Getting Old

[Hurl Bruce]

I'm approaching my 50th birthday. I am old.

In the past decade, my back hurt more often, my eyes went bad, and I didn't sleep for shit. I now wear readers (thankfully my distance sight is still great). This past summer, I finally went out and got a sleep study done, so I could get a CPAP machine. The machine arrived this past Friday, and I've been trying to get used to it. It makes me feel mildly claustrophobic, and I wake up at times and feel like I need to just rip it off.

However, the past couple of nights, I feel like I've had the best sleep that I can remember having. I still wake up here and there, but the sleep I do get just feels so much more impactful. I woke up two nights ago after being asleep 5 hours, and felt like I had just slept 12. I haven't felt like taking/needing a nap since this all started either. I used to have a dead zone around 3pm where I just was useless. No more. The app that comes with it still says I have 3-4 "events" an hour, but I don't feel them like I used to. I used to flip and turn over multiple times a night, and I don't seem to do that anymore either.

The two biggest things I've done to help my overall health lately is to get my heartburn taken care of and to get this machine. I don't know how much this will end up costing me, but it feels like whatever it ends up being will be worth it. Any of use have experience with a CPAP machine over a longer period of time?

 

[Cavatt]

My shoulder hurts from one day I stretched and it just always hurt after that. I get hurt sleeping now and wake up stiff. Hard to get used to when you get going and feel fine

 

[KI4MVP]

You will get used to the CPAP. I’m 60 and have used one for years.

When I first got the cpap, it bothered me. now I don’t even notice it.

I did away with the water and use a portable machine that automatically turns on when you put it on and start breathing.

As long as my mind stays sharp and I can still do the things I want to, I don’t think of myself as old.

 

[Sebastian]

Start taking a lot of andro-gel and HGH.

You will be forever young.

 

[The Oi]

Old stuff:

Switched from running to biking to ease up on the joints. Started hitting the heavy bag for 20-30 a day recently. Shoot baskets a couple times a week and run with my team I coach. Terrible about lifting consistently. I just do pushups, situps, squats, etc and everything but the situps seem to have an impact.

My metabolism has clearly faded bc I can’t get rid of this last 10-15 pounds. I’m kinda whatever about it. My diet is pretty good, but it doesn’t affect anything. If I ate this way when I was 20 and worked out the same, I’d be pretty ripped.

I started using lotions and stuff bc my facial skin got weird and my forehead is wrinkly now. @Deezus

I’ve got thinning at the crown of my head. I used some Rogaine but now that I figured out it’s a permanent thing, I think I’m eventually gonna trim it and work with whatever happens.

Overall, I feel really good and look good for 40 I think.

 

[CleveRocks]

I have used a chapter for 20 years. I believe apnea was aging me early. About a month after I started using it, I was mentally back , and still superior to younger peers.. exercise is the other key element.. sweat an hour every other day, and you physically gain ten years of youth..

 

[bigfoot5415]

Got a cpap at 30 and noticed a difference on the 1st night. I was blown away bc I had always woken up groggy even when I was a child. I highly encourage everyone to get a sleep study.

 

[Hydroponic3385]

I recently did a sleep study (home test ordered by my doctor). I've snored since a child (I'm 38 now) and almost always wake up feeling groggy. I was shocked that results from the test said I don't have sleep apnea, although I had a couple hypoapneas.

Would it be worth getting an in-person sleep study?

 

[Hurl Bruce]

I recently did a sleep study (home test ordered by my doctor). I've snored since a child (I'm 38 now) and almost always wake up feeling groggy. I was shocked that results from the test said I don't have sleep apnea, although I had a couple hypoapneas.

Would it be worth getting an in-person sleep study?

I was more hypoapneas.

My schedule allows me to not have to set an alarm every day, so I just wake up when I'm rested. Even while doing this, I'd wake up so tired. The difference with the machine so far has been so worth the study I did.

 

[Kouki]

I'm 35 and hitting a mid life crisis

2 years since separating from my wife plus another ~3 years of a loveless marriage and I haven't got back into the game

I feel it (and see it) a lot more when I eat junk food

A whole bunch of minor little nagging aches and pains coupled with shit mobility/flexibility. This year was 6 months of plantar fasciitis which has mostly finally gone away now, just in time for golf courses to close down.

Losing hair...always had a receding hairline but now my scalp is getting thin. Probably time to take min + fin + dermarolling seriously, just annoying because it's a lifelong commitment.

blah

 

[Man Called X]

I turned 40 this year, supposed to have a CPAP but never could get used to it. So I struggle with apnea, but it's been calmer than it has been in years.

Now all the random aches and pains have gotten a million times worse. A shoulder that's needed surgery for years, a rib I keep cracking+hernia. And I need to get a colonoscopy. But being that I'm stubborn and don't do doctors means I just deal with it all til I'm dead.

 

[Criznit]

I'm 35 and hitting a mid life crisis

2 years since separating from my wife plus another ~3 years of a loveless marriage and I haven't got back into the game

I feel it (and see it) a lot more when I eat junk food

A whole bunch of minor little nagging aches and pains coupled with shit mobility/flexibility. This year was 6 months of plantar fasciitis which has mostly finally gone away now, just in time for golf courses to close down.

Losing hair...always had a receding hairline but now my scalp is getting thin. Probably time to take min + fin + dermarolling seriously, just annoying because it's a lifelong commitment.

blah

I really wish more men embraced hair loss instead of fighting it with pills, products and more.

 

[DJTJ]

Stupid question- who do I go to get a sleep study done? I don’t have a requirement for referral through health insurance.

 

[The Oi]

I really wish more men embraced hair loss instead of fighting it with pills, products and more.

I think I’m going this route.

If I stay in good shape, I’ll look good with short hair. Lean face+ short hair looks good.

Just extra incentive to stay in shape.

 

[Kouki]

I really wish more men embraced hair loss instead of fighting it with pills, products and more.

I've gone back and forth between caring and not caring. I did shave my head during COVID to see what potential future bald self would look like. I wanted to kick my own ass.

Lately I catch myself on video in teams meetings and I'm like ugh this is how other people see me

anyways if you truly believe this and are a single woman between 25-40 in akron/canton shoot me a DM