I live in Buffalo NY and you can count the good swimming days here on your fingers and one foot. It gets cold at night and the Water gets very cold and never really warms up enough to swim so I have a swimming/lap band question.

My surgery is June 28 and that is the beginning of swim season here and I don't want to miss too many good swim days. How long do you think it will be before I can swim and do my pool exercises?

i got into the swimming pool two weeks after surgery to stretch, etc. I did this two days in a row, by the third, I had a rip-roaring infection:cursing:. Have been on antibiotics for two weeks and will be on them for two more weeks. The doc said i got to him just in time. If I hadn't, I would have had to have the whole thing removed! Yikes! So, please talk to your surgeon first! There was a chance that I had a reaction to the steri-strips...but it was probably the swimming pool. Now, I keep wanting to get in the pool - we go down in the evening to swim with friends...and I can only put my tootsies in there! Be cautious, cause I love you fellow banders!:smile2: