A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their first 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. We shall start with tonsillectomy day 1. 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.
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Tonsillectomy Day 1
Tonsillectomy Day 1: This is not too bad. Pussies on the forum!
Tonsillectomy Day 1:(surgery day): Thank God I woke up! Whoa – drugs.
Tonsillectomy Day 1: I had a freezie when I got home and lots of water. I watched some television and took the amoxicillin that I was prescribed to prevent infection. I decided to try to swallow the capsules because they looked small enough…BIG MISTAKE! After the first one, it felt like it was stuck in my throat, but I tried to take the second one…even bigger mistake. So I start getting anxious because I feel like the pills are stuck in my throat and not going down – even with loads of water. It turns out they did go down, but because my throat was swollen, they felt like they were just sitting there. I was prescribed liquid codeine and told to buy liquid Tylenol. However, the only liquid Tylenol my mom could find was for children, so instead, she decided to buy Tylenol caplets that melt in your mouth – which turned out to be for children as well. The first night I only took Tylenol because I wasn’t in that much pain at first. Needless to say, I was in pain during the night and slept maybe 1-2 hours in total.
Tonsillectomy Day 1: i had the surgery at 3:20 pm ( they were over an hour behind schedule).I woke up feeling like crap and the nurse had to give me lots of morphine through the IV drip. I spent the night in a hospital and it was the worst night ever. My throat was in pain all night even though they gave me the liquid codeine. There was only 2 of us in the “day surgery” ward ( where they keep the overnight patients) but the other lady was snoring all through the night! which made things even worse haha. I only got about 4 hours of on and off sleep. My mom picked me up at 6am and i went home and slept for a bit.
Tonsillectomy Day 1 : My surgery was at 9:30am ET this morning and I was home by 1:30pm which included a 20 minute drive home. I had a tonsillectomy and he just trimmed a little of my extremely long uvula. I woke right up from the surgery with no problems at all. The pain I had was a 1or 2 on a scale of 10. hardly any pain after the surgery and I was able to eat apple sauce, ice and water immediately after waking. No side effects from the surgery med’s. They did give me some anti-nausea drugs. I still feel like I have just a mild sore throat.
Tonsillectomy Day 1 : Days 1&2 were definitely the honeymoon phase. All was grand in tonsil land
Tonsillectomy Day 1 : I just had it done this morning, massively consming water, pain meds every 4 hours, popsicles, little apple sauce and trying to maintain a healthy probiotic regimine. Its weird because it feels like a bad case of strep throat….so far. But I do feel instant relief with my breathing.
Tonsillectomy Day 1 : Well i just got home from surgery. I had my tonsils removed, deviated septum fixed, uvula removed and turbinates (nasal wall tissue) reduced. I have no recall of surgery, only remember maybe a minute of being in the operating room, then waking up in the recovery center.
Pain is not what i expected it to be. I think i have worse pain from strep throat
Tonsillectomy Day 1 : Post op eight hours……everything feels fine but I’m scared for the horrible days ahead. Sandra you developed ear pain at 3rd day? That makes me nervous
Tonsillectomy Day 1 : (Day of surgery) I actually felt pretty darn good, was able to eat a little, but I wish someone would have told me that I needed to re-learn how to swallow. VERY SMALL sips is the key.
Tonsillectomy Day 1 : Slept only about 2 hours due to still being very restless and fidgety from the effects of the anesthesia. Stayed on a steady dose every 4 hours of pain med’s which seemed to edge my pain. Still in a great deal of pain all day. I ate more Popsicle and jello and applesauce and was able to eat some luke warm soup which tasted great and drank 2 ensure shakes and a yogurt shake. The anesthesia effects seemed to finally wear off sometime in the early evening making me a bit more comfortable. Still in a good deal of pain. My entire mouth now hurts along with the throat and I am having jaw pain and slight ear pain and tongue pain from the clamps they used during the surgery.
day of surgery, pain was like a sore throat the most annoying thing was my swollen uvula. i was not given any antibiotics to take at home, just some weak percocet that i take every 4 to 5 hours
Hello, at first i’d like to thank you for doing this website! I’ m in the hospital right now waiting for my tonsillectomy. I live in czech republic and I found out we have different care for tonsillectomy patients ~ we stay in the hospital for 4 days post op, sometimes even more when something gets complicated. I’ ll write about my feeling after I wake up from anesthesia, I think my experience may differ from yours since I’ll be staying at the hospital (more drugs?:)) but it can be useful to other foreign readers. Unfortunatly we don’t have any website like this in czech.
Hi Karolina- Thanks for posting. Any country that produce a beer as fine as Pilsner Urquel certainly can handle something as simple as a tonsillectomy! 😉 Best of luck!
