skin on arms sagging and wrinkling but not a big person

[sunshinett55]

Hello I am not over weight, i am nearly 50 and a woman
last year in particular i began to hate my arms,, noticed that they were kind of skinny, ,had no fill to them, that at the elbows there were kind of hollows at certain angles it looked awful, kind of not enough meat in there? and wrinkles excess skin like it needed some more fat in there
and then at the top of my inner arms the same, like excess wrinkle skin, like it had lost the fat?

presume getting older? but why do you arms go like this

also this year notice that my veins in my arms especially in the creases are so pronouced they look awful.  why is this, i hate it?

is there something wrong with me?

i have recently started to take a very good multi vit tablet and omega 3 6 & 9 to see if i can stop getting too old
my hair is good, my nails have ridges on for years  

I have had underactive thryoid for 10 years but under control
I take telfast and cimidine

lately i feel light headed a lot dont know why

my WBCs have been down and glands up but they seem to be getting better

but really worried about looking old, arms are looking old, they are far to thin the dip in the creases of the elbows so they look hollow at certain angles, often catcch myself looking at them and thinking yuck they dip in how awful they look, the skin is in excess there when dipped in and wrinkles looks so old, and the veins stick out sometimes in the crease and then like is said the skin in the inside of my upper arms are the same.

also have excess skin on my upper inside legs

my skin seems to look old, its not so firm now, excess and wrinkles what can i do about it? to stop it to improve it

frightened to lift a few weight incase it makes my veins stand out more and dont want this

or is it a medical condition that is affecting my skin and veins?

thanks for any help

[sunshinett55]

Thanks for your reply

yes i did swing my children on the hip and muck around with them, give them a laugh, love them that sort of thing.  I have 3, 20, 16 and 10.

I am pretty thin and yes could be in the perimenopause too.

The fat does not seem to go on my arms first though not these days, it goes on my legs and tummy, but then i dont like to get too big so keep slim, or try to. size 8, 5ft 2".

so lifting weights would make your arms better, the thing is i am not sure of this, as actually i think i do lift a lot of the time anyway, heavy shopping and do care work, ,a few hours each week and that uses your arms a lot really, day to day thing.

i dont do aerobics or weights or anything, but i am just active dont sit down that much in the day time.

i just worry that lifting small weights (i.e could use baked bean cans as weight as have used this in fitness things in past), then doing this would make my veins stand out more and i have quite prominent veins in my arms that i dont like.  more than they used to be and dont want to make these worse.

Also have leg veins but then these are varicous veins coming on probably.

thank you for chatting to me

[AnnieBrooke]

Hard to guess without knowing your medical history and whether you have had kids and when menopause is coming.  Women who lift their children a lot and then stop (because the kids get too big) often get hanging skin on their arms as a result of the cessation of lifting the 50-lb. weight every day that is their child.  If it is not from your age and not from your medical history, another thing it could be from is simply not being quite plump enough.  As we age our skin does tend to hang a bit, and having a little more adipose fat can ease lines and fill in arms.