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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My son is 8 and is on day 7 of his recovery right now. The last two nights have been HORRIBLE for him. He’s always been the kind of kid who never tells you he’s sick or hurting because his pain tolerance is so high. He just cries and says ‘it hurts’, but when we try to get it narrowed down so we know where to put the ice pack or heat pack, he just says it all hurts. The poor kid has woken up screaming in pain the last two nights in a row…and we’re staying on top of the pain med schedule. We’re overlapping Lortab and children’s advil. We’re going to get a humidifier to see if it helps, but I have no idea how to help get him more comfortable. He’s trying to drink often, but his appetite has been shot for the last two days as well. I’m grateful I saw this website, though – I can see that he’s not the only one to have this type of recovery. Thank you for all the stories and ideas – hopefully some of them will help him get through the next few days with less pain.
My daughter is 7 on day 7 and refuses to take the pain meds. (I’ve been able to sneak it into liquid yogurts, but the pain to swallow.) The 3 am wake up screaming is no joke… Tomorrow to the store for a humidifier. Hope it helps, cuz I can only figure her pain comes at night cuz her throat dries out… During the day very little pain and she’s bee eating everything.
Hi, I had my tonsils out 7 days ago. I am 12. Well, as i was saying, i had them out them out 7 days ago and the first day i was in an awfull lot of pain as well as the second.The third i was able to go home. So. When i got home i had some fruit juices. The doctor told me that fruit is very healthy and will be very good to help clear things up in the back of my throat. Day 4. Wasn’t as painful so i has some soup with some over-cooked pasta ( Very soft pasta) . That did me good. On day five i had excactly the same but on the night i felt something in my mouth. I took it out and i thought it was a bit of the scab but after that nothing else came out. When i woke up on day 6. Well….. that was VERY painful. I read up about it and it said that it is completely normal to feel worse before you feel better. Is this true? I had the same (some soup, fruit juices and a yogurt drink). On that day my mum had taken a look down my throat and said it had turned pink again and it looked very clean. I this normal on the 6th day of recovery? On the seventh day i woke up in more pain than ever. I felt like i was dying.I had my medicine and a lovely cold yogurt drink this morning and i was wondering if on day 7 there could be something else for me to eat and drink. Help?
At night i take my medicine and then go to sleep because if not, i have the trouble of waking up in pain. Hope this helps everybody and i hope you all get well soon. Please answer to my post to try and help me out. Thanks.
I was here back in December of 2012. I had a tonsillectomy and biopsies of the back of my tongue and nasopharynx as well as a laryngoscopy in an effort to determine the primary site of Squamous Cell Carcinoma head and neck. Unfortunately, we did not find the primary. Coming here to write and vent helped make the healing a little better. Most everything I read was spot on. In a word. It SUCKED! ~lol~
I was going through the process of getting the cancer treatment started and was feeling very insecure about the doctors and cancer program locally. I sought a 2nd opinion at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and decided to get treated there. Long story short. You have to have confidence in your “team” and were I was at previously didn’t even have a coach!
I thought the initial tonsil surgery was brutal but let me tell you! I had additional surgery on Feb 7th. There was a suspicious area on the back of my tongue that warranted further examination. They also wanted to do another laryngoscopy and remove the cancerous tumors that had taken over the lymph nodes on the left side of my neck.
They end result after over 5 hours under the knife was a bi-lateral Lingual Tonsillectomy, more biopsies of the back of my tongue, the laryngoscopy (all done with the DaVinci Robot) and a selective neck dissection in which they removed two tumors that were over 4+cm in size. The tumors had grown and intertwined in the nerves, muscles and veins/arteries in my neck making the procedure delicate, complicated and time consuming.
I was in overnight and sent home the next day with the usual assortment of narcotic pain killers and such.If you think getting your palatine tonsils out is no picnic, try getting your linguals out along with a neck dissection! Holy )#$^!!!
I’ve been barely able to swallow at all. Food?.. are you kidding? The linguals involve more nerves and a result is that my tongue is numb. I can taste and it does what it’s supposed to but I can’t feel it. It’s like trying to eat after the dentist gives you Novocaine. I can’t take my meds orally. I have to crush them and mix with something. So far, warm Cream of Wheat is all I can handle. If I try something like cold pudding or apple sauce my ear pain goes from a 3-4 to an 8-9 and it literally brings me to involuntary tears.
There are other issues due to the surgery on top of it. Numbness on the left side of my face. I can hear but my ear feels like an alien piece of flesh attached to my body. There’s been some nerve issues causing pain and weakness in my left shoulder and arm.
Anyway… I just want to warn you all… Be prepared to basically be incapacitated for well over a week, forget about sleep. The neck dissection and the incision are easy compared to the lingual tonsils!
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Mark, I’m sorry- I just read this post. Some Valentine’s day. I am so sorry for all that you have been through. I’m glad you came here to vest- That’s why we are here! It sounds like you have a tonsillectomy recovery extraordinaire! A dubious distinction indeed. I am thinking of you and praying that your recovery gets a little beeter each day, until you are completely healthy. I wish I could do more my friend. Take care and KEEP DRINKING!!
Day 7 post Op: KILL ME NOW…THIS IS CRAZINESS AND I AM AT THE POINT OF HAVING A COMPLETE MELTDOWN. I CANT EVEN SWALLOW A LITTLE SIP OF WATER WITHOUT GETTING SHARP SHOOTING PAINS THRU MY WHOLE FACE!!! WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I completely understand where you are coming from…I woke my husband up asking for the gun at 230a. I was in excruciating pain — the Percocet had already worn Off since taking it at 1AM. My throat is on fire. The old fail-safe: slushies, have now become the enemy. Anything cold feels as if it removes 2-3 layers of tissue. Room temp koolaid is now my bestie for the day. I had a complete break down around 330. I am not sure how much longer I can take it!!!!! The inability to eat, the increasd intracranial pressure from balw
Day 7, having woken up to pain so bad I could barely bring myself to swallow my pills, the rest of the day was really not too bad, and I was able to drop my codeine dose slightly. Throughout this experience, aside from some periods of dull continuous aching in my tongue, jaw and ears (not throat), all the pain has been in trying to swallow, and that has been tough. Sipping at water tends to involve taking a small mouthful and then bracing myself until I can do the deed and swallow it. Sometimes it’s fine. Other times I find I’m banging the table or punching my leg as I swallow – no idea what the psychological reason for that is, but it seems to help. Others have reported that their humidifier is a lifesaver, and until today I wondered how they knew. Having been in the same room as the humidifier all week, carting it around from living room to bedroom, I went into another room for about 45 minutes without it. The entire back of my throat went dry and tightened up. Very unpleasant, and I can confirm that the humidifier really does help. I happen to have a digital thermometer/hygrometer which reports about 47-50% when the humidifier has been running for a while. Without it the house is about 40% or a bit lower. Night 7 the pain set in again. I’m definitely at the daggers phase that everyone talks about. Swallowing is so painful that I’ve got a sleep strategy of lying on my side with the corner of the pillow folded over to make a hard platform for my head , with my mouth overhanging the edge. That way my saliva dribbles out rather than making me swallow. A bit gross, but it works. Woke for the 1am drugs in some pain and completely drenched in sweat. I put the dose back up again and stayed up for over an hour waiting for the drugs to kick in. For the first time they didn’t, and trying to get to sleep resulted in involuntary swallowing every few minutes and an attack of daggers. The rest of the night was spent mostly awake. At the end of the night, a few hours shy of the one week mark, my weight loss stands at 6lbs.