Anyone else have little to no post-op pain?

I'm slightly confused that I haven't had anything I'd rate as 'painful'. I do have a fairly high pain tolerance, but I was expecting this to be way worse than, say, a 5 hour tattoo session that included my upper inner arm and, in all honesty, the tattoo pain and healing was significantly worse.

It's not a bad confusion, just more of an, "I was expecting so much worse!" confusion.

Short backstory: I've had constant, chronic, stabbing/burning pain in both breasts since puberty, which I just attributed to 'growing pains' as that's what everyone told me it was, and put to the back of my mind; by 36 the 'growing pains' still hadn't gone away and had become markedly worse; I started to think maybe it wasn't normal. Looked into family history and found both that and breast cancer by 40-45 was common on both sides of my family. There was also a history of calcified deposits in breast tissue and 'extremely fibrous' (my plastic surgeon and general surgeon both told me my breasts felt 'woody' after exams!) breast tissue.

Awesome.

Since the chronic pain didn't leave me with a good relationship with my breasts (in all honesty, I could never stand to have them touched, even lightly, as it'd trigger stronger shooting pains), to put it lightly, I didn't think twice about having them removed since my insurance covered it for high cancer risk.

My general surgeon and plastic surgeon were both great, with neither of them trying to push me into reconstruction/implants when I made it clear I wasn't interested.
We ended up going with the bilateral mastectomy with free nipple grafts to have the lowest risk of a perpetually perky nipple as the non-graft method may have produced that due to the size of my breasts and the amount of extra skin that would be 'folded' in.

That was all done on June 30th of this year, and I'm miffed that I've had so little pain.

The worst part was stiff shoulders for 3 days, and I haven't at all needed the narcotic painkillers I was sent home with, and didn't need any of the painkillers the nurses offered when I had my overnight stay.

I haven't even needed plain old Tylenol.

It just...doesn't hurt.

After the shoulder stiffness went away, I found I have a great range of motion as well; about the only thing I can't do is reach higher than shoulder height, or it pulls on the incision sites. Aside from that, I have an otherwise full range of motion with no pulling.

The only thing that causes any real pain that makes me stop and wince slightly is stripping the left drain; the extra suction makes it sting for a few seconds where the drains are internally. It doesn't bother the right one. Even that fades after around a minute or so.

Now and again, the drain sites sting (usually if I bump them with an arm), and the incisions and grafts get really itchy for a few minutes but I expected that; they're already down to producing less than 30ml in a 24 hour period, today was 14ml on the left, and 14.5 on the right) and will hopefully be coming out on Friday (which cannot come fast enough, these things are annoying). I'm not yet sure if she'll remove the bandages from the nipple grafts, but I've been preparing myself for how hideous healing nipple grafts look the first few weeks so I'm not terribly worried.

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop in terms of pain, but have been incredibly happy that it hasn't.

I'd done a lot of research prior to surgery, including talking to friends who have had either one or both breasts removed due to actually having cancer, and was expecting a LOT more pain and discomfort than I've had based on that reading up and those conversations.

Some part of me thinks I'm reasonably abnormal for having little to no pain (note to the cosmos, that's not a complaint! ) ; even the plastic surgeon asked my parents and husband if I was just 'trying to be tough' or if I really meant it when I said it just felt like a bad chest bruise. I can safely say I really meant it, it just felt badly bruised.

About all I can think of that makes any sense is that I was so used to the 8-10 on the pain scale chronic pain from my actual breasts/breast tissue, that the surgery pain seems mild in comparison.
I'm also pleased to note that that chronic type pain is 100% gone, so that's a nice...gesture..toward previous doctors who told me it wasn't breast pain and was 'muscle pain' when I knew very well the difference between chest muscle and breast tissue pain.

Has anyone else had the experience of having very little to no post op pain or am I some kind of anomaly?

I guess here's to hoping the drain removal isn't painful either!