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Sudden onset of skin wrinkling and sagging in arms
Hi all. New to this. I am a 44 year old woman who is physically fit (gym 5 days a week) and eats pretty well.
Approx 5 weeks ago I developed veins showing on both hands. They have not gone away and infact they are bulging most times, and I can "feel them". They have increased and I can see some starting to climb up my forearm now. Before this, my veins barely ever showed.
Approx 2 weeks ago, I developed wrinkling (crepe paper look) on my forearms (near connection of elbow) and on my upper arms. My arms have gone from 44 years old to looking like those of a 60 year old woman.
Approx 5 days ago my skin started sagging and I have now developed that "flap" by my triceps. My arms have always been my pride and joy..I work so hard at them, and they have been so tone,..now they look flabby and sagging with wrinkles.
I am in a panic. Have a doctors appointment for Friday.
Yes, I am fair, Yes, I have been sunburnt many times over the years. My mother had wrinkles also, but to have this come on so very sudden, I don't know what to think.
As far as periomenopause, it sounds like this shouldn't happen so suddenly and usually the elasticity is after menopause. I don't have any symptoms yet, except for my period being early once in a while.
I am 44 years old, and have gone, in 2 weeks, from having 44 year old skin to skin of a 60 year old. Could someone please help? I'm very distressed.
Approx 5 weeks ago I developed veins showing on both hands. They have not gone away and infact they are bulging most times, and I can "feel them". They have increased and I can see some starting to climb up my forearm now. Before this, my veins barely ever showed.
Approx 2 weeks ago, I developed wrinkling (crepe paper look) on my forearms (near connection of elbow) and on my upper arms. My arms have gone from 44 years old to looking like those of a 60 year old woman.
Approx 5 days ago my skin started sagging and I have now developed that "flap" by my triceps. My arms have always been my pride and joy..I work so hard at them, and they have been so tone,..now they look flabby and sagging with wrinkles.
I am in a panic. Have a doctors appointment for Friday.
Yes, I am fair, Yes, I have been sunburnt many times over the years. My mother had wrinkles also, but to have this come on so very sudden, I don't know what to think.
As far as periomenopause, it sounds like this shouldn't happen so suddenly and usually the elasticity is after menopause. I don't have any symptoms yet, except for my period being early once in a while.
I am 44 years old, and have gone, in 2 weeks, from having 44 year old skin to skin of a 60 year old. Could someone please help? I'm very distressed.
Hi,
I have read so many post on this site and everyone says the same thing it happened so fast. That to is the case with me. When I was about 51, I was standing at the kitchen sink when all of sudden I was so weak in my legs I fell down. As the next few days past it kept happening to me so, I started to really look at my legs and noticed how thin they were. I took a tape measure and measured around the top of my thighs. In a matter of 3 weeks I lost 4" around my thighs so I called and made a DR'S appointment. He sent me through a battery of test and it came back that I have a muscle disease. So far they can only say severe muscle loss. Then it was one DR after another and now I am 60. They all told me it's either MS or Polymyositis. I have all the muscle loss in my arms, legs and it's just consuming my body. I have always been thin but now I look like a walking skeleton. My legs are of little use to me, ( When this all started they all told me I would be in a wheelchair in 6 months. Needless to say I'm not, but it's coming to that point. Everyone seems to think they can exercise this back but it won't ever come back. The type of muscle lose and sagging skin is muscle that just can't rebuild itself. I have been from DR A to Z and they all say the same. Physical therapy won't help either. I just want a name put to this disease and yes this is a real Disease. Eating this or that won't help, doing all the things I see people say they are doing is not going to work but I haven't read about anyone going to the DR. I use to be so proud of my body. I have always been so lucky I can eat anything I want never gain weight, don't have to exercise and now I look and feel 100+ years old. I don't know about anyone else but I don't look at myself, won't let my husband see me naked doesn't do wonders for the sex life. And I am post menopausal. My dr. put me on hormones but it didn't help. But the worst part is, there is much pain that comes with this disease. I picked you to post to since you are very worried and I hope people will start going to a DR .So far along with the muscle disease I have a bone disease called Madelung's Bone deformity, fibromyalgia, several arthritis's and the list just gets longer. All of this happened to me just like every story people are writing about. I can't take many meds because I am allergic to most pain meds and about everything else to. I am even allergic to vitamins. I will see a new neurologist in December maybe this time I will get a name to this horrible disease. After reading so many post it appears there is a lot of people that started around the same age bracket. Please start by going to a DR. Don't feel bad my dad is 90 and we compare arms and I win I have more sagging skin then he does! Have a Great day and I know this post is a little late year wise but I just thought I'd put my 3 cents in.
