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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Day 7 ending and there is, after all, apparently, light shining at the end of this long, long tunnel.
This morning was the worst 30 minutes of my life, which bested yesterday morning (and am worried gets bested again tomorrow morning). That first swallow is horrendous. I was up all night, sipping water, preparing…inches from a humidifier. Still amazing pain.
Worked today out of my home office, overall tolerated the day well. Still have a very limited diet…anything too big is painful, including a big gulp of water. The opening in my throat for food seems abnormally small.
Have lost about 12lbs…that’s good
Tomorrow will be even better!!
My body and my mind feel great today! No pain meds taken at all! My throat on the other hand feels like a lava pit. Every swallow, saliva, water, food(pretending I could actually eat something) hurts worse than any sore throat I haver EVER had. I took a short trip to Target today and stopped at the Starbucks for a mocha peppermint frappacino. I was only able to get 4 sips down before I tossed it in the trash ….next I had an orange ICEE. …that was much better. Food wise I found that marshmallows are about the only thing I can tolerate….. My Uvula is back to normal, the site of my tonsils is an ugly thick white/yellow color. I had no stiches like so many others have had and my follow up appointment with my dr isn’t until 12/10.
Reading forward to the next week….it seems just so far away. I miss my Martinis
I know! Would love to have a nice thick dark beer and relax but I’m afraid of thinning my blood and bleeding.
This is day 7 and I have felt better since having them out! I read about setting the alarm clock every 2 hours when going to bed to take 2 tsp of pain meds, drink water and to sleep with the humidifier on worked! I did the same throughout the day (minus the humidifer) and it seem to help. I know that I had kind of pushed it when I went to the football game and acidentally yelled and got a soft pretzel stuck (which did feel like a knife going down), but I lived and enjoyed the football game! I wish I would have read that part sooner or that the doctors office would have recommended that. It can only get better from here I hope! Good luck to the rest of you!
my day 7 friday was another day to forget. I had stopped the oxycodone pain meds to relieve the constipation but now I was emptying my bowels too often and it was mostly liquid since I had barely eaten anything in the last 48 hrs. I dont know why but I simply havent been hungry since my haermorhage 2 days ago but I suspect the blood that spilled into my stomach messed with the balance in there and I’ve lose my sense of hunger. Also I developed oral thrush today as I see the white coating on my tongue and how it stings when I swallow or try to eat. The pain from the throat isnt so bad now only the sting from the thrush combined with constantly diarhea (had to go 6 times) and the lack of eating has crippled me. I noticed my throat is making more saliva than ever before which is why it doesnt hurt so much. By night time I stopped the diarhea with some immodium and tried to force down a protein shake and small jelly. It was the first food I ate since the post haermorhage surgery some 48hrs ago!
It is the end of my day 7, and I am grateful it wasn’t like yesterday. I wanted to die. I have some minor ear pain, and my saliva is extra gross tasting today. I spent the beginning of my morning gargling with salt water. I got the salt from my nasal rinse, surprisingly it didn’t burn. I also spent a lot of time scrubbing my tongue with my tooth brush. I refuse to allow my tongue to look as nasty as the back of my throat! After that, my day went by smoothly. I plan on returning to work Monday (day 10), but will go home as soon as it is uncomfortable. I’m chewing on a half piece of gum, and swallowing as much saliva as I can, but I tell you, the gum does not mask the taste! I am so hungry, and jealous of people in fast food commercials. Can’t wait to eat real food. One more thing, I put aloe vera gel in my water, to help my stomach, and it is working great. It also leaves a smooth coat on my throat. Good luck everyone, on to day 8.