WOW 4 1/2 days
For me the pain was not the worst part but I had had open procedures done several times prior and pain for others can be just as acute. Take it all in stride. It may seem like oh wow what did I do but if you even experience half the results I did during the first two months its a godsend. I was up walking around hours afterward and down to taking pills instead of shots for the pain on day two. To say it was a picnic would be a big ol lie but the recovery was really fast. Just think how good your going to feel in a couple of weeks when the surgery is healing up and you are watching the scales decend. Its ok to be a little scared but there are a bunch of people over here that know exactly how it can be and just treat us like a bunch of alcoholics at an AA meeting till you get used to doing what you need to do. It wont take you long and this board seems to be pretty good about pulling for our own over here.