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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Everyone is saying is there a light at the the end of the tunnel, and Day seven is my closets day to it! Day five was my utter torture day, but everyone’s is different. Tomorrow I am just starting to go back to school and I hope I feel even better than I did today!
I got my tonsils out on Tuesday the 21st of February and I’m on day 7 and it’s 11:59pm. Last night I was in excruciating pain, it’s mainly night time when I’m in pain! And it’s effecting my ear very badly, I’m getting fed up of not being able to eat, sleep or talk without it being painful, day six throughout the day I wasn’t in any pain at all then that night, like I said I was in a lot of pain, I’m on calpol and ibrofen liquid form! I just want this to be over and done with, I’m so tired though out the day:(
I’ve also relised that when I eat both side of my tounge, I can’t taste well or it won’t taste nice? I’m not sure what’s happened? And I also got half of my adinoids taken out too and my nose has been blocked since I had the operation, I’m not sure how long I can deal with this pain! Can someone help me and let me know how long it will take till it stops hurting???
Thankyou
You are a day or two ahead of my recovery and it sounds like we are at the same step. To be honest I have found today so much easier but that could just be compared to the first few days that were hell and I had to go to a and e the second day. I think by the time you read this, you will already be feeling better than you were when you wrote that post. And when or if you come back again, you could be much much better. I also have that awful taste in my mouth a lot but lets be honest, we wouldn’t have expected it to taste like honey. My tongue is also a whitey grey but that’s due to swelling apparently. I couldnt breathe through my nose either for a few nights so I recommend you keep a drink by you all the time or get a humidifier. To answer your question about how long the pain will last, I can imagine we will be able to feel it still when we swallow up until about day 20 odd but when that pain becomes tolerable should be any day now. I think mine is tomorrow. I hope yours has already happened.
I got my tonsils removed on the 10th of this month. It’s only 3am of day 7. Currently dealing with tingling sensations in the back of my throat after getting about an hour of sleep in (all I really get these days). Throat felt way worse than any of the other times i woke up, maybe because the scabs are starting to come off? I have a spit bowl that I used for almost all of day 6. Some pieces of the scab came off (saw them in the bowl, kinda gross). It was really hard to drink cold water after that happened, so I had room temperature for awhile. Not sure if the it’s already healed where those scabs came off but I’m back to ice water. Cried on day 6 because I’m sooo tired of the pain, the not eating, & not sleeping. I’m very irritable & can’t wait for this to be over. I’m really hoping that once these scabs completely fall off I’ll magically feel better. Also, been off my prescribed pain meds (hydrocodone w/ acetamenophen) since day 4 because it made me very dizzy & nauseated. Taking 600mg of ibuprofen every 6 hours & if needed I’ll take 1000mg of Tylenol in between. Still hate eating however during day 6 I got SOME relief & was able to manage some mashed potatoes, a pudding, & applesauce. Night of day 6 has been disasterous. Tingling. Coughing. I’m hoping it stops soon.
Let me start off by saying I had the best support system I could hope for, my wonderful fiance.
I am 24 years old and I had my tonsilectomy on February 1st. Counting that as the first day I am considering this day 7. Okay, tons of pain in the first four days: I dreaded swallowing anything so food was not an option for me. That on top of pain meds was not a good combo. Needless to say I spent some time vomiting. Not fun because my uuvula was actually the size of the back of my mouth. It was trying to make up for the space the lack of tonsils caused. Haha. I will admit I’m a bit of a baby when it comes to pain but wow this really hurt. I laughed at the fact the doctors recommend you to drink so much when it hurts as much as it does. I tried to eat a yogurt but it was too thick and hard to swallow. Applesauce and jello were my friends. Popsicles were nice for a moment of comfort. Day 5 was the best I had felt since surgery. My fiance got me some Ensure..I recommend Ensure from the beginning if you can because it has so many nutrients and probably speeds up healing, or a multivitamin of some sort. On Day 7, still not really eating as it hurts to swallow and still feeling rather drained and sleeping is when I’m affected most. I hated the phlegm the first few days but now that it’s gone I understand it’s purpose. My throat gets so dry and I wake up to some pretty bad pain and it puts me in a bad mood. I had some bleeding today, I think my scabs are starting to come off. I chewed up some ice and drank some water and it stopped. It’s easy to get depressed and discouraged through this healing process, but I believe it gets better everyday. I pray for strength and courage and a healthy recovery. God bless you all, I’m sorry we have to deal with this pain but it’s in his hands.
Day 7: the pain is unbelievable, the throbbing, sharp pains when I wasn’t even swallowing, massive headache ( can’t even concentrate and I think the veins are popping out of my brain), the pain in my ears… don’t even get me started, someone might as well have been ripping them off, I slept for a total of 30 mins last night because I couldn’t take my meds the throwing up was just too much. It hurts too bad to eat and taking the hydrocodone on an empty stomach makes me hurl every time. Just the taste I nearly puke. I’m very sleep deprived and in pain so this comment is most likely full of errors and hard to read. My uvula got more swollen throughout the day because of too much talking, just swallowing is the biggest challenge of my life. My scabs are 3/4 of the way gone and everything just feels like an open wound back there. My teeth ache awfully bad too from clenching and grinding them together from the pain. I’ve been drinking nearly 10 bottles of 16 oz water bottles a day I feel like it’s speeding up the the healing process but the pain tells me differently. On day 8 I promised myself I will not speak once. Every word makes it feel like my throat is being torn in every spot. This tonsillectomy recovery is really making me regret the entire surgery. When they said it would be painful I had absolutely no idea it would be like this. Please make sure you are emotionally and physically prepared for this surgery and that it is at an appropriate time in your life to take a break from everything for two weeks. I thought I would be able to do small things such as color to keep my mind off the pain but just looking at the page makes me burst into tears because the pain in my throat hurts too bad to concentrate on anything. I’ve done nothing but lay and stare since I got my tonsils out. Good luck to everyone who is going through the same thing and I am incredibly sorry that your feeling this pain.
I had mine out the same day! But I’m 12
Lucy, you have truly hit the nail on the head. My worst day was day 5 though. Haven’t really had any nausea and only been able to tolerate popsicles, water, apple juice and ice chips. Ive tried ramen noodles, needless to say that a piece of noodle got stuck in my throat. Which was scary but I did get it out. Mashed potatoe were deliousious. I strongly agree with you being EMOTIONALLY and PHYSICALLY ready. It’s definitely a must.