Tonsillectomy Day 2
A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their second day of recovery
From thousands of post comments to the tonsillectomy recovery forum, I have assembled a sampling of various accounts and impressions of tonsillectomy recovery for each day. Below I share comments about tonsillectomy day 2. These comments are taken from tonsillectomy patients who were kind enough to share their experiences to help others as they navigate the bumpy road of tonsillectomy recovery.
Please feel free to add your own experience with tonsillectomy day 2.
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Tonsillectomy Day 2
tonsillectomy day 2 : I don’t even need narcotics. Give me some pudding!
tonsillectomy day 2 : This must be the pain everyone’s talking about. Yay, drugs!
tonsillectomy day 2 : So, I woke up today in some intense pain, as the children’s Tylenol wasn’t even lasting half of the time as it was supposed to. My throat and uvula felt extremely swollen, which is completely normal for the first few days after surgery. I was really adamant about not taking the codeine because I have a very sensitive stomach and I know that codeine is very strong – especially on an empty stomach. I decided to try to swallow the amoxicillin again – I guess I didn’t learn my lesson the first time! After 30 minutes and finally getting both capsules down, I decided enough is enough and next time I was definitely going to open the capsules and mix them with jell-o. Sure enough, I decided to be smart one more time and say that it’s all in my head and they won’t get stuck again. Um, why am I so stubborn at times? However, the third time they got stuck was the charm. I started getting upset and promised myself that I will not swallow them again. I stuck to my word this time! Needless to say, amoxicillin and jell-o don’t taste so swell together. In fact, I gagged just about every time I had to take them; lucky for me, it was 2 capsules 3 times daily for 1 week – what bliss! The morning and afternoon wasn’t terrible, as I was able to get by on the children’s Tylenol. I ate popsicles and freezies throughout the day, and was wondering why I had so much phlegm. I put my thinking cap on and realized that it must be the sugar in them that is causing the excess of phlegm – it wasn’t pleasant. Nevertheless, I continued to eat them because they soothed my throat. I realized a weird symptom today, uncontrollable burping!?! I was a little taken back by this, but after talking to a few people, I was told it was just my digestive track returning to normal. The evening on the other hand, got a lot worse! I decided to sacrifice my stubbornness, and take the codeine (yes people, on an EMPTY stomach)! That night my stomach hurt a bit because of the codeine, but I figured it would settle. I prayed it would settle! I didn’t even want to think about vomiting after a tonsillectomy – ouch!
tonsillectomy day 2 : bad morning, felt good during the day, night time pain was really bad Stopped pain meds on day 2 due to nausea and dizziness.
tonsillectomy day 2 : i went home and slept and woke up at 9:30am and wasnt feeling too bad. I lost track of time and missed my timing for the meds and was in excruciating pain at about 12pm. once the effects of the t3′s came in, it eased the pain a little bit. I managed to eat 3 fried eggs and some soft meat thing. but i felt really nauseated after eating it. I also drank a lot of water even though it hurt like hell to swallow
tonsillectomy day 2 : I’m about to finish day 2. I have been chewing on some juicy fruit gum, eating bomb pops and scrambled eggs(with just a little milk and cheese mixed in) and they are going down easy. I now have some pain on my tongue, several sore spots. Hurts worse than my throat. The liquid roxicet the doctor gave me works great. I’m only consuming about 5ml instead of the recommended 10ml.
tonsillectomy day 2 : Well it was a bit of a rough night. Had another anxiety attack around 6am. Had a bunch of flem/thick mucus coating my throat because it was drying out, due to breathing through my mouth. The this mucus was making it difficult to swallow and I began to worry i would choke or drown. It is also difficult to drink, when i swallow fluids creep up my nose, but since i cannot really breathe through my nose, i cant clear it. This also gives me anxiety.
tonsillectomy day 2 : Day two–sucked!! Nauseous all day from taking pain meds on empty stomach, throwing up, finally doc gave a scrip for anti-nausea medicine so my mom (bless her heart, stayed with my for 5 days) went and got my meds. Couldn’t eat or take pain meds without barfing. Pain was awful.
tonsillectomy day 2 : day 2 was terrible! Mornings are the worst too. I found waking up a few times in the night just for a sip of water really helped! Also for the first time last night I used an icepack! So much relief! It’s such a long process but there is a light at the end of this painful tunnel!
