I will be sleeved 6/5/2023. Within the last year I gained over 50lbs. I contributed this to the pandemic (working from home) and the sudden loss of a very close family member. I’m worried of course about sagging skin. Anybody care to share pics or any information on if sagging skin was really bad, or how to make it better. I weigh 250 and I’m 5”3

Edited May 15, 20233 yr by Jaz&kar5

I am not 46, but I am 43 and had the sleeve. Sagging skin is something that happens to most people, but it really all depends on you, everyone is different with the amount and where they have it. I will say that any amount of sagging skin is better than the extra weight I was carrying. and you can hide it or remove it if you feel the need.

Thank you for that. This extra weight is torture! Just thinking about things- I’m ready to be able to get up and sit down comfortably… I needed that reality reminder, “counting my blessings “!

I was older, almost 54, same height & weighed a little less, 200lbs. I have loose skin. Not a lot though - not worth plastic surgery. I can still wear body con clothes without support garments. How much you’ll have depends on many factors. Age, gender, genetics, how much weight you lose, how long you carried your excess weight, etc. things we can’t control.

As an adult I bounced between 60 & 75kg so healthy to the far end of overweight. When I became perimenopausal & then menopausal I put on my extra ‘obese’ weight (I swear I gained overnight). I carried it for about 5 or so years. When I got back to 60kg I had very little loose skin - pinches. As I lost more weight & got to a weight I hadn’t been since I was about 12yrs, my loose skin became more noticeable. Have a little tummy pooch, some bat wings & my butt is halfway down my thighs (it’s the worst bit & what you can see sometimes like in the dress pxt.) Still rather have the loose skin than those extra 42 kgs. I find the loose skin a great motivator. I earned it with my weight loss & I don’t want to gain again.

20 hours ago, Jaz&kar5 said:

Thank you for that. This extra weight is torture! Just thinking about things- I’m ready to be able to get up and sit down comfortably… I needed that reality reminder, “counting my blessings “!

The health benefits and being more comfortable & mobile are the main things I focus on. If you think you are at the point of needing the sleeve, do it, you won't regret it.

I'm 40. I am 20 months PO (as of today!) and have lost 150 pounds off of a very small 4'10" frame. I have some loose skin on my neck and stomach and under my arms. The only part that is really noticeable is on my stomach, but since it's under my clothes it's not a big deal to me. It has tightened up considerably since my weight loss has slowed, and I feel like it's going to continue to shrink. It's minimal enough that I don't feel like I need or want to have skin removal surgery.

150 lbs!!!! Congratulations to you!!! And thank you for sharing that information. I hope you have continued success!! Im sure you look and feel amazing!!!? Im so excited I can hardly contain myself-lol

On 5/15/2023 at 12:54 PM, Jaz&kar5 said:

I will be sleeved 6/5/2023. Within the last year I gained over 50lbs. I contributed this to the pandemic (working from home) and the sudden loss of a very close family member. I’m worried of course about sagging skin. Anybody care to share pics or any information on if sagging skin was really bad, or how to make it better. I weigh 250 and I’m 5”3

My surgery is 6/7 and I'll be 46 this summer. It's been a concern, but praying it isn't bad.

we are/were ALMOST surgery-stat twins.

i was 46 when i had my sleeve in 2018, i'm 5'2" and weighed 235 lbs 2 weeks before surgery...so a BMI of 43. Yours is 44.3, so yeah, ALMOST-twins!

I got to goal around 7 months, and yes i has saggy skin. For me though, i had little underlying fat so it wasn't so much rolly-looking, but more like wrinkled-lumpy-bedsheet-looking.

what fixed it? plastic surgery (i had a tummy tuck, arm lift and breast lift). my butt is pretty saggy still, and "hangs low" lol, but i can live with it. also the vertical skin lines on my neck gives away how old i am now but i can also live with it...sort of, ha!

(in the link to collage below, the last two pics in the middle row are me 2 and 3 months before plastics. the last row is entirely post-plastics. i keep meaning to update this collage with more recent ones, as im 4.5+ years post-wls, but im lazy!

i am still basically the same weight just not as defined anymore...i don't exercise nearly as much as i did back then.)