symptoms I have and I had a horrible menopause. I still have to wear layers! I wasn’t a candidate for HRT because my sister had breast cancer two times back then she knew she didn’t want to feel the way she did and she’s a nurse like me But I stopped working. She knows what to do as far as check ups and everything to not get cancer however, you can get breast cancer, especially if you have breast that are dense like many women, but she said she will never stop taking it because it makes her feel like she’s going insane if she doesn’t take it! She doesn’t have the nail problems like I do with a hair falling out. I think a lot of mine has to do with stress, internal stress, and all the stress I’ve had to deal with the past Years
The cortisol level thin out your skin. My sister is a doctor and she explains things like this to me, which I didn’t realize I still attribute much of it to having an early menopause, even though I supplement with estrogen cream internally, and now they have a cream for the face I’ve been using for about nine months. It’s compounded so I’m trying to hold my own. We are in this together. I hear you! Take care.

mcchesney | @kathleen1314 | Mar 2 6:24am

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What kind of compounded cream are you using on your face?

raebaby | @raebaby | Mar 2 2:15pm

I'm 84. I lost my husband of 58 years at age 79 who had Parknson's disease. I was his caretaker and miserable. Then I got breast cancer. I had chemo, radiation and a lumpectomy. I am fine now. I went through menopause around age 48. I felt horribly emotional at the time. I had HRT for a long time.
I got peripheral neruopathy in my feet from chemo and can't drive anymore,But you know what, I am now healthy and happy!
I live on 22 acres alone in beautiful Calif. My kids stop by to help me. I just got back from Cancun with my kids and from visiting a boyfriend in Texas who I went steady with in the 8th grade.
There is lots of life left to be lived and you can get healthier!
My goal now is to let my hair grow long and then dye it silver.