A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their sixth day of recovery
From thousands of post comments to the forum I have assembled a sampling of various accounts and impressions of tonsillectomy recovery for each day. Below I share comments about tonsillectomy day 6. 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.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 Scabs bleeding! : I can only eat popsicles. That is all.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : At 5:30am, I started to panic because I coughed a lot and when I spit up some saliva in a tissue (which I have a habit of doing to see if there is any blood); I saw a slight hue of red. RED=BLOOD! So, of course I got nervous. After drinking some water, I tasted some blood but I didn’t see anymore and I was able to swallow with a bit more ease. It wasn’t the full scab that came off, but a piece of the scab on the right side. When I woke up, I drank water and felt a burst of pain in my ear and stinging in my throat for a couple minutes. When I brushed my teeth this morning, there was a little more blood when I spit into the sink, so I’m assuming I lost a little more of the scab. I’ve been sucking on ice chips the past few days and it really feels nice on my throat. I ate applesauce and soup today with a little ease. I’ve notice my ears get worse when I eat. I was craving pizza tonight and it was sitting on the counter (my family had it for dinner), so, I decided to be a champ and try it. I was able to eat all of the toppings off of a slice of pizza minus the spicy pepperoni. Let me tell you, it was a blessing! I tried gargling with cold water and even though I refuse to look at my throat, I can tell that it feel fresher and cleaner. Good news – I was able to swallow the amoxicillin today; it feels awesome because if I had to eat another cup of jell-o and medication, I’d die! Fifth day post-op and I actually stepped foot out of my house today. Since we have a huge snow storm, I had to make sure I was fully covered. Nevertheless, even though I only sat in the car, it felt good – it was progress! I was told that taking a warm shower before bed will help moisten my throat and potentially prevent coughing at night, so I tried it.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 scabs Healing
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6 and the pain is just about the same as yesterday, but that relentless ache is exhausting. I know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel (and it’s not a train) but when I am tired and weak and freaking out because my Mom went home and my husband decided to sleep in this morning leaving me to take care of my nearly 7 year old son…. Well, I got a little teary.
My husband took a gander at my throat today and declared it “gross, but healing.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6 = Ouch
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : day 6 here and I have to say, it definitely has been the hardest two days so far. I am spent and am sick of not eating the way i want to. I have been sticking to cold drinks and liquid meals. Spoke with my PA today and she said to do my best to keep the scabs on for a minimum 10days by drinking tons of liquids. The longer they stay on, the better the new skin underneath will be…so I am doing all I can to keep these puppies attached. I have given up on eating anything warm or slightly solid,I just want this over with!!
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Yeah, so I slept for about 12 hours. But now I think sleeping that long was the worst idea ever! My hot pot ran out of water and I wasn’t sipping on water for those 12 hours. I just drank a smoothie mix every 4 hours to take my meds. I woke up with about 8/10 pain, tried to get up and passed out in the hallway. Oh Joy! My ears are killing me!
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Side note, i have lost like 12 lbs. Probably not healthily as all i have consumed it water, gatorade, jello and apple sauce. Those products are not known for their nutritional content. I have made two healthy juice drinks using my juicer, but don’t think that compensates for the lack of nutrients for the last week.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : The pain is rather terrible today, it was much worse last night.
At about 3am i woke up with pain, it was as if someone was stabbing my throat with a needle or pin
and i woke up this morning with blood in my mouth. Not a lot but it still scared me! I rinsed my mouth with ice water and sucked a piece of ice and it stopped.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6- good morning, post op app’t- stints in nose removed, I can BREATHE again 🙂 went shopping at the mall for a few hours after- got home exhausted & later in pain ;(
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Recovery Day 6 (post-op day 7):
Another day filled with pain. Was able to drink an ensure today but did not eat much. Was able to eat some popsicles. During the evening time had horrible pain shooting from the right side of my throat and it felt like a burning feeling when I would drink anything almost as if I was drinking acid even when I drank water. Had to take a bit more Lortab to curve the pain. Looked at my throat with a flashlight for the first time since the surgery and it looked like a battle zone in there. Lots of white coating all over the tonsil beds and my uvula is still swollen very large and kind of sticking to one of the sides of my throat. Could see the white scabs as well.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 : Day 6: I cried over applesauce and pudding. It hurts to swallow, I can’t yawn and just try to blow your nose without wanting to fall over and die. This pain is ridiculous. I woke up in the middle of the night with a dry throat and more pain than I could imagine so I dragged myself downstairs and forced down some pain meds to help me take the pain.
