How long until you can do laps in a pool?

I've looked in the database and I've found all sorts of stuff on aerobics and walking in the water and just splashing around, but I can't find anything on doing regular laps of all the strokes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly). How long after LAP RNY can you do laps with flipturns and all? How about racers' starts off starting blocks and diving? If I'm going to get in shape along with losing the weight, I'd like to do it the best way I know how, and this is it. Any competetive swimmers out there? How about post-op triathletes? I know this isn't something I should be doing right away, but I'd like to know how long I should wait - 2 months? More?

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