Tonsillectomy Recovery Day by Day
Day 5
A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their fifth 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 5. 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.
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- Tonsillectomy Day 5 : Can I take the pain killers every two hours?
- Oh God. PAIN. …And why am I constipated??
- So, the pain is a little better today. I took Tylenol at 2:00am and didn’t need it again until 12:00pm – I’d consider that progress! The coughing is still present. I’m trying to avoid it, but it’s harder than you think. There isn’t much to say about today. I’m talking a little more, but don’t want to strain my voice even more, so I’m still writing a lot down. I had soup again today and canned peaches are awesome – even though I had to puree them. All in all, the throat is feeling okay; the ears – still painful.
- Day 5 and so far it has been pretty tolerable
- Day 5: so today i woke up feeling pretty good, my throat was a little tender but once i took the meds the pain was almost gone and i didn’t need to have any ice or Popsicles. i ate some noodles and pesto sauce. drank water and coca-cola and had some ice cream. I ate potato smileys for dinner. they went down pretty well although thier was a little pain but once i drank some pop it went away. The scabs fell off today as well and i didn’t feel it at all just the occasional tickle and i could feel them hanging down but then i looked in the mirror and they were just gone, so i’m assuming that i just swallowed them :s ( kinda gross)
- Day 5 and still not getting better. When does it start getting better?! Im nauseous all the time because I have no food in my stomach but i have to take my pain meds because the pain is incredible! I started out weighing apprx 108lbs and weighed myself today and I weigh 101lbs. I hope I dont lose much more. This is depressing
- Day 5 for me and definitely the worst day yet…woke up so nauseated and was so nervous about throwing up and ripping a scab off..got a hold of my doctor who ordered me some anti Nausea med’s
- Day 5. I’m very thankful that I’ve had a great recovery so far. No major pain other than a sore throat. Today I substituted a dose of the Hydrocodone for a dose of ibuprofen and am doing well. I’ve been eating since the very first day (applesauce, grits, milkshake)
- Day 5 and I had my best night sleep yet last night. Had to stop by Drs office yesterday. My tongue felt swollen and getting a lot of itching with the Roxicet. He said I was doing fine. Still taking Benadryl at night though. I find if I talk I pay for it later on so trying to talk as little as possible. Went to my office for an hour to do payroll but had to leave as I wanted to talk. Still eating good and no stomach issues at all. Hoping to get out of the house tomorrow even just to take a short walk.
- Throat is a little more tender today, and ears hurt when i swallow now. From what i have read/heard it is just the progression of the healing.
- Day 5-7–nothing exciting to tell, tried to eat a few more interesting things, but throat hurt too much since I wasn’t taking pain meds. Soft boiled eggs were my friend. Getting bored being home by myself all day so I went shopping for an hour and had to come home and take a nap!
- day 5 and so far it has been pretty tolerable. First day I had only soft food and lots of coke and water but from day 2 I ate normally. Doctor prescribed Voltaren 100mg suppositories which works like a charm for 8 hours, the 4 hours before the next dose however is excrutiating to say the least.
- Day 5- horrible morning, good during day.
- Recovery Day 5 (post-op day 6):This day was pretty much a blur. More pain and not a lot of food or water. Was in too much agony to do much of anything. Taking the liquid Tylenol and chasing it with a teaspoon of lortab each dose time.
- Tonsillectomy Day 5 : Day 5: I am still trying to just get through the day. I sleep much better at night and have noticed a major difference in how I feel; I have more energy and I feel rested after sleeping. I cried today over mashed potatoes and small curd cottage cheese. I am not a happy camper.
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My day 5 has been horrid. I woke up with a very sore throat, has some medication and was alright. Had half an up and go for brekky and it still hurt swallowing. I slept for half the day again and woke up feeling sick. I had some food and now I feel worse. I hope all this pain ends soon. This is so frustrating!
Heather, I can relate so well to where you now are. I am coming up on 4 weeks post op and have come so far! Days 4-10 were probably the absolute worst for me, and my dr office is about 2 hours away. I did have to get a refill on my roxicet around day 7. My prescription was for 10ml every 6 hours to begin with and it was changed to 10 ml every 4 hours around day 5. When I was in really bad pain I took 5ml every 2 hours ( at least during the day). I ate very little for 10 days, but made sure to get my body protien to help it heal. I mixed the roxicet with about 8oz of chocolate ensure and drank ice cold water as needed to wash it down. For breakfast everyday I would make a smoothie, strawberry bananna was best but you have to watch out for the strawberry seeds. I have a bullet that u got just for this, and would fill it with diced fruit then add apple juice mix and pour into a 20oz glass. There was always some left in the mixer so I would add a scoop of unjury vanilla protien powder ice and a little more apple juice (the vanilla made it creamy an ice made it much colder). I stayed with ice bags around my throat, slept on a 12 inch wedge pillow on my side, and kept ice cold water or juice near at all times. My husband would also make slushies out of whatever drink i wanted and ice. This let me get small pieces back where it made a difference and it felt sooooooo good!
Day 10 was my miracle day. I remember breaking down in day 9 thinking it would never end, and it was like magic the afternoon of day 10. All of a sudden I wasn’t in much pain an wanted food. Took me 4 hours to eat a can of soup, but that was my downhill slide moment 😉 it has gotten so much better every day since!
You are 1/2 way thru the worst of it, and you can do it!