Tonsillectomy Day 6 :day 6 of my recovery and in the worst pain ever. I thought I was on the mend, only having pain on the one side but then I started to cough, and it kept me up all of last night and all of that white membrane over the surgery site is starting to come off as well as some of the scabs… is that normal? I am very scared that with my coughing it’s going to cause issues that will result in another surgery.
I had my surgery on Tuesday 3/19/13. There is no way I prepared myself for what to expect. This has been the most excruciating pain I have ever felt. I take my pain medication every four hours and it starts to wear off at about 3 1/2 hour point.
Today 6 days after surgery I am still having difficulties. I feel as though there are razors down the back of throat, even while drinking water. I cannot even think about eating anything. It is so difficult to swallow and I am producing so much mucus it’s gross. Nothing seems to be working, all I hear is drink, drink, drink. But this is extremely difficult to do when your feeling this amount of pain trying to swallow water.
31 years old and had my surgery on March 18th, so this is the end of Day 6 if you count surgery day.
Every day is slightly better (very slightly).
I coughed up a decent-sized piece of scab this morning. Not sure if this is good or not, and although I can email my ENT to ask, it seems like lots of others are having this occurrence on Day 6.
This mucus is incredibly annoying. I am ready for that to stop. I feel like I have to keep clearing my throat. I swallow it though, because I guess I consider it hydration??? I’m not sure. And the tickle in my throat that comes and goes, causing me to cough. That sucks too – is that from the scabs coming off?
I had a breakdown yesterday too. I have a 23 month old daughter who’s really noticed something is going on with Mommy. She’s been crying and reaching for me at bedtime and it just breaks my heart. My ENT said not to pick her up for 10 days. That’s been rough. I did it yesterday anyway… And I suffered in pain afterwards. What I am most worried about is that I won’t be healed by her 2nd birthday party in mid-April. I will put on a smile and everything, of course, so it’s special for her. But will I be able to have birthday cake with her? Will I be healed? This just makes me sad and scared.
Food-wise, I had some gnocchi today, but I chewed it a zillion times to make sure it was small enough. When I had tried it yesterday, I was just so hungry for anything other than Ensure, Popsicles and yogurt that I tried to eat it like I would have pre-surgery… That didn’t go so well. I kept feeling like pieces were getting stuck on the scabs or in the craters or something – is that even possible? I also made myself some soft mashed potatoes with cheese. That was really yummy – I will likely have that again tomorrow.
The thing is, no matter what I ingest (ice water and Popsicles excluded), my throat burns like razor blades when I swallow. And it’s so frustrating that my husband and my parents dont understand – they think its the acid from the tomato sauce or they say “maybe there’s pepper in there”. No! Thats not it! Its because my throat’s been butchered and things touching it just plain stings like crazy!
That’s why I am so happy I found this site. I suddenly feel so much less alone in this and it’s giving me hope… Thank you.
I hvnt had ANY pain meds today. So hopefully that means Im healing.I’m on day 6. My right tonsill hurts the most. It hurts pretty bad, I don’t really feel it on my left. Ear pain on the right is annoying too. I have been drinking ensure and I had a half a grilled cheese today. I hope ot doesnt get worse. I think alot of people over react. Yeab it hurts but its not excruciating.
Day 6: I had a little cry yesterday. I managed to eat a piece of banana bread down. So was feeling confident that dinner would go down ok, how wrong was I. I bought some sushi as this worked well while I was in hospital. After the second bite it literally felt like I had glass in my mouth, then some food got stuck and I was choking. I was just so disappointed as when I don’t eat it’s not too bad.
Woke up this morning on day 6 and my mouth is as dry as a bone with a thick film everywhere. I pushed down a Tramadol and am sat here chewing gum as drinking water is excruciating. It almost feels like the back of my tongue is bruised and chopped or something. I’m just glad it’s the weekend and my husband can spend some time with me, I’m literally losing my marbles in the week on my own.
Also whenever I attempt to eat anything a rancid taste comes in my mouth, what the hell is that. I have such a high pain threshold and had no idea on earth recovery would be this bad.
Last night I kept drifting off to sleep on the sofa, when I work up every 20 minutes I had no idea where I was or what was going on. Like a state of confusion but I was awake, it made me really upset and my husband had to keep trying to calm me. What the hell are these drugs doing to me!
Day 5/6 today being day 6 have definately been the worst for me. Up until yesterday o was quite lucky with what I was eating still painful but not too bad! Have really struggled today though even drinking water through a straw is a challenge! Taking codeine (which I ran out of yesterday omg I missed that today as my chemist didn’t have it in stock till late afternoon) and paracatemol it seems to be taking longer to kick in but I’m not sure wether my scabs are coming off as I have a stinging sharp pain when swallowing! It’s going to be a long night (it’s after 10 here in Scotland) night all!