I have read so many post on this site and everyone says the same thing it happened so fast. That to is the case with me. When I was about 51, I was standing at the kitchen sink when all of sudden I was so weak in my legs I fell down. As the next few days past it kept happening to me so, I started to really look at my legs and noticed how thin they were. I took a tape measure and measured around the top of my thighs. In a matter of 3 weeks I lost 4" around my thighs so I called and made a DR'S appointment. He sent me through a battery of test and it came back that I have a muscle disease. So far they can only say severe muscle loss. Then it was one DR after another and now I am 60. They all told me it's either MS or Polymyositis. I have all the muscle loss in my arms, legs and it's just consuming my body. I have always been thin but now I look like a walking skeleton. My legs are of little use to me, ( When this all started they all told me I would be in a wheelchair in 6 months. Needless to say I'm not, but it's coming to that point. Everyone seems to think they can exercise this back but it won't ever come back. The type of muscle lose and sagging skin is muscle that just can't rebuild itself. I have been from DR A to Z and they all say the same. Physical therapy won't help either. I just want a name put to this disease and yes this is a real Disease. Eating this or that won't help, doing all the things I see people say they are doing is not going to work but I haven't read about anyone going to the DR. I use to be so proud of my body. I have always been so lucky I can eat anything I want never gain weight, don't have to exercise and now I look and feel 100+ years old. I don't know about anyone else but I don't look at myself, won't let my husband see me naked doesn't do wonders for the sex life. And I am post menopausal. My dr. put me on hormones but it didn't help. But the worst part is, there is much pain that comes with this disease. I picked you to post to since you are very worried and I hope people will start going to a DR .So far along with the muscle disease I have a bone disease called Madelung's Bone deformity, fibromyalgia, several arthritis's and the list just gets longer. All of this happened to me just like every story people are writing about. I can't take many meds because I am allergic to most pain meds and about everything else to. I am even allergic to vitamins. I will see a new neurologist in December maybe this time I will get a name to this horrible disease. After reading so many post it appears there is a lot of people that started around the same age bracket. Please start by going to a DR. Don't feel bad my dad is 90 and we compare arms and I win I have more sagging skin then he does! Have a Great day and I know this post is a little late year wise but I just thought I'd put my 3 cents in.
Hello,there!
I've been reading all these posts and can relate to practically every one of them. The realisation that we truly are younger inside than our bodies will allow us to be is a very difficult admission to make,especially as these days life and outlook is so very different for us all and we simply do NOT wish to give in and give up!!
Well,I'm 67 and when I'm in bed late at night reading as I like to do before sleep I now tend to see without warning the changes in my arms as they hold up an especially heavy book!!...however,seeing some of the posters in their younger years than myself makes me realise how very lucky I really am,three years from being 70......OMG!!!
However,I do realise that at my age I cannot expect to be as I once was even at thirty,forty or even fifty years of age....I have been thoroughly lucky all throughout them even as a sun-lover to have been blessed with pretty good skin.
So,on reading all the very many posts here and the very many remedies or mere acceptances of that's life and so,long sleeves it is from now on....all I can personally advise is the usual cliché..."You are what you eat"...or,in other words what nourishes you from the inside will definitely affect the outside.
To be honest,it makes sense,doesn't it,really?
I happily admit to using the usual serums and lotions and potions outwardly but it has to said that inward care surely has to be the most potent.
Exercise and pounding away at stressful regimes is all very well for fitness and weight control but when it comes to mere skin beauty then whatever is going inside leads to a glow outwardly.
As I said,I'm 67 but I'm always being complimented on my facial looks as being considered younger...(I am quite happy to refer you all to me as geminiwednesday16 on YouTube...you can also then googleplus me if you wish..).....and as for inner skin care I make certain every single morning to take two 1,000mg of cod liver oil capsules, 1 rosehip 2000mg and 1 zinc 15mg without fail to cover all aspects of health issues as I suffer asthma,therefore take care to look after breathing problems with the zinc and rosehip.....the cod liver oil obviously helps moisturise skin and with joint function,too. I've been doing this for years now and will continue.
I admit to being a bit over weight in modern ideals but at the same time I feel I've reached 67 years in not too bad a shape and still enjoy life,can easily walk to town two miles away,sit cross-legged on my floor to listen to music,enjoy an entire day out walking around areas on the Isle of Wight when my brother visits from London.....so,all in all I'm not doing too badly. Not an athlete but happily doing day to day activity and walking lots when I'm in the mood,some days a mile or three,sometimes none but whatever I feel like. I never want to feel regimented in anything...(might be the Gemini aspect,lol!)
But...truly,inner lubrication and nourishment as far as I'm concerned are the key. Maybe being overweight is a problem for many,yes,but there again maybe a few extra pounds is not so bad if it has all been as a result of maybe eating lots of good stuff...there is always the perception that extra weight is a result of bad eating?!
Not stones and stones extra,naturally....but perhaps a few odd "filling" pounds might not be such a bad thing once past 50!
