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.
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- 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 >>>
I’m post op day 10 and finally starting to feel a little better. The pain in my throat is not bad today, however, my tongue is KILLING me! It hurts so bad to take a drink of water or eat anything. It’s very red. It’s not white (I read the thrush section). Any thoughts on that? I’m hoping once I can finally get to sleep tonight my tongue will have sometime to heal while I’m sleeping. Thank you for this blog. It has been so helpful to both my husband and I.
So today ends day ten and I’ve been off the hydrocodon and amoxicillin ever since day 6. I had to start up work and needed to start driving myself around and after the day 4-7 vomiting episodes I refuse to take anything that makes me nauseous. The meds are a vicious cycle of being sick because you have no food in you, yet you can’t keep food down from getting sick. If the pain got bad I’d just take two idbuprofen. Which only happened twice. Once when I tried to eat pineapple. And the other happened when I ate some Mongolian shrimp on accident after it was tossed into my fried rice to go container. Though now after day 10 my throat is no longer all white and there are just a couple of white spots and the rest is a healthy pink. I also ate a delicious black bean, egg, cheese, and jalapeño wrap for breakfast and some spicy gumbo soup for lunch due to all the bad weather. I can say that I am so sorry for what some of you are going through, but my first 3 days were completely pain free. And like most. 4-6 were the worst. Not because of any throat pain, but just because of all the pink vomit that came out of my nose and mouth for three hours straight at a time. After the sickness and constipation were out of my system, the pain was gone.
I just want everyone to know that even though some days were terrible, they all aren’t. And even though some of you are still recovering, I promise once you get past the sick and dry throat spells, you will be so full of energy.
One more note. After I stopped with the hydrocodon because my throat didn’t hurt much, my mouth became crazy wet and still is. I had to keep a spit cup with me so that I wouldn’t have to swallow every few seconds. And even though you think that because there’s spit, you don’t need water. You’re dead wrong.
STAY HYDRATED AND STAY HOPEFUL!! IT GETS BETTER I PROMISE!
Meg, thank you so much for sharing this! Best of health to you!
I am having more pain on the back of my tongue than my throat. I think I have thrush 🙁 Had ENT paged 3 times, but no return call.
Day 9. I’m off of the perscription pain meds. I only use ibuprofen if needed. I have been feeling a little sick. I have the runs(TMI).i had a sugar graving yesterday and gv in bad idea. I was so nauseous.i have been running a low grade fever but doc said its fine. I’m healing good. I still hv a long way to go for the scabs he said overall I’m doin fine. Did anyone have any bowel problems or the feeling of being cold all the time?
Dee…im currently on day 11 and YES…I had bathroom issues, took a softner but took too much on day 4…so if you take one be careful. and yes I had the cold feeling all the time. My theory is your body is busy healing your tonsillectomy and regulating temperature is secondary. I just turned up the heat and did the best i could…the good news is that yesterday I pretty much dont have the “cold all the time feeling”.
Day 10.. after 3 bad bleeds 7 nights in hospital nil by mouth & antibiotics pumped into my veins im finaly home. Dont feel like im going to die today. I can eat a little more today. Feels like a normal sore throat. There is light at the end of the tunnel
Hooray!!!