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Laparoscopic appendectomy recovery time.. when can i swim again?
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The best thing...: Is to ask the surgeon who performed the operation. I would let my patients go swimming about 2 weeks postoperatively, assuming normal uncomplicated healing.
Answered 10/23/2013
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