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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Ok, didn’t manage to post yesterday (my day 7) as i was all day in excruciating pain. I must say that i had a relatively easy recovery, with mild pain on day 4, and huge pain only on days 5 and 7. Turns out that whilst my scabs were falling a bit at a time on the previous days, on day 5 he majority of the right side fell off, and yesterday 90% of the left fell off…so maybe that’s why i was in so much pain. The upside is that now i feel so much better
I am 28 and I had my Tonsillectomy last Monday. I am on day 7 and oh my god is there no light at the end of this tunnel? The last two days I was in so bad of pain I could barely move and some people maybe have better pain tolerance than I do. But I’ve had three surgeries before this two kids and a miscarriage and I have to say this surgery is probably the worst I’ve went through. I couldn’t swallow I keep waking up every two hours in excruciating pain I keep a bottle of water next to my bed at night. Today is really the first day I’m able to talk without too much trouble. I also had thrush on my tongue from the surgery and so i’ve had to take medication for that too. I want real food so bad I can barely stand it. I want the pain and everything to be over and done with. please tell me does it get any better? and this is the first day i’m actually able to eat soup with rice in it it doesn’t hurt to swallow too much but I can’t seem to taste anything. I’m hoping its just me and that my taste buds will come back…
Dr office is not available. Amazing. Out of pain meds till tomorrow due to the fact the pharmacy wont refill for 1 week. Hopefully urgent care will prescribe something to get me through the day and night. Been without a doubt the most unbearable painfull experience ever, and I’ve been through some crazy one’s e.g. collapsed lung, head trauma etc. People think having tonsils out is no big deal, eat some ice cream, popsicles and your good. Not even close. It’s day 7. Will it get better? If not I can’t last much longer.
I am right there with you. Sx was on 9/11 and I feel worse everyday. Supposed to go back to work on 9/24, don’t think that is going to happen. Hopefully you can get some pain meds. I thought it was just me being a weenie and not tolerating the pain. I cant bear the pain when the meds wear off.
I tried to stop my pain Meds on day 4, but went back on so I could breath. This sucks!
Well im finishing day 7 and its not feeling better at all! The ears, jaw and throat are all killing me. I dont have the white scabbing at the back of my throat tho I think this is partly due to my darling mother making me eat toast with marg. And I dont know how u all eat suagry foods! It stings for me! Ive stuck to toast, mash, eggs and mac and cheese.
Im running low on pain meds so fingers crossed the hospital can give me more.
Hell I’m 18 day 7. It had been an ok day. Pain isn’t that bad but nausea is horrible for the past two days. Nothing is going down without coming up. I want this to be over. I want food.