You Know You're Over the Hill When ... :(

[Rackonteur]

Absolutely!

[propspony]

I love it! I mean, grey is the new blonde, right?

[Rackonteur]

@Foxglove

Horse got arthritis in his knee so no more jumping and that took us out of first flight on the hunt field. We still hunt weekly but with a more sedate group. I think I am over the hill because I enjoy hunting more --I think we see more of the pack working from our hilltops .

I am glad some good came out of the bad.

[ReSomething]

Mine sparkles cause individual hairs are white or almost colorless and a lot thicker. A lot of my hair fell out after my illness and grew back thicker than ever, it’s quite a shock really but not such a bad thing tbh.

[Kyrabee]

You break off a big floater in your eye just from doing some sitting trot .

I haven’t gotten to ride much until last year. Several years of various skeletal issues and surgeries kept me out of the saddle more than in. Finally last year, everything was more or less working and I got back in the saddle. The main issue had been my painful tailbone. Finally found out I had a spur on the very end. It took a few months to find a surgeon that would remove it and a nearly 2 year healing process before I could sit in the saddle.

I work on dressage and needless to say, haven’t done a lot of sitting trot but the butt has been feeling better and better so I have been doing some “baby” trot to work on lateral work. Not pushing the envelope too much. Well, yesterday she was working fantastically. Her back came up and gave me a nice place to sit so I did maybe 5 minutes of nice forward sitting trot.

After I put her away and was walking to my car, I suddenly got this very weird spider web thing in my right eye…it was very weird and I was trying to rub it/pull it off my face…thinking I had walked through a spider web. Over the next 30 minutes it mostly subsided but by late evening, I was getting flashes in the upper corner of that eye. I went to bed but the flashing was still going this morning and kind of freaked out, went to the ophthalmologist. Thankfully, I just broke off a big floater and the retina was OK but holy cow. He said, it was probably the riding and I assume the sitting trot portion along with my age .

So yeah, I am apparently over the hill. So many things we have that can fall apart and are .

Susan

[Ace1]

My elderly father uses me as his personal Drug Rx Book, Vol. I - IX. Having had autoimmune disease from the age of 16, plus fun spin-off diseases, Ive taken what feels like most medications used in modern times.

For a number of years, I had pretty much the same migraine medication set up as you. I think I finally came to the conclusion that the “migraines” stemmed from cervical facet arthritis, too (which I, no doubt, simply deemed “upper neck pain”). Cyclobenzaprine and other muscle relaxers didn’t do a thing for the neck pain. The only medication that has worked to keep me functioning day in and out is clonazepam, which has muscle relaxing properties but is typically used for anxiety.

I sometimes wonder if I take any medication for it’s intended use. A few, sure, but not many. As my neurologist just said, if he can’t figure out the reason for the latest strange thing that has been happening, he will send me to The Office for Off the Wall Diseases. WHO’s COMING WITH ME?!

[Rackonteur]

ME! Can I come too, please?

[saddleup]

I hit 70 this year and decided to stop coloring my hair. I didn’t know how much grey I really had and it’s shocking. I cut my hair once it showed a couple of inches of grey. I’ve never had hair this short and I shock myself when I look in the mirror.

I’ve also lost a couple of friends this year to Alzheimer’s. I find myself worrying when I forget something.

I won’t even start on aches and pains. But my horses help me mentally and physically.

[Rackonteur]

@saddleup

I find myself worrying when I forget something.

I worry too, when I do this.
I am very sorry to hear of the loss of your friends.
For the past 10 years I been trying to move back to the out-of-state city where I lived for years and had some good friends. I’m still trying but it seems that every year for the past few years I have lost another friend due to illness or age or both. And most of those still there are not riding anymore.

[Rackonteur]

@Ace1

The only medication that has worked to keep me functioning day in and out is clonazepam, which has muscle relaxing properties but is typically used for anxiety.

I am glad to know this about clonazapam. I have wanted to try it for anxiety, but my cufrent doctor “hates” it because of a few bad experiences so now he won’t prescribe it for anyone at all. I do know that a lot of my recent anxiety about riding has been down to pain; it just wasn’t comfortable during my lessons last year so not really enjoyable (although still fun).

