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 am on Day 6 of post-op, and the pain is getting worse. My doctor did warn me that it would get worse, before it got better. But I’m honestly just plain scared. It has been a rather awful experience so far. The first 2 days were easy, and I thought “This isn’t half as bad as my Dr. said it would be!” But then came day 3. I couldn’t keep anything, not even my meds, down. I wound up in the ER on an IV for fluids and antibiotics. I even got a few shots of morphine. After that, I was much better, and went home the same day. I don’t remember much of Day 4, just that my throat was very raw from all of the vomiting from the day before. Yesterday, the scabs started to bother me. I can feel them in the back of my throat, and I threw up again last night. Now, I’m on Day 6…scared of vomiting, scared to cough, scared of bleeding. My ears hurt so much, and chewing gum doesn’t even help. I just want to sleep the pain away. I’m so scared for the next few days.
day-6
pain this morning is bad, throat feels so dry and just intense burning and ears are burning. yesterday afternoon i thought things were getting better. this feels like it will never end! have to tey to get an ensure down so i can take some meds.
I had my tonscillectomy on the 29th and it has now been 6 days since. Today was the worst day because I’ve been taking Percocet (oxycodone) for the pain and have not had a bowel movement in almost a week. After talking to my nurse I took a dose of Miralax this morning and then had a small urge to go: big mistake. I had severe constipation and was impacted from a vary large, dry and hard stool. And it hurt. It was a horrible experience to have to urge to go, to strain and not be able to pass it. It was so bad that I (fortunately) have a shower douche enema attachment and used it to fill my intestines with warm water and them pass the warm water to soften it up. After about 40 minutes and two douches, I was finally able to squeeze the monster turd through by just softening the edges: and it hurt really bad even with the enema! There was no way that would have come out without it. This was a direct result of the Oxycodone, which is a horrible drug. I stopped taking it after today’s constipation episode. I’ll deal with the pain rather than risk being impacted again, nobody should ever have to go through that. Lesson learned, if ever taking a narcotic again, take it in conjunction with a laxative.
Today I woke up at 8am and felt as though my throat was very dry.
Last night was probably one of the worst nights of my life recovering so far. I took my pain medication on an empty stomach on Day 5 after 3 days of only using ibuprofen (crushed up and dissolved into a slushy Gatorade mixture). Due to this, I felt so sick, I couldn’t move without fear of upchucking. Unfortunately, my Mom brought a bowl over to me and as soon as she did, I threw up my dose of pain medication along with some tiny pieces of homemade bread she tried to get me to eat.
The rest of the night I spent sitting in the same position, not trying to move or adjust in fear I might puke again. I finally made it up to bed and woke up not feeling nauseous this morning. I took a nice hot bath and drank as much ice water as possible (I think I was severely dehydrated yesterday as well.)
So far today I’ve tried eating chocolate pudding, which is pretty difficult as I have a lot of mucus in the back of my throat and it’s already hard to swallow as it is. My Mom doesn’t seem to understand that it’s difficult, so I appeased her and spooned small bites into my mouth until she walked away. Also, applesauce seems to slightly be burning today. I basically have no appetite, and after the bad experience from the pain medication yesterday, I’m terrified of taking some more, thinking I might puke again and feel like complete garbage.
I also feel like there’s something stuck in my throat. Maybe a scab? Every time I swallow, I feel like I’m swallowing goop and it’s still there. I’m hoping this goes away soon?
As for my throat, my right and left side go back and forth from hurting the worst. I haven’t had any pain meds in quite some time, so I think I’m doing okay.
Also… anyone feel like the roof of their mouth is scraped? Mine hurts quite a lot closer to my actual teeth. Like an open wound as well.
I keep regretting this surgery every single day. I can’t wait until I can taste food again and eat again.
It’s crazy how alike our situations are. Last night was also the worst for me and ever since yesterday I have had a dry throat I can’t seem to shake! I hardly ate anything today other than some crackers soaked in broth but I made sure to keep pushing the water. My guess is that the worst is over and it will start to get better from here. Also I was drinking water last night and started to cough. After a coughing fit of about ten minutes I felt something odd in my mouth and it turned out I had coughed up a quarter sized scab( no bleeding thank god) but I’ve found that bread helps to ease off scabs that need to come off. Wishing you the best of luck and a quick recovery from here!
