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 >>>
What a difference a day makes. After painful coughinh and sneezing, I got 90% of my voice back and my pain is minimal. It does get better!!! Another big plus is that I was a smoker prior to this surgery. But after the surgery the wounds looked so bad and I was in such pain that smoking was the last thing I wanted to do in fear that it would slow down the healing. Now that I’ve gone 10 days with no smoking (counting surgery day)… I no longer want to so yay!
Awesome on the no smoking part! Two gifts from that operation, no more tonsils and more money to spend from not buying cigarettes!
Today is day 7 from surgery. Tonsilectomy & Uvelectomy. Bad problems trying to sleep at night. Not taking pain meds most of the day. But at night must take every 4 hours. Ear pain pretty bad. Today tasted some blood going down my throat. Could see small spot of blood on upper area of where white/gray scabbing is. Ensure or Boost vanilla with ice feels so good going down. Tried frozen yogurt today at a ice cream place. Not good it burned. Miserable. Living on jello, scrambled eggs, cup of noodles, chicken noodle soup. Lots of ice water, ahhhhh.
Good luck. I am tired of the long recovery.
@ Eva i am having surgery June 15th, and i am totally scared and confused as well, i have read most of the comments on this site and some are good and some are very scary to read, i just hope that i can bare the PAIN. hope everything goes well with you Eva. I will be praying for the both of us and for everyone that had this procedure done already.
@ yolanda I have to say i was nervous myself but it was not that bad by day three i was eating my normal meals, yes i have a sore throat but it feels like a regular sore throat nothing major i dont need my pains meds as much, and i have not been confined in my home i recommend you keep yourself busy keep your mind off the pain thats what i did and i’m just about healed after day nine, wishing you the best and A fast recovery 🙂
I am going to be having surgery on June 12th and I am scared. This site has helped but has also scared me for what is going to happen. I hate pain and don’t know how it is going to be.
Eva
I had my surgery on 6/12/12 I am 51 and I am so glad I didn’t read any of this until my surgery was over I had my tonsils out when i was 10 but my right one grew back and it had a tumor attached to it and I honestly think i would have been scared out of going and i know that may make me sound like a big baby but this site is real scary with all the bleeding going on the doctors say only 2 to 3 % but how do you know what percent your are, well all in all this is my 8th day none of the scabs have came off and yes i am so worried about the bleeding i am on liquid prednisolone once a day Tylenol with codeine I have ate a lot of what everyone else have been eating and have added some soggy lucky charms, fish sandwich from McDonald and soaking bread and butter in B&M baked beans I had to have food I still have plenty of ice water its stopped me from drinking coffee and after 37 years of smoking i had my last cigarette on may 26th and with the good news of the tumor not being cancer I am glad I quit and cant really complain about the surgery the pain is a lot less than what i have read and I feel so bad for everyone that’s gone through such pain I hope it gets over soon for everyone GOOD LUCK TO ALL AND GOD BLESS
Your tonsil grew back?! As for the bread and butter, soak the bread in butter? That sounds so good right now!
Day 10 is tomorrow for me and I am supposed to return back to work which involves talking on the phone constantly. I think I should of took more time off because my throat is still very sore and it hurts to talk
Dont worry i went back to work after day five it helps when you talk at least it does for me