[TheJenners]

@Ace1

The only medication that has worked to keep me functioning day in and out is clonazepam, which has muscle relaxing properties but is typically used for anxiety.

Well I’m on nortriptyline for the neck issue, which is an antidepressant but also treats nerve pain, so I think we are on parallel paths. It really upped my quality of life, which was surprising because I did have some reservations about it.

@saddleup

I hit 70 this year and decided to stop coloring my hair. I didn’t know how much grey I really had and it’s shocking.

Ummm… I’m only 40 and stopped highlighting and lowlighting my hair when I decided I wanted an arena more, and yikes!! My hair is brownish-reddish sorta but I had no idea until someone sent me a picture that I had so much grey… Both sides of my head are grey with reddish on top, pretty soon it’ll look purposeful!

[atr]

Geez. I’ve just had to count out my remaining abx to see if I actually took this morning’s dose… half an hour ago.

And knitting… I’m knitting a cabled scarf at the moment and I’m damned if I can manage to keep a count of the rows, even. I used to do really complex color and texture work with ease.

[walktrot]

@RedHorses

I’m officially approaching The Hill’s crest. I have been holding things a bit further away to read them for a while and finally caved and bought the lowest strength reading glasses.

What made me give in? The fact that I could no longer see my horse’s teeny tiny new growth eyelashes when I was close enough to use tweezers on them. (I also bought new tweezers after using my Swiss army knife tweezers for years, and WHY didn’t I buy proper cosmetic tweezers years ago? So much better!)

I like to send a birthday card to friends turning 40. I write a note to remind them about scheduling an appointment with the eye doctor. Presbyopia.

[Rackonteur]

@TheJenners

Well I’m on nortriptyline for the neck issue, which is an antidepressant but also treats nerve pain, so I think we are on parallel paths. It really upped my quality of life, which was surprising because I did have some reservations about it.

I’m glad to read about this drug here, and disappointed no doctor ever even mentioned it to me when we discussed other antidepressants. I take 2 of the drugs listed at mayoclinic.org as not being recommended with nortriptyline; maybe that’s why.

Just sounds like a possibly good idea to take 1 med that could help with 2 problems (anxiety and pain) instead of 2 different drugs (even an OTC pain med).

[Mango20]

@propspony

and I tell myself that my grey hair simply is adding some glitter and highlights naturally.

My mother, at 77 a lifelong dyer, recently told me “you should get blonde highlights”. I told her I’m just pretending the grey IS blonde highlights. She just sighed and added one more time to all the times I have not done what she wanted with my hair throughout my entire life.

[Rackonteur]

Bummer. Maybe you better not tell her that my mother started going grey in her 20s and by the time I was born, when she was 37, she was completely grey. By the time she died, at age 90, her hair was snowy white. She never colored it or highlighted it.
My hair is still mostly brown (I’m glad I inherited my father’s hair genes!) but it only ever rarely occurs to me that I could highlight the grey, and then I think magenta or something else reddish. But then I remember it would have to grow out, so I just let it “highlight” itself naturally.

[SuzieQNutter]

@saddleup

I find myself worrying when I forget something.

@Rackonteur

I worry too, when I do this.

Forgetting things is normal.

Forgetting you put your glasses on your head and then by you find them there, that is totally normal and not a worry.

Forgetting your glasses on your head and finding them there and you don’t know what they are. Then you can worry.

Hubby and I have been putting the cattle through to get ready for sale.

Tomorrow we will sell the whole herd.

Then we are leasing the land to our neighbour.

[RedHorses]

I would like to, however at the moment the eye docs won’t do exams on the 50+ age group as protest for the government not paying enough for the exam, and they’re not allowed to accept payment from the patient for the exam. The bad side of public health care.

[Rackonteur]

Where is this the case? I’d like to see some sources because I’ve never heard of a doctor who wouldn’t take money for services rendered.
65+ age group gets eye exams covered by Medicare, as well as cataract surgery. 50-65 age group, I don’t know, but again, I’ve never heard of a doctor refusing to see a patient who can pay.
Doctors refusing to do eye exams out of protest could be had up for malpractice, I would imagine.

[RedHorses]

Ontario, Canada. If you want to pay for government funded procedures you have to go out of province, or country.