Anyway,I realise that a forum such as this holds many views and opinions so I wish all of you well and you know what??....being a little wrinkly and interesting and genuinely having had a life to testify to all that is a jolly sight better than the alternative,ladies and gentlemen!
Lots of older "greats" such as Judi Dench,Helen Mirren,Sean Connery prove that there is something rather special in being older and owning a certain charisma; we've all seen pictures of the most wonderful Native Americans,Aztecs,Maoris,Gypsies,Zulus etc.etc. who would be nothing without the character that age has portrayed within them.
We now live in a plastic,bland,superficial age. Time to make a stand and do the best we can to delay it if we can but embrace the other,more sublime beauty if we can't.
I've been reading all these posts and can relate to practically every one of them. The realisation that we truly are younger inside than our bodies will allow us to be is a very difficult admission to make,especially as these days life and outlook is so very different for us all and we simply do NOT wish to give in and give up!!
Well,I'm 67 and when I'm in bed late at night reading as I like to do before sleep I now tend to see without warning the changes in my arms as they hold up an especially heavy book!!...however,seeing some of the posters in their younger years than myself makes me realise how very lucky I really am,three years from being 70......OMG!!!
However,I do realise that at my age I cannot expect to be as I once was even at thirty,forty or even fifty years of age....I have been thoroughly lucky all throughout them even as a sun-lover to have been blessed with pretty good skin.
So,on reading all the very many posts here and the very many remedies or mere acceptances of that's life and so,long sleeves it is from now on....all I can personally advise is the usual cliché..."You are what you eat"...or,in other words what nourishes you from the inside will definitely affect the outside.
To be honest,it makes sense,doesn't it,really?
I happily admit to using the usual serums and lotions and potions outwardly but it has to said that inward care surely has to be the most potent.
Exercise and pounding away at stressful regimes is all very well for fitness and weight control but when it comes to mere skin beauty then whatever is going inside leads to a glow outwardly.
As I said,I'm 67 but I'm always being complimented on my facial looks as being considered younger...(I am quite happy to refer you all to me as geminiwednesday16 on YouTube...you can also then googleplus me if you wish..).....and as for inner skin care I make certain every single morning to take two 1,000mg of cod liver oil capsules, 1 rosehip 2000mg and 1 zinc 15mg without fail to cover all aspects of health issues as I suffer asthma,therefore take care to look after breathing problems with the zinc and rosehip.....the cod liver oil obviously helps moisturise skin and with joint function,too. I've been doing this for years now and will continue.
I admit to being a bit over weight in modern ideals but at the same time I feel I've reached 67 years in not too bad a shape and still enjoy life,can easily walk to town two miles away,sit cross-legged on my floor to listen to music,enjoy an entire day out walking around areas on the Isle of Wight when my brother visits from London.....so,all in all I'm not doing too badly. Not an athlete but happily doing day to day activity and walking lots when I'm in the mood,some days a mile or three,sometimes none but whatever I feel like. I never want to feel regimented in anything...(might be the Gemini aspect,lol!)
But...truly,inner lubrication and nourishment as far as I'm concerned are the key. Maybe being overweight is a problem for many,yes,but there again maybe a few extra pounds is not so bad if it has all been as a result of maybe eating lots of good stuff...there is always the perception that extra weight is a result of bad eating?!
Not stones and stones extra,naturally....but perhaps a few odd "filling" pounds might not be such a bad thing once past 50!
Anyway,I realise that a forum such as this holds many views and opinions so I wish all of you well and you know what??....being a little wrinkly and interesting and genuinely having had a life to testify to all that is a jolly sight better than the alternative,ladies and gentlemen!
Lots of older "greats" such as Judi Dench,Helen Mirren,Sean Connery prove that there is something rather special in being older and owning a certain charisma; we've all seen pictures of the most wonderful Native Americans,Aztecs,Maoris,Gypsies,Zulus etc.etc. who would be nothing without the character that age has portrayed within them.
We now live in a plastic,bland,superficial age. Time to make a stand and do the best we can to delay it if we can but embrace the other,more sublime beauty if we can't.
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Thank you for your wonderful comment. I find it really sad for all of us women, that we are saying the harshest, cruel things about ourselves when our skin ages. Lets embrace ourselves as we are, aging, loose skin and all - and let it show and wear what we like. I am on this forum, because as many of you are experiencing, I suddenly saw sagging, flabby skin on my arms at the age of 55, when I am very fit and toned. If there is some miracle out there, that may help, sure I'll take it (at minimal cost), but I think liking myself and accepting myself just as I am, wrinkles and all, will probably work better than any skin cream. Like the lady above said; lets try and embrace our more sublime beauty and lets be really nice to ourselves!!
Its a relief on the one hand to see so many ladies are going through this rapid aging process, and terrifying on the other that No One has really found a way to slow it down much!!
