My feet are growing.

[Cold]

I did not know this was a thing. I've been a (UK) size ten since I was about thirteen, which was a long long time ago. For decades I could buy a pair of size ten shoes safe in the knowledge they'd fit often without the requirement to even bother trying them on in the shop - because bloke.

Just recently, over the past year or two, the occasional new shoe purchase hasn't been as comfy as I'd like. I initially put this down to shoe sizing anomalies with the Continental or US method of sizing not translating accurately to UK measurements. But yesterday I got measured and have gone up just over a size to an eleven.
It seems as you get older the various squishy bits that hold your foot together can relax and allow the foot to spread out both in length and more commonly in width.

So not content with allowing my waistline, chins and forehead to grow, apparently old age pokes fun at the size of your feet too. Joy.

[darker grapefruit]

Does this happen to any other "squishy bits" ?

[sawman]

Feet can increase in size by a shoe size and a half (uk) between your 20s and 70s. The bones dont grow but ligaments and rendoms probably 'give' a bit.
Conversely, folks with very high arched feet can find they get shorter but higher

[Cold]

darker grapefruit said:

Does this happen to any other "squishy bits" ?

Yes. Apparently one's testicles will hang lower too.

[MTech535]

Mine too, I'm up to 13.5 now. Makes getting shoes a right PITA

[ukbabz]

I found when my waistline shrunk, my feet did by about half a size..

[Sheets Tabuer]

Cold said:

Yes. Apparently one's testicles will hang lower too.

Yup, the older you get the more you sit on them.

[R8Steve]

Mine are going the other way, i used to be a 10.5 and now i can get into a 9!

Perhaps it's just the manufacturers sizes that are changing.

[Derek Smith]

I went to buy a pair of shoes and found my feet had grown. I was told by the saleswomen that for men, as they get older, it is like pregnancy. Evidently a pregnant woman's feet will grow due to certain hormones. As the woman seemed to be enjoying my problem getting a size 11 to fit, I asked her if women's feet grew just to balance the bump.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I'm 57

For 45 years I was a ten, now an eleven. I just assumed they collapsed & spread (like my belly )

[jackh707]

You mention your forehead; if you think your face has got bigger, or is changing, your hands have got bigger or anything else unusual including poor peripheral vision and bumping into things, headaches or anything odd get it checked out by your GP.

[Johnnytheboy]

Yep, when I hit 40 I started going from being an eleven for years to being a twelve.

[PurpleMoonlight]

Feet and nose get bigger, cock gets smaller.

Old age sucks ....

[wong]

jackh707 said:

You mention your forehead; if you think your face has got bigger, or is changing, your hands have got bigger or anything else unusual including poor peripheral vision and bumping into things, headaches or anything odd get it checked out by your GP.

Google Acromegaly
Have you started looking like Jaws/Richard Kiel From 007/The Spy who loved Me and Moonraker?

[Cold]

wong said:

jackh707 said:

You mention your forehead; if you think your face has got bigger, or is changing, your hands have got bigger or anything else unusual including poor peripheral vision and bumping into things, headaches or anything odd get it checked out by your GP.

Google Acromegaly
Have you started looking like Jaws/Richard Kiel From 007/The Spy who loved Me and Moonraker?

You do both, of course, realise that that particular reference was a toupée losing nod towards male pattern baldness/hair loss and not a serious medical condition?

[Frimley111R]

Cold said:

wong said:

jackh707 said:

You mention your forehead; if you think your face has got bigger, or is changing, your hands have got bigger or anything else unusual including poor peripheral vision and bumping into things, headaches or anything odd get it checked out by your GP.

Google Acromegaly
Have you started looking like Jaws/Richard Kiel From 007/The Spy who loved Me and Moonraker?

You do both, of course, realise that that particular reference was a toupée losing nod towards male pattern baldness/hair loss and not a serious medical condition?

I am sure he does but it just happens that Acromegaly has very similar symptoms. Most people put changes down to age and mostly they are but a few (like me) actually do have this condition. Amusingly my doc mentioned Jaws when he saw me. Apparently Richard Kiel had Acromegaly when he was 9 years old but most get it from 30-50 which is why it takes often 10 yrs to be noticed as we all, like me, put it down to age changes. Hopefully I won't end up being 7ft 1.5 in tall!

[Tri_Doc]

Or you have acromegaly.