Big thighs-sagging skin

[Mimistar 78]

Help! I knew I would have problems with my legs because they were so big before surgery....but now I'm getting wrinkly on my inner thighs.....I just up'd my swimming and squat, and still moisturizing with cocoa butter.

What have y'all tried?

[shadylady_57 54]

I know about the saggy thighs, I have them myself and have no idea what to do about it. i have my age working against me as there is a loss of elasticity in my skin now than someone younger.

[NMJG 1,266]

not a lot helps, that's why people get thigh lifts and lower body lifts

However, I am trying two new things:

One is Viora (Thermage is another brand). It's a radio frequency type thing they torture you with and it stimulates collagen. I'm having it done on my saggy jawline right now. You have to have a number of treatments, though, and it is pricey.

The other thing I'm trying on thighs, butt, and tummy is an ultrasound treatment combined with a vacuum thing. I go to a skin specialist who does it. Basically you get a weird vibrating sucking massage on the area with a tool that looks like a showerhead with pointy things coming out of it, then he goes over the skin with ultrasound, then he does a standard Swedish massage to finish it off. I have noticed some improvement in two visits, but not a lot.

Saggy thighs. Uggh.

[Scout1234 161]

I am 8 weeks post op from a lower body lift and my upper thighs are certainly a little saggy and I considered adding a thigh lift to the procedure. I am not saying my surgeon talked me out of it but I didn't do it. I wear a compression garment style of underwear to keep everything tight. My surgeon told me that once the skin is saggy no matter what you do in the gym or magic creams will help.

[gmanbat 5,889]

I am a guy, hence the name G-man-bat. I have saggy inner thighs as well. They are not a big concern to me but they are there nonetheless. I used to have muscular thighs and that was replaced by fat thighs and now they are skinny thighs. I am 65 and any hope of building up the muscle to take up the skin is scant. I do not have the testosterone and steroids are not an option.

I shall have to beef up my personality or come into a great deal of money as compensation. I think my wife would prefer the latter, she thinks I have too much personality as it is.

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

I was blessed with big thighs too. And when all the weight was gone I was left with empty fat cells and wrinkly skin. Yuck! My plan included first having the excess fat cells lipo'd which I've already done, and in a few years I'm going to have a full body lift. That will help stretch out the excess skin down there.

Other than that, not much but time to allow relasticity will help to get rid of the skin. It is a burden for many of us.

[wcn1970 239]

Ignore it and keep on working. All of these things are reminders to me of what I will not be again!

[lwilliams65 102]

I've lost 108 pounds so I'm definitely rockin some sag lol. I have saggy arms, saggy thighs and a saggy belly it doesn't matter how much I run or how many arm exercises I do the skin is still there. I see body reconstruction in my future but I guess I'd rather be thin and saggy than overweight and out of breath. Keep your head up you're still beautiful

[HealthyNewMe 1,935]

I'm 53, so no skin elasticity here either..... But, this is how I see it: I'd rather look like a shar pei than a beached whale !!!!!