Haha in fact I’m in Pilsner faculty hospital, so near the source of that delicious beer xD
My surgery went not very well itself, they hurt my nose from intubation so I’ve one long nosebleed yesterday, together with really swolen toung in was “fabulous”. Though the tonsils-used-to-be feels not so bad as I expected. Now I’m gonna read all your day two experiences 🙂
Omg typing mistakes, sorry. “i’ve had” and “it was fabulous” 🙂
:). Typos are exprcted heere!
ADVICE:
Day for the first week keep up with you meds, even if your not in pain. Cause trust me it will catch up and hit you like a tone of bricks.. Eat soup (soup that you add milk too) drink plenty of water to keep you fluids up. Eating some foods like Ice cream, some yogurts will sting the throat so stay away from them, noodles are also good, I found the best thing to drink after I got sick of water was orange poweraid. Toast is also good, but make sure you chew alot before swallowing, I’m only saying this because the texture of it after it’s chewed is soft but still ferm enough to take down the scab on your throat while you swallow, which is a good thing otherwise it builds up and gets more painful and more swollen, I learnt the hard way when I refused to eat or drink anything because of the pain.
Just had my tonsils taken out at 9:30 this morning and its been 8 hours since then, I guess people have so many posts about their tonsils is because we have nothing better to do when we get home. I have a high tolerance for pain and my god does it hurt to swallow and drink water. Everything else seems to be fine until you take a sip. Within 1-2 hours of when the meds kick in is the best to eat because you feel it less. When waking up in the hospital,that was the worst! I literally woke up feeling like I was drowning and suffocating in my own saliva. I couldn’t drink till 30 minutes in because it felt like I was going to drown! What I inform everyone right before prior to surgery is clear your throat and spit out all the back flem behind your throat and tonsils. I wish they told me this, because I literally had to spit out as soon as I woke up an this can split the stitches! I’m about to take my meds again and try some roman noodles after trying grandmas soup which helped but was a little to thick. It’s not all the bad, but i havent been able to eat anything, a few sips of soup and water: I’m just upset with not being able to eat because I don’t want to lose weight. I hope this day is the worst and sleeping hasn’t been a problem
i had my tonsils out on the 10th Jan 13. I went in at about 8-9am and woke up at around 2pm, I woke up coughing (PAINFUL VERY PAINFUL) they said I woke up coughing because the numbing stuff was wearing off my throat and it was very dry. So everyone was like you’ll be fine, it’s all bed, ice cream and jelly. So 6 days later I’m in bed can barley swallow let alone eat ANYTHING. I’m currently on endone witch seems to help me sleep. Little did anyone tell me you need to actually eat for the white stuff to (scabs) to come off your throat, lucky I did not have stitches, they used a burning machine thing. I just took a tablet and it feels like it’s stuck but reading this I hope it just feels that way..
I just thought i would write a few tips to help you along the way
day 1 and 2 aren’t so bad as you are still on hospital meds which seem to last longer than anything else – i was probably around a 5 these days.
day 3-6 hit hard and it went to an 8 yes the meds helped but i was tired and miserable and eating was awful – could eat eggs that was about it – iced water is the best thing ever and popsicles galore! I kept my meds alarmed on my phone to make sure they were taken on time and whenever i woke up from sleep i straight away had a popsicle which helped a bit – only got pains down to about a 6 those days managed to eat chicken noodle soup that was about it.
by days 7 and 8 i felt like i was a bit more human and could eat a bit more nothing to get excited about but some macaroni cheese, quiche, soup stuff like that – have found it is stinging a lot more if i eat the wrong foods and water hurts to drink now and iced stuff so living on cups of warm tea but honestly it has felt like a turning point now and i managed to sleep through the night on night 7 and didn’t need a nap during day 8 which helped a lot too – just be careful not to over talk as i keep doing that and then my throat feels very strained and uncomfortable but pain level is only about a 2-4 today YAY! so exciting. IT’s worth it to get done! and it actually in some ways went by quite quickly especially when you are doped up! I am sad that i missed Christmas but there will be more Christmases to come!!
Day 1: 12/20/12
My surgery was scheduled for 9:30am but didn’t get done until almost 11 because they had an emergency. They said surgery went great, I had a lot of bleeding and swelling afterwards and got extremely sick from anesthesia which was to be expected for me. Something new I did with anesthesia was wake up screaming and kicking and crying. I have never done that but they said with as much pain that I was in that anything could have happened. I got taken up to my room where my family and friends were there to see me. With all the pain meds and other meds through my IV I really didn’t know what was going on and slept for most of the time.
day of surgery, pain was like a sore throat the most annoying thing was my swollen uvula. i was not given any antibiotics to take at home, just some weak percocet that i take every 4 to 5 hours
Hello, at first i’d like to thank you for doing this website! I’ m in the hospital right now waiting for my tonsillectomy. I live in czech republic and I found out we have different care for tonsillectomy patients ~ we stay in the hospital for 4 days post op, sometimes even more when something gets complicated. I’ ll write about my feeling after I wake up from anesthesia, I think my experience may differ from yours since I’ll be staying at the hospital (more drugs?:)) but it can be useful to other foreign readers. Unfortunatly we don’t have any website like this in czech.
