A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their sixth day of recovery
From thousands of post comments to the forum I have assembled a sampling of various accounts and impressions of tonsillectomy recovery for each day. Below I share comments about tonsillectomy day 6. 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.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 Scabs bleeding! : I can only eat popsicles. That is all.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : At 5:30am, I started to panic because I coughed a lot and when I spit up some saliva in a tissue (which I have a habit of doing to see if there is any blood); I saw a slight hue of red. RED=BLOOD! So, of course I got nervous. After drinking some water, I tasted some blood but I didn’t see anymore and I was able to swallow with a bit more ease. It wasn’t the full scab that came off, but a piece of the scab on the right side. When I woke up, I drank water and felt a burst of pain in my ear and stinging in my throat for a couple minutes. When I brushed my teeth this morning, there was a little more blood when I spit into the sink, so I’m assuming I lost a little more of the scab. I’ve been sucking on ice chips the past few days and it really feels nice on my throat. I ate applesauce and soup today with a little ease. I’ve notice my ears get worse when I eat. I was craving pizza tonight and it was sitting on the counter (my family had it for dinner), so, I decided to be a champ and try it. I was able to eat all of the toppings off of a slice of pizza minus the spicy pepperoni. Let me tell you, it was a blessing! I tried gargling with cold water and even though I refuse to look at my throat, I can tell that it feel fresher and cleaner. Good news – I was able to swallow the amoxicillin today; it feels awesome because if I had to eat another cup of jell-o and medication, I’d die! Fifth day post-op and I actually stepped foot out of my house today. Since we have a huge snow storm, I had to make sure I was fully covered. Nevertheless, even though I only sat in the car, it felt good – it was progress! I was told that taking a warm shower before bed will help moisten my throat and potentially prevent coughing at night, so I tried it.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 scabs Healing
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6 and the pain is just about the same as yesterday, but that relentless ache is exhausting. I know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel (and it’s not a train) but when I am tired and weak and freaking out because my Mom went home and my husband decided to sleep in this morning leaving me to take care of my nearly 7 year old son…. Well, I got a little teary.
My husband took a gander at my throat today and declared it “gross, but healing.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6 = Ouch
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : day 6 here and I have to say, it definitely has been the hardest two days so far. I am spent and am sick of not eating the way i want to. I have been sticking to cold drinks and liquid meals. Spoke with my PA today and she said to do my best to keep the scabs on for a minimum 10days by drinking tons of liquids. The longer they stay on, the better the new skin underneath will be…so I am doing all I can to keep these puppies attached. I have given up on eating anything warm or slightly solid,I just want this over with!!
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Yeah, so I slept for about 12 hours. But now I think sleeping that long was the worst idea ever! My hot pot ran out of water and I wasn’t sipping on water for those 12 hours. I just drank a smoothie mix every 4 hours to take my meds. I woke up with about 8/10 pain, tried to get up and passed out in the hallway. Oh Joy! My ears are killing me!
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Side note, i have lost like 12 lbs. Probably not healthily as all i have consumed it water, gatorade, jello and apple sauce. Those products are not known for their nutritional content. I have made two healthy juice drinks using my juicer, but don’t think that compensates for the lack of nutrients for the last week.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : The pain is rather terrible today, it was much worse last night.
At about 3am i woke up with pain, it was as if someone was stabbing my throat with a needle or pin
and i woke up this morning with blood in my mouth. Not a lot but it still scared me! I rinsed my mouth with ice water and sucked a piece of ice and it stopped.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6- good morning, post op app’t- stints in nose removed, I can BREATHE again 🙂 went shopping at the mall for a few hours after- got home exhausted & later in pain ;(
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Recovery Day 6 (post-op day 7):
Another day filled with pain. Was able to drink an ensure today but did not eat much. Was able to eat some popsicles. During the evening time had horrible pain shooting from the right side of my throat and it felt like a burning feeling when I would drink anything almost as if I was drinking acid even when I drank water. Had to take a bit more Lortab to curve the pain. Looked at my throat with a flashlight for the first time since the surgery and it looked like a battle zone in there. Lots of white coating all over the tonsil beds and my uvula is still swollen very large and kind of sticking to one of the sides of my throat. Could see the white scabs as well.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6: I cried over applesauce and pudding. It hurts to swallow, I can’t yawn and just try to blow your nose without wanting to fall over and die. This pain is ridiculous. I woke up in the middle of the night with a dry throat and more pain than I could imagine so I dragged myself downstairs and forced down some pain meds to help me take the pain.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 :day 6 of my recovery and in the worst pain ever. I thought I was on the mend, only having pain on the one side but then I started to cough, and it kept me up all of last night and all of that white membrane over the surgery site is starting to come off as well as some of the scabs… is that normal? I am very scared that with my coughing it’s going to cause issues that will result in another surgery.
OMG! I honestly feel like I’m in hell ? The pain is excruciating! Had op last Friday and was in hospital 4 days. I can’t take ibuprofen so am on paracetamol and tramadol but it doesn’t touch the pain. I feel like everyone thinks I’m exaggerating…. I have had a couple of sobbing episodes, try to limit these as the pain is unbearable! I’m 43 and have 4 children so I know what pain is like… But this is torture I regret having it done at this moment. They found a lump in nasal cavity and took biopsies so fingers crossed all ok.
As have I, I have been sobbing at certain times because I don’t know what else to do it hurts so bad. It’s excruciatingly painful, I can’t wait for day 9, I’m actually struggling at this point, I’m hungry and tired and just want it to be over with.
