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Are you a student? Do you have a job where you need to lift things? If you have a sedentary job or go to school full time I don't think you will have a problem. When I had my gall bladder out (regular incision) I could not work for the rest of the semester because I was an industrial janitor and had to lift heavy things. I had the best GPA of my college career because I got to concentrate on school instead of working! I am a corporate recruiter which is lots of sitting. I had surgery on a Thursday. Went back to work the next Monday. So nine days after surgery. Even if you are not working or standng a lot the port incision will still hurt after 10 days but it's not bad.

I am a full time student and I don"t work, so I pretty much sit in class all day.

Thank you so much to everyone for the responses, I feel much better about my decision now. This helps a lot.

Hello everyone,

This is my first time writing, and I need some advice. I just found out by my doctors office that I am going to be able to have the lap-band procedure done sooner than I thought, so I wanted to schedule it for the second week of march since I will be off from school for about 10 days. A friend from class knows someone that had the procedure done before and she is telling me that 10 days is not enough recovery time after surgery. If I don't get it done in March, I will have to wait until I finish school in July.

For the people that have had the procedure done, do you think 10 days is not enough time at home?