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.
Day 6: (end) so my scabs started to peel off today and through frequent inspection of my mouth you can tell that some of the white spots arent so thick anymore and there’s pinkish colour coming through behind them. My uvula is still big but has started shrinking. The pain that comes from the scabs falling off is like hot knives and renews sensitivity to eating and drinking everything. It also renews the ear pain which had dulled right down. Good news on that front though is that chewing gum works better than taking pain killers. So tonight my throat felt super constricted.. the way it does when you’re about to cry really hard but trying not to or you’ve been crying like non stop for ages. This was happening but without any emotion on my part.. the pressure built up and up for about an hour and then moved to my ears… agony! I started to ice my ears then remembered I had bought the sugar free bubblegum earlier today after reading it can help for ear pain. Popped in a couple of pieces and desperately chewed and within 10 seconds the pressure released. My ears stopped hurting and my throat stopped feeling constricted. I went from an 8 in pain to a 2! Thought I’d share this info so if anyone else has a similar episode with a constricted throat they can eat the bubblegum straight away without letting it build up to the point it did with me!
Day 6: BUY A HUMIDIFIER! So I thought it was a totally unnecessary purchase. Surely it couldn’t make that much of a difference and they are like 80 bucks! Well i finally bit the bullet and got one and used it all last night and this morning I woke up 100 times better than I have every other morning. Without the humidifier I was waking up and my throat was screaming and burning. It felt like I was stretching it back out. I dared not speak a word and I just wanted to go back to sleep and sleep through the pain (8/10 pain). Usually it took me to 1 or 2pm to recover from this and feel back to “normal” and start to whisper instructions to my husband. With the humidifier I feel like I felt before I went to sleep. Yeah everything still hurts but I can talk a little and I’m not hunching from pain as I walk (3/10 pain). Don’t wait until day 5 to buy it like I did!! Fork out the cash and run it all night. It’s totally worth it.
Other than that im starting to see small (tiny tiny) flecks of red patches where white used to cover on the back of my throat. I’m guessing this means my scabs are starting to come off. Ive heard this is the most painful part so I’m strapping in for the ride.
On day 6 of recovery now–counting the day of surgery. I had some concerning post-op bleeding within two hours of getting home, and returned to the doctor, but it had clotted and the scab quickly recovered the area. I have a high pain tolerance, and hadn’t needed the liquid pain killer. My boss at work suggested that I might load up on Vitamin C and B6 complex–that is what her surgeon recommended after breast cancer surgery to speed her healing. I did, and it might have worked too well. Scabs started coming off on day 3-4, leaving some very tender tissue underneath. I have some small spots that seep a little blood, but nothing more, and a thin scab has been replaced the thick ones that came off early. It has been consistently sore to swallow, but nothing worse than some of the more severe sore throats I’ve had in the past. Since the scabs have started to come off, though, anything I drink, other than cool water, results in terrible pain. I was prescribed some tetracaine lollipops, and these seem to work fine for a couple of hours at a time. Have been living on Ensures and protein/meal replacement milkshakes, and probably won’t go to soft solids for a few more days. I read the terrible experiences others are having on this board, and am very sorry that they are suffering much more than I am. Thankfully, we frequently look at the past through rose-colored lenses.
Day 6
I am encourage for I thought that I was the only one having such painful experiences, the pain has discourage me to eat, my ovula is swollen, saliva thick, mouth taste bad… hoping for a better day.
Hi guys, my 6th day post-op today. I believed I was in recovery as day 4 and 5 were much less painfull. Then day 6 came and boom !!! Pain is horrible, but what worries me most is that everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is bitter – like a dissolved medication at the back of my throat. I cannot eat or drink anything without this bitter taste. It puts me off food. I cannot taste any food and all triggers the bitter taste at the back of my throat. I can eat smelly cheese and a strawberry popsicle and they taste exactly same – bitter. Has anybody else experienced this? I am so scared that my taste will not come back that I cry for last 6 days. This is much worse than the pain – never to enjoy ANY meal….
