Oakley I am 64 and have flab, but not wrinkles on my arms :). I do have wrinkles on my neck and face though. Have you recently lost weight? Are you dehydrated? That could give the appearance of wrinkles.

I was thinking the same as tuesday_2008. Drink more water and make sure you're using a moisturizer every day. Or maybe I need to take a look at my arm with reading glasses?

Don't look at your arm with reading glasses. In this case, ignorance is bliss.

I have arm wrinkles but I suspect that it's a combination of age and having lost 42 pounds 5 years ago and keeping it off. I would rather have arm wrinkles than the extra weight again. :)

OMG oak, I can totally relate and am looking into an ultrasound treatment. I'm not overweigh, just old(very hard for me to admit')and it's just that d*** gravity! There are several links to a procedure called Ultherapy, but this one answers many questions/concerns.

www.simplyskinmedspa.com

Yay. Something else to look forward to.

Lol, blfenton!

lol, Sue. I do think it's dehydration. I had to go to the doctor for it two years ago, and I've been really lax on drinking water. I usually drink coffee or a diet soda. I don't guess they count for hydration, do they? :)

I lost 20 pounds this past month, but I think I noticed the wrinkles before the weight loss.

I'm drinking a 16 oz. glass of water right now.

Oakley! 20# in a month is a LOT! I know you're stressed but honey you aren't taking care of yourself. The weight loss coupled with the dehydration is certainly at the heart of the wrinkles but that's the least of your worries in the scheme of things because you're leaving your immune system wide open. Eat, dolly, eat! And chug that water.

Wrinkles anywhere are a part of aging, which causes gravity. If your skin is wrinkling because of dehydration, which in reality doesn't set in until 3-4 days of NO liquids, you do need to see a dr.

Dlm, most days I eat pretty good. The other day all I could eat was a bowl of cereal in the morning and a piece of cake around 9pm. Only because I wasn't in the mood to fix anything else. I know. My bad. I drank about 10oz of water when I woke up this morning, and plan to drink a lot more during the day.

Patty_cakes, if it's dehydration, I think I caught it early. My oldest son had it in college and I had it too, and the symptoms of it starting to get bad is pain in the kidneys and cloudy urine. The doctor told us both to drink lots of water, and we did, and it got better pretty fast.

Thankfully there's no sagging skin on my forearms, and when the arms are straight I can barely see the wrinkles with my readig glasses on. :)

Is it actually wrinkles or alligator skin? Not long ago I was horrified when I looked down at a stoplight and saw the skin on my forearms looked like an alligator. i posted about it here. I've chalked it up to aging and just try to remember to use moisturizing cream.

My thoughts exactly Sueb!

You lost 20lb in a month? That is the real title of this thread. Are you okay?

If I lost 20 lbs in a month, the least of my worries would be my wrinkly skin. Even if it's caused by stress get yourself to a doctor.

What about protein shakes or smoothies. That would give you calories, nutrition and liquid and would be easy to eat and digest.

Cake is, I do hate to say it, nothing but empty calories.

Our eyesight starts to go as we age, in direct correlation to wrinkling. I'm convinced that it's God's way of taking the edge off this darned aging process. Our eyes are bad so the wrinkles aren't so noticeable. Now if I could just see well enough to not have to use that darned magnified mirror I could convince myself that I'm not all that old!

Oh, I HAVE to use the magnifying mirror. How else am I going to pluck my chin hairs?

;-)