How many weeks did you take off from work. The doctors and nurses say I should be fine in a week how was your expereince, I'm totally thinking I should take 2-3 weeks off from work. The last thing I want to do is be at work uncomfortable. I had a laparoscopic surgery befor for a cyst in my ovary. I had 2 weeks off and needed that full 2 weeks. I kinda have a low tolerence for pain

I had surgery 1.12.11 and will be hoping to return on Tuesday. I too have a desk job - but am not always sedentary... so lets see.

Its a busy time of the year for me - so i dont really have the luxury of being out much longer.. Hoping I will be ok! Lets see

I had surgery January 14th and thought I could go back Monday but theres no way I could get myself up into my vehicle tomorrow. I'm taking at least one more day off completely then will work from home the rest of the week. My bosses are seriously pissed that I'm taking time off but I have six weeks available and I gave them months of notice then two weeks of final notice so they were 100% aware I would be out for a while. I didn't realize how much this surgery would disable me.

Take off what you need in order to minimize risk of anything happening at your workplace, which then falls to workers comp and is a whole legal mess.

Maybe I am a little spoiled but I just returned to work today after my surgery on 12-29. With my job in a call center it would have been very difficult to work chained to a desk with a headset considering that I had to eat every 1.5-2 hrs when I was on the liquids or I would get so hungry that it hurt. And then I was concerned about getting sick at work from the soft foods diet if I ate something new that did not sit well with me. So I took a couple days after I started soft foods and then went back to work. Everyone's experience and work enviroment is different but for me this worked perfectly.