Day 6: (end) so my scabs started to peel off today and through frequent inspection of my mouth you can tell that some of the white spots arent so thick anymore and there’s pinkish colour coming through behind them. My uvula is still big but has started shrinking. The pain that comes from the scabs falling off is like hot knives and renews sensitivity to eating and drinking everything. It also renews the ear pain which had dulled right down. Good news on that front though is that chewing gum works better than taking pain killers. So tonight my throat felt super constricted.. the way it does when you’re about to cry really hard but trying not to or you’ve been crying like non stop for ages. This was happening but without any emotion on my part.. the pressure built up and up for about an hour and then moved to my ears… agony! I started to ice my ears then remembered I had bought the sugar free bubblegum earlier today after reading it can help for ear pain. Popped in a couple of pieces and desperately chewed and within 10 seconds the pressure released. My ears stopped hurting and my throat stopped feeling constricted. I went from an 8 in pain to a 2! Thought I’d share this info so if anyone else has a similar episode with a constricted throat they can eat the bubblegum straight away without letting it build up to the point it did with me!
Day 6: BUY A HUMIDIFIER! So I thought it was a totally unnecessary purchase. Surely it couldn’t make that much of a difference and they are like 80 bucks! Well i finally bit the bullet and got one and used it all last night and this morning I woke up 100 times better than I have every other morning. Without the humidifier I was waking up and my throat was screaming and burning. It felt like I was stretching it back out. I dared not speak a word and I just wanted to go back to sleep and sleep through the pain (8/10 pain). Usually it took me to 1 or 2pm to recover from this and feel back to “normal” and start to whisper instructions to my husband. With the humidifier I feel like I felt before I went to sleep. Yeah everything still hurts but I can talk a little and I’m not hunching from pain as I walk (3/10 pain). Don’t wait until day 5 to buy it like I did!! Fork out the cash and run it all night. It’s totally worth it.
Other than that im starting to see small (tiny tiny) flecks of red patches where white used to cover on the back of my throat. I’m guessing this means my scabs are starting to come off. Ive heard this is the most painful part so I’m strapping in for the ride.
On day 6 of recovery now–counting the day of surgery. I had some concerning post-op bleeding within two hours of getting home, and returned to the doctor, but it had clotted and the scab quickly recovered the area. I have a high pain tolerance, and hadn’t needed the liquid pain killer. My boss at work suggested that I might load up on Vitamin C and B6 complex–that is what her surgeon recommended after breast cancer surgery to speed her healing. I did, and it might have worked too well. Scabs started coming off on day 3-4, leaving some very tender tissue underneath. I have some small spots that seep a little blood, but nothing more, and a thin scab has been replaced the thick ones that came off early. It has been consistently sore to swallow, but nothing worse than some of the more severe sore throats I’ve had in the past. Since the scabs have started to come off, though, anything I drink, other than cool water, results in terrible pain. I was prescribed some tetracaine lollipops, and these seem to work fine for a couple of hours at a time. Have been living on Ensures and protein/meal replacement milkshakes, and probably won’t go to soft solids for a few more days. I read the terrible experiences others are having on this board, and am very sorry that they are suffering much more than I am. Thankfully, we frequently look at the past through rose-colored lenses.
Day 6
I am encourage for I thought that I was the only one having such painful experiences, the pain has discourage me to eat, my ovula is swollen, saliva thick, mouth taste bad… hoping for a better day.
Hi guys, my 6th day post-op today. I believed I was in recovery as day 4 and 5 were much less painfull. Then day 6 came and boom !!! Pain is horrible, but what worries me most is that everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is bitter – like a dissolved medication at the back of my throat. I cannot eat or drink anything without this bitter taste. It puts me off food. I cannot taste any food and all triggers the bitter taste at the back of my throat. I can eat smelly cheese and a strawberry popsicle and they taste exactly same – bitter. Has anybody else experienced this? I am so scared that my taste will not come back that I cry for last 6 days. This is much worse than the pain – never to enjoy ANY meal….