I was banded on 4/28 and I feel for the most part my incisions have healed. I have been getting out walking a little and I would really like to get in the hot tub after walking. I was wondering if it was too soon for this?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Check with your surgeon, that's safest.

Hot tubs, because of the heat, are breeding grounds for all kinds of germs. It never came up with my lap band surgery, but when I ruptured my achilles tendon and had it repaired, I was told I could not go into any hot tubs until the doctor cleared me specifically.

agreed on both of those posts. Especially if it is a public hot tub. A quick call to the office staff to ask would be the safest way. If they don't have that type of post op information they will ask him/her directly.

Good luck

We have a hot tub in our backyard so I specifically asked the nurse educator about that before surgery. She told me that I should wait at least 3 weeks for soaking in baths and hot tubs. Definitely double check with your surgeon tho. Happy healing =)

My dr said no baths, pools or hot tubs for 1 month after surgery....

I was banded on 4/28 and I feel for the most part my incisions have healed. I have been getting out walking a little and I would really like to get in the hot tub after walking. I was wondering if it was too soon for this?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Erica,

As moderator of whatsthebest-hottub.com and a fellow bandster, this is something I dealt with. The hospital told me two weeks after surgery, but the surgeon gave me the green light after 12 days because my incisions were closed and not red.

Hot tubs, because of the heat, are breeding grounds for all kinds of germs.

A common misconception, and only true of poorly maintained units. There will be less germs or other nasty stuff in my hot tub than your tap Water most times.

We have a hot tub in our backyard so I specifically asked the nurse educator about that before surgery. She told me that I should wait at least 3 weeks for soaking in baths and hot tubs. Definitely double check with your surgeon tho. Happy healing =)

In cases like that they will typically take what they know and add time to it so they can't be held libel. Is has mainly to do wiht healing and that is a very individual thing.

Well, BillOh, that may have been related to a couple of things. #1, I don't have a hot tub at home, only on vacations (and on cruise ships, where drunks have been known to hang out in hot tubs, LOL). #2, I damn near lost my leg. I was willing to believe anything and do anything to keep my leg. I had ruptured my achilles tendon and had it repaired. 3 months out from the repair, I got an infection in my incision area that got into the bone where the tendon was reattached to the calcinaus (the big bone in your foot that creates the heel). I had to have dead tissue cut away from my leg, including my achilles tendon. I was on antibiotics for 11 very long months and it took a total ob 18 months for the last scabs to come off. That hole in my leg had to close itself. Ever heard of wet-to-dry bandages? Not something used often anymore. But I had saline with BLEACH in it that I had to soak gauze with and put next to the wound and then dry gauze and then gauze roll to hold it all on (couldn't tolerate tape anymore). The doc tells me there's germs, I believed him. So for two cruises, four trips to the beach and a trip to Key West, I stayed as far away from the hot tubs as I could, LOL.