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 today including the day of the operation! Haven’t taken any pain meds today as they constantly make me feel sick and they irritate my throat when swallowing. Pain has been minimal today, kind of feels like someone gently has their hands around my neck constantly… weird. When I swallow it hurts but not as much as day 2-6! I also haven’t got as much mucous coming up today, i know… EWWW!
My earache has also got better to what it was 🙂 Hopefully by day 10 i’ll be able to talk again…
a positive for the surgery is that I have now gone a week without a cigarette and I honestly don’t even get the cravings no more!
I haven’t checked how much weight i’ve lost because with how hungry I am I know I’m going to put it all back on in the first proper meal I can eat 😀
I’m at the end of day seven including the day of surgery. Of course today is thanksgiving and of course I wasn’t able to eat anything. Day 4-7 has been extremely awful for me especially when I have to SWALLOW my PAIN MEDS. I have the LIQUID hydra and i would consider the PILLS! The liquid BURNS and TASTES AWFUL! I don’t know if I regret this surgery, but hopefully I’ll be better tomorrow. WHAT HELPS! Warm chamomile tea, hot chocolate etc and ramen noodles and MISO SOUP! It’s all amazing! It really feels like heaven! I’m 13 OK and I just wish I could of enjoyed thanksgiving!! If you have any questions feel free to ask!! Im a girl btw :))
Day 7 post op & I still have horrendous jaw ache & sore throat! The best way to describe it is; I’m hungry so I eat, but chewing hurts too much so I try to swallow sooner, but then swallowing hurts more because I’ve not chewed the food enough. Vicious circle! I can’t quite believe it’s taking this long to recover! 🙁
Surgery was November 4, 2016, making today my day 7. I seriously think I’m on a roller coaster ride.
Day 1 pain was minimal (to be expected coming out of surgery)
Day 2 I wanted to scream like bloody murder. Ears & throat felt like a jagged edge sword was stabbing me!
Day 3 pain was mediocre…again
Day 4 if I was in a 20 story building, I likely would’ve jumped out the window the pain was so bad.
Day 5 NO PAIN AT ALL, just minor discomfort swallowing.
Day 6 That jagged edge sword was back…& so were my meds (oxycodone that has 0 affect on my pain)
Day 7 I can’t really account for the entire day since it’s only 3am
I’m drinking a lot of H20 & sick of eating soup, applesauce, popsicles & ice cream but its not like I have very many options…I just really wish everything was consistent.
My speech has also wavered with each day. On days I barely hurt people can understand me when I speak. On days that the scale of 1 to 10 where the pain is a 20 however, my tongue feels like it swells and it sounds like I have like 12 paper towels in my mouth. At the end of Day 6, I gargled with warm salt water & it burned like someone poured hotsauce down my throat, but oddly enough my swelling soon went down and the pain decreased as well.
I knew this was going to be a wild ride…just not this wild, crazy & insane
female, 18, had my tonsils out Oct. 26th 2016. it’s my first surgery so i had mtbkng to base it on. i kinda just assumed it would be like my wisdom teeth removal but a lot worse -how worse, i can’t tell.
i woke up from surgery happy as a clam. sort of a sore throat but i was happily chatting with the nurses and thanking them for helping me. they were very happy to see me doing so good. i decided in my blurry haze of anesthesia wearing off that it would be a good idea to eat or drink as much of whatever they gave me while i was feeling this good. id been reading about some hospitals making you eat toast or jello before you leave. at my hospital they just gave me two of those red white and blue popsiclles in a cup smashed up with a bit of sprite. like a slushie. so i had two of those and two large foam cups of water. i didn’t stay long and went home that day.
i was walking around a restless and a little hyper when i was home, also a little resistant to start my pain meds because i didn’t wanna run out when real pain set in. my step mom was really worried about my just roaming around chatting when i’d been discharged just an hour ago so she made me lay down and relax.
i’m not sure when exactly the pain set in but god god GOD it was like nothing else. a pain in the mouth is vulnerable and just miserable. the pain medication i got was a liquid Oxycodone. 10-15 mg every 4 hours. i started out with 10 but it wasn’t long until i was slamming down 15 to knock me out. i had an old beach towel that i laid out on my bed and just drooled on because the horror of swallowing was just too much. sometimes i used paper towels as well. it sounds gross, but you couldn’t pay enough to swallow more than my medicine. honestly i think this helped a lot. just sleep and drool.
days were going by and it wasn’t until day 5 that the pain was starting to take a back seat. as a result i lowered my dose of pain meds. i’m not sure if it was the pain actually subsiding or the dosage being pulled back but i saw the difference. i had clarity again and i wasn’t in this groggy nauseous loopy state. that actually helped a ton with how i felt overall.
i didn’t eat anything from the 26th of october to november 1st other than those two slushees at the hospital. i was puking up bile and i lost about 12 lbs. Oxycodone will kick your butt.
it’s been 8 days now but i’m writing this on day 7 because by day 7, i was able to walk, unload the dishwasher, go 24 hours without pain meds, and actually eat. (nobody can keep me away from good southern cookin and when i smelled a casserole in the oven i pounced!) now i wasn’t running around doing cartwheels. i still feel a little under the wheather. definitely better day 8 than 7. but it’s just kind of on the level of having medium intensity cold.
i wanted to share my response because i know well enough that when you’re curled up in a ball praying your pain meds kick in, you’re reading these too. everybody’s recovery is different. i was losing faith when i saw people were miserable the entire two weeks and then scrunching my nose at people who were back at work after just one. but just do what’s right for you. i didn’t have a vaporizer. didn’t eat popsickles til day 6. didn’t drink no fancy teas or drink weird vegan soups or healthy recipes. a tuna casserole was my breakthrough and gatorade and water and apple juice were what got my by. just don’t think you have to do all these crazy weird things to heal. know your body best. if you have a vaporizer at your disposal, use it. if you wanna try weird teas, go ahead. but just take into consideration what your body needs and what your body does good with.
(now i have no looked back in my throat. haven’t taken any pics nor will i. don’t want to know about what the scabs look like/if they’re off/ what color. nope i’m grossed out by it.)
i hope everyone reading feels better and has a safe, healthy (and fingers crossed; quick) recovery!