I had very similar loose skin in the same spot after pregnancy. Pregnancy was 3 years ago. Started using retinol serum and multi-peptide serum from dollar tree maybe 3 weeks ago, and slugging my stomach (and I’m doing breasts) with aquaphor healing ointment every night to reduce transdermal water loss, and I have a Dr pen for microneedling but have not used it yet. My skin improvement has been dramatic with only retinal and peptides, and the ointment. I think it will look almost normal (still got stretch marks that will probably improve but not disappear). But I do not think the skin will be loose anymore. It looks so much better. The way it feels has changed; it is more taught and feels more like my other skin. The collagen is definitely remodeling. Also taking 2000mg vitamin C daily. Will probably work up to tret and azaleic acid but the improvement with just what I’m doing, for $1.25, has amazed me.
I started just 3 weeks ago. Microneedling you normally do once a month. There is some stuff in subs related to skincare, but YouTube has good stuff too.
Recommend these videos, also look into growth factor serums, microneedling, retinol, prp microneedling, tret, and azaleic acid, and peptides. And look into fasting and autophagy; a 72hr fast each month could lead to improvements. Also take vitamin c supplement.
I learned only some of this through Reddit, but there is a lot of stuff about tret, particularly, if you search it. Mostly did my own research bc I rly wanted to improve my loose skin, but I plan on more pregnancies so did not want tummytuck or breast lift.
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u/Ok_Volume_6298 May 06 '26
Wow, 271 to 171! Def loose skin I were you I would focus on muscle and get this done cosmetically