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.
>> Next Days 11, 12, and Beyond >>>
Reading some of these posts are encouraging. I had my surgery yesterday and thought I would be able to sleep more than I have been. I’ve been drinking so much water and eating a Popsicle here and there or a jello. I’m peeing like every ten minutes I feel like but hey that means I’m drinking plenty. My doc said the people who eat and drink a lot are normally the ones that do great with recovery- I hope so!! I can’t really eat too much because everything tastes like metal/rubber/plastic which is absolutely nasty. I try to ignore it though. I think tomorrow I’m going to try ice packs and see how they help the soreness. My uvula is swollen a tiny bit, I can feel it flapping when I talk but its not horrible. I guess I’m waiting for the worst day to come…sounds like that can be anywhere between day 3-8? Fingers crossed I’ll heal fairly quickly and will be back a routine schedule without the help of my husband who will be staying home for at least another five days. Probably will be more..we are playing it by ear. All while trying to be as patient as possible cuz everyone’s body heals differently and at slower/faster paces.
Good luck to everyone else and thank you for posting on here- most comments have been very helpful. If you have any extra advice for the “worst” days please email me or post back on here.
I am on Day 9 and I feel so much better. My voice is back and I’m back to eating solid foods, off pain meds and life is pretty much back to normal. I am 27 years old and wasn’t sure how fast I was going to recover. I think Days 4-6 were the worst, and I was definitely overconfident on day 1 and 2. This website has been great. A couple of pointers I used- Don’t sleep laying straight down, I actually was propped up in my bed with pillows, and used an “airplane” neck pillow to really help keep my head up. This helped me relax and watch tv as well as dose off upright and helped my throat. I also gargled with Salt water quite a bit which seemed to help. The worst part for me was constipation from all the pain meds…which I fixed with prune juice. Overall I’m so glad this is over with.
Day 10 and I think I’m done with the worst!! I’ve been off my pain medication for 24 hrs now as my throat only feels like a bad case of tonsillitis (according to my doctor, it was supposed to feel this way since day 1. Obviously, he never had his own tonsils taken out :-). I do feel very sharp stinging pain every now and then as my scabs are falling off but it fades after a few minutes.
I celebrated with muffins and bread with butter and salt – salt has been a no-no all the time as it always turned my throat into a burning inferno. Not anymore!
Also, I’m trying to catch up with all the sleep I didn’t get in the past 10 days. My best result was 4hrs a day – and tonight i could do 4 hours in one piece! My throat was dry, raw and painful after that but good lord, it was worth it.
So keep your spirits up, it does end! Fingers crossed for everyone.
I think I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!! Its day 10 for me and I haven’t needed pain meds since really early yesterday morning. Still have some scabs but for the most part they are gone. I did wake up in the middle of the night last night with some pain but after some sips of water that seemed to help. I haven’t tried to eat anything too crazy yet because I’m a little afraid. My worst days were days 4-8. I think that the most important things you need are water, schedule your meds, ice packs, applesauce (easiest thing for me to eat on the bad days), and movies, books or magazines. I still don’t have tons of energy or much of an appetite but I’m sure it will come back. So far I’m down 12 pounds and hoping to keep at least half of that off. Good luck to all my fellow recoverers! It gets better!!!!
Day 11 and everything took a turn 2 days ago. The entire time I only took Tylenol & I had been eating pancakes, waffles, soup since about day 5. Not anymore. I ended up in emerge with the worst pain.. not only in my throat but my tongue as well. The only thing I am able to have without problem is tea. Everything else seems to cause pain as if I am swallowing needles & razors. This pain is worse then what I felt the first 2 days. No help from emerge, they are not sure what is wrong. Hopefully this passes soon.. I am starving!
I am on day 10 day 11 if you count surgery day and I finally stopped the pan meds yesterday & switched to Ibprofen which works really well but can cause bleeding so I wouldnt recommend it until your nearly out of the woods on big scabs coming off. But what I found worked best for my jaw and ear pain was a heat pad I wouldn’t have made it through without it. I can just now eat soft foods I’ve lost 10lbs which is a plus , I finally feel like I’m on the mend:) best of luck!worst surgery ever! So glad it’s almost over!
DO NOT USE A HEAT PAD!
I took your advice and today when my dad was talking to the doctor they said that was the absolute worse thing I could be doing. What is happening is the pain is from swelling. Heat will make the swelling worse! If you have ear pain call your doctor. Instead you should be using ice packs and only ice packs.
I am now on antibiotics on top of all the other medicines I have to take because of this.