Plastic Surgery After Weight Loss.... Will I Need It??

milicent · Silver Member Joined: 02 Jun 2000 Posts: 249

Hello. I'm 22 year old female and almost whole my life I have had problems with being overweight. This hasn’t represented a big problem for me when I was younger but when I entered my puberty, it has become. So, I have decided to loose some weight. I have tried all kinds of diets and exercises. I have even tried gastric bypass and it helped me. I have lost about 40 pounds and get the desired weight. But I have developed some problems with my skin because on some regions it has shrink and become rough with some white sags on it.
The regions that are hit the most are skin on abdomen, breasts, arms, and thighs. Please tell me, should I have some plastic surgery after this kind of massive weight loss?

regula · Newbie Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 21

Hello. I will tell you what has happened to you. When someone is overweight, the skin stretches to accommodate the increased volume of weight. After weight loss, the skin often fails to tighten, and so it sags. I know all about this because I have had the same problem few years back when I lost over then 40 pounds.
The thing is that this could be a big problem because further diet and exercise will not tighten skin. Luckily there are several operation that could help you and definitely did help me.
If you want to loose breast skin then the Breast Lift operation called also a mastopexy is definitely the best option. For loosing arm skin there is operation called Arm Lift (brachioplasty). Facial lift can decrease the ptosis of the skin on the face and the neck.
Anesthesia is general and the procedure takes anywhere from three to six hours.

Plastic Surgery After Weight Loss.... Will I Need It??

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