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I was sleeved on march 5, its been 10 days since, and i live in fl.. supper sunny right now especially in Miami. the temperature is great, the wind is blowing.. and my body feels so hot! it needs to be submerged... My point is that I love the beach, n now its the perfect time to go to the beach! but since its only been 10 days out, i am concern on how the salty Water may affect my sleeve..or skin.. My incisions do not hurt anymore, and looked healed.. i just want to dive n swim my life out, since i have been stuck at home for nearly two weeks now.. So i don't know what to do..

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I would say that you should check with your doctor...Do you still have stitches, staples, durabond? I would say that makes a big difference . Most likely you should take it easy and just wade in the Water and splash around but swimming takes a lot of work from tummy muscles and I doubt yours are ready for a work out. I wasnt allowed any exercise other than walking until 4 weeks and then no strenious until 6 months.

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thank you so much for replying, I talked to the doc assistant who checked my incisions and she said they look good, i don't have stitches, i guess they sealed it from the inside.. she told i can do moderate exercise, upper and lower but no abdominal until one month out.. i don't know if swimming lightly makes a diff.. i just want to dive down hold my breath go back up, move my feet in the hand while inside the water.. hmmm makes me want to go right now lol !!!

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My doc said no swimming for six weeks but I could have a bath after my steri-strips fell off, so I guess submerging yourself would be okay but no strenuous swimming.

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I would only consider that it is the Ocean and you would need to use your abdominal muscles to balance yourself. Other than that a quick dip shouldn't be a big deal.

Just be very careful! Since the Nurse said your incisions are fine.. again just the balancing yourself from the moving currents might be a bit strenuous and you may want to take that into consideration.

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I was sleeved on march 5, its been 10 days since, and i live in fl.. supper sunny right now especially in Miami. the temperature is great, the wind is blowing.. and my body feels so hot! it needs to be submerged... My point is that I love the beach, n now its the perfect time to go to the beach! but since its only been 10 days out, i am concern on how the salty Water may affect my sleeve..or skin.. My incisions do not hurt anymore, and looked healed.. i just want to dive n swim my life out, since i have been stuck at home for nearly two weeks now.. So i don't know what to do..

You're not suppose to submerge yourself in Water for 6 weeks or so my doctor said. I really don't think 10 day is enough but you can absolutely go and walk through the shallow part of the water. That might be fun too.

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thanks guys for your advice, i will wait until i see the doc again, the beach will be there waiting for me so no rush... i took a cold shower to to relieve my self of the beach craving lol...

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I am involved in Water arobics....I specifically asked about swimming and the arobics part. My doc said as soon as my incisions were COMPLETELY healed over I could go back to swimming however, was to do no crunching of the tummy for 6 weeks.

I'm going back next week! Yahoo excited!

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So jealous right now .. Jk that sounds awesome. Hmmm there's a pool at my local park I will ask them how much it to join. Thanks

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We pay $20 bucks a month and I go to class 3 X per week M-W-F from 12-1:30p.m. and then every night from 6-7 p.m. with a couple of friends, more so just for continued movement in a boiant state....runnning in place, free style laps, mostly lower body movements, just to keep blood pumping for a solid hour....I love it....I lost 14 lbs before surgery :D

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Thanks so much for this question, its something I did not even consider. I am currently under going all the necessary testing for the vgs. I am literally on a bus in the dominican republic to go see my surgeon with all the results of my testing. I hope I'm cleared for next week!

Anyways, I would love to go in the beach before I leave the country!

Thanks again for bringing this up- I am going to ask today!

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Hey paisana! lol hows Dominican Rep its so cool that u can communicate from way over there! Shout out to my Dominican people, you know we cant stay away from Water, and beautiful beaches!.. keep us posted on ur progress.

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Hey everyone I'm Dominican as well how have ya done with no longer eating platanos

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girl it is so hard lol, my nutritionist was talking about pureed foods n one person in my weight loss group in miami was like does that mean i can puree platano lol i started laughing so hard lol...she was like can i make plantain Soup lol.. man my mom makes tostones with salami in the morning n man my room is close to the kitchen so that aroma fills my room n i am like uuuugh lol.. n she looks at me ha u cant eat this, ur sleeved lol.. n i said one day i will lol so funny!

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I would be more worried about possible infections many beaches have high bacteria levels although saline washes promote healing err towards caution

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