tonsillectomy day 2 : Day 2- bad morning, felt good during the day, night time pain was really bad.
tonsillectomy day 2 : Days 2-3: I would call this a “steady decline”. Pain became worse and I could not eat anything. No popsicles, no ice cream. Finally at the end of day 3 I discovered Jello. Oh thank heaven for Jello, it felt soooo good both on my throat and to actually have something in my stomach.
tonsillectomy day 2 : Was able to sleep a little bit more over night but not much. The Lortab med made me feel very weird and I took a little too much of it because the pain was so bad and that was a mistake. Felt like I had a minor overdose. I ended the day with a slight mental breakdown in the bathroom with the worst pain in my throat and head that I have ever felt in my life. Did not eat much and my appetite seemed to vanish. Pretty much hit a roadblock today and my body just did not feel like doing anything.
tonsillectomy day 2 : I made it through the night ok. I was put on an oxygen reader to make sure I was breathing an acceptable level of oxygen. I didn’t get much sleep because of the pain.
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I’m into day 2. The surgery went well, except for an adenoidectomy the doc didn’t think would be required. Despite my age, 52, I still had mine and they were covered in thick mucus – lovely., so out they came. Day 1, I mostly felt sore and a bit “off”. I couldn’t seem to blow my nose without everything in my head getting involved. I spent last night in my recliner, so I’m sure my hubby got some rest. I can’t stop mouth-breathing because my sinuses are full. The mouth-breathing makes everything dry, so I sip liquids steadily, but then I can’t sleep,because my mouth feels so dry – well, I’ve managed about 3 hours sleep in the last 30. Swallowing is uncomfortable, but my biggest sources of discomfort are my tongue, where I assume it was clamped during surgery and my uvula, which is swollen and misshapened about like a really large grape. When I look in a mirror, my uvula blocks more than half the opening and rests on my tongue. It’s freakish.
Day 2 was when the pain really kicked in. I was so grateful my mom took some days off from work to take care of me. I was taking Tylenol with codeine but it wasn’t helping at all. My neck right under my jaw became hugely swollen — it looked like I had 4 chins. That was a little tender but not too unbearable. Putting ice packs on it helped.
I went to the doctor for a follow-up to make sure everything looked normal and to see if he could do something about the pain. He prescribed me a liquid OxyContin thing to take instead of the Tylenol with codeine. That didn’t really help either. All I wanted to do was sleep but then I’d get dehydrated because I can’t drink in my sleep. Not fun at all.
Hi I just made it thru day 2 not to bad of a day . I ‘m 62 years old and had my tonsils taken out on 4-24-13. Has not been to bad I’m able to eat just about anything soft .No major pain to speak of what I do is keep ice bag around my neck 24 hours a day. I rotate my Percocet and Norco no ear pain and throat does not feel to bad try and keep the ice around your neck at all times it really ones work wonders .My wife and I even want shoping yesterday. And try and stay as positive as you can.
Had my tonsils out yesterday morning around 10am. Surgery wasn’t a problem, my tonsils were small and seriously needed to come out. 4 infections in 3 months and tons and tons of tonsil stones. Pain wasn’t too bad, but swallowing was a problem. I drank a bottle of Naked Berry Blast and a bottle of Bolthouse farms Blue Goodness. It’s a very good idea since you don’t want to let your calorie intake to drop too much, plus it’s full of vitamins. Ate quite a bit of Coconut milk ice cream, since I can’t eat dairy and it’s suggested not to have dairy for the first two days anyway. Day two hasn’t been too bad, but I forgot to take the pain meds before I went to bed so sleeping was miserable. I’m definitely not a mouth breather, but my husband said I didn’t snore too badly until the last hour. Taking the pain meds every four hours, just to be on the safe side. I’m not one for pain killers giving me nausea, and thank goddess the doctor gave me everything in liquid form, or I’d have a hell of a time swallowing it. I’ve only been using the humidifier when I sleep at night, mainly because I don’t want to have to drag it down stairs. Overall it hasn’t been too bad, the swelling is starting to subside, and I can talk with less of a problem now, though it hurts when I start to try to talk. after I’ve been talking for a minute it’s not as bad.
