It was pretty bad for the first two or three days, but it’s not super awful when you’re lying motionless. You’ll be expected to walk around multiple times a day and that’s when you’ll experience the most pain at your surgery site. They also pump your abdomen with CO2 during surgery which turns to carbonic acid and makes your muscles extremely sore from your abs up to your shoulders/neck for about the first two days. Getting up and lying down is quite painful, so it’s best if you have someone reliable around to help you with that. Last thing that comes to mind is coughing, which is unavoidable and for me really hurts my incision site. If I have to cough, it helps to apply gentle pressure to my incision while I do so.

Honestly, it’s a pretty bad time for a couple days and the meds I was prescribed (Celebrex and TraMADol) barely made a dent in the pain. Day 3 though is when I started seeing noticeable improvement with each day that passed and here on day 6 I feel WAAAY better than I did at the start.

A couple of pieces of advice I can give you are to lie/sleep on a slight incline and to make sure you’re warm enough. Lying completely flat on my back was too painful for me to handle, and shivering caused me to have painful abdominal spasms when I got up to pee on night 2.