Do you feel you have aged since the pandemic

Like Ailidh above, Covid not really bothered me at all.

No but yea but

In one way, yes but I think it's just because I'm getting older. And thinner. When I was 64 and obese, I had few lines. No I'm 66 and in the middle of healthy bmi, I'm kinda liney - but I would have been anyway.

I had a good Lockdown, in that I have no children or grandchildren or parents to miss seeing. My two brothers and I kept in contact electronically and still do. I have a small but precious group of friends, ditto, although obviously were seeing each other more now.

Inspired by being able to continue my social life electronically, and that I didn't expire from loneliness, because I wasn't lonely, I'm taking forward my plans to move to the coast. I'm in a lifetime rental, will have to move into the scary world of private rental but I'm doing it anyway. Lockdown taught me to be brave and try new things. ?

Sorry Polnan, meant to say I think many of us are weeping more. Emotions running high.

Have had two cataracts removed so can see the ravages of time more clearly and it's a shock. My arthritic knees have worsened. Everything is double the effort and I don't really want to go out and about. I feel I can't be bothered to do a lot of things I would have been eager to do pre-pandemic. I do know I have got to shake myself out of this at 82.

Alioop and JaneJudge ??

I’ve let my hair go grey but have taken care of the wrinkles by allowing my skin to stretch over the newly acquired fat.
We have dug ourselves, no longer have the desire to travel and feel content at home.
So not older but definitely different.
I’m so sorry for you 1summer, such a difficult time. Wishing you both some joy with your little grandchild.

Yes, I finally had my eyes tested and needed new glasses so now I can see my wrinkles a lot clearer. I need a filter on them!

I definitely feel that the pandemic speeded up the ageing process somehow. I had a great desire to go travelling and now I don’t feel like I want to go anywhere. Even though we get bored we sort of can’t be bothered to do anything which is awful. Feel unfit too. I need to have a serious word with myself !

yes, mentally 20 years.. before pandemic, I felt and acted etc, like a 60 year old.. truly, now after the lockdowns, I feel my age,, over 80! really struggling, so NOT me at all..

weeping, on and off, no reason, just weepy, restricted movement, don`t want to go on any unfamiliar routes with my driving or anywhere that I have not been before,,, and restricted with mileage.. even to visit well loved relatives.. everything is really , really tasking!

When my daughter was here in the summer she told my son I had gone downhill. I think of that every day now.

Tomorrow we are supposed to come out of the worlds longest lockdown, 267 days. It hasn’t been that good, very depressing and not that good a result ,either. Most of us have a least a mild depression and some of us have developed fairly severe mental illnesses. We have been locked up with no friends allowed round and a nightly curfew with helicopters flying overhead to make sure we are good little people obeying the rules. It has, simply, been too high a price.I wouldn’t want to be as slack as some of the European countries with huge death rates but this has been a real over reaction with very questionable results.

Yes but in a good way. I say no to loads of things that before I would have felt obliged to attend.

The most 'ageing' aspect during Lockdown was Facetime, Zoom etc when I could see my face close-up!

For some reason I'm always startled to see what I look like

I moved just a few months before it all began. So pleased I did. Spring of 2020 was difficult, had not been here long enough to really get to know anyone locally - but went out each day to meet up with my daughter and youngest g.son in the local park, or go along the Promenade.

I have settled down very happily in my new retirement town. Absolutely loving it here, and have met lots of new people. The air is clean and fresh and I can only say, that despite many of the normal ailments of age, I feel much healthier now than before I moved here at the end of 2019.

With my mobility scooter I go out somewhere nearly everyday, even if it is just a trundle round the park or along the Promenade watching the dogs play on the beach.

Obviously, I am two years older, and have some more wrinkles, but generally feel so much better now that I did before I came here, particularly that last seven or eight involving the move - and during which I had a cancer scare.

BlueSky

Sadly I feel I’ve aged in spirit. All those travels I used to love, now really seem to be too much effort. It’s much easier to travel sitting in your comfy armchair watching some holiday shows!

I agree and also, like Crazy I’ve become lazy and lethargic. I definitely feel I’ve aged badly over the last couple of years and I hope that when I eventually get to see my overseas family it won’t be too much of a shock for them. Must try harder!!

I thought I was so I applied for a job and got a job and heavens knows I'm miserable now

I don't feel I have aged physically during the pandemic, as during the first lockdown, we were stranded in NZ and had a great adventure, and since then I have been able to keep up with my cycling, either in groups or in twos when the lockdown was at its worst. However, mentally, I do feel I have aged. I used to go to a weekly pub quiz, which doesn't start til 9pm and finishes about 11:30. Now, it's a real struggle to go out at that time, when I feel like snuggling down for bed. The same goes for adventurous holidays abroad - they suddenly seem a lot more effort!

Isummer so very sorry to hear of your troubles and illnesses. You have been blessed with a grandchild how wonderful. There is nothing more rewarding in life I have three beautiful little granddaughters I am so proud of.
Yes this time we have all endured has been difficult for all of us in many ways. Its been the biggest test to our resilience that's for sure.

1summer that’s extremely hard for you both, I hope you still find moments of joy, especially with your granddaughter, even if it’s outside, take care.

I summer, sorry to see you are going through so much - thinking of you and all who are having a hard time

1summer I m sorry to read your post. Life can be very unfair

Maybee70 We felt the same last week too.

Yes, I do feel the pandemic somehow sped up the ageing process. Enforced isolation from grandchildren, family and friends. Family and group holidays cancelled repeatedly. Not driving any distances, quiet roads then currently incredibly busy roads.
It’s also added to existing feelings that being immune suppressed is not to be dismissed easily

The pandemic coincided with being really ill so I have changed a lot in that time. I am seeing family that I haven't seen for 2 years tomorrow and all I've been able to think about is the state of me and my house since then.

1summer

My husband and I retired 5 years ago and although I struggled with not going to work we both were beginning to enjoy retirement. We had a couple of fabulous long haul holidays to places we had dreamed of going to and also a few long stays at my nephews apartment in Spain. Lots of days out, new hobbies, and time together. Then Covid hit, it was a has been a difficult time for everyone but I felt I aged considerably also put on weight and struggled to maintain regular exercise. Then a start of this year Husband and I both had a bowel cancer scare and both had to have operations, recovered from that, then Husband had to have skin cancer removed from face. The biggest hit was in July when husband started to have seizures and after many tests was diagnosed with an aggressive acute rare Leukaemia. The Chemo treatment is terrible and prognosis not good. So we are shielding not going out and not seeing anyone. So I feel very old and almost feel Covid robbed us of a year of retirement. The only bright light in the last 2 years is the birth of our gorgeous granddaughter inMay 2020 but that time was fraught with problems due to Covid.

I’m so sorry to hear that. DH and I were both feeling sorry for ourselves the other day saying that we were existing rather than living but I think we need to be more grateful that we are existing with reasonably good health. Take care x

Yes. I am so much looking forward to seeing all our family here for Xmas. FINGERS CROSSED

But I think they will see that DH and I have turned into old folk.