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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It’s day 10 for me, I’m feel great, just a little pain nothing like before. Eating today was pain free and i was so happy. I had was in so much pain, so far i haven’t had any bleeding. Do the scabs dissolve? Ready to be fully back to normal.
Great news Trisha! Thanks for sharing.
Day 10 after surgery, I woke up this morning expecting a dry throat and lots of pain. It was a pleasant surprise to have only a dry throat and not as much pain. The past 9 days have been beyond horrible. Thankfully, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I’m looking forward to pizza and wings as soon as possible!
Thanks for putting this site together Greg and to those who added their experiences. The amount of information I received over the past days has been priceless! I only wish I would have found this site before my surgery. I will certainly recommend it to anyone I know who is going to have their tonsils removed!
On a positive note, I did loose 16 lbs in 10 days on this Percocet and oatmeal diet I’ve been on.
Had surgery 2/11/14. So from the start I was given Vicodin and a liquid steroid starting day 2 for 2 days. Took 2 Vicodin every 6 hours and the liquid steroid. Still hurt after day 2 liquid steroid wore off. So, I had some oral steroid pills (prednisone or something like that) from my last sore throat/headache issus I had (20mg pills). I still hurt and swelled on day 3, so I took the steroids. I took them them till I ran out on day 8 (I tried on day 5 to just do ibuprofen but I coughed and saw a little bit of blood so went back to the steroid). From later on Day 8 started 800mg ibuprofen every 6 hours and kept the doing the 2 Vicodin every 8 hours (instead of 6 hours). I’m on day 14 and back at work. I am still doing ibuprofen every 6 hours and 1 Vicodin at night when it is the worse and still on mushy foods with a little bit of ground turkey, or hamburger, or chicken like foods. AND YES THE DR TOLD ME NOT TO TAKE IBUPROFEN BUT DID IT ANYWAYS. IT HELPED WITH THE SWELLING (WHICH THE STEORID DID AS WELL)!!! And by taking the swelling down you can eat (mushy foods) and drink more to help with the healing process. Also I wouldn’t have been able to back off the Vicodin without the ibuprofen.
Day 10 – Well good news and bad today. I still woke up in an extreme amount of pain BUT it didnt take until the afternoon to at least get to a comfortable point. Throughout the afternoon I was able to skip a couple Diuladid doses and just use the extra strenth tylenol. I agree with everyone that is noticing it seems to help differently than the narcotics. I actually left the house today in an attempt to get fresh air and MAYBE some food. I was able to have a small amount of the lunch that ordered but WOW does it feel good to be able to chew things and swallow them. The pain was still there but I now see an end in sight. Right now my biggest problem is my voice. From the beginning of this surgery I have sounded like a chipmunk. That doesnt seem to be going away. Has anyone else had this problem? I sound horrible and when I do try and carry on a conversation it really starts to hurt my throat. Aside from that I might be seeing a small light at the end of this hell hole. Here’s to hoping!!
Day 10 – December 29th
My pain was still pretty bad today, but I have forced myself to back off on the hydrocodone. I had been taking it every 3 hours, but I have backed off to every 4 hours to help wean myself off before I run out. If the pain gets really bad I am supplementing with a little extra Tylenol between doses, but it doesn’t seem to help much. It is better than ending up running out in a couple days and still feeling like I need it every 3 hours though!
I am so desperate for real food. One thing I have found super depressing from reading all the posts on here is about everyone losing weight. I weighed myself the morning before my surgery. By the next day I had gone UP 3 pounds! After 10 days of nothing but liquids, I am still up 1 pound from where I started. All these people who have posted about losing 10, 15, even 20 pounds made me so optimistic (because I do have some weight I wouldn’t mind losing.) And yet, here I am gaining weight. Ugh!