I am on Day 6 of post-op, and the pain is getting worse. My doctor did warn me that it would get worse, before it got better. But I’m honestly just plain scared. It has been a rather awful experience so far. The first 2 days were easy, and I thought “This isn’t half as bad as my Dr. said it would be!” But then came day 3. I couldn’t keep anything, not even my meds, down. I wound up in the ER on an IV for fluids and antibiotics. I even got a few shots of morphine. After that, I was much better, and went home the same day. I don’t remember much of Day 4, just that my throat was very raw from all of the vomiting from the day before. Yesterday, the scabs started to bother me. I can feel them in the back of my throat, and I threw up again last night. Now, I’m on Day 6…scared of vomiting, scared to cough, scared of bleeding. My ears hurt so much, and chewing gum doesn’t even help. I just want to sleep the pain away. I’m so scared for the next few days.
day-6
pain this morning is bad, throat feels so dry and just intense burning and ears are burning. yesterday afternoon i thought things were getting better. this feels like it will never end! have to tey to get an ensure down so i can take some meds.
I had my tonscillectomy on the 29th and it has now been 6 days since. Today was the worst day because I’ve been taking Percocet (oxycodone) for the pain and have not had a bowel movement in almost a week. After talking to my nurse I took a dose of Miralax this morning and then had a small urge to go: big mistake. I had severe constipation and was impacted from a vary large, dry and hard stool. And it hurt. It was a horrible experience to have to urge to go, to strain and not be able to pass it. It was so bad that I (fortunately) have a shower douche enema attachment and used it to fill my intestines with warm water and them pass the warm water to soften it up. After about 40 minutes and two douches, I was finally able to squeeze the monster turd through by just softening the edges: and it hurt really bad even with the enema! There was no way that would have come out without it. This was a direct result of the Oxycodone, which is a horrible drug. I stopped taking it after today’s constipation episode. I’ll deal with the pain rather than risk being impacted again, nobody should ever have to go through that. Lesson learned, if ever taking a narcotic again, take it in conjunction with a laxative.
Also, I’m a 22 (nearly 23) year old female who had her tonsillectomy performed on March 27th, 2013.
I’m supposed to go back to class tomorrow, but don’t know how I’m going to get through 6 hours of classes without talking or participating.
Today I woke up at 8am and felt as though my throat was very dry.
Last night was probably one of the worst nights of my life recovering so far. I took my pain medication on an empty stomach on Day 5 after 3 days of only using ibuprofen (crushed up and dissolved into a slushy Gatorade mixture). Due to this, I felt so sick, I couldn’t move without fear of upchucking. Unfortunately, my Mom brought a bowl over to me and as soon as she did, I threw up my dose of pain medication along with some tiny pieces of homemade bread she tried to get me to eat.
The rest of the night I spent sitting in the same position, not trying to move or adjust in fear I might puke again. I finally made it up to bed and woke up not feeling nauseous this morning. I took a nice hot bath and drank as much ice water as possible (I think I was severely dehydrated yesterday as well.)
So far today I’ve tried eating chocolate pudding, which is pretty difficult as I have a lot of mucus in the back of my throat and it’s already hard to swallow as it is. My Mom doesn’t seem to understand that it’s difficult, so I appeased her and spooned small bites into my mouth until she walked away. Also, applesauce seems to slightly be burning today. I basically have no appetite, and after the bad experience from the pain medication yesterday, I’m terrified of taking some more, thinking I might puke again and feel like complete garbage.
I also feel like there’s something stuck in my throat. Maybe a scab? Every time I swallow, I feel like I’m swallowing goop and it’s still there. I’m hoping this goes away soon?
As for my throat, my right and left side go back and forth from hurting the worst. I haven’t had any pain meds in quite some time, so I think I’m doing okay.
Also… anyone feel like the roof of their mouth is scraped? Mine hurts quite a lot closer to my actual teeth. Like an open wound as well.
I keep regretting this surgery every single day. I can’t wait until I can taste food again and eat again.
It’s crazy how alike our situations are. Last night was also the worst for me and ever since yesterday I have had a dry throat I can’t seem to shake! I hardly ate anything today other than some crackers soaked in broth but I made sure to keep pushing the water. My guess is that the worst is over and it will start to get better from here. Also I was drinking water last night and started to cough. After a coughing fit of about ten minutes I felt something odd in my mouth and it turned out I had coughed up a quarter sized scab( no bleeding thank god) but I’ve found that bread helps to ease off scabs that need to come off. Wishing you the best of luck and a quick recovery from here!