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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Day 10 and I just ate pizza!!! This recovery was awful to say the least. I am almost 18 and being cooped up in the house for over a week was very challenging. I don’t know if anyone else feels like their ENT didn’t tell them enough of what to expect. I didn’t know about the thrush on day four. I am off of narcotics, but I had to take pill form cut in half or crushed up because the liquid made me vomit. Thanks to everyone who posted, and believe it or not you will get better!
This is my day 9, it has gone fairly well with not much pain at all. I was able to eat three sandwiches today, but they were only bread, butter and turkey cold cuts.
The scabs are beginning to disappear and I’m glad that they are, I can finally see pink. I can chew gum a lot easier today and I gained 0.7 pounds.
The worst part I would say of today is that I still can’t talk, but when I do I tend to choke on my own tongue and its just weird. I’ve tried to figure out why this happens, but I assume that it is because my tongue isn’t used to the amount of space in my throat. I’ll be going back to school tomorrow so I hope that I will be able to talk with a much greater ease than I have had today.
Is anyone else uvula swollen? Mine has been swollen since day one and I’m on day ten with little difference.
So this is it, Day 10. I was finally able to speak whole sentences for the first time since Day 4, and had three very short conversations during the day. I was able to gulp water for the first time since the op, by which I could drink multiple sips without having to stop, take a breather, and start again. Night 10 for the first time I didn’t have to sit up in bed every time I wanted to swallow saliva. I woke up at the end of night 10 and took a small dose of painkillers for the last time, and then stopped. I got right through day 11 without. Day 11 I had three telephone conversations in excess of 45 mins each. None of them was comfortable, and I could feel my throat tensing and drying out. But I did it. And I ate a fairly normal dinner. Weight loss has stabilised pretty much, and I’m 9lbs down from where I was when this started. I still have white scabs inside my mouth, and the right side is marginally more painful, but I know that the operation was complicated on that side. And I still can’t move my tongue freely around my mouth, and that’s the one thing that has not progressed as much as I’d have expected.
So that’s it. In summary, 72 hours of feeling totally fine and wondering what the big deal was, followed by a sudden turn for the worse and 96 hours of significant pain with bad nights and false dawns (or afternoons), and finally a steady improvement over the course of days, with real noticeable changes every day. I was able to get up and move around the house completely normally throughout, to read and watch TV, even respond to emails (though perhaps not advisable when under the influence of opiates). I would not like to go through all this again, and there were times when I got a bit frustrated. But I saw it as an opportunity, first to get rid of those infections that leave me feeling lousy a couple of times a year, second (and unexpectedly) to lose some weight which I was planning to shed anyway as soon as I’m fit again, and third to catch up on a big backlog of reading. So it’s had its plus points, and they have helped get me through. Good luck to everyone else!
Today is my day 9 and I felt REALLY good today (: I took my pain pills at 9 am and 2 pm and haven’t had them since. It is now 11 pm. I managed to eat two burritos and some broccoli cheese rice. Oh, and a chocolate chip cookie. I was surprised that I could eat this, because last night it was so difficult eating.
My whole recovery process was a terrible nightmare. I’m happy to finally reach day 10. I’m 18 by the way. Day 4-7 I would cry in anger and want to cut all my hair off. I would never wish that pain upon anyone. I do still have stinging in my throat from time to time, but that’s because the blisters are still coming off!
I meant scab. Not blister. Lol.
Day 10. Woke up feeling a little sore nothing major though. Took my pain meds and pain went away after a while had some biscuits pizza and a sambo. Had a cigarette and it felt a little weird but no pain. About 7 o clock and the pain was starting to come back a little went up and lay down for a while. 11 o clock i had another smoke again no pain, had more biscuits. Half 2 and i ordered pizza with a friend, it took a while and it hurt a little but i managed to get it down and it was amazing, it felt so good to eat something other than biscuits or crackers. I had another smoke and now it’s half 4 and i’m just about to go to bed. There’s a little bit of pain in my throat but it just feels like having a sore throat nothing that should keep me awake. Also my mam had a look at my throat today and said there’s no white marks it’s just red so that’s a good thing, i’m finally healing and just in time too because it’s my birthday in a few days 🙂 Hopefully tomorrow i’ll be even better than today. Hope everyone else is doing okay too..