In My 40’s : Joint Pain and Free Advice

I never really could understand how 40 year old’s acted…. well ….‘old’ . It just didn’t make sense to me. At 39 I was as fit as a fiddle.

Until I turned 40. (Input dramatic music.)

In My 40’s: Joint Pain and Free Advice

Usually a day trip to London and I’m fine the next day. Today I’ve woken up like I had a flight back from china. I’m in aches, pains and I want to just sleep.

My body has decided to stage a protest. It’s all downhill from here.

One minute I’m brewing up a tea and enjoying the finer things in life, the next I pull a muscle picking up the teaspoon I dropped for the sugar. (Did I really need Sugar in my tea? was it worth it?)

I wasn’t even doing anything remotely excruciating. Just making myself up a cuppa, and it had me questioning all of life’s little pleasures.

Here are a few other features my body seemed to have unlocked in my 40’s.

Pop the kettle on ( ps. don’t drop the teaspoon)

Stiffness Galore

Literally the morning after.

I’m the person who can sleep anywhere. Like anywhere. Just give me a bed, a couch, the floor… anything. if its time to sleep, 3 seconds in, and I’m snoring away.

Now sleeping on my own bed just 3 minutes later than normal and I wake up like I’ve been hit by a truck.

READ HERE: How to get a good nights sleep.

Clickety Click- Knee click

The absolutely famous clickety click-knee click. Get up its there, go up the stairs, it comes up with you. Sometimes it happens and I haven’t even moved a muscle. Do you think the knee is trying to tell us something? Maybe a reminder to make papad for dinner tonight. the cracking sound does sound similar doesn’t it?

Weather Updates

This one sound weird, but tell me you feel it too. Your body just knows when its going to rain, or snow. The bones already feel it before the weather changes. I bet whoever created google weather app is relying on their Chachi for updates.

Back Pain

This ones a tricky one. Back pain really doesn’t need a reason. No excuses, No cause, No motives and No logic whatsoever. It just decided it wants to disturb our peace, and ‘Hello, I’m here!‘

Dropped a pen? ‘Should I pick it up? will it affect my back? should I wait till the kids come home?’ this has now become life’s biggest questions.

Exercise

At this stage, everything is a workout. From tying shoelace’s to turning in bed. Every. Single. Movement. Is a workout.

Actual workout?. Requires mental strength, physical strength, all the strength of all the superheroes in the world.

And annual leave for a week afterwards to recover from it

READ HERE: I got grey hair

The Grand Finale

Ah the 40’s joint pain: they really are the epitome.

We finally stop caring about things like makeup and a flat stomach. We no longer need airport outfits, a comfy pyjama set will do, and we speak our mind and eat biryani without guilt. We have given up chasing youth, just chasing the waiter for more raita is hard work alone.

Yes, our bones may sound like a xylophone, but our soul? Solid gold!

We hurt a little more, (physically and mentally), but we laugh louder and more unapologetically. we care less what people think of us, and finally understand why a good mattresses costs so much!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to lie down with a hot water bottle, I’ve hurt my back writing this post.

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Need to add more aches and pains to this post? Lets discuss this over a cuppa?

Love and regards