Hi Helen I just had my tonsils removed five days ago and I am the same age as you. I think I would much rather have a baby at natural child birth like I did than go through this. How long did it take for you to fully recover. I am in back in school as well and I have to start working in my school work. I am so tired all the time. Can’t seem to get out of bed. Just wanting to know how you did iT at forty three
Nearing the end of day 6. Tomorrow it’ll be one week since I got them removed. I’m 20 btw… In Ireland they make you eat sharp solids from day 1, a couple of hours after surgery- with emphasis on toast and crisps/ potato chips.
I keep thinking that I’m getting better and then the pain hits me like a stone wall. The ear pain is unbearable and the random bursts nausea is pretty awful too.
And I am still sleeping for about 12 hours a day- more so to pass time without pain than anything.
The worst thing is this horrible feeling of hubdreds of what feels like tiny crumbs stuck to the back of my throat. It absolutely sucks and is by far the most annoying thing. The only thing that helps is to constantly drink water.
I am having the same feeling! Not counting surgery day I’m on day 5 and if I try to eat anything that isn’t jello or puréed I feel like it’s getting stuck in my throats and it is scary! I want to try to eat things with texture, but I am scared. Is this normal?
Day 6 now and I’m in absolute agony. My ears are killing me. If I could get rid of the ear pain I don’t think I’d be too bad to be honest. The back of my throat feels really scratchy and stingy (people are saying it’s normal cause the scabs are getting ready to come off).
I woke up with a low fever at 39 degrees Celsius so that was terrible.
I also found that my medicines, despite me taking the highest dosage allowed , weren’t lasting more than 3 hours so for a whole hour I had to sip on ice cold water to try and control the pain.
Day 6: the pain is my throat is stabbing me. I can’t stop yawning for some reason. My head has been hurting for a few days. I’m so tired of not being able to eat what I want. The scabs are supposed to come off today or tomorrow I heard, and maybe that’s why the pain is significantly worse today, but I haven’t looked at my throat yet. The pain meds don’t help as much as they used to. I’m much more irritable today and yesterday.
day 6 i think has been the worst pain wise i cant cope! my ears ach my jaw hurts witch i still cant open propley my throat is stinging so much it hurts to drink water im coughing up blood witch im not sure is normal? as i wasent bleeding yestoday only since it stared stinging it feels like the back of my throat is coverd in ulsers SO PAINFULL! i just cant wait for this to be over ive lost way over a stone i feel dizzy and sick because i cant eat. sleeping is horrid to up every half hour. i dident think it was going to be this bad
OMG! I honestly feel like I’m in hell ? The pain is excruciating! Had op last Friday and was in hospital 4 days. I can’t take ibuprofen so am on paracetamol and tramadol but it doesn’t touch the pain. I feel like everyone thinks I’m exaggerating…. I have had a couple of sobbing episodes, try to limit these as the pain is unbearable! I’m 43 and have 4 children so I know what pain is like… But this is torture I regret having it done at this moment. They found a lump in nasal cavity and took biopsies so fingers crossed all ok.
As have I, I have been sobbing at certain times because I don’t know what else to do it hurts so bad. It’s excruciatingly painful, I can’t wait for day 9, I’m actually struggling at this point, I’m hungry and tired and just want it to be over with.
Hi Helen I just had my tonsils removed five days ago and I am the same age as you. I think I would much rather have a baby at natural child birth like I did than go through this. How long did it take for you to fully recover. I am in back in school as well and I have to start working in my school work. I am so tired all the time. Can’t seem to get out of bed. Just wanting to know how you did iT at forty three
Nearing the end of day 6. Tomorrow it’ll be one week since I got them removed. I’m 20 btw… In Ireland they make you eat sharp solids from day 1, a couple of hours after surgery- with emphasis on toast and crisps/ potato chips.
I keep thinking that I’m getting better and then the pain hits me like a stone wall. The ear pain is unbearable and the random bursts nausea is pretty awful too.
And I am still sleeping for about 12 hours a day- more so to pass time without pain than anything.
The worst thing is this horrible feeling of hubdreds of what feels like tiny crumbs stuck to the back of my throat. It absolutely sucks and is by far the most annoying thing. The only thing that helps is to constantly drink water.
When will I feel better??????
I am having the same feeling! Not counting surgery day I’m on day 5 and if I try to eat anything that isn’t jello or puréed I feel like it’s getting stuck in my throats and it is scary! I want to try to eat things with texture, but I am scared. Is this normal?
Day 6 now and I’m in absolute agony. My ears are killing me. If I could get rid of the ear pain I don’t think I’d be too bad to be honest. The back of my throat feels really scratchy and stingy (people are saying it’s normal cause the scabs are getting ready to come off).
I woke up with a low fever at 39 degrees Celsius so that was terrible.
I also found that my medicines, despite me taking the highest dosage allowed , weren’t lasting more than 3 hours so for a whole hour I had to sip on ice cold water to try and control the pain.
I definitely think day 6 is the worst so far.
God help me if it gets worse.
Day 6: the pain is my throat is stabbing me. I can’t stop yawning for some reason. My head has been hurting for a few days. I’m so tired of not being able to eat what I want. The scabs are supposed to come off today or tomorrow I heard, and maybe that’s why the pain is significantly worse today, but I haven’t looked at my throat yet. The pain meds don’t help as much as they used to. I’m much more irritable today and yesterday.
day 6 i think has been the worst pain wise i cant cope! my ears ach my jaw hurts witch i still cant open propley my throat is stinging so much it hurts to drink water im coughing up blood witch im not sure is normal? as i wasent bleeding yestoday only since it stared stinging it feels like the back of my throat is coverd in ulsers SO PAINFULL! i just cant wait for this to be over ive lost way over a stone i feel dizzy and sick because i cant eat. sleeping is horrid to up every half hour. i dident think it was going to be this bad
What ended up happening to You?