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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todays’s my 7th day & i feel like im dying . its almost impossible to swollow my own spit .. & drinking is unbearable. i cant open my mouth very wide, or move my tongue much. talking is almost out of the question. i really want this to end already ..
Hang in there Alex. This is as bad as it gets. Things will improve!
Day 7 and i think that i might have over done it yesterday.. I was able to eat food so i munched into some but felt like something was stuck on my throat. I done my salt gargle and was couging a lot trying to budge it. Now in told it might had been scabs that feel like food. Woked up in a lot of pain even water hurts!!!
Hi Laura- No fun! Probably was scabs. Be careful with them. Let them come off in there own time. Hang in there!~
Hi Laura! I find utilizing the chin to chest method great with swallowing food. Be careful with consistency, too! I thought I was ready for chicken noodle soup…too soon :/
POD #7 Feel like I’m turning the corner a bit. When I wake up it feel like a million shards of glass at the back of my tongue. Once I gurgle with warm water and a dash of salt, it feels better. Still can’t eat much, not that I have much of an appetite. I’m trying to do little things around the house but energy is nil. I’m off the oxycodone (thank God) and have been managing on extra-strength Tylenol (I can’t see how ppl like to take these pills). Keep your head up people! I see the light 🙂
P.S. I miss chewing.
You know things are rough when, “When I wake up it feel like a million shards of glass at the back of my tongue.” is, feeling like turning the corner a bit. Ouch! Hang in there. You are close to the end of this tunnel!
I’m on day 7 today, and this day and yesterday have been the most painful so far, I thought the pain was getting better but it is going the opposite way, I havent had any bleeding or anything so im lucky for that but getting food and drink down is almost impossible, im just wondering when the pain is going to end at the moment and the taste in my mouth is so strong and bad tasting, my breath has been horrible. Ive been trying to ease up on the pain meds so I just have panadol through the day then endone at night to help me through.
Jen day 7 is usually about the worst. Things should improve in the next couple days.
Is it really? I am already to call my doctor in the morning for stronger meds, cuz I’m on Tylenol with codine and its not touching the pain I’m having. Is it also normal to have the pain on one side? Of course that is the side I think the scab came off already. What day should the scab normally come off? I think I’m still gonna call my doctor tomorrow and see what he says. The worst he can tell me is that it will get better and I just have to live with it. I’ve been living with the worst pain for two days why not more. Just really ready for it to be over with and I can be back to my normal self. I want to be able to go to church and see my friends. All I feel I do is complain about the pain.
Happy Easter! Day 7 is coming to a close for me. I would say that when i eat the pain is a 5/6 but otherwise its not that bad just sitting and watching TV and sipping water its about a 2/3. When I drink water maybe a 4.. I am still taking tylenol every 6 hours, but I am sleeping better. I have been averaging a 1/2 dose about once a day of the oxycodone, usually around dinner time so i can eat without awful pain. Still taking anti-nausea meds twice a day as well. I took a very short walk today while my family went over to my in laws house with the kids for Easter(like a 1/4 mile) and when i got back I took a two hour nap! Morale of my story is I am still recovering. I have my post op appointment tomorrow. I have several questions written down to ask and am excited to see how I am recovering. Still nervous about bleeding but from what I understand I am about 2-3 days away from not having to worry anymore about it. Keeping fingers crossed for a good report tomorrow and no bleeding(knock on wood).
Thanks for the update Russ. Hope your appointment goes well!