Day 1 woke up from op and first thing I noticed is that my jaw is in agony!! No pain in throat just the jaw.. back on ward managed to eat toast. Morphine every hour slept through the night with medication every hour.
Day 2 slight pain in throat. Managed more toast and a cup of tea and biscuits. Told I can go home so stop at McDonalds on the way and have a mc chicken sandwich meal managed it no problem. Get home sleep until morning.
Day 3 wake up in PAIN!! Quickly take medication that hospital gave me.. still in pain 3hours later so phone doctors and got an emergency appointment. Home with antibiotics as I have an infection.. I smoke so doctor thinks that’s what cause it ? In agony the rest of day and night sleeping on and off.
Day 4 PAIN PAIN PAIN!!! Now regretting getting my tonsils removed have never felt pain like this before!!
Day 5 Exactly the same as day 4!! But now I have ear ache ?
Day 6 Still in agonizing pain. Hurts even to swallow water. Read on a previous post here to try hot water and honey.. try it and instant relief ? First time I’ve not wanted to scream in pain all week!! Relief only lasted a hour so I have another every hour until I fall asleep.
Day 7 woke up not in as much pain as I have been with most of the scabs off.
Now on day 8 and I have came off the strong medication completely just having paracetamols. The first week was the worst I have ever experienced in my life.. I tried everything from iced water, Ice chips, ice packs, heat packs! Nothing seemed to help except the honey water wish i had known about this from day 1. Yes I smoke and this probably caused me more pain but it was the one thing that gave me joy in the whole week! I got my tonsils removed due to having bad glandular fever which cause holes in my tonsils resulting in tonsils stones. Right now i wish I never got them removed but by next week I think it will be a different story. Also a lot of my pain was on the right side the left side didn’t bother me so much did anyone else notice this?
Daily Diary – Tonsillectomy