Oh, and keep that humidifier running top speed 24/7. It’s amazing how much it helps pain!
Today is day 5 of my recovery, I do believe the pain was as bad today as it was the first day if not worse. After surgery I was prescribed Lortab elixir and for the first 24 hours I was in severe pain, it did not help at all. I felt relief for maybe an hour and then I was in agony while I waited for time to take the next dose. I contacted my doctor and he switched me to Roxicet elixir and I thought I was in heaven!! It took care of my pain SO much better than the other. Pain was much more tolerable for the next few days, except once I was about 30 minutes late for my dose because I wouldn’t wake up for the alarm. That was unbearable. Also I haven’t been sleeping hardly at all because when I do my mouth dries out really bad and when I wake up I am in a lot of pain. On day 3 I threw up, I was very scared because I knew it was going to happen and I was worried that it was going to hurt or that my scabs would come off, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I braced myself for. I felt better afterwards too. I have been taking some promethezine to keep from having nausea with the pain meds. For some reason today my pain levels are about back to the first day when I was on the Lortab. I am dying for about an hour or two waiting for my next dose and I am also very worried because my script for the Roxicet is going to run out in about 8 doses and I am no where near ready to be off of it. I think the dr will probably give me a refill, but of course you have to have a hand written script and the office is about an hour from my house 🙁 So I am really wondering why the pain seems to be so much worse today, or maybe I have developed a tolerance for the pain meds? I really hope this is the “worst” and maybe it had to get worse before it will get better. I have not been able to eat hardly anything. Basically just popsicles, gatorade and ice cream. I have tried mashed potatoes and a couple of different broths and soups, but everything seems to leave me in pain. I feel like I am starving and all I think of is food. As much asI thought I psyched myself up for this being really hard to deal with, I think it is much much worse than I ever expected.
Heather, I can relate so well to where you now are. I am coming up on 4 weeks post op and have come so far! Days 4-10 were probably the absolute worst for me, and my dr office is about 2 hours away. I did have to get a refill on my roxicet around day 7. My prescription was for 10ml every 6 hours to begin with and it was changed to 10 ml every 4 hours around day 5. When I was in really bad pain I took 5ml every 2 hours ( at least during the day). I ate very little for 10 days, but made sure to get my body protien to help it heal. I mixed the roxicet with about 8oz of chocolate ensure and drank ice cold water as needed to wash it down. For breakfast everyday I would make a smoothie, strawberry bananna was best but you have to watch out for the strawberry seeds. I have a bullet that u got just for this, and would fill it with diced fruit then add apple juice mix and pour into a 20oz glass. There was always some left in the mixer so I would add a scoop of unjury vanilla protien powder ice and a little more apple juice (the vanilla made it creamy an ice made it much colder). I stayed with ice bags around my throat, slept on a 12 inch wedge pillow on my side, and kept ice cold water or juice near at all times. My husband would also make slushies out of whatever drink i wanted and ice. This let me get small pieces back where it made a difference and it felt sooooooo good!
Day 10 was my miracle day. I remember breaking down in day 9 thinking it would never end, and it was like magic the afternoon of day 10. All of a sudden I wasn’t in much pain an wanted food. Took me 4 hours to eat a can of soup, but that was my downhill slide moment 😉 it has gotten so much better every day since!
You are 1/2 way thru the worst of it, and you can do it!
Oh, and keep that humidifier running top speed 24/7. It’s amazing how much it helps pain!
I have just begun day 5 and to me has been my best day yet since the surgery! Last night i cant lie, i did have massive pain in my right ear but taking my meds put me back to sleep for 6 hours. Waking up was okay. except for the disgusting saliva and taste in my mouth. I haven’t eaten anything really since the day before my surgery. IM STARVING!! plus ive lost 6 pounds in 4 days! but I have been drinking fluids, although the pain was excruciating. Today i plan on trying to eat something to get this taste out of my mouth!
Day 5:
So in my day 4 post, I wrote that I was having a really good day, pain wise. And I was. However, those mere twenty-four hours of heaven led to many hours of hell the next day. I woke up with a very sore throat, but I’ve sort of come to expect that nowadays. I’ve been trying to stay off of the liquid vicodin completely, but today the advil just wasn’t doing it for me. I decided that from now on I’m just gonna take a dose right after I wake up (when the pain is the worst) and right before I go to bed (to help me sleep).
Stupid me seems to think that just because the vicodin makes me high off my butt and feel amazing, I’m actually getting better at a much more rapid pace. So, because the vicodin had just taken full effect and I was feeling good, I decided I would eat an apple with peanut butter. STUPID MISTAKE. Very, very bad. The apple was fine at first, but then started scraping my throat, which obviously hurt. A lot. So I stopped eating the apple, but I still had peanut butter left, so I decided to eat that by itself. Stupid mistake, AGAIN. The peanut butter got stuck to the tonsil beds… or what’s left of them. I tried for about an hour to just suck the peanut butter off, to no avail. I finally had to brush my teeth very carefully and gargle. It was horrible.
Needless to say, I’m back on my squishy food diet for awhile.
Hopefully tomorrow is better, considering it’s Christmas.
I am on day 5 of recovery. My throat pain is really not that bad. However my legs are killing me . They are sore and feel bruised in many places and I get slight tingling sensations. I have tried to get up and move around each day but I wonder if this is from laying in bed too long . Any advice???