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 1, surgery day:
I have never had to be admitted to hospital before, I’ve never broken a bone, been in an accident or been really sick before. Heck, I don’t even get colds.
It was a little daunting and I will admit to being terrified, I was the second person to have surgery. One minute I was almost in tears due to fear with the anaesthetist tapping my veins and the next minute in recovery with oxygen being pumped into my lungs. Once I was able to breathe and swallow on my own they moved me to recovery ward where I spent the day with a fellow tonsillectomy patient. I slept most of the day and ate solids and drank plenty of fluids, mostly I’ve just felt discomfort in my throat rather than pain, so far so good.
I’m not terribly optimistic for the next week but I a have a very supportive partner looking after me and and a personal nurse in my mother.
My advice so far, drink as much water as you possibly can even if it hurts it’s vital in the first 24 hours after post op and don’t be scared. If a wuss like me can do it anyone can.
I stayed overnight after the surgery yesterday. I am a 32 year old female with 3 kids. This hurts worse than I expected even after reading all the stories. My last 3 doses of morphine have done nothing. I can’t imagine when I go home with the lortab. No vomiting and only nausea right out of surgery, but they have me meds for it. If day 1 is like this. I can’t imagine what the later “worse” days will be like 🙁
So yesterday was my surgery. Went in about 8:45 and was out of the surgery center before noon! Doing pretty well. I am able to swallow all my pills. I have been eating jello, applesauce, and a popsicle. I don’t feel like the Vicodin is really helping with the pain, but it does make me sleepy! I have been putting an ice pack on my neck constantly and running the humidifier next to me. I think these two things have helped a lot. Right now the pain is only about a 4. I’ve had strep pain much worse! Enjoying this nice run while I have it. I am expecting things to get worse once the scabs form! Oh, and I am drinking a ton of water to stay hydrated!
Got my tonsils out on 5/29/13 – based on what I’d read I wasn’t expecting the first day to be too bad and I was right. I came out of anesthesia without any complications and they fed me ice chips right away as well as IV pain meds. I didn’t realize quite how much my tongue and uvula would swell. My tongue was easily 2-3x its normal size and hurt much more than my throat initially. The ‘restrainer’ they put in your mouth to keep your tongue out of the way and protect your teeth must’ve been positioned kind of weird in my mouth, it felt like I had bitten giant gouges out of the sides of my tongue. My pain levels were 1-2 in my throat and a 4 on my tongue on day 1.
I’m 27 and got my to sils (-bd some adenoid tissue) out on 4/25. The first day wasn’t too bad, since I was still on anesthesia I think. I also had an anti-nausea patch behind my ear, just in case. I was able to drink liquids and eat soft foods. Pain was there but wasn’t unbearable. My uvula was ginormous and just sitting on my tongue like a beached whale. I was more uncomfortable than in pain.
Day 1, surgery day:
I have never had to be admitted to hospital before, I’ve never broken a bone, been in an accident or been really sick before. Heck, I don’t even get colds.
It was a little daunting and I will admit to being terrified, I was the second person to have surgery. One minute I was almost in tears due to fear with the anaesthetist tapping my veins and the next minute in recovery with oxygen being pumped into my lungs. Once I was able to breathe and swallow on my own they moved me to recovery ward where I spent the day with a fellow tonsillectomy patient. I slept most of the day and ate solids and drank plenty of fluids, mostly I’ve just felt discomfort in my throat rather than pain, so far so good.
I’m not terribly optimistic for the next week but I a have a very supportive partner looking after me and and a personal nurse in my mother.
My advice so far, drink as much water as you possibly can even if it hurts it’s vital in the first 24 hours after post op and don’t be scared. If a wuss like me can do it anyone can.
I stayed overnight after the surgery yesterday. I am a 32 year old female with 3 kids. This hurts worse than I expected even after reading all the stories. My last 3 doses of morphine have done nothing. I can’t imagine when I go home with the lortab. No vomiting and only nausea right out of surgery, but they have me meds for it. If day 1 is like this. I can’t imagine what the later “worse” days will be like 🙁
So yesterday was my surgery. Went in about 8:45 and was out of the surgery center before noon! Doing pretty well. I am able to swallow all my pills. I have been eating jello, applesauce, and a popsicle. I don’t feel like the Vicodin is really helping with the pain, but it does make me sleepy! I have been putting an ice pack on my neck constantly and running the humidifier next to me. I think these two things have helped a lot. Right now the pain is only about a 4. I’ve had strep pain much worse! Enjoying this nice run while I have it. I am expecting things to get worse once the scabs form! Oh, and I am drinking a ton of water to stay hydrated!
Got my tonsils out on 5/29/13 – based on what I’d read I wasn’t expecting the first day to be too bad and I was right. I came out of anesthesia without any complications and they fed me ice chips right away as well as IV pain meds. I didn’t realize quite how much my tongue and uvula would swell. My tongue was easily 2-3x its normal size and hurt much more than my throat initially. The ‘restrainer’ they put in your mouth to keep your tongue out of the way and protect your teeth must’ve been positioned kind of weird in my mouth, it felt like I had bitten giant gouges out of the sides of my tongue. My pain levels were 1-2 in my throat and a 4 on my tongue on day 1.
I’m 27 and got my to sils (-bd some adenoid tissue) out on 4/25. The first day wasn’t too bad, since I was still on anesthesia I think. I also had an anti-nausea patch behind my ear, just in case. I was able to drink liquids and eat soft foods. Pain was there but wasn’t unbearable. My uvula was ginormous and just sitting on my tongue like a beached whale. I was more uncomfortable than in pain.