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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Hello. My day 10 post op seems different and that concerns me. First I am constipated, still. I have serious ear pain and feeling of fullness in right ear in particular. I often have bouts of nausea. As far as the pain it is better, Id say a 3, but swallowing without pain meds seriously for me would be a 7. I don’t know. I ate some baked fish yesterday, I am still drinking fluids, eating cottage cheese, peaches, baked tatas (lol as my nephew says) and oatmeal. The ear pain, nausea and constipation is what troubles me. I still feel sluggish. Hopefully someone else has some advice for me. I called the ent office so much my first week, I don’t want to keep rushing to the extreme at my discomfort. I am 42 and have been thankfully healthy most of my life. This was my first surgery. Thanks all! Any advice or comments would help!
I am just getting going on day 10 and I’ll say that I don’t feel like I’ve turned the corner yet. I’m getting to the end of the block I think as the pain is different than Day 7/8. I let my meds run out this morning so I could switch from tylenol to ibuprofen to see if that makes a different. So between 4a and 6a my throat was on FIRE and my Eustachian tubes were painful, burning and each swallow hurt a lot. I didn’t drink enough water yesterday, the pain in the ears is more prohibitive than just throat pain for some reason.
I’ve been coming her and reading religiously since day 6 and I think it’s helped my mental outlook. This surgery is enough to make you go crazy with feelings of pain and helplessness, then it drags out so long and messes with your sleep. This is like a crime against humanity.
So I just finished day 10 post surgery. I still feel pain but have been cutting back on the painkillers. For me day 6 was the worst pain I felt. I can eat the sidekicks pastas and itcheban noodles well cooked. Tonight I had chicken cut up small in potato salad. And am thinking of trying something more substantial tomorrow.
I consider surgery day #1 because my surgery was at 7am.
Today is day 10 for me and I am not in any real pain at all. My throat stings a little but nothing horrible. I haven’t taken Tylenol or any other pain meds in about 3 days. I think I’m doing pretty good compared to some peoples stories. I had my follow up with the ENT yesterday and he said my scabs were thinner than most at this point. I Sometimes when I swallow it feels like there is gritty sand in my throat kind of on the back of my tongue. Is this the scabs sloughing off slowly. Its so nasty it makes me have to walk around with a spit cup.
Today I woke up feeling like I had a really bad case of strep throat…let me tell you, as silly as that sounds, that’s excellent news. I’ve been able to talk for short periods of time, can go a little bit longer without my pain meds, and I’m beginning to be able to tolerate chugging water rather than just gingerly sipping and wincing.
I officially weighed in an exact 20lbs less than I did the morning of my procedure. Can’t say I’m happy about losing that much weight in 10 days time, but I suppose I can’t complain. It’s better than gaining 20lbs anyway. (On a side note, if you want to lose 20lbs, you’ll definitely do it getting your tonsils out after the age of 18)
Through the last 10 days I’ve had a lot of regret with going through with the surgery, but now I’m starting to feel the positives. I noticed it’s easier to breathe and swallow (minus the pain of course), there’s just a lot more room down there. When I used to try to swallow a pill, it would take two tries sometimes due to my giant ass tonsils, not anymore.
I’ve also noticed an odd absence of my allergies the last 10 days, mind you, that was my biggest concern going into this was sneezing and coughing while having a burnt throat.
Would I recommend this surgery to other people who need to get it done, or would like to? Only if you’re ready for probably the worst 10 days of your life. And when everyone tells you that it’s going to be terrible, you better believe them because it really is terrible. If I were given the chance to do it again, I’d say hell no.