Loose skin after 30kg weight loss - Is 23 too young to get a neck lift? (Photos)

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After loosing 30kg and using monjurno , I have very loose skin on my neck. Everyone is telling me I’m too young for. Aneck lift however I have the neck of an older woman. I tried radio frequency microneedling. Nothing has helped. What can i do to fix this? For reference I am 62kg now and 5ft4

Jeffrey H. Spiegel, MD · Answer

You can likely get good improvement with skin tightening at your age. Rf microneedling is more subtle. We could try something like junera (laser under the skin) or necktite (Rf under the skin).  It would be a good next step. Even a necklift may not work fully.

Julian De Silva, MD · Answer

Hi enajamali, congratulations on your 30kg weight loss, that is a real achievement, and thank you for sharing your photos.

I would gently push back on the idea that you are simply too young. After weight loss of this scale, the issue is usually an excess quantity of skin, and that is a mechanical problem. Energy treatments such as radiofrequency microneedling tighten skin a little, but they cannot shrink a genuinely large surplus, which is why they have not helped you. In that situation age matters much less than the state of the tissue itself. I see this increasingly often in younger patients after significant weight loss, including with the newer weight-loss medications.

Two things matter before any decision. First, your weight should be stable for several months, which it sounds like it may be. Second, an in-person examination is essential to assess how much is loose skin versus deeper laxity, because that determines which procedure, if any, is appropriate. A consultation with a facial specialist would give you a clear, honest answer for your own neck rather than a rule of thumb about age.

Loose skin after 30kg weight loss - Is 23 too young to get a neck lift? (Photos)

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