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.
First day was a breeze, was hardly worse than having strep or tonsillitis. Busted out the humidifier, got a pack of popsicles, water bottle, ice pack, and kicked back. The Percocet was amazing, felt like I was floating on clouds. Pain scale on a scale of 1-10 was probably about a 2.
Just had my tonsils out yesterday as a 24 year old female with chronic tonsillitis. Found it very helpful to read all of these comments on what to expect. Surgery went well – got to the hospital for registration at 7:30, went into the OR at about 8:45, was out in recovery at 10ish, back in my room at 10:30 and out the door at 12:15. I’m currently undergoing treatment for a TBI, which has left me getting nauseous from just about everything these days. The anesthesiologist had no problem giving me zofran in my IV during the surgery and the doc have me an Rx as well. I’m allergic to hydrocodone so I was given hydromorphone (dilaudid) instead, and it seems to be working pretty well for pain. My nausea was absolutely awful in the afternoon after surgery and lasted until about 11:30pm when my headache finally broke. Threw up a couple of times, but when the doctor called to check in on me, he said he wasn’t too concerned since they had pumped me full of plenty of fluids during surgery. Was relieved to hear that since I had tried so hard to keep drinking all day. When my headache finally let up, I had a couple of Popsicles, sat in the recliner for about an hour, and then went back to bed where I had been all afternoon. I set alarms to wake me up every hour during the night to keep sipping on water and to stay on schedule with the pain meds every 4 hours, and alternating with 1000mg of Tylenol in between which helps to keep things feeling okay until my next dose. Would definitely recommend waking up frequently to get just a few sips of water in! Doesn’t have to be a lot, but just enough to keep everything moist and free of mucus.
Had my coblation tonsillectomy early this morning. I woke up 20 min after the surgery feeling wide awake, barely any pain and no nausea. I went home shortly after that. I have eaten about 5 banana popsicles (don’t try grape it burns), peach Jello, Frost Gatorade and water. Just did the 2 tablespoons of Vicodin instead of 1 at night. All day I was managing on 1 tablespoon. Pain isn’t that bad at all. My neck is just a tad sensitive. My throat burns a little bit. I like having an ice pack on the front of my neck and especially the back of my neck too. I would definitely recommend taking the liquid Vicodin mixed with a little Gatorade so it doesn’t burn, I found that out real quick. I haven’t been tired at all and didn’t sleep all day. Hopefully I can sleep a bit tonight. My surgeon called to check up on me, he said my tonsils were bad and covered in yellow bacteria so I’m glad I made the correct decision in getting them out. Hopefully the recovery continues to go smoothly.
Sweet, so glad that it is going so well so far! I thought of you today and wondered how you were doing. I think if you do the things to help you along (like ice packs, humidifier, etc) you will find that this will go fairly smoothly for you. It isn’t fun by any means, but soooo much better than I thought it would be. I DO think the coblation method helps a ton with this recovery. Good luck in the next two weeks!
I’m 26 yr old female. Had a tonsillectomy and andenoidectomy today at 1pm. Surprisingly I didn’t have any nausea after waking up from the surgery, which was a relief. I was able to leave the surgery center at 220pm. Stopped off at 7 11 for an icee and I was pretty content all the way home.
Pain was about a 3/10. I kind of took advantage on how well I felt today considering I know the pain will worsen o we the next few days.
My diet today has been ice water, Gatorade, chicken broth. Popsicles.
It’s now about 230am and I’m having some problems sleeping due to the swollen uvula and I keep getting dry mouth which in essence every time I fall asleep I wake up gasping for air.
The pain has increased to about a 5/10. I have my alarms in my phone set to every 4 hours on the dot. I don’t dare miss a time to take my meds.
Lets see what tomorrow brings….or technically this is tomorrow :/
Easy. Morphine. Not much pain. Chilled out and
Mellow. Ate lots.
First day was a breeze, was hardly worse than having strep or tonsillitis. Busted out the humidifier, got a pack of popsicles, water bottle, ice pack, and kicked back. The Percocet was amazing, felt like I was floating on clouds. Pain scale on a scale of 1-10 was probably about a 2.
Just had my tonsils out yesterday as a 24 year old female with chronic tonsillitis. Found it very helpful to read all of these comments on what to expect. Surgery went well – got to the hospital for registration at 7:30, went into the OR at about 8:45, was out in recovery at 10ish, back in my room at 10:30 and out the door at 12:15. I’m currently undergoing treatment for a TBI, which has left me getting nauseous from just about everything these days. The anesthesiologist had no problem giving me zofran in my IV during the surgery and the doc have me an Rx as well. I’m allergic to hydrocodone so I was given hydromorphone (dilaudid) instead, and it seems to be working pretty well for pain. My nausea was absolutely awful in the afternoon after surgery and lasted until about 11:30pm when my headache finally broke. Threw up a couple of times, but when the doctor called to check in on me, he said he wasn’t too concerned since they had pumped me full of plenty of fluids during surgery. Was relieved to hear that since I had tried so hard to keep drinking all day. When my headache finally let up, I had a couple of Popsicles, sat in the recliner for about an hour, and then went back to bed where I had been all afternoon. I set alarms to wake me up every hour during the night to keep sipping on water and to stay on schedule with the pain meds every 4 hours, and alternating with 1000mg of Tylenol in between which helps to keep things feeling okay until my next dose. Would definitely recommend waking up frequently to get just a few sips of water in! Doesn’t have to be a lot, but just enough to keep everything moist and free of mucus.
Had my coblation tonsillectomy early this morning. I woke up 20 min after the surgery feeling wide awake, barely any pain and no nausea. I went home shortly after that. I have eaten about 5 banana popsicles (don’t try grape it burns), peach Jello, Frost Gatorade and water. Just did the 2 tablespoons of Vicodin instead of 1 at night. All day I was managing on 1 tablespoon. Pain isn’t that bad at all. My neck is just a tad sensitive. My throat burns a little bit. I like having an ice pack on the front of my neck and especially the back of my neck too. I would definitely recommend taking the liquid Vicodin mixed with a little Gatorade so it doesn’t burn, I found that out real quick. I haven’t been tired at all and didn’t sleep all day. Hopefully I can sleep a bit tonight. My surgeon called to check up on me, he said my tonsils were bad and covered in yellow bacteria so I’m glad I made the correct decision in getting them out. Hopefully the recovery continues to go smoothly.
Sweet, so glad that it is going so well so far! I thought of you today and wondered how you were doing. I think if you do the things to help you along (like ice packs, humidifier, etc) you will find that this will go fairly smoothly for you. It isn’t fun by any means, but soooo much better than I thought it would be. I DO think the coblation method helps a ton with this recovery. Good luck in the next two weeks!
I’m 26 yr old female. Had a tonsillectomy and andenoidectomy today at 1pm. Surprisingly I didn’t have any nausea after waking up from the surgery, which was a relief. I was able to leave the surgery center at 220pm. Stopped off at 7 11 for an icee and I was pretty content all the way home.
Pain was about a 3/10. I kind of took advantage on how well I felt today considering I know the pain will worsen o we the next few days.
My diet today has been ice water, Gatorade, chicken broth. Popsicles.
It’s now about 230am and I’m having some problems sleeping due to the swollen uvula and I keep getting dry mouth which in essence every time I fall asleep I wake up gasping for air.
The pain has increased to about a 5/10. I have my alarms in my phone set to every 4 hours on the dot. I don’t dare miss a time to take my meds.
Lets see what tomorrow brings….or technically this is tomorrow :/