I'm 48 - no kids, have always eaten healthy and exercised several times a week. I always had great hair, beautiful skin, fantastic muscle tone and the sex drive of a teenage boy! In fact until I was 40 I never even thought about aging - people always assumed I was at least 10 years younger. Then in my early 40s I started noticing loss of volume in my face and some expression lines - hey, no problem Botox and Juvederm easily fixed that. I decided to go into medical esthetics so I would have easy access to everything I needed to stay young!
Over the last several years I have tried injectables and lasers,creams and supplements, had a breast augmentation (for sagging) and still find myself on the precipice of severe depression over the changes that are happening in my body. Hair loss, sagging skin, loss of muscle tone (and I mean severe loss), lack of a sex drive (even though my fiance is a sexy man 15 years my junior!), and the lowest self esteem I've ever experienced in my life. Oh yeah and the worst symptom of all - painful sex!!! I literally feels like I've gone from 40 to 65 in the space of one year. I mean there is a difference between seeing SIGNS of aging, and looking/feeling like you have the body of a geriatric.
I am in perimenopause - my hormones are all low and I am hypothyroid. A year ago I started with thyroid hormone replacement which helped somewhat with weight gain and hair loss, but not totally. It took me a year to give into the idea that I need to take sex hormones, so I have recently started with compounded testosterone, bio identical estrogen cream and some progesterone, For me hormones are a double edged sword since they often cause more harm than good - weight gain and hair loss being two of the things that have happened to me in the past with BC pills. That being said I've been told that balance of all of these things WILL improve my muscle tone, slow down hair loss, help my sagging skin, improve my sex drive and help with the painful sex!!
I don't believe hormones will do it alone - I believe you also have to follow a whole foods diet, workout regularly, take supplements, and add a few anti aging treatments in the mix to trick the eye!! If anyone has had any success with HRT I'd love to hear about it. I am not going down without a fight!!
I'm 48 - no kids, have always eaten healthy and exercised several times a week. I always had great hair, beautiful skin, fantastic muscle tone and the sex drive of a teenage boy! In fact until I was 40 I never even thought about aging - people always assumed I was at least 10 years younger. Then in my early 40s I started noticing loss of volume in my face and some expression lines - hey, no problem Botox and Juvederm easily fixed that. I decided to go into medical esthetics so I would have easy access to everything I needed to stay young!
Over the last several years I have tried injectables and lasers,creams and supplements, had a breast augmentation (for sagging) and still find myself on the precipice of severe depression over the changes that are happening in my body. Hair loss, sagging skin, loss of muscle tone (and I mean severe loss), lack of a sex drive (even though my fiance is a sexy man 15 years my junior!), and the lowest self esteem I've ever experienced in my life. Oh yeah and the worst symptom of all - painful sex!!! I literally feels like I've gone from 40 to 65 in the space of one year. I mean there is a difference between seeing SIGNS of aging, and looking/feeling like you have the body of a geriatric.
I am in perimenopause - my hormones are all low and I am hypothyroid. A year ago I started with thyroid hormone replacement which helped somewhat with weight gain and hair loss, but not totally. It took me a year to give into the idea that I need to take sex hormones, so I have recently started with compounded testosterone, bio identical estrogen cream and some progesterone, For me hormones are a double edged sword since they often cause more harm than good - weight gain and hair loss being two of the things that have happened to me in the past with BC pills. That being said I've been told that balance of all of these things WILL improve my muscle tone, slow down hair loss, help my sagging skin, improve my sex drive and help with the painful sex!!
I don't believe hormones will do it alone - I believe you also have to follow a whole foods diet, workout regularly, take supplements, and add a few anti aging treatments in the mix to trick the eye!! If anyone has had any success with HRT I'd love to hear about it. I am not going down without a fight!!
I have been reading all these comments and one thing I noticed is that all the women here have experienced sudden onset of the sagging, crepe paper skin...no matter what the age. I am 69 and have noticed this onset in the last six months. I have talked to women I know that are younger than I am that have had this in the same time period. I am now wondering what is happening that is affecting all women, all ages, whether they drink water, coffee, exercise, lost or gained weight, etc. There has to be a common denominator. What is it?
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YES, important. Women from 40 to 80, all suddenly notice sagging skin during the same time period. It's not like we weren't paying attention! This is sudden and rather extreme. Something in the water we're all drinking?
I don't drink coffee, or anything caffeine and still have the sagging, crepe paper skin problem. sigh.
Glad to hear yours is "natural" not that it makes it less devastating! Mine was VERY abrupt / dramatic after my organs were needlessly removed. In just 4 months' time, I lost a LOT of hair, skin collagen / subcutaneous fat, muscle mass, gum tissue, vision, etc. Like you, I avoided going anywhere and still do to some degree. But I cannot hide forever...at least my peers are starting to show their age a little!
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