Day 2
Sleepy, meds work well, not feeling much pain, but feeling dizzier as day goes on from meds. Had ice cream, ice water, some really soft cereal with louts of milk to water it down, pears from the can that pureed , and cottage cheese that I also pureed with some potatoe and carrot soup mixed in again pureed and cold. Lol it was actually very good and easy to swallow. Most soft cold foods are on the sweet side, this was not. Actually felt like a meal not a snack. Looking forward to the upcoming days where I hear the pain gets worse, since mine has not been vad at all.
Day 2 is horrible! Ugh! If swallowing my own saliva is this bad tomorrow then I want to go back to the hospital! Ok… maybe not. The food was horrible. I mean, it tasted ok I suppose.. But eating the mashed potato was like trying to eat rocks-it just couldn’t be done!
Very drowsy after operation. On the day of the surgery I threw up the hospital dinner at about 12 am. It was mostly old blood.
Just a bit curious.. did anyone else have a blocked nose when they came to? Mine was full of blood.
Wow, never experienced pain pain like this. The doctor said my tonsils are bigger than normal so I have huge black craters in my throat. The strongest pain killer they could give me hasn’t taken the edge off at all!
I’m a very fabulous 41 and had my tonsils removed yesterday. The humidifier has been my saving grace! I had EVERYTHING (jello, broth, pj’s, teas, etc…) in place except for the humidifier. I felt so horrible and DRY that my hubby ran out to get me one last night-about 4 hrs after we made it home. I have it running nonstop and instead of drinking nonstop, I’m probably a glass every hour. I had a pretty restless and uncomfortable night. Kept getting up and taking my meds. Rotating the Percocet with lortab. My hubby suggested I try the huge chair (mini love seat) with ottoman in our bedroom around 5am and I almost IMMEDIATLY dozed off, so looks like this is my new bed
this website is so great and the information is invaluable. As a military spouse, I’m accustomed to a supportive community and this site has been amazing! Here’s to fabulous healing to us all!
Welcome Tracie! Glad you’re getting value from the site. Best of health to you! -Greg, Fabulously 48
I was 33 at the time of the surgery. Besides throat pain, I also began to experience severe tongue and mouth pain. At times, the mouth pain was worse than the throat pain. I should note that I have TMJ, and therefore had some severe bite marks on the sides of my tongue and cheeks. My jaw was also sore this day due to it being forced open during surgery.
I took pain meds every 4 hours with Jell-o and water. I had no appetite the first three days, and really tried to stick to the recommended diet of clear liquids. I also forced myself to drink a lot of water (about 6 12 ounce cups) to aid in healing. Swallowing was very painful (pain level 8), but overall pain this day was a level 3.
I was able to talk on this day (pain on days 5-7 made it very difficult to speak). I slept in two hour increments, and was able to converse with my friend who was staying with me.
I am took anti-nausea meds (in addition to my requested 3-day-dose patch). I am convinced the combination of these meds, plus the Jell-o, helped prevent me from throwing up. On day three, I scratched the patch off during my sleep, and experienced nausea. My Dr. then advised me to begin eating soft foods, and refilled my anti-nausea meds.
Day two
Throat hurts real bad. I’m taking pain meds as prescribed and have not missed one dose. I have a humidifier going non stop, am icing my throat almost full time and drinking ice water. I got nausea meds thank goodness, and they have helped so much. I eat jello, bomb pops. I ate a small amount of Mac n cheese and mashed potatoes. I’m ready for this pain to let up!
Im 33 and i also had nasal surgery at the same time as my tonsilectomy, big mistake! Day 2 and I’m feeling pretty good. I take it easy and drink drink drink. Thanks for that tip forum. No sleep so I’m haggard. Taking pain meds every 4 hours bc I’m really hurting, if my nose is ok my throat hurts and vice versa. Ate a little ice cream. Using tetracaine lollipops to numb my throat bc my meds wear off after 2 1/2 hours. Write that down, you’ll thank me. Mostly laying around watching tv misrerable but I did play a video game for about an hour.
So this is my day 2 recovery. My first day was so easy, it even felt like I hadn’t had surgery at all! So it’s my day two, I can’t really stay asleep more than 2-3 hours. I don’t feel terrible, I feel fine besides when I swallow water, it gets very uncomfortable. Also when I take my medication, I was given tablets and they feel like I’m swallowing bricks when I take them! Im still starvin’marvin! Lol anyone else doing okay with their recovery? I just want to let people know there ARE some experiences that are not horrible.
