I believe the pain was mostly from the incisions made for the robotic instruments and an area like another C-section where I believed they removed the affected colon. The incision were made from the left side all the way to the right. Thats a lot of 'meat' to go thru. lol. But seriously from the left all the way to the right lots of area to cut thru and was much worst then the missing colon area. That part was sore but not as bad as I thought it would be. Didn't realize that would be done that way.