Sagging skin

Does anyone have any suggestion on firming cream that will help with sagging skin on my neck and throat? Does it get better when the weight is all gone?

I dunno about any creams, but I do know mine seems to go in stages.  I get really saggy and then my body seems to compensate and pick up some of the slack.  Don't get me wrong, I have LOTS of saggy skin, but my boobs were looking awful and they seem to have either tightened up or filled out (can't tell which).

I'm sorry....I have lost 170# in less than a year and I have saggy skin in every spot that you can possibly imagine!!  I started asking questions about this around the 5th month of saggy skin before I got a "feel" of what I was really talking about.  I will put it all in a nutshell for you of what I was told.  If you are young (under 30) and have only been overweight for a small period of time, exercise should retain the elastiscity of your skin.  If you are older (like me) of 48, and obese most of your life, your skin will never go back to what it could have been, but you might be able to tighten it a bit.  I use elastic resistance bands and weights.  Water exercises and swimming are the best, according to my cardiologist.  If you are young and can do some calisthenics....power to you!!  Walking is one of the best exercises that there is.  I have saggying skin that probably adds an extra 30#.  Unless I can come up off of $5000...no one is even willing to hear my cry.  I am just thankful to God to have gone down from a size 7x to a size 1x (and still losing).  Praise Him....He deserves it!!  I keep wondering everyday what happened to the "whole human" that I dropped in weight and wondering how I can squeeze myself from a size 70w to a size 18w...but it happens....I can't explain it, but thank God that it does!!  By the way....the neck and throat is my most EMBARRASSING area because I feel like I have a turkey neck (I look much older than I even did morbidly obese)...but I am a survivor...turkey neck or not....I'm not going back (Gobble...gobble!!)

Barb

Not much you can do; a lot of it is just genetics. I was very obese for many years and am 53, but have no neck skin issues. But my thighs are pathetic, and my boobs are bad too. Plastic surgery is the only real cure for most of us, but I don't think I will do it.
-Wanda

Having lost over 300 pounds, I have sagging skin.
No amount of creams, firming lotions, excersise or the like will get rid of the "turkey waddle" unfortunately.
I wish I could have a face lift, but insurance won't pay for it unless I have a medical issue with it.
My issue is vanity :(
Donna

Hi Carla.  I'm 49 years old and have lost 118 pounds over the past year.  At times during my weight loss, I did have 'turkey neck' and I HATED it.  I got some Bio Oil (skin oil bought it at CVS drugstore) and I started applying it to my neck (right up to the jaw line) every night.  I do agree that the extent to which your skin recovers is due in part to your genetics, but my skin really tighened up over the past 3 - 4 months and now I have no 'hang' in my neck at all.  Also, about 3 months ago I got some Hydrience firming cream from Avon and I apply that now morning and night (still use Bio oil about 2 times a week) and I think it really helps.  Some people say that 'no cream will help, save your pennies for plastic surgery' but I disagree.  You want to feel good about  yourself, so it doesn't hurt to try some of the creams and oils. Good luck!  

I'm really happy for you, but think you must be some kind of freak of nature if oil caused your skin to shrink.

Let me repeat, I'm happy for you.

Note to the general population:  creams and oils will not cause your skin to shrink permanently.  Save your money for plastics and be happy that a neck lift is one of the cheaper surgeries.

-Cynthia

I beg your pardon?  Thank you for calling me "a freak of nature." 

I wasn't speaking to YOU, I was speaking to the original poster.

Why don't you keep your nasty comments to yourself ? 

Note to the general population:  Cynthia L. thinks she's an expert in all things related to skin and skin oils and creams, no matter what actual experience someone else has had.

I think that is what I was told to apply to my surgery scar to help fade the scar (at least I think that was it). I wonder if it works like retin-a or AHA and increases the turning over of new skin and exfoliates. Gonna go look it up now.

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Mini, I wish I were a freak of nature like you, it would save me SO much money. 

LOL, I realize who you were talking to, but yanno, the way forums like this work, right?  We tend to talk amongst ourselves a lot, not just to the OP.

My comment wasn't meant to get you in such a wad, I'm sorry you were so freaked out that you blocked me.

I really do wish I were like you and that crap miraculously worked on me too.

I'm not an expert, nor are all the others here who told you the same thing I did, that this stuff does NOT work as advertised.  I doesn't take an expert to realize that.

-Cynthia