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I have a new job and have a short amount of time I can be off and I won't get paid. I a have a desk job. How quickly can you go back to work?? BTW, you guys are great!!

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Hi Patsy, I believe that you will get a wide range of answers to this question. I'm on day 4 and I've seen some posts where people go back this early. From my experience, I'm not one of those lucky ones! I'm planning 2 weeks but wondering if that will be enough for me!

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I can tell you like Houston mentioned, it does vary. But that said for myself, I was sleeved on a Thursday morning, home Friday. Went grocery shopping on Saturday all by myself and was off pain meds except tylenol at that point. Monday I worked a full day. My day job is as an IT consultant and I am a professional photographer (in a very fun field as far as photography goes :) ). As a consultant I'm at a desk most of the day but often driving between clients or standing, walking, crawling etc to get to things. No issues at all. The Thursday after my surgery (one week post-op) I did a full photoshoot on location with lights, stands, equipment, etc. No issues whatsoever.

What my doc had told me is that if you have a very physical job (contractor, butcher, roofer, etc) wait two weeks. But for most of us we could return to work as soon as we felt like it and that even a couple days afterwards while we might have been uncomfortable working, we wouldn't hurt ourselves working.

But for myself I found it a non-issue. I felt as well that Monday after surgery as I did a week before hand. No pain, no nausea, just took some Gas-X to control the last little bit of gas and that was it.

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MrChris, you "guys" must be stronger than the girls! Lol. Glad it went really well for you!

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