I listen to podcasts fairly loud, music sometimes very loud, however, loud vehicles or SpaceX testing their rocket engines drives me insane. I'm sure I sound like old people sounded to me when I was young. TURN THAT SHIT DOWN!
My balance now sucks with my eyes closed. WTF? In the shower, closing my eyes to wash or rinse my face and head is outright dangerous unless I keep an elbow touching the wall. Just standing with my eyes closed...fucking dangerous.
It literally takes my body a warm up period to operate correctly. When I first get out of bed, I'm in and out of the bathroom and all the way into the kitchen before the shuffling stops and the walking begins.
I'm even in good shape for an ex-smoker, ex-drinker, cancer survivor. What the hell?
I just turned 67 the other day, and some days I feel every single year of it. I don't take any medicine for it, most likely arthritis, but nothing so major to be considered a lifestyle changer-I don't know if my family has an average age, because father died at 69 from cancer, aunts died in 80's/90's from Alzheimer's, other relatives lived to 89, etc.
But I don't smoke (any more) I walk a lot (even though my sciatic nerve hates me for it) and I try to keep from eating too many goldfish at one sitting.
I really am not going to go overboard in getting to age longer than I should-because I feel that extending your life beyond what it is naturally takes up more resources than necessary, and that's ridiculous to me. I'm also the kind that will not allow anyone to put me on life support should I get so sick it's required unless there's a very decent chance to survive. Otherwise, just let me go.
I don't have any close relatives who would weep too copiously at my death, so I'm not going to overrate my existence.
I will live as long as I'm able. Maybe 20 more years or 2 more days-we can never tell what's in store for us.
I'm so sorry you're having problems! I'm 56 and *knock wood* very healthy so far. I think a lot is genetics. My mom is almost 89 and looks 20 years younger. My grandmother was healthy and active until 91 (died at 93). I do think that my diet is really helping me out, though. It's very vegetable-focused, and I also eat a lot of fruit, legumes, seeds, nuts, and whole grains. (No meat, eggs, or dairy, either, but I know that's not realistic for most people.) I have avocado every morning. And I drink lots of water. And I try to walk at least five miles a day. I know that's not the magic solution for everybody, but, like I said, it's working well for me ... so far.
Your balance issues could be chemo-induced. Im a breast cancer survivor- had to do chemo for almost a year. Besides chemo giving me metabolic syndrome (which is really only controlled with keto diet) it gave me really shitty balance and I used to have zero problems in that department.
I work out with a ballet, yoga, and pilates instructor who has had several clients who’ve had chemo and she swears that it fucks with your balance.
I am chuckling (and secretly weeping) reading this. I have exactly the same experience in the shower and it started around the age of 60. Much sooner than that, I started having trouble discriminating loud noises, which leads quickly to oldster crankiness.
Our cerebullums are slowly turning back into primordial ooze. Life is a rental.
I try every supplement I can find to try and fight this shitshow . I am currently giving Tru Niagen a try. Nothing has ever worked. Other than that, I try to eat well, I walk 4 - 6 miles every day, I have a 40 minute stretching routine that I do every day, and I do some kind of resistance training most days. I can’t think of anything else I can do. I would have to say that overall, the benefits have not kept up with the amount of time I spend on this shit every single day. Of course for all I know, I’d be dead right now if I wasn’t putting in all of this effort.