Stomach reduction surgery cannot be
considered as an an easy way
out for generally obese people, but it is
suitable for men and women
who have lost significant amounts of weight,
and for
women following child birth, especially if
their pregnancies were
large or they carried twins or triplets. It
is recommended,
however, and often ruled by a surgeon, that
women finish
having their families before opting for
stomach reduction
surgery.
When a woman’s stomach has been stretched to
capacity
during pregnancy, and has not retracted back
after the baby’s
birth, she can be left with an unsightly
overhang of excess skin,
which is impossible to shift. Although
stomach muscles can
be tightened by exercise, there are no
exercises that have any
effect on slack skin.
Very often a woman who has exercised herself
back into shape
can feel her taut stomach muscles underneath
the overhang of
sagging skin, which is all the more
demoralising.
These results are the same for those who
have successfully
shed their excess pounds, only to find their
new stomachs
hidden beneath a flap of skin and a stubborn
fat pouch, which
once again cannot be totally exercised away.
Some of those affected find that they still
have to wear
trousers and skirts one to two sizes bigger
than they should
actually need because their skin overhang
gets in the way and
pads out their shape.
For anyone with a large flap of excess skin
on their stomach, a drop in
confidence, particularly in terms of sexual
relationships, is often inevitable.
In some circumstances, when pregnancy has
been the cause, the problem is
exacerbated if a caesarean birth was
necessary, with one or more scars
distorting the overhanging skin still
further. |
