Welcome and we all do what we do at the times in our lives. I exercised all my life and danced into my mid 60's and the OA just got too bad, I now know I was doing so much damage all those years but loved what I was doing.

A hip replacement in 2010 at age 72 left me with more of a mess and now I do all kinds of alternative work to keep walking. And now work on myself with self acupuncture which I've learned thru others and doing acupuncture for years. I'm about to head to my needles now and work on the IT band damage from the surgery...hope I can get some "life" back in that area. It's so dead and achy enough.

Good that you can swim.

I take a lot of supplements and overall am healthy except for the OA and body mess.

Again, welcome and you can get some good help here.