Tonsillectomy Recovery Day Ten
A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their tenth 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. Below I share comments about tonsillectomy day 10. 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.
Many will experience depression toward the end of of their tonsillectomy recovery.
Please feel free to add your own experience with tonsillectomy day 10.
-Greg Tooke My short bio
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 :First day of narcotic withdrawl. This lasts thru day 14 or 15
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 : day 11, 12 if you count surgery day, and my throat still feels enough pain that I only want liquids and super-mushy things. After the scrambled-egg attempt two days ago I got a little downhearted… like, Can’t I even eat THIS? Maybe I will try them again today.
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 : Post-Op: Day Ten
- I actually got sleep again last night. All in all, I’m feeling pretty good today. It feels like most of my scabs are gone, so that’s a plus. I went out for the majority of the day. Like I said before, it feels awesome to get out after being secluded in my house for such a long time! I took Tylenol at 12:00am and I’m feeling pretty good. By pretty good, I mean I can swallow pretty well, but now what it feels like is a bad case of strep throat (yes, that is a good thing)! Still couldn’t eat much today. I guess I could physically eat soft food (pasta, soft bread, etc.) but since I’m not fully healed yet, I’m a little scared to do something that will push me back in recovery. So I stuck to peaches, yogurt drinks, water, etc…all of the usual stuff!
- Post-Op: Day Eleven
- Well, I did pretty good medication wise. I took my meds again at 12:00am; that means I waited 24hours between 2 doses of meds. It feels like I took a step back in my recovery process. My sleep was scattered and after waking up every hour to drink water, I was beyond exhausted when I woke up this morning. Even though I did drink a lot last night, my throat was still very dry. And swallowing today is a little harder than yesterday; it still feels like there is a ball in my throat. So, as you can imagine, I haven’t eaten much today either. I’m a little tired of not being able to eat as I sit on the couch, watching my family eat all of my favorite meals – what can I say, I’m a little hostile at this point! The pain isn’t bad enough that I need to take medication again, it’s just very uncomfortable. Well, I decided after 11 days, I was able to drive today and that felt good also (not having to rely on people feels awesome). When I was in the car, I decided to look into my throat (because the natural light made it easier for me too see) and I still see A LOT of white! I’m not sure why I have so many scabs left at day 11, but it sucks. Why can’t I be one of those lucky people that loose all of their scabs on day 8! I wish! Other than that, I’m not that miserable today.
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 : day 10-, 12 if you count surgery day, and my throat still feels enough pain that I only want liquids and super-mushy things. After the scrambled-egg attempt two days ago I got a little downhearted… like, Can’t I even eat THIS? Maybe I will try them again today.
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 : day 10 (40/f). took lortab last night at 9 p.m. and have taken nothing since. not to say it doesn’t hurt, but it feels more like a normal sore throat, and let’s face it, i’ve been dealing with that for years w/out relying on tylenol or meds
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 :Day 10,
- Feeling much better now, thanks. Still a little pain in the ears, but bearable. Seriously , If you can get a hold of Tylenol Liquid Rapid Blast in your neck of the woods, get it. goes down easily. And eating much more now, try to gain back a few of the 20 lbs. I lost, course some things still taste funny / odd. And I can start to sing again. (actually better than before). Hopefully My tongue swelling will go down.
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 : Day 10–my boyfriend ordered pizza for us. I had to eat some real food and this is what I was craving. BEST PIZZA EVER!! Couldn’t eat the crunchy edge pieces like I like, but the soft middle pieces were amazing. Throat still hurts a lot, especially in the middle of the night, but only taking advil at this point, every 6 hours.
- Tonsillectomy Day 10 (post-op day 11) and beyond:
- From here every day had less pain and discomfort. I was able to slowly return to a regular diet. It took few more days to get my throat muscles to become less tired when swallowing, My uvula and soft palate still felt weird for a while.
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Well day 10 it’s getting better!
Day 5-8 was terrible I called the ent every day . Do much I’m do not want to go in on Friday! Off all pain meds but once a day in the moring!
Hope everyone feels better!
I’m a 37 year old and day 10 so far is going great for me. I have been eating pasta and other solid foods since day 2. I stopped all pain pills after 1 day and I think this has helped me recover faster. Days 6-8 were the hardest for me and just because I have not been on pain pills does not mean I did not have pain. I have had a lot of pain, but I think that pain is ok and you will get through it. It’s amazing what the body can do and how it can heal itself.
I wish you all the best in your recovery.
Your full of shit! There’s no way you went through all that pain with out meds
My daughter is 8 and stopped taking pain meds 2 days after having her tonsils and adenoids removed. It can be done. I would have preferred her to stay on them cause I worried but she refused! It can be done… some people are just lucky I guess…
I believe him I’m 19 and I’m on day 11 and I still haven’t used my pain meds
I’m a 36/f and I stopped pain meds after day 3.
Today is day 10 for me, and I’m getting a little downhearted, because I’m so dang hungry and still can’t eat hardly anything. I don’t understand how poeple are eating mashed potatoes! Even runny, I can’t manage to eat more than a spoonful. Pudding, cream of chicken soup, and yogurt is all I can manage to eat. My tongue is still numb and most things taste very bland. My teeth hurt extremely bad when anything sweet touches them. I am doing better as far as throat pain, though. I found that coughing up a scab this morning made my throat hurt less overall..and I had my last dose of hydrocodone this morning. It’s liquid Tylenol from here on out. I just can’t wait to eat again! I honestly feel like that’s the worse part of all.
If you try chewing gum at least 30 mins before you eat it’s seems to be easier to eat foods that are soft.
Just as a heads up it is quite common for a bleed around day 10 I live in new Zealand so when mine happened i.rang up healthline and told them I had a bit of bleeding but then i kept swallowing blood clots it felt like swallowing slugs. Anyway they told me to go to hospital so up i went. They were going to admit me overnight as it can get worse but instead they used silver nitrate and burnt it so it wouldnt bleed again. Sent on my way with extra pain killers and antibiotics. That happened at lunchtime and was able to eat my soft dinner with no trouble 🙂 got told blood clots are ok but if I get anymore actual fresh blood to go back. Hope this helps
Sorry also to help stop the bleeding use iced water 🙂
Day 10:
The light! I see it!
I can’t really complain, because I feel like compared to a lot of other people, my recovery was a breeze. I would say days 3 and 5 were the worst, because the night before day 3 I spent the whole night puking, and the day before day 5 I think I pushed my luck by eating McDonald’s.
But I’m not really getting the whole “Days 7-10 were the hardest!” thing. Mine were really easy, probably because I only stayed on the liquid diet for three days.
So glad this whole constant sore throat/swollen tonsils/hoarse voice thing is OVER.
ya im on day 7, definetly one of the better days, a bit more painful but than yesterday but that is with no medication and by the end of the day im eating my first solid meal (mom’s lasagna! mmmmmmm) still got plenty of white in the back but it’s clear that it’s scab ready to come off) the horror stories i read worried me a bit but it was really not that bad in the end, we’ll see how I feel day 8, tomorrow. I’m recovering from dual septoplasty and tonsillectomy and it seems the worst is far over; only some sinus and ear pain but actual noise and throat pain seems to be almost gone