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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Hi everyone, today is day 7 for me and it is the worst!! I thought I was getting better until I woke up this morning with excruciating ear and throat pain. I can hardly swallow. I am supposed to return to work on Monday but I don’t see that happening…:(
I’m on day seven, got mine out last week. So much pain today I’ve just been Laying down all day. Yesterday I felt well enough to do laundry, and clean around the house. So that’s a good sign. I still have scabs.. Huge ones on my left side and the right looks fine, very small. Is this normal? Still taking roxicet every 4 hours, hoping I can ween off it soon. I just want this to end, I’m sooo hungry!! Hopefully it is done soon, I’m praying for all of us! This is torture
It gets better. I promise.
Wow. Thought I was in good shape. Currently in middle of day 7. Had surgery on Tuesday. Called the ENT yesterday to ask him when it will get worse because the pain hasn’t been too bad andi wanted to stop taking the vicodin every 4 hours. He mentioned that I should have hit bottom last Friday. That said I stopped taking the Vicodin yesterday and started taking Tylenol and ibuprofen instead. Took a Vicodin at bedtime just for precautionary reasons and thought I would try to sleep instead of waking myself up religiously every four hours to take pain meds and drink. Big mistake. Woke up at 3:30 am in the worst pain yet. I’ve been hovering around a 6 out of 10 on the pain scale. Up until now it has felt like my worst case of strep throat (just a longer version of it where you can’t eat as much). At 3:30 I was at a 10. Forced down 2 vicodins and an ice Popsicle.
My ENT is one that said that ibuprofen is fine but I definitely don’t want to start bleeding. I am hoping that this pain is circumstantial and won’t be as bad tomorrow if I keep drinking all day. I was planning on working from home starting tomorrow or Wednesday but the Vicodin makes it a bit challenging, so the plan is to take Tylenol in the morning and either alternate with smaller doses of vicodin or ibuprofen so I can resume life activities as much as possible. But will definitely consider sleeping I’m as much as possible.
Started researching when exercise is a good idea. Was ready to start running on day 8 but read that only low intensity activities should be performed up to day 14. Considering my relapse on day 7 the most I will probably do is a Pilates video or elliptical (so long I am not walking on clouds on the Vicodin).
Day 7 for me is ok 🙂 Last night was a pretty good night. I woke up every four hours and took my liquid meds and also drank about a half a bottle of water each time. Waking up in the morning is the worst. The right side of my throat is actually ok. The scabs nearly completely fallen off, but the left side still has this huge white membrane on it. I can eat soup with crackers, ravioli, pudding, ice pops, and mashed potatoes. I’m waiting till both scabs fall off to attempt harder food. One thing I love is Nutella folded n a piece of bread dipped in chocolate milk. its really good and doesn’t hurt your throat.
Day 7 just started for me about 40 minutes ago. I took my midnight iteration of Roxicodiene and I had to force it while my wife watched in horror because of the pain I visibly in. It felt like pins and needles were inserted into my throat and every times drank something they would attack my throat. I killed a cup of water and that all went away. I guess I just needed more moisture in my throat. Now I’m on my second 24oz cup of shaved ice and I’m feeling way better still a little bit of pain but a lot less than earlier. I hope this is almost done!!!