Post RNY, Jowls?

Kinne
on 10/8/16 11:34 pm

I've noticed that as I lose weight, my very round face (my highest weight was 373) is starting to sag, kind of giving me jowls. I realize there's not too much I can do about it, but I'm still p.o'd. 

Just tell me I'm not the only one.....

peachpie
on 10/9/16 4:42 am - Philadelphia, PA
RNY on 04/28/15

I had to google this term-- I've never heard it before. Didn't realize there was a term for this. One of the unfortunate effects of weight and aging I suppose. 

I don't have this- but have issues in other areas. 

5'6.5" High weight:337 Lowest weight:193/31 BMI: Goal: 195-205/31-32 BMI

hollykim
on 10/9/16 9:43 am - Nashville, TN
Revision on 03/18/15

girl , you are so funny. You need to spend some time in the south... Just sayin.  :)

 


          

 

White Dove
on 10/9/16 6:57 am - Warren, OH

My friend, Carol, lost a lot of weight when she was fifty.  She was very unhappy with her new jowls.  She had a mini face lift.  She is 70 now, still slim and her face still looks firms and she looks much younger than her age.

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends

H.A.L.A B.
on 10/9/16 8:10 am

Yeap.  Gravity. That why I decided to get a face lift... 

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

catwoman7
on 10/9/16 8:59 am
RNY on 06/03/15

late 50s here - and yes,  I have jowls now.  One of my neighbors asked if I was going to get a facelift (nice, right??)

RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)

HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163

CJ On Orcas
on 10/9/16 10:50 am
RNY on 09/09/16

I am only a month out and already have jowls.  Seems most of my 40 pound loss was in my neck ;).  No matter.  I would rather be thin and old looking.

selhard
on 10/9/16 11:23 am - MN
RNY on 11/26/12

Like Hollykim, it was funny reading peachpie had to google jowl.  But you reporting a 40 pound loss in the neck made me smile again.  I, too, was like a melting snowman starting at the face and stopping short from the hip down.  As usual, today there is a west wind here in Minnesota--am I hearing the echoing sound of joy from you done with Lovenox shots?  

CJ On Orcas
on 10/9/16 12:09 pm
RNY on 09/09/16

OMG YES!!!!! I finished Thursday and EVERY morning I wake up grateful that I no longer have to subject myself to that particular hell. The last few days of them I debated every shot whether I could just throw it in the jar unused... but I took every single one. And, I was rewarded with that 40-pound neck loss.

CathyV
on 10/9/16 12:57 pm

Haha! Mine has been in my belly. I swear I can already see a "front butt" forming...

HW- 375

SW- 358

GW- 175

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