Am I Too Old To Do This?
Hi, Linda--
I'm 56 and have lost 94 lbs over the past year. I looked pretty good up until the last 30 lbs and then things just started to sag and deflate. My butt is awful, it's droopy and sags down my thighs but I can hide it under clothes. My arms did respond to lifting weights but will never look the way they did in my 20's (well, nothing does, to tell the truth....) I couldn't hide my face with the hollows where my cheek fat pads used to be and the jowls that were suddenly more apparent. Also, in the hollows, wrinkles developed where the fat used to plump them up. So I had a facelift last month and now I look pretty good. No more jowls, no sagging cheeks.
My logic was, I can hide the saggy body but not my face. I did that first and I'm really happy. I think I can live with the rest.
I'm 56 and have lost 94 lbs over the past year. I looked pretty good up until the last 30 lbs and then things just started to sag and deflate. My butt is awful, it's droopy and sags down my thighs but I can hide it under clothes. My arms did respond to lifting weights but will never look the way they did in my 20's (well, nothing does, to tell the truth....) I couldn't hide my face with the hollows where my cheek fat pads used to be and the jowls that were suddenly more apparent. Also, in the hollows, wrinkles developed where the fat used to plump them up. So I had a facelift last month and now I look pretty good. No more jowls, no sagging cheeks.
My logic was, I can hide the saggy body but not my face. I did that first and I'm really happy. I think I can live with the rest.
I was 58 when I had my surgery. I feel like I am 40 again! IMHO The last thing to worry about is skin. More importantly is your health. My face looks fine as long as I keep smiling! Not a hard thing to do. Check out the pics on my profile.
BTW further out your weight re-distributes and exercise helps. Build muscle. I still am not at my scale goal but I love feeling my muscles and admiring my abs!
BTW further out your weight re-distributes and exercise helps. Build muscle. I still am not at my scale goal but I love feeling my muscles and admiring my abs!
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on 5/9/12 11:06 am, edited 5/9/12 12:45 pm - Canada
on 5/9/12 11:06 am, edited 5/9/12 12:45 pm - Canada
I'm a 71, 400 lb man, and presently going through initial meetings for WLS. I think I'm the senior statesman on this thread.
Met the surgeon today and while he didn't exactly say it, I don't think he wants to do it because of some of the things he said. When I asked if I could have the VSG as I felt it would be less risky, he said RNY was best for me as he fears that there could be serious problems for me with VSG leakage. Healing could be a real problem for my age and that could be deadly.
He also seemed to say that WLS is really for younger persons with many years ahead of them and at 71 meeting my maker may not be that far off...with or without the surgery. Quite discouraging.
He is still sending me through the whole process of meetings...with an internist, psychologist, dietitian, nurse for tests, and they all meet after that process to see if I'll get approval. But after this first meeting I wonder if I'm just wasting my time. I told him I'm as strong as a horse still and invited him to put two 100 pound bags on his shoulders and see if he could beat me up a flight of stairs.
With 200 lbs to lose I'm sure to have saggy skin and many more wrinkles...and might look my age or more. But now I have a huge pannus apron which will probably thin out after surgery but sag even more. Plastics is obviously going to happen at that point...and I'd be 73. Finding a doctor to do it at that stage might be difficult.
Any thoughts for me?
Met the surgeon today and while he didn't exactly say it, I don't think he wants to do it because of some of the things he said. When I asked if I could have the VSG as I felt it would be less risky, he said RNY was best for me as he fears that there could be serious problems for me with VSG leakage. Healing could be a real problem for my age and that could be deadly.
He also seemed to say that WLS is really for younger persons with many years ahead of them and at 71 meeting my maker may not be that far off...with or without the surgery. Quite discouraging.
He is still sending me through the whole process of meetings...with an internist, psychologist, dietitian, nurse for tests, and they all meet after that process to see if I'll get approval. But after this first meeting I wonder if I'm just wasting my time. I told him I'm as strong as a horse still and invited him to put two 100 pound bags on his shoulders and see if he could beat me up a flight of stairs.
With 200 lbs to lose I'm sure to have saggy skin and many more wrinkles...and might look my age or more. But now I have a huge pannus apron which will probably thin out after surgery but sag even more. Plastics is obviously going to happen at that point...and I'd be 73. Finding a doctor to do it at that stage might be difficult.
Any thoughts for me?
I am almost 58 and had my surgery about 10 weeks ago. I have lost 36 pounds since then- slow but steady. At 20 pounds out, my knees no longer hurt. I can walk down stairs like a normal person. I, too, worried about the excess skin. I was talking to my adult daughter about it before the surgery, complaining that my thighs and arms would likely be saggy and how would I look in a swimsuit. She looked at me incredulously and said- "Mom, what exactly do you think you look like in a swimsuit now?" Enough said!!!! Called and scheduled my appointment THAT DAY!
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