Swimming???

[SheenaLane81 4]

Going out of town this weekend and I was banded last Friday. What were the rules on getting in a pool for a little light exercise??? My small incisions have nearly healed up and I have every intentions of bandaging up my port site with waterproof bandages. My doc is out of the office so I can't call and ask him about this. Plus I have yet been Able to get his nurse on the phone and I head out tomorrow. Any input would help!!!

[jenn_newton 0]

My doctor told me to stay out of pool, baths & hot tubs for 2-3 weeks after surgery.

[SheenaLane81 4]

Ok thanks Jenn

[Pollyanna12 74]

My nurse made me promise not to swim for 3 weeks

[Grandma3 73]

Mine was two weeks, no bathtub, pool or hottub.

[honk 780]

Mine said 2 weeks.

[LessToLove902 41]

Mine said 6 weeks!

[cek31076 7]

Man, my doc said no pool for 8 weeks bad thing is we just installed our new pool

[Bamabander 111]

My doc said 2 weeks... He did ask what type of pool we had (it's a salt pool) so not sure if that made a difference?

[ERNurseGirl 0]

Mine told me it was okay as long as I only stayed in 10-15 minutes so my incisions wouldn't pucker. I was banded 5/16 and was swimming on Memorial day, no problems!

[adorkbl 156]

My surgeon said 2 weeks. I asked him more than once... "are you SURE I can go in after 2 weeks" lol. Such confidence I have in his first answer. We have a pool/spa and I am using swimming as my main exercise right now, so I wanted to be CERTAIN it was ok.

So 2 weeks!

[dianalyn 11]

3 weeks per my docs handbook

[Journey2Healthy 1]

Mine said 4 weeks if it were my own pool, 6 weeks if it were a public pool. I guess they are just all different.

[Daddyof4 95]

I kind of jumped the gun on this. I was told both 4 weeks and when the incisions are healed. My 4 small incisions look just like scabs now and I put a waterproof bandage on my port incision, which also looks mostly like a scab. I went into the (seemingly) ice-cold Water slowly, got used to it shortly but got out soon since it was break and my daughter (8) wanted to sit with me. After break I got back in for a long while but I got cold (first time in ages) after about 30 minutes. So far no ill effect. I was cleared for light exercise so I swam a bit of breaststroke and felt fine. Just reporting in.

[Dacoop 84]

My doc said not for two weeks. You don't want or need an infection!