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Hi everyone i am from dubai. I am 152cm and 90kg im doing my surgery on april 27 i feel so nervous but after reading some of the topics here im a bit calm. Im just wondering how long to i have to take off work to rest? how long till everything heals?

thanx

mawi

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I'm sure all people recover differently but my experience was, surgery on Wednesday and back to work on Monday. I do have a fairly easy job though because about 80% of my day is spent sitting at a desk :-). I will say that I wish I had've gone back a couple of days after my surgery, because when I did go back on Monday it definitely made me feel 100% better! I honestly think 2 days down time would've been enough for me. Hope this helps and good luck!

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I took 2 weeks off. Felt pretty yucky for 4 days... day 5 felt like my old self, except I got tired easily for about a month. I could have gone back after a week, but I had lots of Vacation time so I took the full 2 weeks off. Good Luck to you!

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I am hopefully having my surgery on April 29th, and will be taking a week off, and that is only because I work 3 12hr shifts, so the way my shifts work and my days off, it turns out to be one week. Best of luck!

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I took a week off. I'll be off from April 5th (day of surgery) to the 12th. If I need to, I can also stay home and work for the rest of that week so I will probably have about 2 weeks off total.

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thanx so much smile.gif ppl keep telling me not to do it, but they dont understand how i feel now.

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