Where on your body did the loose skin surprise you?

happyteacher
on 7/28/12 12:44 am

I was expecting the abdomen and legs to be a hot mess. I just noticed today though that the elbow area on the bicep side has loose skin. Really? I don't have bat wings, but I have loose skin there? Any weirdness for you?

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Marie M.
on 7/28/12 12:55 am - PA

VSG on 09/13/11

I have batwings with loose wrinkly skin around the biceps--gross. Also, my ass has completely disappeared (preop it looked like a shelf that could hold a drink!) and is completely wrinkled, like an accordian.
My abdomen surprisingly fared the best--in clothes it's almost flat. My thighs are a skinny, wrinkled, gelatinous mess. Also, my CALVES have loose skin. Never expected that to happen.
Plastics is definitely in my future.

Marie

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BETHC500
on 7/28/12 11:42 am

VSG on 11/05/11

hold a drink... mine too.... lmao...

julyxo84
on 7/28/12 1:11 am - Pembroke Pines, FL

VSG on 01/05/11

i knew my belly was gonna sag because i carried a lot of weight there. but what surprises me is how bad my arms are...my bat wings are crazy and i still have a lot to lose, im sad but ill take it over the extra weight anyday.

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emelar
on 7/28/12 1:31 am - TX

VSG on 11/18/10

Thighs. I didn't realize I was carrying so much weight there. Stomach, batwings, expected it. But my thighs are just deflated....sigh...

Jackie00
on 7/28/12 1:39 am

Legs are surprising where I walk and run so much, they look like the upper legs belong to a seventy yr old look like the orange peelings. Was expecting it on the stomach but practically have it all over but I don't care, will take this over the heavy weight any day.

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loverofcats
on 7/28/12 1:42 am

VSG on 08/30/10

I have loose skin on my arms, belly, breasts or tube socks, thighs, but some of the loose skin on my calves surprised me. The other areas, I more or less expected. I weight train and it has helped, but the loose skin is there to stay, so plastics is in my future.

PluggingAlong
on 7/28/12 2:58 am

VSG on 10/29/10

I have loose skin hanging on my back from my bra line to my waist. I call it my reverse muffin top. When I wear a good bra and a fitted shirt I call them my back boobies. It's a good thing I don't mind a "spanx" tank or shirt under my clothes cause its the only way to make my back appear "flat". I never paid much attention to my back in the loose fitted 6x shirts I wore and my ass stuck out so far the shirts would hang there and would never actually touch my back. Now I can handle the rest of my "scrotum skin" (learned that expression on OH!) but the excess back skin is the bane of my existence ;)

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jaded123
on 7/28/12 4:11 am - MD

VSG on 04/18/11

I'm surprised by just how bad my arms look :( And my upper thighs. My belly is okay and I kept my boobs.

My arms are my worst thing. I sometimes have to go up a size in shirts, just for the arms :(
But at this point, not planning on plastics. I'm 50, so I never expected to come out of this with the body of a 20-something, or even 30-something. I did this to myself, and I can keep wearing 3/4 sleeves. I'll wear tank tops and sundresses around the house, but if I leave the house, I need a bit more cover on my arms!

(I am now a size 10, down from size 24. And wearing mostly Medium size shirts)

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diane S.
on 7/28/12 4:30 am

VSG on 11/17/09

definitly my rear end. i always had a big one and thought i always would even with the rest of me deflated. but that deflated too and now i have skin sag back there. good thing i can't see it. my hips are narrower than my shoulders. never thought that would happen. Diane

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Sleeved 15-Sept-2011 HW 294 Pre op weight 285 SW 279 GW 145?
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Where on your body did the loose skin surprise you?

Sleeved 15-Sept-2011 HW 294 Pre op weight 285 SW 279 GW 145? Pre op 6 lbs lost, M1 - 23 lbs M2 - 11 lbs M3 - 12 M4 - 6 M5 -10 M6 -10 M7 -7 M8 - 4 M9 - 4 M10- 4 M11 - 5 M12 - 0

Sleeved 15-Sept-2011 HW 294 Pre op weight 285 SW 279 GW 145?
Pre op 6 lbs lost, M1 - 23 lbs M2 - 11 lbs M3 - 12 M4 - 6 M5 -10 M6 -10 M7 -7 M8 - 4 M9 - 4
M10- 4 M11 - 5 M12 - 0