How your age affects the amount of saggy skin?

Kevin H.
on 9/10/12 10:15 pm - Baltimore, MD
VSG on 02/06/12
I have quite a lot of drooping skin .. age 44.  I have skin in the stomach, the bat wings and under my arm pits.

It's better then being 390 lbs though.

 
  

LilSleeved
on 9/10/12 10:52 pm
Age has very little to do with saggy skin.  Genetics and how long you've been obese matters a lot too.  I was in the hospital having my first round of plastics after losing 200 lbs and my friend was there who was 22 years old.  She had lost 100lbs and needed everything done.  However, her results are just amazing!  She's gorgeous!  I know the sagging skin sucks!  I have had lots of it and have had to have several plastic rounds just to improve my mobility.  Start saving your money for plastics now.   Most insurance companies do not cover those procedures.

I was 42 years old and had only been obese after my daughter was born when I was 26.  So I hadn't been overweight more than 16 years. 

    
    
Lost 271lbs with my LapBand in 22 months!  My Band malfunctioned and I gained almost 42lbs and then revised to the Sleeve 9/24/12!  I lost another 140 lbs with my Sleeve!  Loved the LapBand and Lovin' The Sleeve!

RW76
on 9/10/12 11:17 pm - Medina, OH
 I'm 36 and have a ton of saggy skin...  But I am also 200lbs below my highest weight ever so it's to be expected.  

  
Pre Op: 415  SW: 390  Goal: 235 CW: 225

desertmom
on 9/11/12 7:25 am - Dubai, XX
VSG on 03/13/12
Well,I have lost 100 pounds 9 times in my life between the age of 25 and 45.

I am very fair with a super sensitive thin skin.

The first 7 times was before the age of 40 and I had skin on my stomach and the boobs went south.Arms were fine, legs were fine.

The 8 th time was not quite a hundred but the legs and arms started looking a little worse for wear.

Now at 45 I look like a sharpei dog,skinfolds everywhere.My arms are so bad that the reformer instructor kept on telling me to lift my arm when I do certain exercizes when the elbow is way up there and the skinflap,well close to my side.I felt quite embarrased about this but made a joke and we laughed about it and carried on.

So,where as genetics did play a huge role age for me certainly have made a big difference.

But in bed fat vs thin with skin?A no brainer me thinks!

O and I am yet to see an old lady without implants with perky boobs...everybodies will go south at some point even when they are small (worked in old age homes for quite a while)

Relax,lose the weight and then assess if you need plastics.Exercise a lot the first 6 months.You are still young and I am amazed at how different young people shrink from older ones.

Good luck

  

    

    

    
USAF Wife
on 9/11/12 7:32 am
Age doesn't make a hill of beans in my experience. I was 32 when I started this process. I'm 35, almost 2 pregnancies later, and well, my skin is NOT horrific. Could it be better, sure. But, I'm not fretting over it.
Because of two csections after massive weight loss, one before (14 years ago) and the fact my skin is stretched back out after the pregnancies, I've qualified for a full tummy tuck.

My wrinkly thighs, and sharpei puppy jowl buttcheeks be damned, I  look fab in clothes and the only people who see me naked are medical professionals and my husband.

I don't think age really plays a huge rule. Ancestry/ethinicity, genetics, how long we've punished our skin with being fat, how much we have to lose, and where we have to lose it from are bigger contributors.
Band to VSG revision: June 3, 2009
SW 270lbs GW 150lbs CW Losing Pregancy Weight Maintenance goal W 125-130lbs


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