Aviation medical question

[cjsmith]

Any aviation medical examiners reading this? Thursday morning I go in for laparoscopy, at sea level. I understand this will inflate my abdomen with CO2, pockets of which may remain afterwards to be gradually reabsorbed by the body. How soon can I safely and sanely be a passenger in an unpressurized light plane? How soon a pilot-in-command?

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Or I could call any random AME, I expect. Or search the AOPA web page. Or, hell, I could just wait. (We have a dance in Sacramento and really, we could perfectly well drive.)

To get a private pilot license I had to answer questions about how soon after diving it is okay to fly. Divers can get the bends by going up in an aircraft too soon. So it wasn't much of a stretch to think of this. Hmm, gases in my belly, expanding... gee, sounds unpleasant, I think I'll pass.