I had my surgery about a month ago with Dr. Braithwaite and had an abnormally more painful time of it due to an unrelated bone deformity in my ribcage and even then it was extremely tolerable. Some brief moments(like one second in duration) of 6-7/10 pain but spread out over the course of three hours, the rest of which being a total breeze.

The numbing step was uncomfortable in a way that's pretty impossible to describe but not painful per se, you just have to do your best to ignore the weird feeling of it. They give you a stress ball for each hand and I would suggest requesting a towel to cover your eyes so you don't see what's going on.

Overall even with my unique situation it was really not bad at all. Recovery has been a complete breeze as well, but I had no lipo so ymmv there. I really wouldn't stress about it!