Getting back to work!!!

How long will it be after my surgery will i be able to go back to work??? Some say 2 weeks, i have heard 4, and i know 1 person that went back after one..... Thanks:)

Really depends on which procedure you have and how you do.  I had the sleeve on a Wednesday, one night in the hospital, and went back to work the following Monday for 4-1/2 hours.  I have a desk job and I needed to get back to work to get my mind off the fact that I was on liquids only.

I remember my surgeon saying at my first seminar that how much time you take off is directly dependent upon how much time off you have available to you.  I think there is a lot of truth in that!

Good luck to you!  Kim

I had the sleeve done on a Wednesday and I could have gone back to work on that Monday, but I choose to take two weeks off. I liked being off because I could spend time checking out the new me taking things slow and making things with me were ok. Plus I didn't tell any of my co-workers that I had the surgery and I wanted to avoid the question of why are drinking nothing but liquids? I say if you have the time, baby yourself and take it off!

Jennifer

I already blabbed that I was going to have it here at work, and I wish I wouldn't have, but oh well. I plan on moving back to CA before the fall and I haven't told anybody out there so that's good. I work for the state but our office is SO flexible, and completely understanding about everything including family illnesses so if I find that going back to work too soon was stupid, then I can have off as much as I want to (or have accrued that is!).

Lisa

I took a week off, mostly because I have so much PTO saved up that I am not earning anymore! I did get tired quicker and it was 4-6 weeks before I was back to full energy.

I was off 9 days with the RNY. Alot of this depends on what kind of work that you do. At Weight Wise you are discharged with no restrictions.

I guess I am the lazy one b/c regardless if I had complications or not I did not plan on going bac****il the middle of Feb.Keep in mind I had surgery DEC 3,  I found out the end of January that I was going nutty at home since I could not fully enjoy the new me, so I went back early.

I took 3 weeks off because at 2 weeks I was still having some back spasms and knew that I wouldn't be able to sit in my chair for 9 hour a day.  I took short term disability on the advise of my HR department and could have been out for up to 6 weeks, but I couldn't afford financially to be out longer than that.

I had the lap RNY and did it on a Wednesday and was off the next week since I had scheduled vacation time anyway.  I could have gone back to work on Monday though.  I was feeling fine but got tired quickly.  I had no complications either.

Thank you everyone! I am doing the laproscopic RNY. I have 2 weeks saved up, i was just hoping that would be enough. Sounds like it prolly will if everything goes as planned!