Hi Karolina- Thanks for posting. Any country that produce a beer as fine as Pilsner Urquel certainly can handle something as simple as a tonsillectomy! 😉 Best of luck!
Haha in fact I’m in Pilsner faculty hospital, so near the source of that delicious beer xD
My surgery went not very well itself, they hurt my nose from intubation so I’ve one long nosebleed yesterday, together with really swolen toung in was “fabulous”. Though the tonsils-used-to-be feels not so bad as I expected. Now I’m gonna read all your day two experiences 🙂
Omg typing mistakes, sorry. “i’ve had” and “it was fabulous” 🙂
:). Typos are exprcted heere!
ADVICE:
Day for the first week keep up with you meds, even if your not in pain. Cause trust me it will catch up and hit you like a tone of bricks.. Eat soup (soup that you add milk too) drink plenty of water to keep you fluids up. Eating some foods like Ice cream, some yogurts will sting the throat so stay away from them, noodles are also good, I found the best thing to drink after I got sick of water was orange poweraid. Toast is also good, but make sure you chew alot before swallowing, I’m only saying this because the texture of it after it’s chewed is soft but still ferm enough to take down the scab on your throat while you swallow, which is a good thing otherwise it builds up and gets more painful and more swollen, I learnt the hard way when I refused to eat or drink anything because of the pain.
Just had my tonsils taken out at 9:30 this morning and its been 8 hours since then, I guess people have so many posts about their tonsils is because we have nothing better to do when we get home. I have a high tolerance for pain and my god does it hurt to swallow and drink water. Everything else seems to be fine until you take a sip. Within 1-2 hours of when the meds kick in is the best to eat because you feel it less. When waking up in the hospital,that was the worst! I literally woke up feeling like I was drowning and suffocating in my own saliva. I couldn’t drink till 30 minutes in because it felt like I was going to drown! What I inform everyone right before prior to surgery is clear your throat and spit out all the back flem behind your throat and tonsils. I wish they told me this, because I literally had to spit out as soon as I woke up an this can split the stitches! I’m about to take my meds again and try some roman noodles after trying grandmas soup which helped but was a little to thick. It’s not all the bad, but i havent been able to eat anything, a few sips of soup and water: I’m just upset with not being able to eat because I don’t want to lose weight. I hope this day is the worst and sleeping hasn’t been a problem
i had my tonsils out on the 10th Jan 13. I went in at about 8-9am and woke up at around 2pm, I woke up coughing (PAINFUL VERY PAINFUL) they said I woke up coughing because the numbing stuff was wearing off my throat and it was very dry. So everyone was like you’ll be fine, it’s all bed, ice cream and jelly. So 6 days later I’m in bed can barley swallow let alone eat ANYTHING. I’m currently on endone witch seems to help me sleep. Little did anyone tell me you need to actually eat for the white stuff to (scabs) to come off your throat, lucky I did not have stitches, they used a burning machine thing. I just took a tablet and it feels like it’s stuck but reading this I hope it just feels that way..
PANCAKES!! and pancakes are the best invention ever for this kinda op.. No syrup of corse, it will sting unless your up for it. Lol
I just thought i would write a few tips to help you along the way
day 1 and 2 aren’t so bad as you are still on hospital meds which seem to last longer than anything else – i was probably around a 5 these days.
day 3-6 hit hard and it went to an 8 yes the meds helped but i was tired and miserable and eating was awful – could eat eggs that was about it – iced water is the best thing ever and popsicles galore! I kept my meds alarmed on my phone to make sure they were taken on time and whenever i woke up from sleep i straight away had a popsicle which helped a bit – only got pains down to about a 6 those days managed to eat chicken noodle soup that was about it.
by days 7 and 8 i felt like i was a bit more human and could eat a bit more nothing to get excited about but some macaroni cheese, quiche, soup stuff like that – have found it is stinging a lot more if i eat the wrong foods and water hurts to drink now and iced stuff so living on cups of warm tea but honestly it has felt like a turning point now and i managed to sleep through the night on night 7 and didn’t need a nap during day 8 which helped a lot too – just be careful not to over talk as i keep doing that and then my throat feels very strained and uncomfortable but pain level is only about a 2-4 today YAY! so exciting. IT’s worth it to get done! and it actually in some ways went by quite quickly especially when you are doped up! I am sad that i missed Christmas but there will be more Christmases to come!!
Day 1: 12/20/12
My surgery was scheduled for 9:30am but didn’t get done until almost 11 because they had an emergency. They said surgery went great, I had a lot of bleeding and swelling afterwards and got extremely sick from anesthesia which was to be expected for me. Something new I did with anesthesia was wake up screaming and kicking and crying. I have never done that but they said with as much pain that I was in that anything could have happened. I got taken up to my room where my family and friends were there to see me. With all the pain meds and other meds through my IV I really didn’t know what was going on and slept for most of the time.