Is anyone else getting shorter?

I've gone 5ft 4 to 5ft and a 1/4 of a inch in the last 10 years but 4 inches that's a lot!

sweetcakes

I've gone 5ft 4 to 5ft and a 1/4 of a inch in the last 10 years but 4 inches that's a lot!

It is, but, to be fair, I don’t know how long it has been since I was last accurately measured, or even how tall I was then. It could easily be ten years or more.

You might want to get yourself measured again. In May, I had apparently lost 2 centimetres, when I was measured in hospital. When I was measured again two weeks ago, I'd regained the 2 centimetres!

I was 5ft 4.5 inches. I am now 5ft 2inches. Part of that is because I have a crushed vertibrae in my back. When this was found out I was sent for a DEXA scan in case I had osteoporisis. I haven't. I mpretty sure the damage was done about 12 years when i had a really bad slip on a wet grassy slope and my back was excruciatingly painful for several months.

Looking it up a woman can expect to lose up to 2inches in height between 50 and 80. Most in the body because most of the lost height is caused by the cartilege disks between the vertibrae becoming thinner, it also explains thickening waists after the menopause. as the organs are compressed by the reduceed length of the spine.

Exactly! I have gone from 5 ft 5 to 5ft 3. Annoying as there are so many things I can’t reach now especially as I have comparatively short arms. 👎

No, oddly enough. I was measured very recently at a medical assessment and I am still five feet and half an inch tall. I’ve wanted all my life to be taller! Too late now!

Well according to Mr. S. and DS yes, but I don't believe them.

I have gone from 5 foot 7 to 5 foot five in the last few years

M&S petite range fit me perfectly now. A few years ago they were much too short. I was measured when I changed GPs about 20 years ago and I'd lost a half inch then. I wonder how much shorter I am now.

I have lost almost two inches and have to shorten M&S trousers too.
But they do seem to be making them longer as they are now about 4 inches too long for me.

It seems I am fortunate, having only lost half an inch since my teens.

Incidentally I do have a theory about M&S trousers. For years I wore their long length trousers, having always had long legs, but then suddenly it seemed, only needed regular. I believe they increased the length of each category as heels became higher, which also coincided with my heels getting lower! The fact that I have only lost half an inch and will be 80 next year seems to support theory..

Oh dear - I hope I don’t get any shorter 😫

The taller the GC get the shorter I seem to be. I was 5'5" now 5'4", I do have Osteoporosis so maybe not surprising. I have an idea you are slightly taller in the morning.

I am preparing myself for the day very soon when DGS will be taller than me. I will then, officially be the shortest person in the family.

I am consoling myself with the knowledge that DD will be 50 next year was the same height as me before I started shrinking. She too will be beginning the downward shrink and we may yet be the same height again.

I've lost two inches, officially, the hospital told me. My mother once told me that we come from a long line of shrinkers.

I ve gone from 5’7” to 5’4”

No but I wouldn’t mind if I did as I’m 5’ 10”!

luluaugust

The taller the GC get the shorter I seem to be. I was 5'5" now 5'4", I do have Osteoporosis so maybe not surprising. I have an idea you are slightly taller in the morning.

I'd read that as well, and I often have to adjust my car rear view mirror in the morning.

I've always been 5'5" but at my last annual check-up the nurse said I was 5'4".
I said, "Oh I've always been 5'5" !" and she laughed and said, "Maybe so, but you're not now!"
I got my husband to measure me at home and he made it 5'4 1/2". I'll settle for that for now!

My Mum had osteoporosis and lost several inches in height.
What annoyed her most about it was that it made her stomach stick out, and she felt she'd just won that battle after many years of trying 😕

yes i am shorter too

I have gone from 5ft 2 to 5ft.

I have osteoporosis and two unhealed vertebraic fractures, held together with cement, which would account for it.
Only yesterday, DH commented that I was getting even shorter.

My GD on standing at the side of me remarks that I am shrinking.
I have osteoporosis and when having DEXA scans I am measured very accurately.
I have lost almost two inches in about 3 years
Short to begin with but now even shorter
Part of life’s plan .

I am sure I have got shorter.Reaching into wardrobe shelves and top kitchen cupboards is now such a bind due to having to climb onto a chair first. I recently volunteered for the Future Health program for research and on measuring I am still 5ft 1inch in stocking feet

It's worth mentioning that M&S reently changed the lengths of their ranges - the petite and regular ranges are now quite a bit longer than they were. I think they do an extra petite now as well - Mumsnet have had a long thread on this

sweetcakes

I've gone 5ft 4 to 5ft and a 1/4 of a inch in the last 10 years but 4 inches that's a lot!

Well 4 inches isn’t really that much more than 3 and thee-quarter inches!