Rough Time

It's surgery. Nothing sugary about it. Some people have a high pain tolerance, some have a low tolerance. Different for each individual, plus everyone's surgeon is a little different. My recovery was slow, other's here were fast. I had complications, other's here did not. There's no way to predict how you will react. That's why I hate to see people get built up that it will be a piece of cake and thinking they'll be back to work in a week or two. Maybe yours will go well, maybe it won't. Expect the best and hope for an easy surgery and recovery, but keep reality in check and accept that you may be one that has a hurdle or two to jump. 

I rarely asked for pain meds beyond the first 36 hours, but I had other scary complications that can give me a moment's panic even thinking about a hernia repair surgery I may need. 

I hope your pain lessens soon and yyou'll be able to move without pain. One thing that helped me immensely was a stomach binder. Has your surgeon provided you with one? If not, ask your nurse. That, plus keeping a scheduled dose of pain meds onboard should help you get up and around better. Good luck - eventually you'll see the pay-off! 

Pain is different for everybody and even different at every surgery. I had nearly no pain after my RNY but just a few months prior I was praying for death after having my gallbladder out.

Advocate for yourself and/or have a family member advocate for you. You do not have to be in pain, especially while you are still in the hospital.

I'm glad you have no nausea or vomiting, that's what I had the most trouble with while I was in the hospital, nausea and the dry heaves. Feel better soon!

I thought I would die from the pain and NOTHING helped.......

Until I took LORTAB.

It coated the pain like a warm blanket and I have never hurt since then!

It's more on the rare side it seems, but my pain was very intense, even talking too much, getting up from laying down or sitting, hurt to the point of tears. I went to the ER twice (nothing was wrong from a complication standpoint) because of it...Everyone experiences this surgery differently. You need to take your pain meds around the clock to get it under control first then consistently for a few days, do a test to see how you feel after that, and adjust your meds as needed...They sent me home with Percocet and that worked perfectly while it lasted (it doesn't seem to last long imho, like maybe 1.5 hrs at a time, you can take every 4-6 hrs). I was on it for 3 weeks...I've had surgery two other times in the past, one was an open appendectomy (and a really shoddy job was done at that, I was still living in the Caribbean at the time) and another was to repair a shattered ankle, and none of those compared even remotely, this was really bad...I consider myself as having a high pain tolerance as well...Laporascopic surgery *should* result in less pain and faster recovery time, and in most cases this holds true. But remember they are cutting nerves, through muscles and pushing organs inside and this will be a little different in each patient as we are all built differently...When you say they are being stingy with pain meds, are they actually refusing to give them to you when you ask? That is really, really strange if that is the case, and they should also be sending you home with enough for at minimum a few days...

So sorry you're in so much pain! I also had a similar experience and feel for you. I'm allergic to Morphine so they used Dilaudid in IV line which helped tremendously. Keep on them and insist for pain meds, no need to suffer when you don't have to. Sending healing thoughts your way!