Tonsillectomy Recovery Day by Day
Day 8
A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their eighth day of recovery
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Tonsillectomy Day 8 : Crying. Just… Crying
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : So I woke up this morning with a dry throat. I wasn’t able to sleep more than 30 minutes at a time without coughing. Even while drinking water, my throat has been so dry, it’s like it just isn’t staying moist. I got so fed up, I asked my mom to go buy me a humidifier today. I know I’m a little late, I should have had it from the beginning, but I guess I thought I really didn’t need it. My post-op appointment is in 1 week and I really can’t wait. I definitely have a few questions to ask him! So, I finally got the nerve up to look into my throat, and even though it was a little hard to see, I do see a lot of gray areas. I thought I lost more scabs than I see in my throat, so I was wondering whether or not all of the gray areas are scabs, or if some of it is not scabs. I was told that it is all scabs, so I guess the scabs are going to take longer to fall off than I thought. So, I thought I was doing really well today and then all of a sudden my throat started squeezing really tightly when I swallowed. I slept for about an hour and woke up and it was gone. After talking to my dad who has dealt with panic attacks his whole life, he confirmed that he has had the same thing before and it is in fact mini panic attacks. Great, panic attacks – that’s all I need! I had one in the afternoon and then another one at night. The best way for me to deal with it is to sleep through it.
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : day 8..I thought someone had tried to bite off the back of my tongue and tried to scrape the white spots off with a nail filer…Also my feet were swelling, and I began to have a migraine and vomit, I was afraid i was going to rip my stitches..they had become so big me and my bf had named them “shrek ” feet
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : day 8 today and I felt terrible when I woke up! The pain was like a bruised/burning pain. I also feel like I have hay fever(which I don’t). However it’s now lunchtime and I feel considerably better. It feels like day 7 which I can cope with. Hoping day 10 will be the major turnaround day. I swear this feels like the longest recovery!
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : Day 8. 33 yrs old. Thanks for the info on the swollen tongue and the marks on it from my teeth. That makes total sense!! My throat feels much better, but the difficulty in eating seems to be coming from the underside of my tongue and my jaw. I will continue to take it easy in hopes that everything will continue to heal up. Im down 12 pounds. Its going to be hard not to put all of the weight back on. I’m starving!! lol
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : Days 8 – today – Pain has slowly begun to decrease, however, it’s remained at about a 3/4 for the last two days. However, my body has slowly begun to feel better. I feel like a human again. That’s a refreshing feeling.
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : Days 8-10–able to eat a little bit more everyday, but it was different every day. Pudding and mac & cheese were good one day, bad the next. Chicken noodle soup was also good, couldn’t eat anymore jello 😛 Throat still sore, still doing the Advil/Tylenol rotation. Waiting for scabs to fall off, but throat still all white.
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : Day 8, Ok I am feeling much better. Last night was rough. I had taken my pain meds around 11:30 PM , and around 12:15 my earache was unbearable. I had a problem eating yesterday. I just wanted to eat a Popsicle. I got down on my knees and prayed to God to let the pain go away so i could eat. A few minutes later, the pain in my ears subsided (Thanks God!). I ate 2 Popsicles.
Tonsillectomy Day 8 :Day 8- while I felt really crappy all day long I stayed home all day & rested and this evening I feel just a lil better.
Tonsillectomy Day 8 : Recovery Day 8 (post-op day 9):
Had another relapse of pain today on my right side and into my right ear. At this point I am just so exhausted from lack of sleep and lack of proper food. I had my post-op appointment with my surgeon today. He said i still have a ways to go but it is beginning to heal. He said my tonsils were extremely large and that the tonsil beds (where the tonsils were) that are now left behind are so massive that it will take extra time to heal since there is so much damaged tissue back there from the cauterization. I was able to eat some of a baked potato today with cheese and bacon.
I’m now on day 8 of my tonsillectomy and I’m 15. The first few days just felt like a sore throat really but not a normal one it felt like weird but having to stay in hosptial overnight made it easier to keep my throat moist from Water since they wake me up for my meds. Day 4& 5 were the worst for me. The scabs were scabbing over and starting to fall off but here in UK we get told to eat normally and that helps as it heals faster. I would wake up every few hours in the worst pain you can ever imagine and eating anything was a challenge. Having them lasered made it 10X worse as they burnt my tongue! But from day 6 it was getting better I ate pizza, toast and different things but I find drinking tea soothes it more than water. Today has been ok, all the scabs are mainly off apart from the bits at the very back. It stings a bit from the fresh skin and it looks very painful, I can finally speak now as before it was such a challenge as it hurt so much, I hope it won’t get worse and it will heal much more from this point.
I’m 19 and now on day 8 of my recovery, and I feel great. The first 5 days of my recovery was extremely hard and full of pain…at one point my medication became too strong for me so I ended up throwing up on day 3! However for the first 5 days I didn’t leave my house once, all I did was sleep and force myself to eat and drink. Although it was extremely painful and I was waking up during the night from the pain, it was clearly worth it as by day 6 the pain was bareable and was starting to decrease, which was a relief after day 5 as I couldn’t even speak! Day 6 I went shopping for 3 hours, day 7 I went to a spa for the day, and today I’m going shopping again -whilst eating as much as I could of crispy food (helps to take down any scabs etc in your throat) as well as normal foods, e.g., rice, chicken, fish, etc. So, my best advice is to constantly drink water ONLY (no hot drinks or food), force yourself to eat a variety of foods even if you can’t finish the portion (not just liquid food as this helps the healing process better) and rest, even if it means not leaving your house for 5 days! -also avoid hot, steamy showers as this can cause bleeding (which luckily I haven’t had)!
Day 8, 26 years old. Last night woke up an hour and a half before med time with extreme pain due to the dry throat as usual, took a hot shower and let the moisture from the steam mellow things out a bit, went back to bed and woke up and repeated the above process. This is my nightly routine now. The day itself has been better than day 7. I was able to get down a small plate of butter noodles for breakfast, a first! I cheated and took very small bites along with a swig of water with each swallow to get it down but hey, its the first solid food i’ve had in 8 days so what ever works. Was able to drink a lot of water through out the day and finished with a small amount of luke warm chicken noodle soup. used the same trick with breakfast to help get it down. Pain is manageable while on the meds, though the hour before new med time and the half hour after are quite painful. Its hard to notice, but some small progress is being made. Hopefully tomorrow will bring more. I’ve been downing water all day since days 6-7 it was miserable even to take a couple sips, I think this will help. I have noticed a slight difference when looking at the back of my throat, still have white areas covering tonsil beds, a few spots seem to be raised and feel harder when i swallow, but I can see a surrounding area that is a brighter red than the rest of my mouth and I believe this to be newly healed areas that were once scabbed over like the rest. I dont think it does too much good to constantly look back there but now I am just to see if I can notice any differences. I expect to go through the same nightly process as mentioned above as the pain and sensations of swallowing have not changed all that much. Will update tomorrow on Day 9.
Day 8 – felt decent I finally got to go out since my surgery…stayed out 4 hours but after I started feeling week I’m guessing it’s because I haven’t eaten much of anything besides pudding, juice and a little bit of soup for the past week.
Swallowing food is still a little bit hard, started dry heaving a lot which strains my throat which causes it to be sore. Can’t wait till the 2 weeks are up.
Today was day 8 for me. It was okay… a lot like day 7. Woke up with a veryyyy dry throat and sleeping with a humidifier didn’t work for me so I slept with a blanket over my face. ugh…