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 had a tonsillectomy and setoplasty surgery a week ago tomorrow. I have never been in so much pain in my life. I am taking oxycodone (liquid) every 4 hours for pain. Honestly the pain meds just make me sleep on and off. I am also on a 10 day antibiotic that I have to mix with pudding to take 2 times a day. I had to do a 24 stay in ICU the night of surgery before coming home the next day. I been living off Chicken and stars in the soup to go cup, jello, pudding and lots of Sonic ice. I finally starting walking around the house and even went riding to the store with my husband it felt good just to get out for awhile. I have found that ice is starting to make my throat and ear pain worse so i have been putting warm salt water in my mouth and spitting it out. That seems to make the pain go away for a little while. I am just ready to be back to normal and eat what I want instead of eating all soft foods. This pain is by far worse than I could have imagined. I had a C-section and came home and took no pain meds and was fine. I also had a tubal ligation and had very little pain….this tonsillectomy and septoplasty has been one hell of a ride.
18 year old female
I’m on day seven of my recovery and things are looking pretty bleek. I have been able to eat okay up until this point, but eating takes me a really long time because I’m taking such small bites. Honestly right now all I’ve eaten since the surgery is chicken noodle soup, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, and chicken pot pie that i stuck in a blender. Ill take a few bites of “real food” and then immediately wash it down with a bite of vanilla pudding, jello, or occasional ice cream. But eating is getting harder now that the scabs are coming off. Before every swallow i have to give myself a little pep talk because I never know when a scab will come off and ill be in pain. Talking is difficult too, but at least I can speak now- the first couple days I could barely get a sentence out it hurt so bad. I’m still not sleeping well, I wake up the moment my pain medication wears off (every 4 hours) and then have to stay awake for the next dose to kick in. I’m falling asleep constantly, i average two naps a day, usually lasting an hour or two (or four). But my main problem now is mucus. I can barely breathe because of the mucus buildup in the back of my throat. I’m constantly spitting it out but it just gets worse. I’m not sure if its allergies or some kind of summer cold, but it’s making me kinda miserable. Im really hoping it gets better from here, I’m starting to go nuts.
I can’t even chew Mac and cheese. My throat hurts all up into my ears. Talking hurts so bad as well. I am just praying it gets easier because so far each day is worse for me
Uhm heeey… you’re not suppose to eat dairy after a tonsillectomy it causes mucus lol but I’m sure you’re ok by now!!
I’m a 19 year old female and tomorrow will be a week exactly since I got them out, I’ve been not too bad so far apart from horrible horrible jaw pain that can make it impossible to eat. My surgeon told me eat as normally as possible as soon as possible. So I have been and I’m managing it fine. However drinking is a different story, water makes me nauseous at the taste, diluting juice is slightly stingy, and soft drinks feel horrible so I’m scared I’m getting dehydrated but I drink as much as I can. My main issue is that, although I’ve been fine all night my uvula seems to have swollen right up again and I’ve got what looks like a red area next to it that’s swollen up a bit too and it’s making it really painful to swallow. I’ve taken my painkillers but they hurt so I’m scared to take any ibuprofen. I have a week of recovery left but I have things planned for that are kind of important and I’m scared that I won’t get any better and that I’ll need to go to hospital for fluids or something! Or that I have an infection 🙁
Day seven:
18 year old female
Today was fine, I ate a piece of pizza, an apple, and some bread. The only time I’m in a decent amount of pain is when I sleep or take a nap, then I’ll need to take some Advil and drink water. Other than that my left tonsil is the only one that really hurts and my tonsils look way better than they did on day 3, I think my scabs are still on
Day seven | 23 year old female
I woke up at 11 this morning with tolerable pain in one side of my throat and ear (meds wore off) and I immediately sipped on apple juice and had my brufen 600mg. My uvula is still swollen and last night I had trouble sleeping because it felt like I was constatly trying to swallow it 🙂 freaky but I did my research and it’s not life threatnig unless you have trouble breathing. However, it wasn’t painful at all it just felt uncomfortable. I’ll stop taking my antibiotics and my other meds because my doctor prescribed them for me to take for seven days but I’ll stick with the Brufen just in case since it’s the last day I’ll take my meds.
I tasted some blood in my mouth and there was actually no bleeding so I’m guessing it’s just the scabs since the white stuff is decreasing in amount.
Yesterday (day six) I managed to eat for the first time! It was one of the best days post op as I managed to eat banana, nutella and ice cream waffle. I didn’t rush it and made sure I chewed my food very well and it went down smoothly, and I also had banana and strawberry shake.
Make sure to take a pain killer before you eat it will minimize the pressure when you swallow your food.
Days are passing by so fast. Hang in there.