I really expected to be in lots of pain after surgery but I wasn't . They gave me a b-12 shot ,morphin, decadron, reglan, they applied a transcope patch and a couple of other things I do not remember. The only problem I had was my BP was way low and they kept me in recovery 3 hours , they started me on taradol ?on spelling. In the recovery room. They told me if I followed the diet to the "T" I would have less complication and pain.. Btw I have 6 incisions and 1 is the one that hurts.. Each and everyone's body is different. So take all the time to heal and get to the point of no pain. If we try to hard and move faster then our bodies are ready to heal .. we might end up hurting ourselves..