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 >>>
well.. day 10 of my recovery, Im 27 and am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! I noticed I started to feel a little better yesterday and today still have pain but can finally talk better and get out of bed more often to get myself water and ice. My scabs started coming off during the night of day 7, lots of drooling and spitting and trying to get water back there without choking myself just to spit it out, I was too scared to gargle. I still have white back there and almost have a metallic taste in my mouth from my throat, but is much easier to swallow now. I still have pain, more like a tonsillitis pain, (this is a good thing because I never want to go back to the pain I had for the first 7 days). My tongue is still really weird felling, I think its from all the pain meds, its still a little numb but just a weird icky feeling. still cant eat anything really. tried some soft green beans today, still burned. so I just kept drinking water and drinking my meal replacement drinks.
A few suggestions to anyone who is about to have this procedure done or who is in the early days of recovery,
-drink a TON of water, it will hurt, but drink, because if you don’t, the pain increases about 1000 times if your throat gets dry.
-If at any time you do forget to drink water or you fall asleep, (sleep is your worst enemy the first 3-5 days), immediately go into your bathroom, shut the door, and turn your shower on HOT and let the steam fill the room, stay in the bathroom and breath this is for as long as you can stand it. this saved me on several occasions. Even when my meds were wearing off and still had to wait another hour, I would go into the bathroom and breath in the stream. It helps A LOT!
-use a humidifier in your bedroom and keep you bedroom door closed throughout the night. this helps to keep the moist air in.
-get a little kitchen timer or some kind of easy timer to re-set (because you will be exhausted with lack of sleep from the first 3-5 days) and set it for every 15-20 min to take a sip of water. ICE COLD WATER.
-get meal replacement drinks to help with not being able to eat anything. I drink boost plus, it has lots of vitamins and protein. mix this with water to thin it out because it can be too thick by itself (I suggest using travel mugs or any kind of “sippey” cup) and then of coarse, add ice.
-stock up on ice bags! I went though a bag of ice a day. between my drinks, and ice bags for my throat.
-use ice bags on your throat as soon as you get home from the hospital. this helps a lot with swelling and just overall pain in general. Especially when you ears start to hurt, which they will, this will help ease the pain. I still use ice packs whenever I start to feel the pain getting strong.
-don’t lay down flat! always prop yourself up 24/7 for the first 6-8 days. laying down flat for some reason makes the pain worse, and propping yourself up also helps with drinking. duh.
-be careful of sugary foods. these tend to sting your throat just like salty foods. I couldn’t even eat jellow because it was too sugary.
-stock up on movies. your going to be in your bed for a loooong time.
Good luck!
Jamie- What a great post- Thank you! These are the things readers come her for! Best of health to you.
I’m on Day 10 and feeling soo much better. Still tired, a little weak and throat pain when swallowing BUT finally feeling better! I came back to Uni on Day 8 and the first day was tough and I think it may have slowed down my recovery slightly the last few days but it has made me get out of the ‘I’m sick’ mentality. All my white scabs had come off by evening of day 8 however yesterday I noticed the areas were the scabs was have started to go very red and since yesterday have gradually risen and the areas are now very raised and now seem to be going white again. Is this normal? Does anyone know what this could be? Would be great if anyone knows anything- thanks 🙂
Woke up feeling pretty good. Had a normal breakfast of scrambled eggs and an actual piece of toast! It tastes soooo good. Still hurts to swallow but the tongue pain is remarkable improved . I still have some scabbing and am kinda shocked and the deep holes where my tonsils once were.
My voice gives out when I talk too much now – but hopefully that will improve soon as wel!
I will post in follow up as soon as I am 100% without pain.
All in all, this was pretty hard. But I am 100% glad to be rid of those nasty tonsils!
47 is the new 27. 😉 good job. been following- glad you’re doing well.
day 10 monday finally has come after what seemed like an eternity! I still woke up with pain in the throat from sleeping a good 6 hours even with humidifier. But after 2 cups of ice cold water and mouth gargle I was ok soon. The rest of the day was pretty good only slight pain when I swallow my pasta chickens soup. I’m feeling more positive and optimistic and cant wait to binge eat again on everything from hamburgers to pizzas and steaks. I will try and be good and wait till the scabs come off completely before then even though I feel my throat can take it now. Its still white in there so I’ll wait and ask my ENT tomorrow when i have the followup appointment.
Day 10: I think most of the scans have came off! Woohoo! My ear pain seems to have gone away so that’s a bonus. It’s still a bit sore to eat but nevertheless, I feel as though I’m a bit better today 🙂 I did notice a bit of pain from my tongue. I noticed it a couple of days ago as well however today it feels more sore than usual. I had a look in the mirror and on each side of the tongue there are two lines which looks as though they are sores
Do anyone else have this problem? If so, what have you done to alleviate the pain? I’ve tried poking my tongue out and “stretching” it but I’m not sure if it’s working.