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I’m seriously considering going to a surgeon about my armpit fat. It’s gotten progressively worse over the last 10 years and hinders the tops that I feel look good on me. Those ugly bulges. Plus, they bother me. I’m often lifting up my arms and resettling them to push them a bit forward. I am not overweight. My arms aren’t overweight. I believe it’s fat and not breast tissue, but I know that needs to be checked.
Too funny, in the political forum! I haven’t done it, but my sister is considering options. She has lost 75 pounds, exercises like crazy and still has all this saggy skin that bugs her. Would be happy to see responses to your question.
Sounds like she will need surgery to rid the excess skin. That is one thing I’d be interested in knowing. Unlike when we lose weight slowly, the skin just seems to retract. What happens to the skin when you take a junk of fat out?
Good question. Seems that skin shrinks up when you’re young and have the elasticity, but what about when you’re older, does it just stay as sagging skin?
I only know one person who had liposuction…and it sucked out the fat but left her with saggy hanging skin. Hers was on the tummy, and she then had a tummy tuck.
I have been trying to find tops with sleeves, but there are so many many more cute tops, dresses that are sleeveless. I want to wear those. Plus, that extra fat is uncomfortable sometimes.
I have found something else worth researching. Kybella is an FDA approved injectable that melts the fat. Its original use is for under the chin, but it works on armpit fat too. I’d rather do that actually. Still need to find out about the extra skin. I have a Botox appointment in June so will as my dermatologist about that.
I haven’t done it nor know anyone who has.
Do you have an esthetician who you trust? I find the woman I go to has knowledge what all her clients have had done and the best people to go to.
I’ve had lipo for a couple of breast surgeries. They took fat from my inner thighs and from my flanks to have fat available to round out edges in revision surgeries (years after breast cancer).
My fat was probably not the same as would be removed where lipo is the goal. (Does that make sense?) We were harvesting fat to place it somewhere else. Given a choice, I would have preferred to have other fat removed but for this purpose the plastic surgeon chose the fat site he thought would be best for the destination location.
Even young skin does not necessarily shrink up following a big weight loss. My nephew’s wife lost 200 pounds when she was in her 30’s. The skin stayed saggy. She saved up many thousands of dollars for surgery to remove the skin, and she needed two different operations. They were a few years apart because she needed to save again for the second surgery. She was not part of the family when she had the first surgery, but she was when she had the second. It was pretty gruesome, I won’t lie. She had drains, pain and a tough recovery. But she is so glad she did it, because she finally feels good about her body. It really made a difference visually, although I certainly never would have commented on the sagging skin before she had surgery.
If you feel that liposuction would make a difference for you, then you’ll be happy you did it. I would recommend researching carefully and maybe talking to a couple doctors for their opinions. Your liposuction needs may be far simpler than my nephew’s wife’s, but a procedure is a procedure. It’s always wise to be cautious.
I know few people who have done it for their stomach and arms. Afterwards you have to wear girdles for a while and can be uncomfortable (painful). People I know who have done it weren’t very overweight, so there were not a lot of sagging. One person I knew took some fat from her stomach to fill her face. She did is as part of face lift procedure.
Cool sculpting is less invasive and less painful. Afterwards for 2-3 weeks you feel like someone has punch you where the sculpting was done. With liposuction the result is more apparent right away, and cool sculpting can take up to 3 months to see the results.
That’s a lot of weight loss! I’m struggling just to lose a couple of pounds! One thing I would consider is a laser skin tightening procedure if things got bad. I have no objection to plastic surgery, but I would only want to do what is needed, and no more. But the laser thing is definitely more minimal.