I had my surgery on Tuesday 3/19/13. There is no way I prepared myself for what to expect. This has been the most excruciating pain I have ever felt. I take my pain medication every four hours and it starts to wear off at about 3 1/2 hour point.
Today 6 days after surgery I am still having difficulties. I feel as though there are razors down the back of throat, even while drinking water. I cannot even think about eating anything. It is so difficult to swallow and I am producing so much mucus it’s gross. Nothing seems to be working, all I hear is drink, drink, drink. But this is extremely difficult to do when your feeling this amount of pain trying to swallow water.
31 years old and had my surgery on March 18th, so this is the end of Day 6 if you count surgery day.
Every day is slightly better (very slightly).
I coughed up a decent-sized piece of scab this morning. Not sure if this is good or not, and although I can email my ENT to ask, it seems like lots of others are having this occurrence on Day 6.
This mucus is incredibly annoying. I am ready for that to stop. I feel like I have to keep clearing my throat. I swallow it though, because I guess I consider it hydration??? I’m not sure. And the tickle in my throat that comes and goes, causing me to cough. That sucks too – is that from the scabs coming off?
I had a breakdown yesterday too. I have a 23 month old daughter who’s really noticed something is going on with Mommy. She’s been crying and reaching for me at bedtime and it just breaks my heart. My ENT said not to pick her up for 10 days. That’s been rough. I did it yesterday anyway… And I suffered in pain afterwards. What I am most worried about is that I won’t be healed by her 2nd birthday party in mid-April. I will put on a smile and everything, of course, so it’s special for her. But will I be able to have birthday cake with her? Will I be healed? This just makes me sad and scared.
Food-wise, I had some gnocchi today, but I chewed it a zillion times to make sure it was small enough. When I had tried it yesterday, I was just so hungry for anything other than Ensure, Popsicles and yogurt that I tried to eat it like I would have pre-surgery… That didn’t go so well. I kept feeling like pieces were getting stuck on the scabs or in the craters or something – is that even possible? I also made myself some soft mashed potatoes with cheese. That was really yummy – I will likely have that again tomorrow.
The thing is, no matter what I ingest (ice water and Popsicles excluded), my throat burns like razor blades when I swallow. And it’s so frustrating that my husband and my parents dont understand – they think its the acid from the tomato sauce or they say “maybe there’s pepper in there”. No! Thats not it! Its because my throat’s been butchered and things touching it just plain stings like crazy!
That’s why I am so happy I found this site. I suddenly feel so much less alone in this and it’s giving me hope… Thank you.
Welcome aboard Jamie!
I hvnt had ANY pain meds today. So hopefully that means Im healing.I’m on day 6. My right tonsill hurts the most. It hurts pretty bad, I don’t really feel it on my left. Ear pain on the right is annoying too. I have been drinking ensure and I had a half a grilled cheese today. I hope ot doesnt get worse. I think alot of people over react. Yeab it hurts but its not excruciating.
Day 6: I had a little cry yesterday. I managed to eat a piece of banana bread down. So was feeling confident that dinner would go down ok, how wrong was I. I bought some sushi as this worked well while I was in hospital. After the second bite it literally felt like I had glass in my mouth, then some food got stuck and I was choking. I was just so disappointed as when I don’t eat it’s not too bad.
Woke up this morning on day 6 and my mouth is as dry as a bone with a thick film everywhere. I pushed down a Tramadol and am sat here chewing gum as drinking water is excruciating. It almost feels like the back of my tongue is bruised and chopped or something. I’m just glad it’s the weekend and my husband can spend some time with me, I’m literally losing my marbles in the week on my own.
Also whenever I attempt to eat anything a rancid taste comes in my mouth, what the hell is that. I have such a high pain threshold and had no idea on earth recovery would be this bad.
Last night I kept drifting off to sleep on the sofa, when I work up every 20 minutes I had no idea where I was or what was going on. Like a state of confusion but I was awake, it made me really upset and my husband had to keep trying to calm me. What the hell are these drugs doing to me!
When will it get better 🙁
Day 5/6 today being day 6 have definately been the worst for me. Up until yesterday o was quite lucky with what I was eating still painful but not too bad! Have really struggled today though even drinking water through a straw is a challenge! Taking codeine (which I ran out of yesterday omg I missed that today as my chemist didn’t have it in stock till late afternoon) and paracatemol it seems to be taking longer to kick in but I’m not sure wether my scabs are coming off as I have a stinging sharp pain when swallowing! It’s going to be a long night (it’s after 10 here in Scotland) night all!