Nope, no pain at all.

At 4 weeks, I was extremely sensitive to the possibility of pain if I did
the wrong thing, but I was antsy to get back to work.

Like the others have said, getting the catheter out made the biggest
difference in comfort.  After a month I would say that I still had some
soreness when using my abdominal muscles for certain movements, but I
wouldn't call them pain.

I never had any extreme pain from my surgery -- nothing like a bad ankle
sprain, for example -- but then I don't need to be pain-free every
moment. I was off all meds by 8-10 days post-op despite two operations
at once, and felt ready to play a good game of football at one month.
Risk, lingering ab discomfort, and brains prevailed, fortunately.

But 4 gms of Tylenol a day is risky; it's the maximum dose allowed,
right up against the organ damage firewall. If you drink any alcohol, or
take any other meds containing Tylenol (MANY do), you are trolling for
liver failure. You are getting your liver enzymes tested, I hope.

I.P.

also for me one month after RRP very little pain when I bent and my
testicles are more sensitive when touched.

I didn't have surgery so I can't speak for myself here.
However I have a friend who, one month after surgery,
couldn't sit in a chair for more than 15 minutes without
pain and also had numbness in the quadriceps in one
leg.  I last saw him about a month ago so I'm not sure
what has happened to him in that time.

I agree with I.P. about the Tylenol.  You may be better
off just sucking up the pain than taking the maximum
dose over an extended period of time.

Pain is such a subjective thing.  I've had chronic back
pain that, when I first experienced it 15 years ago seemed
debilitating at the time.  Now, unless it's acute, I hardly
notice it.  It's just background noise.  I'm careful about
how I lift things and how I bend and move, but I don't
really think about the pain much at all.

   Alan

I had no pain. I took the meds they gave me in the hospital but I didn't
take anything after I got home. There was a little discomfort when rising
from a chair. You just have to find the correct position and take it slow.
The only problem I really had was I have to sleep on my stomach. I can't
sleep on my back. That took a little while to get used to. It didn't hurt it
was just uncomfortable laying on the incision.

From the other posts I must be in the minority along with you. I'm
about 2.5 months out from the surgery.  I have had tenderness that
will sometimes be enough to be considered painful in my penis.  It
might be referred pain from bladder spasms and comes and goes.   I
also continue to have discomfort if I sit too long but that's slowly
improving. Its not unusual to feel, shall we say, discomfort in the
perineal area when shutting off the flow after peeing or sometimes
when doing kegals.   Depending on what your doctor tells you, you
might consider switching to Ibuprofen, 600 mg three to four times a
day.  That was what I was told to take to reduce inflammation.  You
can buy generic IB that's 200 mg and take three of them, it's cheaper
then a prescription for the 600mg ones.  Another possibility to bounce
of the doc is Aleve, which is also available in generic.  I have
rarely found any of the pain medications that are non-prescription to
do much for any of my pains except for the Aleve, it seems to be
moderately helpful sometimes but I'm referring to things like
headaches.  Since the surgery the only thing I've taken is either the
IB or Tylenol with codeine during the first several days after
surgery.  Unless you count my kidney stone pain, I've been taking
percocet for that - it's prescription and is really the only "pill"
I've ever taken that truly relieves pain, the Tylenol three's just
dull it.

I had, except for the penis pain, what you have described for almost 6 weeks. It
wasn't until I took 1 week of antibiotics that I began to feel better. At 8 weeks
out, I was almost totally healed, with very little/no surgical pain.
HTH.
KenA

Your a White Sox Fan you should be used to pain...
I on the other hand am a Red Sox Fan, I live for pain.

Seriously my wife would tell you I am a wooosey when it comes to pain
and i had similar pain locations to those that you described , sharp,
stabbing but fleeting, not constant, usually just sporadically came and
went.  Otherwise, I did only one pain med after leaving the hospital
post RRP.

The first week was abdominal discomfort along with pain in the
peritoneal area that ranged from high/moderate discomfort that lasted
about a minute or more then subsided, and then started again. Kind of
made me squirm when it was happening. The abdominal muscles were sore
for me mostly because the robotic laparoscopic technique required the
abdomen to be inflated with gas to get the trocars in there without
stabbing vital organs in the process. I got through the aches and pains
afterwards with just a few tylenol now and then. I had a prescription
for percocet but if I took one that was a lot. The next few weeks the
pain in the peritoneal area was less frequent and less painful, but I
was aware that something was different. The best was when the cath came
out in about 8 days though. Then I could start getting somewhat back
into shape again without the bag, tube, etc. I think everyone feels the
pain at different levels, but everyone does feel something. It is, after
all, major abdominal surgery.

B.A.

The only unusual post surgical pain I felt was when the catheter came out.
I was pretty much continent within 48 hours, but then each time I urinated I
felt really bad pain at the base of the penis.  That got gradually better
and was gone within two weeks.  The rest of it was just the pain you would
expect healing from a major surgery.

I stopped taking Vicodan 5 days post surgery and Tylenol a couple days
later.

I asked about pain in the abdomen not at the incision site when I had my
catheter out at two weeks. The urologist palpated here and there and
suggested I have "air" in some sections of a "lazy" intestine. That air
pushes out and causes what for me were the sharp stabbing pains, he
said. Also I had body fluids from the surgery that pushed up under the
skin instead of being absorbed internally; that would also cause
disomfort he said. Overall those pains were 2-4 on a scale of 10. Though
annoying, it wase not enough to take a regular dose of Tylenol. After a
few more days those pains were mostly gone.

Paul