Sagging skin after weight loss

[attitudefree 2]

Can anything be done to minimize the sagging skin?

[Malaika 50]

Exercise while you're losing, and plastic surgery afterwards ... they have a new laser surgery out that seems to be getting good results; however, I think that is if there is only a small amount of sagging skin that needs to be dealt with.

[MacMadame 81]

Time. We lose fast and the skin needs time to catch up. My weight isn't changing on the scale much any more but every day I'm smaller due to shrinking of my skin.

[Rosebud2 26]

If you lose slowly your skin can sometimes keep up. No promises though. But, of course, we all want to lose fast, so probably will have some sagging.

VegasAngel, tell us more about the laser surgery. I know I'm going to have batwings and you can't hide those. I'll live with the saggy boobs and maybe a bit of a panni. Good underwear can help those, but I want to wear sleeveless again some day.

[*susan* 1,709]

Sleeveless shirts would be wonderful. I haven't warn them since I was twenty years old.

[MacMadame 81]

I wear short sleeve even though I have a lot of wrinkled skin in that area. But I have too much loose skin to wear sleeveless. I get this lip of skin that hangs over the shirt. It's disconcerting because it's not something you normally see. Wrinkled arms, I've seen before on really old people. I don't like having the arms of a 70 year old (even if it's a very buff 70 year old), but I can live with that. These weird flappy things? Not so much.

[Rosebud2 26]

Yep. Don't want the flappy bat wings showing. I can hide the other with Spanx and such but not the arms. I really don't want another surgery but may have to go with that eventually.

[Ruthi 60]

That reminds me of a sight my nephew and I saw the other day, I felt for the lady but I really had to laugh at my nephew and his comments. We were driving down the road and in front of us on the freeway was a woman on a motorcycle that had some fair sized batwings. Between the wind and the vibration from the cylce, her batwings were waving like a flag in the wind and making all types of shapes as she drove along. Just a visual for you. I know I had no business laughing because now, I am going to be cursed with them for sure. But teenagers and their comments crack me up sometimes.

[Malaika 50]

VegasAngel, tell us more about the laser surgery. I know I'm going to have batwings and you can't hide those. I'll live with the saggy boobs and maybe a bit of a panni. Good underwear can help those, but I want to wear sleeveless again some day.

I'll pick up some information on it when I see my GYN next month - he has been certified to perform the 'surgery' and has been doing it in his office recently -- I'll let you all know what it is called and more information at that time -- I think my appt. is the 2nd week of August.

[*susan* 1,709]

Awesome, I would love to hear more about it as well.

[MacMadame 81]

John Lomaco from Big Medicine says the laser stuff doesn't work that great compared to traditional Lipo. He posted about this quite a bit on LapBandTalk, if people want to check out what he said.

[Rosebud2 26]

Oh, I'm not looking for Lipo because I'm hoping to lose all the weight. What I would want gone is the hanging batwing loose skin.

[MacMadame 81]

I think when you do the lower body lift, sometimes they do a bit of Lipo too. It just depends.

I really, really don't want to get PS but I'm at the point where I will if I have to. I'm going to give it 6 months and see what happens.

[Rosebud2 26]

I'm with you. I really don't want any more surgery either. But if I get to my goal and my arms look like sh*&, and I can't wear the clothes I want, then it will be depressing.

[*susan* 1,709]

My concern is, have you seen some of the scars people who have their batwings fixed have? I keloid really, really bad, so I would never dare to have that done.