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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Today I am 10 days post-op tonsilectomy. (13 Dec surgery) I thought I’d never make it to this point. I think days 8 and 9 were the worst for me. Last night was the first night I slept 4 or 5 hours in a row. I was so tired today, even getting more sleep than I have since the surgery, but I did go out to one store Christmas shopping which could of wiped me out. I feel like I have a big ball in the back of my throat. Sometimes I can gargle and spit out this combination of what seems to be spit, snot, and scab. Sorry Gross! My teeth ache horribly, but it’s much more tolerable than the throat pain. I’ve taken my Lortab twice today and some Motrin in between.
So hang in there everyone! I should have had this done years ago, do to chronic infections, swollen lymph nodes, and over the years developed the crypts and had a deep crypt hole in the right tonsil which I was accumulating stones. Gross!! Just to be rid of those will be worth all this pain. I had to call off work this weekend, wasn’t ready to go back and with a doctor’s note to return on 31 December I had no choice but to call in. I’m an RN so I feel bad, I hope they did okay without me. Go back to work 1 Jan. I think I’ll be ready by then. I need to enjoy this break for as long as I can………….soon it’s back to the grind, work and school.
Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! It really does get better, so hang in there!
Yeah after reading all this I know I’m really abnormal. Day 1 felt fine and so did day 2. So well that I was eating fried chicken but I did have to skip on the fries. I drank about 6 beers and felt even better. I’m a smoker too. No problems with that either. I’m 35. I’m on day 7 now and many of the scabs/ white stuff are gone probably because I eat less but when I do it’s normal foods. Even chips. I make sure I chew everything well though. Throat does burn, stinging pain when not on meds Lortab liquid and 800mg ibuprofen but I found its only on one side, the right, so if I tilt my head to the left while eating and swallowing it doesn’t touch that pain. I assume its from throat being raw as the scabs are coming off. Yesterday, day 6, I did nearly pass out 6 times in the am because I took meds and didn’t eat right away but that’s the only issues I have really had. Also some bleeding yesterday and spitting up blood but the day before I drank lots of beer and smoked a lot cuz it was Friday of course. Dr said some bleeding is normal. So beyond that I feel fine. No issues sleeping. I shower everyday. Clean my house. Everything is normal living for me. I have discovered that thing need to be room temp and not too hot or too cold so ice cream is out of the picture but I still do Luke warm coffee every morning. Well. Hope it continues to get better and glad to know I’m not the only one with this sharp stinging on my right side. Good luck to all.
My surgery was on Dec. 4th,counting that day I would say I am at about day 10. I am older than most, 53. Mine was one tonsil and a biopsy of it, and uvula. I am cancer free, yea! And pray they never have to do the other side. This site was so helpful, and I believe I could have been a lot worse had I not gathered all of this information. first 4 days, uncomfortable, not too terrible. Waking up was the worse, but day 5-6 things got pretty bad. I got the ear pain, and difficult to swallow anything. Had to eat jello, or pudding or applesauce in order to get pain meds in. Husband was grinding up oxycodone into it. Eat it as fast as you can safely,and get your relief. Took it every four hours ,until I ran out , they replaced it with something less strong that did not touch the pain just when I was at my worst. The next day saw the dr. For thrush, and he gave me my old meds back! Aaahhhh! That got me through horrible nights and mornings, day 6-9. I have now turned corner, and am taking pain meds every 6 hours and doing ok. Don’t worry, it will get better! Fluids non stop,you will be glad you did, I hear dry scabs are a lot worse than the wet ones as they come off. And more likely to have no bleeding like me. Good luck on your journey, “This too shall pass”.
End of day 9! I am on the end of day 9 post op and up until several hours ago thought I was going to never make it through due to the excruciating pain. On day six I started feeling better so I asked the doctor to change me from Tylox to Loritab. Big mistake! After suffering through day 7 the doctor put me back on Tylox. The pain was once again bare able. I have drank lots of fluids and followed instruction to a T. When I woke up this morning I was wondering if I would make it through the day. I drug my self out of bed and forced myself to eat a Arby’s Beef and Cheddar sandwhich. I literally shook the whole way through the sandwhich. I had to take Zofran to keep it down and an hour later all of a sudden I felt like I swallowed something big and the pain was instantly gone. I checked my throat and all the white stuff is still there but I am assuming I swallowed a scab. That was at 4pm and I haven’t needed a pain pill since. I am really hope that it’s up hill from here! I had read on this blog that once the scabs come off the pain almost disappeared and didn’t believe it but since this afternoon I would say I have to agree. For dinner I had Doritos, Jello, cake, butterscotch, mountain dew, and more Arby’s…lol all without any pain! Hang in there everyone!
The fact that this day by day ends on day 10 is deceptive. I am clearly not the only one still miserable at this point. Thankfully I stopped getting worse on day 8 and have been stable since then, but I am now only about 5% better. I thought when I stopped getting worse I would turn the corner faster. Now I wonder how many days this will last. Most of my scabs are off though I still have patches of yellow slime like thin scabs with angry red blistery looking spots showing through. It is very sore. Everything still tastes strangely chemical. Not that I am eating much since I am still limited to blended and very soft foods. The quality of my sleep is slowly improving though. I am doing my best not to get discouraged.
I am about where you are, counting surgery day, I’m on 10. It’s not great but better than past several days. With scabs coming off, a lot more burning, even with water. Going a little longer without pills which is encouraging, but I still think we have some healing to do. Ear pain is getting better, and eating about the same. NO PIZZA OR ARBY’S HERE,! Hang in there we are getting close to the light at the end of this tunnel.