OT- Daily Aches Pains?

dej(Jed) · Jul 7, 2011

I am closing on 60 and seem to tire out after a
14 hr day anymore. It never used to bother me , but now I get aches and pains that I can't explain. Morning starts at 530am and I am on the go until about 730 pm. After that it is wind down time until 1030pm and then off to bed to awaken at 530am and do it all over again. My wife says I need to exercise more, but I am very active all day as it is. Can any of you guys relate to what I am saying?

IaGary · Jul 7, 2011

I'm only 54 and a 12 hour day is enough for me.

Spring and fall I go more hours but not too many days in a row.

Your 60 man , slow down to your age.

Gary

bison · Jul 7, 2011

Yes i can relate.
It's your body telling ye to slow down.
i used to work long days for many years.
I gots no aches but just lack the energy to go like a raped Ape these days.
I'm 61.

john d · Jul 7, 2011

I'm 67. Two 14 hour days in a row, and I'm ready to take it easier the next day!
Arthritis pain is getting worse, and working in the hot sun is rapidly becoming something I can't do for very long. Getting old is not for sissies.

Tony in Mass. · Jul 7, 2011

I decided- back when I was 30 or so... time to start working start, insted of working hard. I dont care whats going on- unless an emergency, 12 hours. I quit fighting the weather, I quit fighting the impossible, and I quit doing 3 man jobs alone... until 2 more people show up. I was pulling a rope on a small tiller- last month? End of May? It still bothers me every morning, I replaced that engine with a $99 harbor freight that starts first pull. The smarter thing would have been to replace the engine BEFORE it thru out the shoalder... how do you spell that part of the body? Have to ask Lyle....

Leroy · Jul 7, 2011

At 60 I was doing good for an 8 hour day, now at 67 no more work for next 3 months and then only light work, don't know How I will be able to handle that as what they are calling light work would be no more mowing the lawn even. 4 weeks yesterday I was on operating table getting 5 bypasses.

Tom in TN · Jul 7, 2011

dej(jed),

I'm almost 67 years old. I farm in the mornings and evenings and work a part-time job in the afternoon to earn enough money to afford my bad habit of farming.

I'm really glad for the exercise and hard work. Although I feel like crap when I get up in the morning, the aches and pains work their way out within a little while.

Keep going. Push yourself to the limit every day. My hope is to drop dead out in the pasture when the time comes. I've told my wife to drag my carcass back to the "bone-yard" in the back of my farm where I drop dead animals when she finds me.

As long as you're enjoying what you're doing and feel a sense of accomplishment when you're done, you can't ask for much more than that.

At least, that's the way I see it.

Tom in TN

jim in N M · Jul 7, 2011

Hey guys, Just wait tell you get to 76 yrs. It don't get any better !! JMO Jim in N M

MSD · Jul 7, 2011

It's down hill all the way from from here on out. Did good till about 55 and then the aches and pains started showing up.

Dave 2N · Jul 7, 2011

Well, it's got something to do with this business of "getting older." We ain't 25 anymore.

Lot of the stuff I used to rare into I now kind of wait until one of my sons is around.

Still active but about three hours on the scoped knee is all it takes anymore.

68 year old Dave 2N.

JMOR · Jul 7, 2011

(quoted from post at 09:50:52 07/07/11) Hey guys, Just wait tell you get to 76 yrs. It don't get any better !! JMO Jim in N M

You got that right! If a feller did make good use of those past years, it be too late now, Bubba! 69 going on 70. Jus t keepin on keepin on....trying my best to not let the rocking chair get me. Wife bought me one last week....think she is pushing me toward that bone yard? :wink:

Anonymous-0 · Jul 7, 2011

I find a couple of ibuprophen before bed helps me with the morning aches and pains. I think glucosamine helps me too. Keeping your weight down also makes everything easier.

JerryS · Jul 7, 2011

It's a funny thing: we all want to get old, but actually being old kinda stinks.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jul 7, 2011

By age 50 I was taking several 500 count bottles of 200 mg Ibuprofen annually. Basically 2 every 3 hours while awake at doctors recommendation with his supervision.

This was from aches and pains from an 8.9 mile walking mail route as a city letter carrier. Old flood plain with lots of sidewalk and porch steps.

One day I got acid reflux and could get little relief. I decided then and there my health was more important than the job and by the end of that day I had requested a deferred retirement which means I could start drawing earnings when I hit 62.

From many bottles per year to just this month finishing that last bottle bought in 1997---a wise health decision. I couldn't have lasted as long as I did without it.

Ibuprofen is a wonder drug but do be careful and always take it with food.

