I'm curious about how long recovery would be because it's a physically demanding job and i dont think two weeks out wouldn't be enough time.

With the heavy items you'd handle at work, I wouldn't think so. When I had my hysterectomy, I was on light duty for 6 weeks (I worked at the PO) and it still kinda hurt lifting packages for another couple of weeks.

How long were you out before you went back to light duty?

I was told no more than 10 lbs for at least 6 weeks. He said my abs would let me know if it was more than that.

That's nearly impossible for me to not lift more than 10 lbs. I guess for safety reasons they will not let me work with ANY restrictions. I'm just wondering how long I'd be out of work for. They give me an unlimited amount of leave to recover 100%

Chrissy, Take all the leave they will give you. Since you're going to have to self-pay because UPS has a unilateral weight loss exclusion, take all the time you can get.

Actually the insurance I have with ups is covering the surgery 100% I haven't told them why I'm having surgery because I don't think they really need to know that information.

Do you have BCBS/IL? I was told, and I read the policy as well, that UPS unilaterally excludes WLS. I self-paid because of it. Of course, my surgery was almost 9 monhts ago, so that may have changed.

Yes I have bcbsil. In december they told me I had have 6 months monitored weight loss and in feb the policy changed and I didn't need to wait 6 months after all. I was originally working with Beverley hills physicans and they told me i was covered but I'd have to pay 10,000 dollars because it was out of my network. Then I switched to the n.e.w program which was in my network so the insurance covered it and sent me the letter of approval with the surgery date and hospital location.

I work for an airlines that deals with mail freight and cargo I took 4 weeks off and returned and was ok!!! Everyone is different and it just depends on ur body but i wouldn't go back before that!! just my 2 cents.

I work for UPS too in las Vegas ..and I didn't pay anything out of pocket either ...but like 2 years ago ..they didn't approve WLS .

I was on leave for 4 weeks, before the light duty, I was bored because I couldn't lift anything more than 10 pounds after week 3, before 5 pounds for the first 3 weeks.