Height

[Black Noir]

Do you physically get short as you get older?

[bobtheduck-]

your spine curves... another serious answer :)

[RATTER15]

Your bones and spine compress making you shorter.

[Carakeel]

Well, I was really upset to learn from my consultant recently that I am no longer 5'6", as I have been most of my adult life. It seems I'm now only 5'3". My loss in height is due to the affects of bone cancer (which I beat!!! YAY!) many years ago and osteoarthritis which attacked my knees following several falls. I have just had my first total knee replacement and this will be followed by a second in a few months time. I am hoping that perhaps, as little bonus, the new knee joints might give me back a little of the height I have lost over the years. I am a young 58 and not at all happy with shrinking away like this!!! I am told though that my "shrinking" is not so much due to my age but to damage through osteoarthritis mainly.
Mum lovely Mum is now 90 and probably about 4'8. She used to be 5'2" and her loss in height is definitely due to age related curvature of the spine.
But as they say ... good things come in small packages! Right? ;o)

[RATTER15]

I agree carakeel!!!

[jules1968]

You do and as im a shortie anyway im not looking forward to that!

[Clanad]

Not only that but you become shorter during the day after getting up in the morning...

[snug]

You certainly do. That's why my sons are now as tall as me and soon to be taller, DAMN!

[knobbynonuts]

Well i have been 6 foot 1 and a half inche since I was 20 and at the age of 52 now have only shrunk a quarter of an inch and that is due to hair loss..