Tonsillectomy Recovery Day by Day
Day 7
A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their seventh day of tonsillectomy healing
I have assembled a sampling of various accounts and impressions of tonsillectomy recovery for each day. Below I share comments about tonsillectomy day 7. 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.
Please feel free to add your own experience with tonsillectomy day 7.
Tonsillectomy Healing Day 7 Recovery : Light? At the end of the tunnel?
- Tonsillectomy Day 7 :Breakdown. Crying, laughing, sucked into YouTube. Is there no end?
- During the night I noticed a weird sensation in my ears. It was a hollow feeling, kind of like I have water in my ears and they tend to pop really severely when I swallow. Other than the ears, the throat isn’t bad. I tried eating blueberry pancakes for breakfast and I was able to get a few pieces down, but then it was uncomfortable, so I stopped. The last thing I want to do is rush myself. I’ve made it this far, I don’t want to do anything that will negatively affect my progress. The swelling is finally gone – I think. My tongue and the scabs used to be white – or so I was told – but now my tongue is like a grayish color. If that is normal, I’m not sure, but I’m not that worried about it. I know I’m still recovering, but I noticed a weird feeling when I was swallowing today. The water just kind of flows down my throat now; before it used to touch my tonsils. I know I don’t have tonsils anymore and that’s why; I’m just curious if it is something I will have to adapt to once I’m fully healed. I guess I’ll have to wait and see. My ear pain is still there but it is definitely not as bad as it was from days 3-5.
- It’s been one full week as of today that I had my tonsils removed. I saw the ENT yesterday and he said I was healing very slowly. The scabs still have not come off and every day seems to hurt more than the previous day. This morning has been almost completely unbearable. I don’t understand how some of you say you eat toast. How do you choke that down? Everything hurts! Warm, cold, it doesn’t matter it feels like swallowing knives.
- Day 7 you did it! I mean I could barely stand due to the pain. Trying to coat my stomach with Ensure that morning so I could take my pain meds was like aggressively shaving my throat with a million shards of glass. And the ears! Not the ears!
- day 7 post-op and am doing amazingly well. I thought I would share my tips to help some of you out! It really is important to drink, drink, drink! Every time I woke up from my sleep I would be in such enormous pain because my throat had dried out. Every time I wake up during the night I take a sip of water which I found has helped. Twice a day I have done a saltwater gargle with a teaspoon of salt in 500ml of water for 30 seconds. This apparently removes the bacteria and the salt is good for healing. The day after my surgery I had a tiny little bit of toast.Are you concerned about pain medicine addiction? Read more…
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I hope I am one of the positive posts you read tonight, and am hope for you all. I also hope that I do not jinx myself here as well. Im a 25 year old male. I had my surgery Friday 1/18 in the am. The first few days were absolute hell. I followed instructions and tried to keep a hydrated and put something down. Those Naked smoothies are thick but when you cut them with coconut milk it makes it easier to put down. I stuck to those for the first few days. coconut milk is a non dairy milk. It still leaves mucus but isn’t as bad as regular milk. It actually has a lot more nutrients. In the end of my shake I had basically all the nutrients from entire meal. I was getting hella sick from the Roxicet so I tried something new. I woke up yesterday and I felt like I had turned a corner. The pain was clearly there but it was easier to swallow. I decided to quit the pain killers and stick to Tylenol. Ballsie move but the pain meds made me feel like I was on crack. Which I kind of was. I still feel the pain but today I feel really good. I even went to the store. yesterday I ate solid foods for all 3 meals. Mac and cheese, soup, and some there soft things. After every meal I am rinsing out my throat with salt water. it helps clear out the mucus from all the foods. I am drinkng and Tall glass of water every hour. staying hydrated has been the KEY!!! drink as much water as you can. it helps with the pain. and with the healing. Ive been reading a lot that it may get worse just cause thats the nature of the beast but the way I have been going I don’t see how that can happen. everyday it’s getting better. I am now waking up tomorrow day 7. I even has sushi tonight. I make sure I chew everything 100 times more then I usually would cause I am not risking anything. I do not recommend thinking you are ready for something. test it out. I have read a lot and heard a lot of stories about people busting open the scabs. I wish you all the best. RINSE WITH SALT WATER!!! and rink lots of water. Naked Smooties mixedd with coconut milk!!
