Are you finding that your body is changing faster than your peers? Like thinner skin, old looking hands and feet, fat redistribution, etc.

Yes! My body has definitelychanged for the worst. Thin skin, that looks really dull. Hands that look like an 80 year old woman. A few lines on the face, Gray hair because my scalp and face are red and burn. Can't color my hair because skin/scalp has become tooo sensitive!!!! Can it get any worse!!!! I have never been sensitive to any hair products or perfumes in the past. At 42 I look like I've aged overnight. The only good thing about this is that I lost 20 pounds due to rosecea. I was afraid to eat certain foods that would make my face burn. I also gave up soda. I only drink water now. Oh how I miss my soda

Yep. I am 43, but I seem to look older and more tired than my peers. My hair is thinner, my eyes are more lined, my hands look old and veined, although they have for several years now. I blame some of it on the fact that I spend my 20's and 30's crash dieting and not exercising to maintain a size 4/6 figure. My face is rather gaunt, but I have the beginnings of a "roll" around my waist, and I think that both of these are aging me more. Sometimes a bit of extra weight is good for filling out your face, but any weight I gain now just goes to my middle, my face and shoulders are thin and bony.
My sister is in her late 50's and she is overweight but looks so fresh and beautiful. She dressses well and keeps her hair colored and has that country girl look about her. I was hoping to look like that someday, but I think I will be one of those brittle old skinny ladies.

I feel like Rip VanWickle. It's like I feel asleep young and then woke up the next day as this old lady!!!!! Shelley

I think I notice it more now that my daughter is in her teen years, and I see how trim and well, youthful she looks, and then I look at myself in contrast and it's depressing!! I also notice it more when I am out in public and happen to catch my reflection in a mirror,,I saw myself in the mirror at the meat counter in the grocery store and I thought it was my mother.

Daleysl-----Oh boy did I ever laugh about seeing your reflection and thinking it was your mother!!!!! I've had that happen several times. The older I get the more I am a "minnie me" of my mom. She was my "lady" and my "Queen" I loved her soooooooo very much!!!(She passed away 2 years ago this coming February, from ahlzhimers related problems. So our Dearest has all my heartfelt sympathy, and may God give her strength.) Anyway I just really don't want to look like my mom yet!!!!LOL I still think of myself as her little girl!!!!! Shelley

Actually, I'm starting to look more and more like my mother's sister instead of her daughter. She's not aging but me...it's all going to hell. She always looked young.

Boy can I give new meaning to rapid aging. I went in to see my doctor in the spring because I wasn't sleeping at all. She thought it was stress. But when the sleeping pills didn't work I realized in my sleep deprived mind that I hadn't had a period in three months. I went back to the doc and she took blood and told me I was crashing through menopause. I got my bone density and bifocals on the same day. I found I have osteoporosis two weeks later and then the eye doctor confirmed that yes I do have glaucoma and could I come in for more tests. By the way I also developed hypertension. This all happened in a period of two months. I am 41. The doctor now thinks this actually started several years ago I just did not connect the dots. I gained 10 pounds literally overnight. I have to work out with weights three times a week, aerobic exercise five days per week, take calcium, soy, blah, blah, blah. It is a full time job. My mother says welcome to the club, well I am too young to be in her club. I have hit menopause really hard. The docs all say the symptoms might be more severe because of how fast I arrived at this stage of my life. I am feeling a little lost since many of my friends are still having babies. Does anyone else feel this way??

Well, I'm nowhere near where you're at but I can relate (of course, I started this thread). I haven't even missed a period but my sex hormones are on the low side and I've been feeling it over the past year. What has really helped me is a low dose of DHEA for the past 2 months. I just checked my blood levels again and my estradiol is up. I have more tests to take but I can tell things are getting better because I'm feeling closer to normal than I have in a long time. Not perfect and not exactly the same but much improved. No more mid month/all month pain. Much less anxiety. I've been sleeping better which helps so much. I still wake up too early many days but I can get back to sleep much more easily. It used to be once I woke up, that was it and I would drag around in an exhausted fog all day. Last night I slept over 7 hours in a row, not even waking up to go to the bathroom. I cannot believe how important hormones are to our wellbeing.

My suggestion to you would be to get on some kind of bioidentical hormone regiment immediately. That will help you not to degenerate so fast. See a doctor who really knows about that stuff, not just your GP.