You get this. I am 61 and so discouraged. Terrified that i will lose my insurance when my husband turns 65 in 2 years. Worried I won't be able to work full time to get insurance until I am 66. Today I was told I need a shoulder replacement surgery. One hip was replaced and I had 3 surgeries on disks adn removal of arthritis in my spine and my neck was fused. I have spinal stenosis. I am tired and this last bit of news about needing a shoulder replacment is just doing me in. The doc asked me why I waited so long to come in. I am so used to coping with pain that I though the shoulder was just another type of pain.
I work with kids. I have worked all my life to help others and I cannot figure out why this is happening to me. All the losses, gardening, lifting babies, walking, and now swimming.
I am so sad and cant see much hope for my future. I need some hope.
Anne
I, too, have osteoarthritis and after reading the above article I am not looking forward to getting older. I will turn 63 in a couple of weeks and every day I wonder where the pain will be today. I put off one hip replacement surgery by trying a "shot" in it for the short term and now my other hip has started hurting. I remember wondering why my parents always complained about their joints hurting and now I know!
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Wow! Thought I was alone. I'm a 60 year old former personal trainer who has had both hips replaced. My right knee has rapidly deteriorated this summer so it looks like another replacement is in the near future. Then there is the left shoulder..... What is the implication for mobility of having multiple joint replacements? Elaine
Elaine---for me, a ton of this is ATTITUDE!!! With 2 artificial hips, 1 artificial ankle, 9 joints removed from my right foot, 2 artificial joints in each foot ad infinitum---at the age of 65 (I'm now 67), I announced to everyone that I was going to climb Kilimanjaro (I live at the foot of her several months a year while I do volunteer work and work as a photo-journalist)! Everyone thought I was insane, but I just said "watch me"!!! I didn't climb to her peak---I didn't need to---the point was I climbed some of her---so there!!! In spite of 9 ortho surgeries so far and probably at least 2 more---I seldom use a cane, and don't walk with a limp. I don't do anything "stupid"--no longer play racquetball, etc., and when my surgeon said "stay off your knees"---I do---but I'm fine. No, the pain hasn't completely gone away---some days are worse than others--but at this point, I continue to live a full and very active life. It helps that I am not overweight and continue to be physically active---Just remember---at least in my case---I refused to accept the diagnosis as a "sentence"!!!
Hang in there---
p-----