I am 2 days out from surgery and am feeling pretty good. I am still very swollen and have pain around the incisions (as expected). You can hear my insides rumbling across the room. Is that normal? It is pretty painful when it is happening. Hunger pains? Gas pains? I'm also having lots of mid back pain. It improves if I lay on my side, but that is very painful yet. Not sure if it is deferred pain from the surgery or just laying around so much in an uncomfortable position. Anyway, where did you experience pain and what was it like?

The rumblings are your intestines "waking up" after surgery and working to move that gas pain through your system. Very likely the cause of the pain you are experiencing...I had virtually no pain from the surgery, but the gas pain could stop me short for the first couple of days...for me, once I started passing gas (about 2 days post-op) it helped and was gone when I had first BM (4 days post-op)

My pain was in the base of my rib cage, where the hernia was repaired. It felt like that "chest burster" from Alien was trying to get out. :-P Had lots of noise in my stomach and gas pains in my shoulder.