I have had two lap surgeries and the first time I breezed through it and recovered very quickly with no shoulder tip pain, but OMG the second time! I was in so much pain from it and the digestic pain killers weren't even touching the sides of it. it was excruciating. I even said to DH that had I known the shoulder tip pain would be so bad I would have had second thoughts about the surgery. It's one of those things where you just don't know if it will affect you or not until after it.