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How long is recovery after impacted bowel surgery?
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Depends..: Recovery from surgery depends on many different factors. Was your surgery minimally invasive? Open with a large cut? Did they remove any bowel? Depending on these answers recovery could be from 1-6 weeks or more..
Answered 1/2/2019
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