How long does pain last after hysterectomy?

I'm 21 years old and had a total hysterectomy (ovaries, tubes, the whole nine yards) done October 11th 2011. It was done by abdominal incision.

At the hospital I felt like they rushed me along just to get out of there. I was only in till October 13th, about 9 in the morning. I was NOT ready because I was in too much pain, just as I was not ready to switch from IV pain meds to pills--but they made me once my IV meds ran out, and it was nearly unbearable pain.

Now over this weekend I had to call my doctor because he prescribed me percocet initially and I was running out of them, and he called me in vicodin instead. Well... the vicodin did nothing for me. I was supposed to take them every 4 hours, but around 2 hours they would start wearing off and I'd have shooting, burning pains in my pelvic area. I was able to walk around and do a few things before that, but now I'm bedridden again.

I called the drs to tell them it still hurts and the vicodin isn't helping (they prescribed me so little that taking them at the prescribed times now I'm two pills away from being out of them :/) and the dr RELUCTANTLY agreed to prescribe something else.

Even Saturday when I called, some nurse told me about a week after surgery they don't want patients being medicated too much. She suggested I even just use motrin before she would ask the doctor to call me in some vicodin!! Four days after they cut me a six inch long incision and removed six organs, MOTRIN.

Even now the doctors office is telling me pretty much this is the last medicine they'll prescribe me. I am in severe pain, and underwent a major surgery just a week ago--what is with my doctors no medicine stance?? Does pain after abdominal hysterectomy usually go away much quicker than this? I was told it would be 6-8 weeks recovery, so I'm just really confused. Why only give me three day supplies of pills at a time and act like it's unreasonable to give me any more?