healing time for gastric bypass
Recovery time after gastric bypass. The average patient will go home the same day with Lap-Band, spend 2 nights in the hospital with gastric bypass and be back to their normal routine in 5 - 7 days. Recovery time for Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass and Lap Band. Lap Bands are now done as outpatient procedures in some institutions. Laparoscopic gastric bypasses will usually stay in the hospital for approximately 2 nights. The recovery time for both procedures is relatively short.