Most patients recover from weight loss surgery procedures without complications. Although you will have some discomfort from the laparoscopic weight loss surgery, you will need to get out of bed and start walking the next day. This activity is crucial in preventing surgical complications, such as blood clots.
If you have been diagnosed with sleep apnea through a sleep study, you will remain on breathing monitors in a monitored bed overnight or until you are breathing well on your own after weight loss surgery.
The hospital stay for patients who undergo the Roux-en-Y procedure is usually two to four days. Patients who have the LAP-BAND procedure will stay one to two nights. Before you are discharged, you will receive full instructions for your care at home. Patients are usually scheduled to see their bariatric surgeon about one week after laparoscopic weight loss surgery procedures.
