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I've just started my 3 month supervised diet. Getting ready for sleeve surgery. I'm wondering how much time did everyone take off work.

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I took off 6 weeks. I was sleeved September 28, and I go back to work tomorrow (November 14).

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Do you have a physical or desk job? Everyone is different and some people were back at work after a week or even less. I'd say to give yourself 2 weeks just in case. Unless you have a physically demanding job, then it will likely be more.

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I'm taking off six weeks. I was revised from LapBand to sleeve and I have a demanding job-i work in outside sales and drive and travel a lot

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I have a desk job and was working from home on day 4, fully went back to work after the first week.

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I've been working a lot of hours to pay for the sleeve I think I'm going to take my time getting back to work. 4 weeks min

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I took off three weeks, could have gone back at two but the time off was good.

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I have a desk job, took off two weeks. Could have gone back a few days early.

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I had surgery Wednesday and went back to work Monday, five days later. It was fine, but I have a very sedentary job.

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