All is going well. I can talk with no issues. Just ate some mashed potatoes with some cheese mixed in. Drinking lots of water but woke up a lot last night. Pain isn’t bad.
Day 2 (Australia): dozed off for a few half hour slots throughout the night, I was actually really terrified of falling asleep with my mouth open as I knew it would dry out so I kept sipping water throughout the night.
Nurse came in to check my blood pressure etc, took some panadol and then asked for morpheme as she said I had to eat my breakfast as eating and drinking is the most important healing factor after a tonsillectomy. Once the drugs kicked in I tried to get some breakfast down. My blood pressure was low all morning but eventually got back up after another drip. I was given a huge bag of pills to take, antibiotics, Pasadena forte, steroids, extra strong painkillers and a mouth wash I have to dilute.
Arrive home very drozy. Ate some Luke warm carrot soup which I’d made batches of prior to going in for surgery, went down really well. I’m just about to eat some 2 minute super noodles! Fingered crossed
My top tip would be to set alarms in your phone for all the times when you should take you drugs, that way you stay on top of them and the pain doesn’t get too bad.
Good luck.
Day 2 – I’m a 27 year old healthy female and had my tonsils and adenoids out yesterday afternoon. Dr. said that he didn’t know how I could breathe through my nose since they were so gigantic. I set my alarm and took my pain meds on a schedule which I’d important, I also downed as much liquids as I could tollerate when I woke up for my meds and also have a humidifier going 24/7. I’m not in a great deal of pain, just sleepy from the lortab. I’m gonna try to alternate between lortab and just Tylenol today and see how that goes. I have to admit I read this site and was terrified before I went in, but hopefully my story is one of the positive ones! It’s obviously no picnic but it isn’t the worst thing in the world!
Day 2 (including surgery day) I was worried about not being able to eat but I ate a full pizza today! Drinking lots of water too and think that’s helped
Day two I woke up to a very dry mouth. It really hurt to swallow but I read that you HAVE TO DO IT. I drank tea with honey, and drank 2 venti passion tea lemonades from Starbucks. I forgot that you shouldn’t drink from a straw so when I remembered I started sipping. I tired to eat scrambled eggs but chewing was tough and I couldn’t’ get the egg small enough to swallow (maybe because the eggs where so dry). So, I ate Jell-O from the cold isle in Safeway (the room temp. Jell-O have way to many preservatives and I try to stay away from that stuff). I ate some blueberry greek yogurt (which i shouldn’t have because I read that daily is not good right after surgery because it puts a coating on the healing area), chicken noodle soup from Tim Hortons (without noodle) and a popsicle. Today I really felt like I wanted to eat pizza haha. I was very sore all day overall body weakness and throat pain…. and whenever my bend over I feel a lot of pressure to my throat so don’t do this. I took 2 demerols and didn’t puke once!!! I’m having a difficult time falling asleep and I just took a Tylenol 3. We’ll see what tomrrow brings!!!!!
Day 2 – I feel like I got off light. Gently dosing with Hydrocodone – I can’t feel any side effects of the medicine. Slept plenty – had a Paczki yesterday. Hurt, but I couldn’t skip the family tradition. Pain is minimal, only when speaking do I notice really anything. Lots of sticky saliva and woo does that look pretty inside.
Today is day 2 for me, I woke up feeling pretty good I must say, but I also woke up and took my meds throughout the night, and made sure to drink water each time I woke throughout the night, also had the dehumidifier running. Keeping my throat moist with water and pedialyte Popsicles has seemed to help a lot. I was able to eat scrambled eggs and cheese for lunch today, and a baked potato with a little milk, butter and cheese for dinner. As the day progresses one side of my throat clearly feels worse and is much more swollen than the other, but there’s been no blood, so I’m trying to remain optimistic and hydrated. I am a little freaked out by reading people’s hell stories of the days to come, hoping that I will continue to breeze by as easily as I have thus far.
