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 guys,
I am now going into day 7!! I have had 2 c-section with multiply back operations, and spinal fusions!!!! At age 28 this by far is the worst thing I have ever experienced!!!!
I wish I could have my tonsils back and carry on the life I had before!! I need that life 🙂 I miss you tonsils!! Even just having them in a jar to look at and cry with might make this experience more manageable.
My husband is prob ready to ask for a divorce!! He’s a paramedic so is used to waking up in the middle of the night for silly things.. this man has zero sympathy!! Perhaps I thought that a tonsillectomy can’t be that bad!!! TILL I read all these posts!!
I have to admit I’m glad you guys also suffered and some are still!! It’s the only thing keeping me from hopping into my car and driving to the emergency room!!!
I just wish that the ear ache would go away.
Scabs 90% gone now, so not Really sure why there is still pain…
Let’s hope that tomorrow is better!! And hope this crying stage is now also over!!! I’m not that women!!
Hi, Your post made me chuckle which is quite a feat since most things make me cry at the moment!!! I also am pleasd to read about how other people are suffering too, gives me people I can empathise with and share my post tonsillectomy misery with too!!!
Night 6 and day 7 have to to be the worst so far. I’m a 19 year old female and have had my tonsils and adenoids done also. Today it seems I can’t sleep, the scabs are off on my left but nothing on my right side. I can’t stop producing spit. Which is uncomfortable and annoying to spit out ever 5 seconds. Milk seems so help sooth my throat even though that’ll produce more spit which sucks. Either way. Day 7 is the worst and I hope it doesn’t get much worse..
I’m not sure how to feel to be perfectly honest I’ve been reading stories all around and those that can eat and drink with little pain are the sources of my current envy.
Day One – It was the best day, the surgery took about 30 minutes longer than the surgeon expected apparently my tonsils were that large, recovery consisted of me drinking a bucket load of water, being doused with painkillers and mild nausea. The nurses were lovely and I was sent home with painkillers and antibiotics.
Day 2 – 6 With each day the pain has gained and on day five I was given a higher dose of painkillers and much to my dismay this gave me -little- relief. I’ve been drinking as much water as possible but sometimes it just dribbling from my mouth as I fail to swallow is hell.
Day 7 – It’s now day seven I haven’t eaten in a week I’m in the most agony I’ve ever been and I simply want to curl up and cease to exist. I hope the peak of the pain is today because I’m not sure I can handle worse. Ugh…
Are you me?
Thank you to all those sharing their stories, I now understand everyone has varying experiences. Perhaps it’s due to pain threshold or age or what procedure they had to remove the tonsils but it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one, who has had the procedure. I am 24 and had my tonsils, adenoids, syptoplasty and part of my bone chiseled as it had broken and reset in an awkward place causing breathing problems, all this has been removed for 7 days now. It is the 6/7th day that has been the most painful so far, I think this may also relate to running out of prescribed medicine and cutting down from two tablets every four hours to one because I realsied I was accidentally overdosing on my medicine, so be careful and read.
Day 1- I was mainly in hospital and was rolling in and out of consciousness due to anaesthetic and slept all day.
Day 2- 4 I slept constantly I had no pain and felt nothing and ate normally, I ate eggs on toast, fish pie, lasagne, cottage pie, soup with bread, I also drank around 2 litres a day. I am always eating solids, maybe that’s why I am in pain today? My family complain that I do to much and should stay in bed but I’ve read someone went shopping! I have to admit day 3 I was cooking my family a meal and felt everything was fine and didn’t get why it would be painful at all and my friend warned me it’s because of all the medication and once that is out of my body it will hit me.
Day 5- I struggled to sleep I thought it was because I had drank iced coffee and ate a lot of sugary foods but I can’t stand drinking tea and lots of the food I eat taste awful. I prepare you, food tastes strange but in the back of my mind eating makes you recover faster and they are only two fleshy lumps in the back of your throat so it shouldn’t hurt right? I still feel like a bit of a wimp of day 5 and that I should have done more, other than stay in bed and watch tv and that perhaps I slept too much? It seems to me that everyone hits a wall at different points of their recovery period, I read that a lady didn’t take any pain killers at all because she was allergic and felt like cheering her on, that I could not do.
Day 6- I’m still sleeping upright due to my nose but sleeping means waking up and waking up is the most painful part, it’s a strange sort of pain,move dislocated my leg and broken my hand but still the dislocation was more painful I think it’s the length of time the pain goes on for and its direct because it’s in your neck and head, you just want it out and gone. Your ears need to pop, your jaw aches and I have a constant migraine but thank goodness for pain killers. I had four hours sleep or less that night.
Day 7- is the worst. I can’t even talk today and I’ve been talking fine but with a strange voice, I’ve had two hours sleep and this was the first night I’ve cried in a few months and during the whole recovery process. The pain killers are not making me numb everything is sharp. I have no scaps falling off like other people but perhaps they go with the food, I ate very crusty garlic bread. I presume from reading that this is because the scaps are forming and are getting ready to form a new functioning throat? By this point, many people are feeling better but at the beginning they are feeling pain, am I going backwards? Luckily my boss has let me have the time off work to recover and I have lots of family members who keep popping in and telling me off, otherwise I would have been shopping too and been in more pain now. Don’t do too much even if you feel ok because it will come back later and yes it hurts but hopefully it will pass.
Day 7 today! It’s 2:30am and I can’t sleep due to my mouth getting dry. Oh, the pain. Days 1-2 not the best of situations due to the pain of swallowing and the swollen tongue. No one ever mentioned the tongue being painful too. Should of realized something like a clamp was needed to keep it still during surgery. Day 3-4 pretty much the same. Did I mention that darn tongue??!!. Tried eating jello with great difficulty. Day 5-6 was able to sleep better and refilled pain medication; Tylenol with codeine. Being that the pain from my mouth woke me up at this ungodly hour, it should be a great day! Liquid diet only do far. I don’t know how people are eating the meals they’re sharing. The silver lining is definitely the weight loss. Way to kick off the New Year’s resolution of losing weight! Tomorrow is my doctor post op checkup one week after surgery. Stay tuned 🙂