i also chew gum a lot to keep the jaw pain down. that helps tooo!! Any question feel free to let me know I feel like i’ve done well here. my surgeon is known as one of the best in the world so that may be part of the reason. but maybe not!! GOOD LUCK
Day 1-6. Had to be one of the most painful experiences i’ve had. Unrelenting pain, no sleep, barely no food and the worse of it was trying to remain focused at work (being self employed). Think I was easily 50% below par and few instances where i made crap judgement calls – but there you go. Am on the evening of day 7. Went to bed as normal (ended up taking sleeping tabs to knock me out) unfortunately 1.5 hours later i’ve been coughing up lots and lots of sticky fluid from my mouth. I believe it to be a a mixture of the scabs and saliva. Pain is actually less intense but still stings when I swallow. Hopefully I sleep well tonight and back to normal soon. This has been a very very difficult experience and one I wouldn’t go through again :(.
Night seven it’s 3 am and im in a little pain. Just took my meds so waiting for them to kick in. I had a little sleep at about 9 o clock this evening after i took my meds because i had some pain and i usually wake up a lot when i go to bed at night so i decided to try get as much sleep during the day as i could. I have a feeling tonight is going to be a bad one, sleep wise. I’m absolutely exhausted but my throat is really sore and i just keep coughing, so it keeps me up at night and i have a feeling tonight is going to be one of those nights. Tomorrow will be day 8 and i’m just counting down the days till i’m better. I cannot wait to eat a proper dinner, a chinese take away a pizza, crisps chocolate and to have a cigarette. A lot of people keep telling me to give up because i haven’t smoked since the op but thats easier said than done. There’s been a few things keeping me going through this whole experience. This site, my birthday which is the 29th and i’ll be the big 18, my next tattoo for my bday and knowing i’ll get to have a smoke and enjoy it when this is all over. Although now i know i will be able to give them up when i’m good and ready not when everyone else wants me to. I know it would be best if i stayed off them but i really cannot wait to just have a smoke and just forget about this whole thing. Reading some of the posts i realize how lucky i am because some of you have had horrible experiences, although then i look at others and i envy them, they’re able to eat whatever they want and some of them are even able to smoke which i truly envy. Hopefully the next few days will come and go fast enough and i’ll be all better in time for my birthday 🙂
today is day seven and this is the worst pain I’ve felt this whole time . haven’t really eaten the whole time besides last night I ate a can of sliced peaches . waking up every hour to the feeling of razor blades in my throat ! I’m prescribed percs & it’s bad enough if I take them on a full stomach I get sick but now with my stomach completely empty I feel nauseous allot – I wish this would go away ! I pray every night to hurry this up so I can eat a cheese burger ! this was my first surgery and this is the worst experience ever -__-
Mines too . Every hour on the hour i wake up coughing dryly . It would hurt less if my thoat didnt feel as if it had been torched on fire. And the annoying exsessive development of saliva… Just so painful. Just so you know im 14.
Day 7: Last night i had a horrible nights sleep i kept waking up coughing and in pain with my ears. This morning i woke up at 9 am took my pain meds and went back to sleep for an hour. I woke up ate and took more meds on schedule and then ate some dinner, it was going great at first but then i think a scab came off while i was eating and it stung like hell trying to eat the rest of it. I had more pain killers on time and it really hurt me trying to swallow it. I’m so hungry and i wanna try eat something soon because i’ve lost a bit of weight since i had my tonsils out and that was the last thing i needed. I’ll be back later, before i go to bed to give you all another update. Can someone please tell me aswel how long it usually takes the scabs to completely fall off? I hate this feeling and the smell is making me sick too.