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Hello Everyone!

I am unexpectedly going to have the sleeve soon due to a lapband slip. I was wondering how long you were down so I can have an idea for how much work I will miss. I am a little nervous about telling my boss, but my doc says the band needs to come out. Thanks for any advice!

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I had surgery on a Tuesday and my follow-up appt was on the following Wednesday. I had originally planned to go back to work the next day (that would have been post-op day 9), but my surgeon left it up to me and I went back to work on the next Monday, post-op day 13. I decided to get a little more rest as I was still feeling less-than-energetic from being on Clear Liquids for the first 2 weeks.

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REALLy wow my Dr. said that i should be okay with only one week off and thats how much time i was gonna ask for. yea i should probably make different arrangements. thanks

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I am unexpectedly going to have the sleeve soon due to a lapband slip. I was wondering how long you were down so I can have an idea for how much work I will miss.

You might want to post this in the "band to sleeve revision" section of the forum...

As far as my surgery was concerned, I was off work for a week. One week after surgery, I flew to California for a 1-day meeting. Aside from having to sneak out from the catered lunch and finding some strained Soup, it worked pretty well. I'd say I really felt back in the swing of things by about week 2.

Keep in mind that you're not supposed to lift more than 8lb your first week out of surgery, and no more than 20lb for the next 3-4 weeks after that. If your job involves anything like that, then you you might need more time off.

Good luck!

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You might want to post this in the "band to sleeve revision" section of the forum...

Thanks! I am new here so I am still figuring out where everything is!:scared0:

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I had my surgery on a Tuesday, and went back to work the next Monday- it wasn't easy, but I made it through....I basically sit a computer all day though, so if you do something more strenuous, I would definitely take maybe 10 days at least. I am 12 days out right now, and feeling pretty good. Good luck on your surgery!

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Everyone recovers differently, and though I was technically feeling well enough after one week, I wanted to get a little rest before going back to the office. I work for my surgeon, so I didn't want our patients to see me and think "wow, she looks like death warmed up." Because, when I'm tired or lacking energy, it is written all over my face and no amount of makeup can mask it.

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I only took one week off but looking back I wish I had taken 2 weeks. I was tired and it would have been good to have had more rest before returning to work.

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