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.
Oh man. Ohhhh man. Surgery took an hour, at seven o’clock this morning, and it wasn’t too bad because I don’t remember a thing – but the pain following the operation hurt to high hell. I’m a vocalist, so the doctor is being ridiculously strict. It’s 10:30 pm and I’ve only had clear liquids and crushed ice; I’m only allowed to have the same tomorrow (!!!). I’m just taking lots and lots of small sips and trying not to go to sleep too often, because it dries out my throat. It feels like the center of my throat is crazy-swollen, and although I can talk all right when I’m hydrated, otherwise talking just hurts too much.
Honestly, I would kill for just some soup, or some mashed potatoes right now.
Day one:
Oh thank god. I went there, and i dotn rven remember falling asleep. then i woke up all drugged and felt like it was very important for me to talk. so i did. and the nurse kept telling me to go back sleep. then later i woke up and trying to get ready to go home.
I was surprized i had excpected the worst of the worst but to tell you the truth it feels like a bad case of strep throat. i have had that before. all i feel is that its hard to swallow and steady pain in there and then some pain going up my ear, but i find it tolerable.
my tonsils werent that big. the one on the right was a bit bigger than usual but the left one was small. a tiny bit bigger than normal.
after taking them out and cutting them in half to see the insides my doctor said “even though they seemed small im very glad we took them out because they were full of badness”
and im very happy the surgery is done. finally ill stop being sick. and yeh. i have soups, boiled eggs,yogurts an ice cream and then i can eat anything if i can mush it.
Day one: My surgery was at 9:30 yesterday morning 3/6/13. I did not get home until 4:00pm. I slept 2 hrs in the first recovery room. I think they gave me too much of that MJ medicine and on top of that gave me a couple doses of percocet so it put me back to sleep. At this stage they would not let my husband see me and I think it scared him a bit. I was in and out of sleep ALL day and still feel sleepy. I have managed to drink water through a straw every 5 mins or so while I am awake and talking is not too bad. I opted to do liquid pain meds as the pills didnt do so well while in the hospital yesterday. Although I have to take a 6 day prednisone pack and they are pills but kind of small. The pain really starts to kick in at about hr 4 for me but I’ve been trying to stretch it to every 5 hrs but by then it hurts to swallow even the 15cc of pain meds. I have not tried anything to eat out side of Popsicle. Oh I take that back..I had a jello at the hospital that i chewed until liquefied. I am a lap-band pt so my husband thought it would be a great idea to buy me sugar free Jello and it’s nasty so I’ll just stick to my popsicles until I can figure something else out.
Just got home from my surgery, not too bad right now just ate some Mac and cheese and applesauce. Not in very much pain at all. All I can sat is hydrate!! Water, apple juice, vitamin water, ice chips. It makes a huge difference already!! I’m just sleepy from the amestheia. My surgery on,y took 15 minutes but had to spend some extra time in recovery because I always have a hard time coming out of the anesthesia
Day One for myself wasn’t too bad… besides the puking up blood. I was on demerol 50mg and still coming off of the iv pain killer. I was able drink ice water at daycare (probably because I was so high and I felt no pain) but on my way out of the hospital I puked due to the fast pace the volunteer was pushing me in a wheelchair. I got home and went straight to bed. When I woke up I ate a popsicle and shorty afterwards puked again and again. Just the thought of food made me puke.
Oh man. Ohhhh man. Surgery took an hour, at seven o’clock this morning, and it wasn’t too bad because I don’t remember a thing – but the pain following the operation hurt to high hell. I’m a vocalist, so the doctor is being ridiculously strict. It’s 10:30 pm and I’ve only had clear liquids and crushed ice; I’m only allowed to have the same tomorrow (!!!). I’m just taking lots and lots of small sips and trying not to go to sleep too often, because it dries out my throat. It feels like the center of my throat is crazy-swollen, and although I can talk all right when I’m hydrated, otherwise talking just hurts too much.
Honestly, I would kill for just some soup, or some mashed potatoes right now.
Day one:
Oh thank god. I went there, and i dotn rven remember falling asleep. then i woke up all drugged and felt like it was very important for me to talk. so i did. and the nurse kept telling me to go back sleep. then later i woke up and trying to get ready to go home.
I was surprized i had excpected the worst of the worst but to tell you the truth it feels like a bad case of strep throat. i have had that before. all i feel is that its hard to swallow and steady pain in there and then some pain going up my ear, but i find it tolerable.
my tonsils werent that big. the one on the right was a bit bigger than usual but the left one was small. a tiny bit bigger than normal.
after taking them out and cutting them in half to see the insides my doctor said “even though they seemed small im very glad we took them out because they were full of badness”
and im very happy the surgery is done. finally ill stop being sick. and yeh. i have soups, boiled eggs,yogurts an ice cream and then i can eat anything if i can mush it.
Day one: My surgery was at 9:30 yesterday morning 3/6/13. I did not get home until 4:00pm. I slept 2 hrs in the first recovery room. I think they gave me too much of that MJ medicine and on top of that gave me a couple doses of percocet so it put me back to sleep. At this stage they would not let my husband see me and I think it scared him a bit. I was in and out of sleep ALL day and still feel sleepy. I have managed to drink water through a straw every 5 mins or so while I am awake and talking is not too bad. I opted to do liquid pain meds as the pills didnt do so well while in the hospital yesterday. Although I have to take a 6 day prednisone pack and they are pills but kind of small. The pain really starts to kick in at about hr 4 for me but I’ve been trying to stretch it to every 5 hrs but by then it hurts to swallow even the 15cc of pain meds. I have not tried anything to eat out side of Popsicle. Oh I take that back..I had a jello at the hospital that i chewed until liquefied. I am a lap-band pt so my husband thought it would be a great idea to buy me sugar free Jello and it’s nasty so I’ll just stick to my popsicles until I can figure something else out.
Just got home from my surgery, not too bad right now just ate some Mac and cheese and applesauce. Not in very much pain at all. All I can sat is hydrate!! Water, apple juice, vitamin water, ice chips. It makes a huge difference already!! I’m just sleepy from the amestheia. My surgery on,y took 15 minutes but had to spend some extra time in recovery because I always have a hard time coming out of the anesthesia
Day One for myself wasn’t too bad… besides the puking up blood. I was on demerol 50mg and still coming off of the iv pain killer. I was able drink ice water at daycare (probably because I was so high and I felt no pain) but on my way out of the hospital I puked due to the fast pace the volunteer was pushing me in a wheelchair. I got home and went straight to bed. When I woke up I ate a popsicle and shorty afterwards puked again and again. Just the thought of food made me puke.