Hi,

I am not sleeved, have not quite got all my ducks in a row to take a trip to Mexico.

I wait tables at a very high volume restaurant. I also clean houses ( stilt homes, a lot of stair climbing) How long afterwards would you say I could return to work performing regular duties. I do not plan on sharing my surgery experience with anyone other than my family. Any ideas?

Thank you,

I'd say you'll need at least a few weeks off and then maybe go back part-time for a few weeks to ease back into it. I went back to work within a week but I work a desk job with no physical stresses at all.

I own my own business, mostly desk work and worked part time for the first two weeks. As for harder work like you are doing it took me until week for to get to gym and lost a lot of strength and endurance. It took a week to get up to working out an hour and six weeks to get moderate strength back. Somewhere around week 6 to 7 I quit sweating profusely and got normal endurance but I also had to bring weight loss to a halt because the quick weight loss was to fatiguing when trying to fit in exercise.

You may find that even after 5 weeks you may not do as much heavy lifting as a waitress or house cleaner needs. Know you may not want to hear it but take it easy, you do not want to injure yourself getting back to early or trying to much to soon.

Everyone is different. For me it's wasn't the surgery but the inability to take calories. As far as the incisions and such, I could have gone back to that level after 3 or 4 weeks. But at that time I was only able to take about 350 calories a day and that was rough when I tried to add physical work. You will be at a major negative calorie level for quite a while. For me, I was shaky and weak. I have low blood sugar issue and they really raised up. I really think it could be 6 to 8 weeks before you are really strong enough to manage it all. But I'm also in my 50's so take that into consideration.