Hi, Pamela! Congratulations on your surgery date- it will come faster than you think! I read your post about pain and I want to say that I was the same way!I am such a wimp about pain! I had my surgery Jan 29th,and I want you to know that I have ZERO threshhold for pain and my pain with an open rny was much less than what I expected. We are all different, but I hope this helps you. My bigger problem was being completely energyless and having those nurses constantly harping at me to get up and walk. However, I am a good girl so I did and I am sure it helped but what helped most was getting off the pain meds!What pain I did have was more achy and tylenol was really all I needed. Once those pain meds were out of my system my energy came way back and so here I am, 10 days postop, feeling better and more energetic than I have in years!Go figure! take care