It’s just murder getting older. Things just stop working- really important things like your eyes & ears. My eyes periodically give me fits. I don’t know how people who have ‘always worn glasses’ have survived without major frustration issues.
I think I must have relied on my peripheral vision a lot because I am just not impressed. Shopping is practically impossible.
The hearing thing is getting funny, though, when it’s not maddening. ‘What?/ Pardon?’ goes after every spoken line at my house. Sometimes, it turns out we DID hear what was said, so now it’s maybe 30/ 70 habit. You have to laugh or else.
With me, it’s lighters. I’ve always liked men’s jeans better (lol All mouth & no rear), but that little bit of stretch is sometimes a nice thing to have. I never thought about the pockets, but that’s true!
The only drugs I’ve ever been able to take without regret are antibiotics (knocking on wood here). I *used to* have severe panic attacks & have had them them since I was 16 yrs old. I took Xanax (very low dose) for almost 2 yrs. Boy, that was a nightmare! I’d had a myocardial infarction before that started (which felt just like a PA except I really *did* throw up & lose consciousness)
It made the panic attacks almost constant & consequently, I was in the ER constantly. After nearly 2 yrs, I decided ‘if I die, I die’ & demanded the doctor get me off of it.
I didn’t expect it, but the attacks Just. Stopped. That was 1996. I haven’t had a dozen attacks since then.
I can’t take anything that makes me feel ‘off’ or flakey. And I can’t take painkillers because they make me hurl.
I’m not at all surprised about osteo drugs. ‘Hormone replacement’, too. Medicine has become a racket. I don’t really even trust my vets anymore. BTDT with the bad side effects for the dogs. I google before I give it. And if it’s elective, I hold off until I can.
Don’t get me started about the FDA taking Primatene off the market. The pharmaceutical companies pulled the same thing with the safer heartworm preventative, Interceptor (for dogs & I guess, cats too), but people balked, now at least, they brought it back. Too bad. We’ve gone back to the old daily.
Osteoporosis may be part of what’s wrong with my back. My paternal grandmother had it. But the women in my family are tough old gals & I’ll keep going until I can’t (God Forbid it!).
I reacted to every HRT they’ve had, shut the bowel down with big gas bubbles threw the colon hurt like heck.
Promethazine or phanagan for puking. Try Ginger Root Capsules for mild nausea. Might want to look into St. John’s Wort. But not if you have a thyroid condition.
I have Meniere’s which is unbalanced pressures in the ear, and it causes vertigo and all it’s issues.
Low frequency hearing is gone, so I wear twin hearing aids but I still have to look at people when they talk to ‘hear’ them, run water no hearing, over loud noise same thing, church is a pain with all that noise.
As well as glasses for astigmatism. Once you have cataracts out you have NO peripheral vision, you get only MONO lenses out of Medicare/Tricare Life (Ret. Military over 65) where I need Toric lenses and they won’t let you pay the difference. They just told me I’ve got the worst case of dry eye they have ever seen. I see the Wet treatment center Monday...they best not be prescribing Restasis as I will refuse it. I have 2 auto immunes and that rules those drops out. Lots of complaints on that drug.
Sounds like you may be developing either dry eye or cataracts, night blindness goes with that.
And the only antibiotics I can take are Amoxicillin or any of the Penicillin group. Or Predisone for a dose pack. Rest are horrid.