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.
Lots of people say to stay away from milk products but pudding is amazing. I was in terrible pain post op and needed to take oral pain meds. The nurse gave me a pudding cup. Two spoonfuls coated my throat and let the giant pill slide down nearly pain free. After I woke from a nap my throat was killing me so I had more pudding with the same results. Before bed I swallowed a few spoonfuls and let it stay coating my throat. When I woke it was mostly still there and had kept my throat moist. I had another spoonful each time I woke and it made the pills easy to swallow. This morning the pudding was quite smelly so I Gently sprayed it off using a 30cc syringe I had bought in advance from my pharmacy. I used lukewarm water first then Biotene mouthwash which is alcohol free and has soothing antibacterial enzymes.
My other advice is to suck lots of ice,stay away from acidic things, donCt drink cold liquids because they hurt more than room temp or lukewarm, and try eating broken Ramen noodles lukewarm. The salt feels good and the noodles are super soft going down.
Set an alarm and take your pain meds on time! They prevent pain better than they treat it. Stay hydrated!
I had my tonsils removed yesterday and it wasn’t too bad thanks to some of the post on this website. I drank plenty of ice water and took my pain meds every 4 hours as suggested. The only issue I had was sleepy, I had to sleep sitting up because laying down made me feel like I was chocking. So far so good! I
I agree. Just had mine out this morning and can’t figure put how to sleep. When I finally “dozed off” I woke up coughing from not being anbke to breathe. Day 1 not so bad. Hoping it stays this way
I just hadn’t tonsilectomy today around 1230 pm it is now 115am and I’ve slept maybe 2 hrs. I was given morphine when I woke up from anistetic and from what I’m told there is a lot that I dont remember when I first woke up until I started to cry. I have been given t3s for the pain every for hrs but it seems that by hr 3 I’m wanting to take more. I was also given antibiotics but I asked for them in liquid form, best idea ever. I’m hoping the t3s r enough for the pain cause swallowing hurts like hell and it makes me clench my teeth together. We will see how the next few days go.
Day 1, Wednesday, Surgery Day. I felt pretty good going into the surgery, but when it was over I could not wake up. They kept trying to wake me, but all I wanted was to sleep. I was sooooo dizzy and sleepy. I was to go home the same day, as soon as I “felt up to it”. Well I kept telling my hubby that I wish I was staying overnight, because I don’t know how I am going to manage. I kept vomiting in recovery. On the way home, I kept the hospital bedpan on my lap in case I felt like vomiting again. As soon as I got home I began vomiting again. I believe it was from the Lortab (Vicodin), so I refused to take my next dose. My throat just felt like a regular sore throat at this point. So I decided that Children’s Tylenol liquid would have to do, since it was all I had on hand. I checked with my doctor first, and doubled the children’s dose. It did a pretty good job. Ice packs really helped too, for about 15-20 min. on and off. I drank tons of water, and did not sleep very well at night because I had to keep running to the bathroom every 1/2 hr. Pain was about 5/10 on this day.
I couldn’t believe I was being sent home. I was out of it… Couldn’t even focus and the Pain!!!!i I am guessing the hospital can charge more people for the day although most of us are only there a few hours. They can get someone else in and also charge them for the day.
Day 1 wasn’t too bad. Due to complicating health issues I was admitted over night, given steroids, antihistamines and tolerated the anaesthesia Propofol well. (I have systemic mastocytosis, so basically allergic to anything and may end up in anaphylaxis easily.)
I have non cooperative blood vessels so they had to stick in me about 15 times – no I’m not exaggerating and they got a bit frantic since they couldn’t get the vein port in, but it ended up in my foot at last. Not recommended, it hurts like hell…
Surgery went well I was told, I could speak after surgery and felt okay. Was kept at ICU for 3-4 hours for monitoring before wheeled back to room. I can’t tolerate any pain meds except Tylenol/ paracetamol due to my Mastocytosis. They tried to give me Fentanyl but I almost threw up and got a sharp drop in blood pressure, so they took me off of it, which I was for since I didn’t like the feeling of it at all.
I drifted in and out of sleep and fevers all day and night. Uvula started to swell like crazy so they gave me two rounds of steroids to keep it from swelling any more. I gagged several times when I tried talking or walking. Leaning forwards meant I couldn’t breathe, not cool. I slept for 30 – 60 mins intervals throughout the night, drooled a little and that awoke me at least once pr. hour. Ridiculous. But the pain wasn’t so bad except for swallowing.
