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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It’s me again…. And I bring good news!!!! I did wake up today in pain due to the throat drying out In The night mornings are always the worst so I got up brushed my teeth as I could taste the terrible smell coming from my breath!!! I made a cuppa tea and some fruit loaf ( toasted) as I wanted to line my belly today I decided to double up on my ibropfen I was on 400 mg every 6 hours so today I googled was it safe to take 800 mg ( and it was) so I struggled so bad with the toast but new it was better for me if doubling up on meds…… OMG with in 20 mins the pain was so bearable I haven’t felt so relieved in days I’m not saying I was totally out of pain but the feeling of the brused tongue (right at the back) felt lose less swallen I was able to swallow with out being in such harsh pain… So six hours later I took another 800 mg and again in 20 mins the pain level dropped. It felt so much better when I bought the kids a Mc Donald’s I managed to eat a hamber happy meal!!!!!!!!!!! Woooooooo whooooooo I couldn’t manage it all as I felt full so quickly but I ate!!!! Now for tomorrow day 8 I will keep ya posted so was it the meds? Or the fact day 7 is the start of feeling less terrible I know we are all different and heal different but day six I was losing hope of feeling better any time soon…. Hope your all feeling better xx
Hi guys, you all seem to be having a worse time than me. I’m on day 7 of my recovery,and I feel so much better than days 3-6 they where my worse days so far, I am still in a little bit of pain but the pain relief (800mg ibuprofen) really seem, to helping me. Quick tip drink warm tea it really helps..
I hope all goes well for everyone and my experience of day 7 wasn’t all that bad..
Recover quickly (:
I don’t think my pain med is working. I’m only suppose to take it every 4-6 hours. . but the pain is back and I’m in agony within 2 -2 1/2 hours!
In so much pain today. It feels like I’ve swallowed glass. The pain is radiating up into my ears and into my jaw. It hurts to open my mouth even to drink water.
I have to brace myself every time I take a drink of water. When will the pain decrease!?
Honestly I don’t wanna jinx myself but with my liquid codeine I’m feeling pretty good I’m not sure if it supposed to switch off it by now but I’m 13 and it’s working just fine we’ll just want to say I’m feeling pretty good minus the dry throat I woke up with this morning my ears are what’s bothering me especially my right ear it’s killing me my throat leaks this nasty tasting fluid my scabs are still all there which I have no idea why but overall I think it was worth it in the end I had to get them because I had tonsil stones and I don’t get them now! Good luck please share your experience!
Day 7- Ouch! I ran quite a few errands today so I didn’t keep up with my Percocet, and I paid for it too! When I swallowed my pain was about 8/10. No fun.