RNY...recovery period?

Hey everyone,

How long was the recovery period for the RNY?  I am a teacher and will need to write lesson plans and find a substitute teacher for my class.

How long till I can go back to work?   I'm trying to plan ahead and need to know how may days to request off from work.   I think my doc (Cirangle) said that I can go back in a week, but I'm not sure if I'm getting that mixed up with the Lap-Band surgery.

Mahalo,
Malia

Hi Malia,

I took 2 weeks off from work. One week was spent in San Francisco and one week to recover from surgery. I was ready to go back to work before the week was up because I was bored and driving my mom crazy.  But that's just me, lol. My friend who had surgery before me took four weeks off just to make sure that she was fully recovered before she went back to work. I think it also depends on what type of work you do. I spend about 60% of the day sitting at a desk and don't do any strenuous lifting so I felt comfortable coming back to work after a week.

Hope this helps.
Ole

 

I went back to work after 6 days.  Everyone is different.

i took 2 wks out bcuz i knew i was gonna need that time to be myself when i was on liquids bcuz my co-workers always eat potlucks and i wasnt ready to deal with that.  but i felt better about a wk after surgery..the first 4 days was the hardest with the gas pains and just being exhausted.  but other than the that the recovery went well. good luck

I took one week off and went back to work the following week.  I have a desk job so it went ok.  If I had to do it again I would have taken a full 2 weeks off.  I wasn't in any pain.  Actually, I really had no pain after the surgery.  I never even took the pain meds.  I was just tired and really didn't feel myself the 2nd week. 

Good Luck
Debbie