I tried to drink water with ice cubes in it, but due to my Mastocytosis I had an allergic reaction to the cold so had to switch to tepid water. I do recommend ice packs on throat and sucking on ice cubes for those who can. It does numb the throat and it gets less sore. I’ll post every day from now on. Scared of what lies ahead since I can’t take any proper pain meds…
Lots of people say to stay away from milk products but pudding is amazing. I was in terrible pain post op and needed to take oral pain meds. The nurse gave me a pudding cup. Two spoonfuls coated my throat and let the giant pill slide down nearly pain free. After I woke from a nap my throat was killing me so I had more pudding with the same results. Before bed I swallowed a few spoonfuls and let it stay coating my throat. When I woke it was mostly still there and had kept my throat moist. I had another spoonful each time I woke and it made the pills easy to swallow. This morning the pudding was quite smelly so I Gently sprayed it off using a 30cc syringe I had bought in advance from my pharmacy. I used lukewarm water first then Biotene mouthwash which is alcohol free and has soothing antibacterial enzymes.
My other advice is to suck lots of ice,stay away from acidic things, donCt drink cold liquids because they hurt more than room temp or lukewarm, and try eating broken Ramen noodles lukewarm. The salt feels good and the noodles are super soft going down.
Set an alarm and take your pain meds on time! They prevent pain better than they treat it. Stay hydrated!
Good stuff Toni- keep on keepin on!
Hang on its going to be a bumpy ride.
I had my tonsils removed yesterday and it wasn’t too bad thanks to some of the post on this website. I drank plenty of ice water and took my pain meds every 4 hours as suggested. The only issue I had was sleepy, I had to sleep sitting up because laying down made me feel like I was chocking. So far so good! I
I agree. Just had mine out this morning and can’t figure put how to sleep. When I finally “dozed off” I woke up coughing from not being anbke to breathe. Day 1 not so bad. Hoping it stays this way
I just hadn’t tonsilectomy today around 1230 pm it is now 115am and I’ve slept maybe 2 hrs. I was given morphine when I woke up from anistetic and from what I’m told there is a lot that I dont remember when I first woke up until I started to cry. I have been given t3s for the pain every for hrs but it seems that by hr 3 I’m wanting to take more. I was also given antibiotics but I asked for them in liquid form, best idea ever. I’m hoping the t3s r enough for the pain cause swallowing hurts like hell and it makes me clench my teeth together. We will see how the next few days go.
Day 1, Wednesday, Surgery Day. I felt pretty good going into the surgery, but when it was over I could not wake up. They kept trying to wake me, but all I wanted was to sleep. I was sooooo dizzy and sleepy. I was to go home the same day, as soon as I “felt up to it”. Well I kept telling my hubby that I wish I was staying overnight, because I don’t know how I am going to manage. I kept vomiting in recovery. On the way home, I kept the hospital bedpan on my lap in case I felt like vomiting again. As soon as I got home I began vomiting again. I believe it was from the Lortab (Vicodin), so I refused to take my next dose. My throat just felt like a regular sore throat at this point. So I decided that Children’s Tylenol liquid would have to do, since it was all I had on hand. I checked with my doctor first, and doubled the children’s dose. It did a pretty good job. Ice packs really helped too, for about 15-20 min. on and off. I drank tons of water, and did not sleep very well at night because I had to keep running to the bathroom every 1/2 hr. Pain was about 5/10 on this day.
I couldn’t believe I was being sent home. I was out of it… Couldn’t even focus and the Pain!!!!i I am guessing the hospital can charge more people for the day although most of us are only there a few hours. They can get someone else in and also charge them for the day.
Day 1 wasn’t too bad. Due to complicating health issues I was admitted over night, given steroids, antihistamines and tolerated the anaesthesia Propofol well. (I have systemic mastocytosis, so basically allergic to anything and may end up in anaphylaxis easily.)
I have non cooperative blood vessels so they had to stick in me about 15 times – no I’m not exaggerating and they got a bit frantic since they couldn’t get the vein port in, but it ended up in my foot at last. Not recommended, it hurts like hell…
Surgery went well I was told, I could speak after surgery and felt okay. Was kept at ICU for 3-4 hours for monitoring before wheeled back to room. I can’t tolerate any pain meds except Tylenol/ paracetamol due to my Mastocytosis. They tried to give me Fentanyl but I almost threw up and got a sharp drop in blood pressure, so they took me off of it, which I was for since I didn’t like the feeling of it at all.
I drifted in and out of sleep and fevers all day and night. Uvula started to swell like crazy so they gave me two rounds of steroids to keep it from swelling any more. I gagged several times when I tried talking or walking. Leaning forwards meant I couldn’t breathe, not cool. I slept for 30 – 60 mins intervals throughout the night, drooled a little and that awoke me at least once pr. hour. Ridiculous. But the pain wasn’t so bad except for swallowing.
I tried to drink water with ice cubes in it, but due to my Mastocytosis I had an allergic reaction to the cold so had to switch to tepid water. I do recommend ice packs on throat and sucking on ice cubes for those who can. It does numb the throat and it gets less sore. I’ll post every day from now on. Scared of what lies ahead since I can’t take any proper pain meds…