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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I’m 19 and this is my 7th day of recovery. For the past two nights, I’ve had these god awful earaches. Even my medicine doesn’t take care of it. I barely get any sleep. I can’t tolerate anything cold or too warm since the procedure. Room temp. seems to work for me. It stung to eat soup so I’ve been living of water since my procedure. I have lost weight, almost 15 pound. Today seems to be a little bit better, I can talk a little bit more but laughing or crying hurts like hell. I can swallow my spit just fine but anything else stings so bad. I tried warm pudding, it was more bearable than the soup. Tomorrow I have my first post op appointment and I’m really hoping it all goes uphill from here.
I’m on day 7 and feel awful. I have gotten progressively worse over the past three days. My doctor said I would be fine after a week and I feel worse than what I started.
I consistently fee like I have something dangling in my throat as if I’m going to choke on it.
Underneath my tongue is almost as painful as my ears.
No longer does eating cold things like ice cream and Popsicles help the pain – but actually makes it sting for longer.
I stopped taking perscription pain Meds because I began to to feel nauseous, hot (to the point where I would sweat), and lightheaded. I now take generic Tylenol which is only semi-helpful.
I drink so much water I pee at least twice an hour. This still hasn’t presented uouth from drying up – especially at night.
I started using a humidifier – I csnt tell any difference except my room being colder.
I’m feeling very defeated because I was hoping to get things done this week and I haven’t been able to and planned a vacation in 6 days because I was told this should only last 7-10 maximum.
I’m starting to get depressed and anxious about my lack of recovery. I welcome suggestions.
I really can’t stand another day of this. I think I had it so much rougher than you guys. I’m a 16 year old girl. Right now its about 3:32 am and I wake up every hour on the hour. I didnt drink liquid. Biggest mistake. PLEASE DRINK! get used to drinking a lot of water on the first day so that way you will always drink it. I never drank anything or ate anything. What I was doing was id spit my saliva into a tissue and throw it out.
it was my way of avoiding swallowing.
I’m insane for doing that because my throat wasnt getting any hydration so it was having,as my doctor calls it, throat spasms. At random moments i feel sharp pains in my throat and in my ears and my neck. I just sit on my bed with an ice pack crying waiting for the pain to go away. I thought this was normal. I thought this was what the recovery was supposed to be like. So yesterday I had to go to the emergency room because I was so dehydrated they had to hook me up to an IV to get fluids and medicine in me. When all of my blood tests and urine tests came back, my doctor told me I developed a urinary tract infection. My antibiotics havent been working because of this infection so I havent been getting better. im on new antibiotics. Also while I was at the hospital, I got my lovely perioD. 🙂 it couldnt get much worse than this. Tonsillectomy recovery,throat spasms,extreme thirst, urnary treact infection, and now my period. I didnt know pain could get this bad. Im still having throat spasms. Nothings getting better. Im still avoiding swallowing but when I do I think i feel a scab coming off. But I dont know I dont wanna push it. I cant wait till it comes off because I think thats when it starts the quick recovery. Damn, its been a hard week.
Hang in there Mel. It WILL get better. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Day 7 and i cant believe i feel 30times better iv actually managed to get uo and function. Iv ate a quater of a sandwich which is amazing as i haven’t ate at all since leaving hospital. It did hurt but was bearable and beats being sick due to medication. I am taking paracetamol every 3 and half hours if needed and night time co codamol when i wake up. As co codamol does knock me out. My experience of this has been horrific and wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. Finally feeling better
Hello, well it’s 7 days for me today! I’m 36 years old and man I didn’t expect this painful of a recovery. I keep reading forums of others saying pain is subsiding; mine is still just as painful and both ears have started to give me pain not constant but throughout the day. Decided to listen to someone’s advice about eating soft foods..big mistake for me. It was fine the 1st and 2nd swallow…then I don’t know what happened on the 3rd because when I swallowed I jumped in the air, felt pain in both my ears and just squeezed my ears for about a half hour. And the funniest thing is I was eatting extra soft cooked carrots(go figure)! Also, it feels like I have burnt my tongue when I swallow! But, haven’t had anything hot since before the surgery.!!! Must say I’m getting a bit more active the past two days. So, overall I guess I will just stick to my purée and really love the Special K protein vanilla cappuccino drink. It’s my way to get my cup of coffee in in the am..and been drinking clear nutrition peach flavored ensure for daily vitamins. Thinking positive. The worse is over, I survived surgery, and lost 10 lbs. what more can a women ask for!!!