Originally Posted by stapfam

Don't worry about the grimacing as over the next few weeks you will find a few more. Take the surgeons advice, but how about walking. To get over surgery in the stomach region- I started walking to the local paper shop- then a bit further and within two weeks I was "Power Walking" 1 mile into town, having a coffee and power walking back. Luckily I cannot stand running so never started on that method. I cannot stand walking, but when I did get out on the bike at week 8- At least my legs still worked. The shoulders were dead and my lungs had shrunk, but the real pain in the butt- was just that. 10 weeks without sitting on a saddle made me sympathise with newbies.