The worst is that I’m trying to quit smoking (no better time than when your throat is disgusto) and the craving and withdrawal is making me a little anxious, but it is keeping me eating, I am only 118 lbs so I was concerned stepping into this surgery about losing too much weight. Just trying to remain positive about the next 10 days and the smoking, please send happy no smoking mojo through the computer for me, it’s been a solid 19 years of smoking and it does really suck to stop, but I know my life and lungs are worth it;)
Yesterday I had a tonsillectomy, septoplasty, and turbinate reduction. It all went smoothly, woke up in some pain and was given pain medication. Slept about two hours since then. So much great advice on this site. I think my best purchases for post surgery included a spine reliever wedge for lounging upright, a cool mist humidifier and the elasto gel cervical collar. Worst purchase was Hamilton Beach ice shaver. That thing takes forever to shave ice and you have to constantly shift the ice in order to get it to work. A blender is just as good. I made a very refreshing drink last night with a chocolate ice cream, zero sugar, lactose free protein shake, Torani sugar free chocolate syrup, peppermint extract, a few packets of Splenda, and ice in the blender, it tastes like a Thin Mint Girl Scout cookie. It really made my throat feel good. The person that recommended coating your throat with some pudding before taking the gigantic pills they give you for pain and infection is my personal hero. It really does work. Diet mainly consists of ice water, jello, chicken broth, pudding and the occasional ‘thin mint’. I have my phone set to go off every four hours for pain medication, another great idea! Gearing up for the days ahead and hope it doesn’t get too bad. I also purchased an EARDOC just to be on the safe side, because of the many complaints of ear pain I’ve read about. If I happen to need it, I’ll post about the results. Thank you so much for all the information on this site. My surgeon was great, but he explained the surgery this way, “it’s like scraping your knee”. I’ve scraped my knee on more than one occasion and this is no knee scrape. The next time I meet up with my surgeon I’m going tell him what a great help this site was and perhaps he will recommend it to his other patients. Wishing everyone a speedy recovery.
Day 2 not too bad, and way better than I feared. Appetite fairly normal, probably eating more than I should. After dinner I had a go at the chocolate ice cream, not because I needed it but because I bought it in anticipation, and it would be rude not to. Funnily enough, that was the most uncomfortable eating sensation I’ve had so far, with a bit of stinging. But it was nearly 6 hours since my last drugs so probably won’t put me off next time. As the evening drew on things got a bit more uncomfortable, with saliva swallowing difficult again. Night 2 was not too pleasant. I suspect nights are going to be a problem for me, as I’m a heavy snorer, and the vibrations are right where all the healing is going on. I’d hoped that my snoring would disappear as a side effect of the op, but my guess so far is it didn’t. Still, I made it through the night and got plenty of sleep, just waking up briefly once in a while, but could feel that things were building towards the day 3 I had been building up for…
Day 2 – Still going strong, pain perfectly managed with drugs, living of fear of this pain everyone says it comming!!!!
I am 44 and had my tonsils out yesterday. Last night was bad…could hardy sleep and woke up very nauseated. Was able to sleep for a few hours this morning which helped a great deal, and took a pill to help with the nausea. This afternoon wasnt so bad….was up and around and kept down some soft bread and cheese. Throat hurts like heck, and its hard to talk, I’m drinking waters much as possible which I think is helping. A big thanks to whomever it was that recommended the frozen banana chips…they were about all I could eat on day 1 and felt so nice on my throat! I was able to eat some ramen noodles which went down pretty well. I am taking Tylenol with codeine every 4 hours….takes the edge off, but the pain is always present. Really happy I found this site….lots of great tips that have really helped!
55 y.o. Male, Tonsils out yesterday. I’ve spent a good third of the last 14hrs w/ the hiccups. Anyone have any brilliant suggestions? The old tried and true drinking from the back of a glass won’t work. Falling asleep (yes I really can) seems to be the only way to break the cycle.
I had my tonsils out yesterday morning at 9:15am. Surgury went well and i did not get sick from the GA. Got home around noon. The pain was not that bad, just felt like a bad sore throat. I drink 8 ounces of water every hour and was able to eat popcicles and jello. Did not take the pain neds yesterday. Slept most of the night and work up only 1 time. Work up this morning (day 2) with the same level of pain. I still haven’t taking the pain meds bc I’m scared I am going to get sick. I know the 3 day is going to be mich worse so figured I would save it for then. The humidifier seems to be working although I am experiencing some flem. Hoping everyone has a speedy recovery
and thanks for the advice!