A week after I had my gall bladder out from a keyhole surgery I was completely back to normal. Even drove myself to the post op check. If it's the same as my surgery, you'll probably have 4 incisions. 3 of them didn't even have any stitches. They were just taped closed. The 4th was the one around the belly button that the put the camera down and also pull the gall bladder out through. I had 3 little stitches in that one. The actual incisions themselves weren't very painful. The worst pain I had was "referred pain". Straight after surgery I had a great deal of pain in my right shoulder whenever I started to sit up. Except, it wasn't actually my shoulder that hurt at all. The phrenic nerves that run from your diaphragm meet your spine at the same point as nerves from your right shoulder. Because your brain isn't used to getting conscious sensory messages from your diaphragm, when the diaphragm sends sensory messages your brain interprets them as your shoulder hurting. So you "feel" your shoulder pain, but it's actually your diaphragm. And the reason your diaphragm is sending messages is because it gets irritated by the carbon dioxide that gets pumped into your abdominal cavity during surgery (to make space and so the surgeons can see what they are doing) and not all of it comes out when they are done. It gets absorbed into your body over time, but until it does it can irritate your diaphragm whenever you sit up and it rises under your diaphragm. Apparently it usually lasts 3 days at most, but mine was 6 days.

If you find you get this pain you might try breastfeeding while laying down to avoid the carbon dioxide from rising