Excess skin and panniculus

Is anyone here having any trouble with excess skin and panniculus? If so, how are you handling it?

I have some exess skin, but I could care less. IMHO you can always hide excess skin - you can't hide FAT.

Very true.

I'm going for a body lift in a few weeks.  The weight pulls my hips forward, which aggrevates a back problem.  Although a tummy tuck would probably have been enough to solve that, I figured since I"m there, I'll do the whole lift.

A body lift, eh? Cool. Let me know how everything goes!

I had alot of excess skin.  I had an abdominoplasty and mastopexy at which time I had 7 pounds of abdominal skin removed.  Had a long recovery due to blood loss but would do it again in an instant.  In fact, in retrospect I should have done a circumfrential body lift.  I had an excellent surgeon, surgery at MMH in NJ.

However, it is expensive, time consuming and not covered by insurance.  Not for everyone.  I would agree with Tom, you can hide skin, not fat.

I had alot of excess skin.  I had an abdominoplasty and mastopexy at which time I had 7 pounds of abdominal skin removed.  Had a long recovery due to blood loss but would do it again in an instant.  In fact, in retrospect I should have done a circumfrential body lift.  I had an excellent surgeon, surgery at MMH in NJ.

However, it is expensive, time consuming and not covered by insurance.  Not for everyone.  I would agree with Tom, you can hide skin, not fat.OneRedwrote: I am thinking that I probably won't do much about the excess skin except for exercising because I don't think my insurance will cover it, and I am told that it is an expensive procedure. Oh well. I have a long ways to go before I really have to worry about excess skin anyway. If it really starts to bother me physically, I will then consider having something done about it.