nervous about excess skin post-weight loss

i feel kind of silly for being so worried about this, because obviously the main goal and the priority of pursuing the sleeve is to improve my overall physical health… but i am already deeply self-conscious of my body’s appearance as well and i feel that it has had a pretty significant negative impact on my self-esteem and mental wellbeing. i know after significant, relatively rapid weight loss, you can be left with quite a bit of excess skin. my mom had the surgery in 2024 at a much lower SW than me and even she has been dealing with the excess skin. i’ve also heard that not only is surgery to remove that excess skin typically not covered by insurance, and thus quite expensive, but it’s difficult/painful to recover from.

i’m 100% moving forward with the surgery and i’ve nearly completed all of my pre-op clearances, i’m just overwhelmed thinking about the after as i anticipate i’ll end up with quite a bit of extra skin. just to put my mind at ease, what kinds of nonsurgical options are there for managing/concealing the excess skin? and what’s the recovery truly like for body contouring?