Another fairly pain free recovery from emergency c/s here. I never took anything other than paracetamol and was up and about as soon as I was let off the magnesium sulphate for my pre-eclampsia.
I actually found it really frustrating not doing more physically as I felt like I was capable. I also found out the hard way that too much exercise or laughing was not a good idea, even if it felt ok at the time.
It still wasn't something I wanted to repeat.