While you are recovering from your surgery, you may experience pain. Your health care team will ask you about your pain throughout your stay. Helping keep your pain under control is an important key to a fast recovery. Everyone has a different perception of pain and many things can affect it and your reaction to it. To help you, the staff will ask you to rate your pain. The scale we use is a scale that rates pain from zero to 10. Zero means you are currently experiencing no pain, 1-3 is mild pain, 4-6 is moderate pain, and 7-10 is severe pain. Sometimes getting your pain level to zero can be difficult but with medications, we can hopefully make your pain level tolerable. As your body begins to heal, your pain level will decrease and your need for pain medication will also decrease.