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-
One week and still suffering. However today didn’t feel as bad as days 1-6. From what I’ve read, day 1-3 for some people went as bad, but boy did I suffer. It’s become eaiser to eat popsicles now, whereas before it was a painful challenge. What I don’t understand is why people say “cold” helps? Honeatly, as a person who’s had their tonsils out, I can say that for a fact “cold” does not help. You know what helps? The pain medicine and not opening my mouth. However water and food is important, so the one thing that helps, cannot be done. I tried yogurt for the first time, and I think it was too soon. Couldn’t get it down as smoothly so after one bite I stopped. I did, however, try chicken noodle soup (recommended by another person online) and I found the hot (well warm) soup to be very pleasing. Doc said to not drink hot stuff, so I didn’t eat it all hot (couple bites) but even super warm, the soup was easier to eat. If you’re bored of popsicles, I suggest trying that! Day 7 was pretty bad, but I hope that this long journey ends soon.
*thank you for making this post. Really makes me feel not alone in this whole process. The person who’s been taking care of me has done a great job, but they don’t understand what I’m going through and tend to push the recovery, but it’s nice to know I have the stories of others to know if I’m heading in the right direction! Thank you for sharing!*
23ya Male
Today is day 7 and it has been just like the rest of the days. I actually was eating more during day 1-3 than i am now. It really hurts to eat anything that is not borderline liquid at this point. I’ve been eating organic chicken noodle soups and 2 fried eggs for every meal but today i started with a Fage yogurt for breakfast and switched the chicken noodle soup for some mashed potatoes. I really couldnt finished dinner, i was trying to eat more mashed potatoes with organic chili (after putting it through the food processor) and a mashed banana. For some reason it stung my throat and i could not get it down. I ate the mash potatoes and threw away the rest. At this point i just want this to be over. it is hard to sleep and i miss waking up without the intense pain.
27 yr old femail tonsilectomy…. sergery 6/10/16 all went fine was down theater about 3 hours in total woke up was felling good just a bit sore and dry to swallow I was took back on the ward later that day were they give me mash n gravy to eat I eat it ok considering I just ad sergery. So they kept me in that night to make sure the pain wernt to bad so on the 7/10/16 they discharged me All went fine that day went home had my pain meds and went to bed for a few hours woke up in the evaning in quite a lot of pain so tryed a ice pop but cold stuff semed to make the pain a lot worse so took more pain meds had mash and gravy they headed back to bed I woke every 4 hours for my pain meds (( you need to never miss a dose)) all was fine thro the night woke up on 8//10/16 ad toast and my pain meds so thought to my self well this pain ain’t really that bad what was all the fuss about! Later that day I started haveing pains in my head and ears so I thought hear goes it all started! ! Well it settled after pain meds so on the 9/10/16 I woke up in agony couldn’t stick the pain atole I took double my pain meds and when back to sleep I woke up at about 1pm in agonising pain couldn’t swallow head n ears was hurting so much so I toke more pain med only to notice I was bleeding I went strait to my a&e waiting for for hours to see a doctor them to be told they had to put me to the main hospital in Cardiff because our hospital didn’t have a ent doctor on weekends! ! So I got to the hospital had bloods tubs down my throat ((witch Hurt like mad )) had bloods witch was confirmed as a really nesty infection was put on drip and pain meads for 2 days n strong antibiotics thro the iv on the 11/10 /16 in the night doctor sent me home as the bleeding stopped didn’t need further sergery. .. had planty of pain meds and antibiotics to come home with 12/10/16 everything seemed to be goin ok started to eat a Lil soft foods but still nothink cold was makeing my throat hurt like crazy iv still got a long way to go just praying I’m over the worse pain still really bad :'( good luck to every1 haveing the serguery soon wish you all the best ?
26 yr old female. I had my tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy on Oct 4. Today is day 7 (if you count the day of surgery) and it’s been one of the better days so far. Last night, on the contrary, was horrible. I didn’t get any sleep at all because of the burning in my throat and ears. It was so painful to swallow, I finally took some Tylenol around 6am which has helped pretty much all day long. I’m resorting to Tylenol now because the hydrocodone/acetaminophen the doctor prescribed me had my vomiting like crazy on night 4 which sent me to the ER because of pain and dehydration. I haven’t been able to eat much besides popsicles, jello, and ice chips which is why the meds make me so sick. I had a couple bites of French toast yesterday and some chicken noodle soup in the evening but chewing and swallowing is so exhausting by the time I’ve had a couple bites, I’m not even hungry anymore just tired. My uvula is still swollen, not as much as earlier in the week, I literally felt like I was gagging on my own uvula. I think my scabs are starting to come off slowly but surely, I can feel them in the back of my throat which is really incomfortable but hey, that’s the least of my complains. I don’t have as much mucus anymore, which is good because the first few nights I could barely sleep because of all the phlegm build up in my throat. All in all, I’d say today was a good day. I just can’t wait to be completely healed up and able to eat/sleep normally. This was a horrible experience and I’m hoping it helps me in the long run because I was really starting to regret it. But just keep pushing. It has to get better eventually right? Good luck!
You’ll get there. this is temporary! I had good luck with some broths and creamed soups. V-8 actually makes a couple good ones. Hang in there!
I’m 18 on day 7, day 1 was by far the easiest day, day 2 was just a little hard to talk and swallow but no pain, day 3 I slept all day, day 4 was tough I had pain in my ears and some of the white stuff on my throat had come off which made it hurt to swallow, day 5 I went to school and felt fine with little bit of aches I had a tiny bit of nachos and cheese then later tried to eat ravioli I had a few before it started burning, biggest mistake yet. That night I couldn’t sleep kept waking up at 3 then 4 and 5 in the morning in excruciating pain in my throat and ears, there was blood and every time I lay down now it hurts I have to sit up. Day I couldn’t say a single word all day it burned my throat to speak I also didn’t eat a single thing until around 11pm I had a few otter pops, so far I’ve lost about 6 pounds, I took my coding went to bed and day 7 (today) woke up in pain again at 6ish my mom gave me an oxi coding so I could sleep it helped I slept for a couple hours and woke up with blood on my face tongue and hands, I know I should drink more water, but it hurts and slightly burns to swallow anything