Question:
after weightloss how long did it take for your skin to really shrink

up and look normal? did you think you were going to need ps and then didn't because it looked normal? i'm 8 months out and wondering if my arms are going to shrink up any.    — franbvan (posted on April 24, 2004)

April 24, 2004
Hmmmm, looks down at tummy....2.5 years and still waiting.<br><br>Actually, a few months after I hit goal things seemed to catch up. Just not quite like they should. Let the air out of a balloon and it shrinks back down, but never like it was before you blew it up. ;)
   — RebeccaP

April 24, 2004
Hi Fran: I'm coming up on 3 years post op and had a TT 3 months ago. Stomach never shrunk up like it should. But I think I'm a lot older than you by the picture of you in you profile. I think age and genetics have a lot to do with it. I know another woman who lives near me and you'd NEVER know she lost over 100 pounds. You can still really tell in my arms and legs. Both have improved with time, but if I had the money they both would get taken care of too. I had a breast reduction done preop RNY and those flattened out to nothing, but I'm not going to worry about them. LOL Good luck in shrinking enough to avoid surgery. It's definitely the best if it happens that way for you. S
   — sherry hedgecock

April 24, 2004
Fran, unless you are a teenager, I don't think the skin every catches up, I think over time it gets worse. I have been down from 305 to 180ish since August of 2003, I haven't lost any weight since, so, in the last 6 mos, my skin has begun to look worse. It hangs more and more, nothing helps. So, the only way is PS! I am having my LBL on May 11th, flat tummy, no more saddle bags, I CANNOT WAIT!
   — heathercross

April 25, 2004
If you are talking about arms, don't expect much. After losing over 150 lbs, I thought my arms would look better. Yes they are smaller, but they hang considerably. I am more worried about how they look now then when they were big. All I ever thought of wanting to do when I lost weight was to be able to wear sleeveless shirts and that still won't be happening. They are pretty bad so I'll be having some ps work done on them when I can afford it. Right now I'm working on the bottom half first.
   — Dee ,.

April 25, 2004
My arms didn't shrink up at all. After I had liposuction on them, they shrunk up tremendously!!
   — Patty H.

April 26, 2004
I've lost 106 pounds, only 20 pounds from personal goal and thought I would only need PS on my arms but sometime within the last two weeks, my tummy started looking like a balloon with the air let out. I'm 56 so know that my skin will never "catch up" with the weight loss but can't decide whether to pursue PS for the rest of me or not. I don't particularly want to go thru all the pain so I might just live with the deflated balloon effect unless it gets to be a problem.
   —  SCbabe B.