Need Saggy Skin Advice
Hope someone, or many of you can offer advice:
I know I posted a few weeks ago about pain under one arm after I rode over a bump (on motorcycle, sleveless top). Well, I have continued to have odd pains in my skin. Now I have it under both arms and between the arm and left shoulder blade.
This a.m. I was finally able to figure out what the heck this is (eliminating all terrible possibilities like cancer and scleroderma first . It is my extra skin. This bothers me less in the armpits if I have a bra on, but it is STILL a problem because the extra skin pooches up over the side of the bra, into my armpit area. Then the underwire pokes the skin, regardless of the fact that the underwire is covered with material. When braless, my arm comes down on the horizontal fold of skin and OUCH.
Regarding the scapula, the skin over it gets 'pinched', for lack of a better word, when I do not wear a bra and am resting back against the couch. The skin gets caught between the scapula and my arm and the furniture.
I am still losing, so I have to deal with this for quite some time, knowing that PS is not possible until I have maintained goal for 1 year, and even then if my insurance will cover it.
Anyone else experience this? Have any advice? Anyone try one of those compression garments ($$)?
I am grooming for the SPCA this a.m. and then putting down mulch this afternoon and hope it doesn't bother me too much. Certainly don't want to be handicapped by this.
Lois
Cancel the needing advice. Even though I JUST had a breast check, I, myself, found a soft lump under my right arm and a very small hard one under the left. I also found a soft one in my left groin.
Don't know if these have anything to do with the other gyn problems I am having now or. I have had several studies recently. I am not a wait-and-see girl, so I called my pcp and got an appt. with the NP there for this afternoon. We are under pressure to produce curriculum pacing guides for all our classes, starting this coming week, and I have all this other on my mind.
When it rains it pours. I will posst when I find out something.
Lois
Lois .. My addiction is running or fast walking .. and OMG the skin under my arms flaps like chicken wings .. It gets to the point sometimes it hurts .. it does not really chafe me .. but if I had the mula .. I would get it chopped off .. so until then .. I tuck it inside my bra ..
A suggestion would be to find a bra that has wide straps on it ..
Also . make sure you are documenting this for when you go to ask for your plastic surgery .. they will want to know everything , from where it is .. to what it does , smells .. etc ...
Big Chicken Wing Hugs to ya ..
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