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 have read the posts above and I am soo glad that I am not the only one still in misery on day 6. I got my surgery on 12/29/2014 and so far the 5th day (yesterday) and today has been ONE of the worst 🙁 My scabs are definitely not coming off yet either. I am living off of oatmeal and soup which is clearly not the best but atleast I am able to eat something. It is soo hard to simply swallow water but I know staying hydrated is key. My pain meds are definitely working but it sucks to be reliant on them. It is hell when I first wake up and eat but I know that in order for me not to get sick and feel nauseous I must eat before the pills. Hopefully the rest of the day gets better!Good luck to everyone!
Well folks – after a near week of recovery, I am essentially doing well post-tonsillectomy. I wish everyone speedy recovery and am grateful for how smooth mine went. I will say that as the scabs are coming off I have some pretty strong pain shoot through my jaw to my ears but I’ve adapted to some pain from the last several days. I slept through the night without getting up to take meds, and have weened off Lortab which after a while caused me too much anxiety, edginess and depressive feelings compared to the pain relief it provided. My stomach and digestive tract have some catching up to do but yesterday was able to eat about 2/3 a fish filet sandwich and some french fries, as well as some chicken and dumplings with green beans and a roll for dinner. I am tired after eating solids but think that’s really the only way to regain my stamina. Warm liquids ease the period where scabs slough off. Tea with honey was awesome especially. I expect to be back to work Tuesday or Wednesday, which means I fully recovered in about 8-9 days. Stay vigilant, find someone to help stay with you to care for you, and revel in knowing you did something good for your health and once done, did it! I wish I had done this a lot younger.
day six, today actually went really well, compared to yesterday (which was prob. Yesterday my scabs started falling off, and unlike many of the stories I have heard, I coughed the scabs up because they were causing my to gag which was causing more pain than I wanted to be in. So I coughed out the first set of scabs around 2 in the morning today and then around 9:30 tonight I coughed up the next scab. Although the process was highly unpleasant, I am not experiencing the extreme sensitivity now that the scabs start I was able to have real food throughout the day. I started with a bowl of jell-o, and then my dad brought home a sonic slush (Yippee) and I then I had Mac-and-cheese for lunch, and then I had a small bowl of soup. After gagging up a scab tonight my sister made me a smoothie which a)tasted amazing, b)felt amazing on my throat, and c)was healthy. I gotta say, the scabs look nasty. I am extremely grateful that the doc got me some steroids to reduce swelling and make it easy to swallow. Hoping tomorrow is even better.
This is post op day 6 for me and have to say it’s been the worse day. So day 5-7 when scab is trying to come off is when it hurts the most. So, back to only jello, ice cream. I felt great yesterday and even ate baked fish. Drinking cold fluids helps.
I’m at day 6. I’m almost 19. This last week has been a first for a lot of things! I’ve never had surgery or anesthesia or had to take pain meds for anything. This has been the worst last six days of my life! I took liquid pain meds the first couple days but I was still in a bit of pain and couldn’t eat enough (no matter how hard I tried) to keep the meds down so I threw them up on the second day): which resulted in me not taking any pain meds again. Holy cow, my pain levels remained at 8/10 and my ears hurt so badly! Almost like the feeling when you get water up your nose. I was even crying at some times. I was so hungry and weak and felt real feverish.
I didn’t leave my house until yesturday, which was a bad idea. I started to feel better though and got my nails did(: but as I was in a petco parking lot when I started to spit out a lot of blood! Thankfully, I was with my mom and we rushed to the ER. I only bleed about 1 1/2 cups. Believe it or not, it was the best I felt since the tonsillectomy!! I could talk completely normal and my pain was next to none! I was hoping the pain was over but it was for only a little while): I’m in pain again today but only about 4/10. It’s still in the ears too. I just keep telling myself, I’m almost there!
I have read the posts above and I am soo glad that I am not the only one still in misery on day 6. I got my surgery on 12/29/2014 and so far the 5th day (yesterday) and today has been ONE of the worst 🙁 My scabs are definitely not coming off yet either. I am living off of oatmeal and soup which is clearly not the best but atleast I am able to eat something. It is soo hard to simply swallow water but I know staying hydrated is key. My pain meds are definitely working but it sucks to be reliant on them. It is hell when I first wake up and eat but I know that in order for me not to get sick and feel nauseous I must eat before the pills. Hopefully the rest of the day gets better!Good luck to everyone!
Well folks – after a near week of recovery, I am essentially doing well post-tonsillectomy. I wish everyone speedy recovery and am grateful for how smooth mine went. I will say that as the scabs are coming off I have some pretty strong pain shoot through my jaw to my ears but I’ve adapted to some pain from the last several days. I slept through the night without getting up to take meds, and have weened off Lortab which after a while caused me too much anxiety, edginess and depressive feelings compared to the pain relief it provided. My stomach and digestive tract have some catching up to do but yesterday was able to eat about 2/3 a fish filet sandwich and some french fries, as well as some chicken and dumplings with green beans and a roll for dinner. I am tired after eating solids but think that’s really the only way to regain my stamina. Warm liquids ease the period where scabs slough off. Tea with honey was awesome especially. I expect to be back to work Tuesday or Wednesday, which means I fully recovered in about 8-9 days. Stay vigilant, find someone to help stay with you to care for you, and revel in knowing you did something good for your health and once done, did it! I wish I had done this a lot younger.
day six, today actually went really well, compared to yesterday (which was prob. Yesterday my scabs started falling off, and unlike many of the stories I have heard, I coughed the scabs up because they were causing my to gag which was causing more pain than I wanted to be in. So I coughed out the first set of scabs around 2 in the morning today and then around 9:30 tonight I coughed up the next scab. Although the process was highly unpleasant, I am not experiencing the extreme sensitivity now that the scabs start I was able to have real food throughout the day. I started with a bowl of jell-o, and then my dad brought home a sonic slush (Yippee) and I then I had Mac-and-cheese for lunch, and then I had a small bowl of soup. After gagging up a scab tonight my sister made me a smoothie which a)tasted amazing, b)felt amazing on my throat, and c)was healthy. I gotta say, the scabs look nasty. I am extremely grateful that the doc got me some steroids to reduce swelling and make it easy to swallow. Hoping tomorrow is even better.
Happy Holidays everyone.
This is post op day 6 for me and have to say it’s been the worse day. So day 5-7 when scab is trying to come off is when it hurts the most. So, back to only jello, ice cream. I felt great yesterday and even ate baked fish. Drinking cold fluids helps.
I’m at day 6. I’m almost 19. This last week has been a first for a lot of things! I’ve never had surgery or anesthesia or had to take pain meds for anything. This has been the worst last six days of my life! I took liquid pain meds the first couple days but I was still in a bit of pain and couldn’t eat enough (no matter how hard I tried) to keep the meds down so I threw them up on the second day): which resulted in me not taking any pain meds again. Holy cow, my pain levels remained at 8/10 and my ears hurt so badly! Almost like the feeling when you get water up your nose. I was even crying at some times. I was so hungry and weak and felt real feverish.
I didn’t leave my house until yesturday, which was a bad idea. I started to feel better though and got my nails did(: but as I was in a petco parking lot when I started to spit out a lot of blood! Thankfully, I was with my mom and we rushed to the ER. I only bleed about 1 1/2 cups. Believe it or not, it was the best I felt since the tonsillectomy!! I could talk completely normal and my pain was next to none! I was hoping the pain was over but it was for only a little while): I’m in pain again today but only about 4/10. It’s still in the ears too. I just keep telling myself, I’m almost there!