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.
Hey everybody – just had my tonsils out this morning. I’m doing fine, not a whole lot of pain at all. There is one thing that is worrying me a little. I read about ear pain. that some people had experienced. I’m having this, but it only hurts on the right side of my throat, and in my ear canal, and only when I drink. Then I can push behind my jaw and kind of relieve the pressure. It is possible fluid is getting into my ear canal back there and causing this pain and it isn’t just referred pain?
Let me know if anybody experienced this. Thank you!
Hey all I am day one into post op…by far the worst pain ever ony thing helping me is water , water and more water…one question though how long before the swelling goes down?
My procedure was scheduled for 3:45pm, nothing to eat after midnight… I was starving! I have severe anxiety, but for some reason felt extremely calm going in for this procedure. Maybe they put something in my IV to calm me down. The doctor told me to pick a vacation spot to go to while I was under anesthesia. I chose Hawaii. When I woke up, the first thing I said to the nurse at my side was that I didn’t get to go to Hawaii. The first thing I asked for was apple juice. She brought me a Styrofoam cup with a STRAW. Straws are BAD after any kind of surgery mouth related… I also find out at this time that I didn’t have stitches, but everything was cauterized instead, so basically my entire throat was burned.
First day want horrible. Laying flat/reclining too much was uncomfortable – it felt like my uvula was blocking my throat. Having both the medicine from the hospital and the pharmacy was very nice and I managed to get down about four 16.9 oz bottles of water, a popsicle, and some applesauce. To me it does feel a bit like tonsillitis so far, just farther back. I’m not looking forward to tomorrow and day four as I hear they are much worse.
Ha, I must have been tired when I wrote that. It was supposed to say wasn’t* horrible. The rest of it makes too little sense to even try to edit, haha. Anyways, the reason I’m even writing this is because I forgot to add that I’m 18. Also, A.R, my sister had this done last December and said she experienced the feeling also so I didn’t think much about it. It wasn’t too much of a hassle, I could still sleep on my side. By the end of the first week the swelling was pretty much gone.
I am 33 years old and this is my day 1. So far constant pain on my troat….duh and feels like something stuck in my troat. This is 2nd hour will do overall post later today.
Ali
Hey everybody – just had my tonsils out this morning. I’m doing fine, not a whole lot of pain at all. There is one thing that is worrying me a little. I read about ear pain. that some people had experienced. I’m having this, but it only hurts on the right side of my throat, and in my ear canal, and only when I drink. Then I can push behind my jaw and kind of relieve the pressure. It is possible fluid is getting into my ear canal back there and causing this pain and it isn’t just referred pain?
Let me know if anybody experienced this. Thank you!
Kyle
Hey all I am day one into post op…by far the worst pain ever ony thing helping me is water , water and more water…one question though how long before the swelling goes down?
My procedure was scheduled for 3:45pm, nothing to eat after midnight… I was starving! I have severe anxiety, but for some reason felt extremely calm going in for this procedure. Maybe they put something in my IV to calm me down. The doctor told me to pick a vacation spot to go to while I was under anesthesia. I chose Hawaii. When I woke up, the first thing I said to the nurse at my side was that I didn’t get to go to Hawaii. The first thing I asked for was apple juice. She brought me a Styrofoam cup with a STRAW. Straws are BAD after any kind of surgery mouth related… I also find out at this time that I didn’t have stitches, but everything was cauterized instead, so basically my entire throat was burned.
First day want horrible. Laying flat/reclining too much was uncomfortable – it felt like my uvula was blocking my throat. Having both the medicine from the hospital and the pharmacy was very nice and I managed to get down about four 16.9 oz bottles of water, a popsicle, and some applesauce. To me it does feel a bit like tonsillitis so far, just farther back. I’m not looking forward to tomorrow and day four as I hear they are much worse.
Ask your doctor about getting a steroid. I got that, and my uvula never swelled up. No point in suffering more than you need to.
Good luck!
Ha, I must have been tired when I wrote that. It was supposed to say wasn’t* horrible. The rest of it makes too little sense to even try to edit, haha. Anyways, the reason I’m even writing this is because I forgot to add that I’m 18. Also, A.R, my sister had this done last December and said she experienced the feeling also so I didn’t think much about it. It wasn’t too much of a hassle, I could still sleep on my side. By the end of the first week the swelling was pretty much gone.
I am 33 years old and this is my day 1. So far constant pain on my troat….duh and feels like something stuck in my troat. This is 2nd hour will do overall post later today.
Ali