Mike M · Jul 7, 2011

I had to start backing off years ago and I'm not even 50 yet.
Bad feet ,bad back,had this all my life. I'm really going to be bad if I make it to 60.

Coloken · Jul 7, 2011

Hey fellows, we all get there. I am 82. I want to warn you to take it easy on the pills, especially Ibuprofen and such. Check with your doctor. All of that stuff is hard on kidneys and then your gone. My doctor will allow me only aspirin and very little of that. I am down to only 30 percent of one kidney left.

BIG ED · Jul 7, 2011

I"ll be 63 in August,in 1997 was in BAD wreck,and broke up hip,pelvis,lung collapced,etc.
Been hard to work hard & long since. But I keep going. Some nights I"m so tired & sore I can"t sleep,some nights I "pass out " instead of going to sleep.Leg swells bad.
V.A gave me something for pain that helps some,but I"d rather take too much
Sleep in recliner most nights. Haven"t had alchol in 14 years but have a hangover feeling,lots of mornings.
Allow myself one hour in the morning to get moving.
P.S. guy that hit me had bare bones ins.that didn"t even pay bills,much any settlement for me.

Mopower · Jul 7, 2011

I can relate. A truckload of booze cruizers hit me almost two years ago. I still have memory problems, can't sleep well, aches and pains, etc. The titanium may have to come out of my leg this fall. It is annoying. And I'm 32! Still trying to catch up from down time and carry the aches and pains of doing such work.

DoubleR · Jul 7, 2011

I was able to retire early at 58 from my real job, driving truck. Now I wonder how I ran my small farm and drove 60hrs a week and raised a family of four kids. Going to be 60 and I sure enjoy life just running the farm and doing what I want when I want. I feel alot better too eating three meals a day at normal meal times and sleeping seven hours every night. Life is too short as it is so kick back a little and enjoy it if you can. I found out I could when I really thought I couldn't

jose bagge · Jul 7, 2011

I'm only 53, but I can relate- I've got a bad hitch in my right shoulder from crashing a motorcycle 20 years ago that hurts now more than then, and my big toes ache (wife says it's gout). As for exercise- I'm against it. I lost 11 lbs in 3 days coaching bible school soccer to 35 10 year olds (down to 178 lbs, hardly a taler now), and felt like squat afterwards. I'm now back to my regular evening workout of lifting 4 fingers of Beam in a heavy tumbler, and I feel much better now.

hin191 · Jul 7, 2011

I'm 68 and sometimes feel every day of it, especially my back. I've had spinal fusion surgery, but I believe I just traded one set of back pain for another. The docs (VA) told me they would be glad to try more surgery, but unless they can guarentee positive results I'm not going to do that; so I guess I'll keep on taking pain pills, the strong kind.

Charles H.

jackinok · Jul 7, 2011

i can relate,but i look at it this way,if I woke up NOT hurting I would be even more concerned! i figure a little pain is Gods way of telling you your still alive.couple days ago wife poked me with a broom handle,said id been setting so long she thought I'd died on her. told her i was just taking a pre bed nap.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 7, 2011

Ihere you loud and clear! Im almost 56 and a day of jackhammering yesterday,made me feel not too good last night and this morning

Tony Vidlak · Jul 7, 2011

I feel like that evey morning till I get going and moving.I think its just that damn O.L.D. sydrome.
Tony

Moondoggie · Jul 7, 2011

Don't mind gettin' older - knew many guys didn't get the opportunity. But why do things keep gettin' heavier?

barnE · Jul 7, 2011

I'm 67 with a whole lotta miles. Most of my life i WORKED 3 jobs. Ask the Lord every day to keep me from doing anything to make body worse than what it is. Colitis most of life since little. Bad lumbar disc for last 40 years. Now diabetes and high blood(okay with meds). I still ride bike(slow) and motorcycle some days for only one hour. Life is good, but used to be better. Praise the Lord anyhow. Good luck to all, Dave

ShadetreeRet · Jul 7, 2011

In my mind I'm still 30, but when I get up in the morning the old bod lets me know that 30 was 42 years ago! Knees are gone and mild respiratory problems. Never smoked myself but grew up in a family of smokers. Must be something to that second hand smoke thing. Naturally, it is harder to do anything, and takes longer to accomplish anything, but when you consider the alternatives, it's good to be alive!

36 Coupe · Jul 8, 2011

I ran strong until 65.I know why 65 is the retirement age.At 73 heat and high humidity shut me down.I build picnic tables.If I build 2 in one day Im worthless the next day.The decline starts at 45 and gets worse.Many of the fellows I went to school with have passed on.A friend says any day above ground is a good day.

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