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.
Today has been by far the worst for me as far as pain is concerned. I saw the doc this morning for follow up, and thankfully she refilled my pain meds, which I ran out of 1 1/2 days ago. Boy was that a difference, once I took them again. I was able to somewhat function for most of the day until the pain hit me again in the evening. I have lost 7 lbs so far.
Ok, so today it feels like I just have a ton of mucus in the back of my throat that I can’t get out because my throat hurts too much. I’ve cut down on my medicine and take the lower end of the recommended dose partly because the pain isn’t as extreme and also to make it last longer. I’ve also noticed something strange when I brush my teeth. When I lean over the sink to spit, it feels as if chunks of hanging flesh flop over my airway making me gag. I think I have hanging scabs or something back there. It’s really weird and annoying. Sigh………..
I’m getting so frustrated. I can’t get sleep! I need some serious advice. I have a humidifier in my room, I’ve taken hot showers before laying down, but really nothing is alleviating the pain when I sleep. I wake up after an hour with such intense pain that I spend another hour trying to get over it. I’m even more weirded out because during the day I’m not in that much pain, what is happening when I sleep to make it hurt soooo bad? When does it end? I’m exhausted…it’s been 4 days now of this pain/sleep thing. I want a sleeping shot or something….please i’m so tired
I’m also on day 8 today aug 16, 2012. I have the same thing with more pain during the night than in the day. I’ve been taking liquid hydrocodone every 4 hours since day 1. My phone goes off during the night to remind me. I’m also having pain under my tongue, in my jaw, cheekbones, ears. And it feels like loose white scab is trapped in the back of my throat. I only eat chicken noodle soup (minus the chicken, b/c the chicken looks like tonsils stones!!!) and milk shakes. Sometimes the cold is too much though. But the recipe is one packet of instant breakfast, 3/4 cup of milk, and 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream – mix in blender. Drink slow! God I hope I’m better by Monday!!! Longest week of my life
Ouuuchhhh! Day 8 was scabs, day 8 was pain… all day long.
Not excruciating, but very sore, and enough to effect my food choices. By far the worst day so far, 7/10 pain-wise and it was consistent throughout the day (Til this morning – the recovery has been a bit of a breeze).
Today the dihydrocodeine RAN OUT, I still had a lot of paracetamol left, but that wasnt going to help at all. We requested a repeat prescription of the codeine yesterday, and on collecting it today we discovered that that they had supplied us with……. ……yes, more paracetamol. (which was completely useless, as you can only take one paracetamol product at any one time).
I cried. But luckily this is where our better halves step in to action! ….And within 2 hours I was the happy owner of a 3 day course of co-codamol. phew!
On first impression, the co-codamol does not seem to alieviate the pain as thoroughly as the dihydrocodeine did. Or this could just be coinicdence – it may just be that the pain levels today are a lot higher, regardless of what I take.
What makes this all worth it: My scabs have come off!! all in one day!! The blue cheese effect is gone, and so is that awful taste!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Joy of joys, my new un-tonsils are looking GREAT!
I am 27 and had my tonsils out last Friday July 27 so I am on day 8. I am at my breaking point. I just want to cry. I have lost 15 pounds and can’t eat anything. My throat and tongue are so sore!! When I sleep I end up breathing out of my mouth and everything gets dry and is even more awful. I’m sick of having my life on hold. I need to be able to work and be a good parent. It’s my baby girls birthday on Thursday and I just want to feel like a normal person again!! If I could go back I would have never ever had my tonsils taken out!
Post-op day 8–I can’t believe fast yet excruciatingly slow this recovery process is going. First 2 days felts like an eternity and I didn’t think I’d ever get to a point where I felt normal again. Everything from day 3 on seems like a blurr and suddenly here I am on the morning of day 8. I stopped taking the narcotic pain killers on Monday night (after a night of throwing up and barely any sleep) so after that was out of my system I was able to leave the house unsupervised and more importantly, drive. There’s nothing that can lift your spirits like being able to do things for yourself. I didn’t use anything more than a cold/hot compress to deal with the pain until midday of day 5–at which point I started using extra strength liquid tylenol. Maybe its just me, but I feel like the pain seems worse when the medicine wears off as appose to not taking any medicine at all. I’ve also only lost 8lbs so far–a bulk of which was lost in the first couple days. I weigh myself every morning and I seem to be holding steady at 8lbs lost– not gaining or losing anything. I haven’t looked at my throat with a flashlight because I made that mistake a couple weeks before the surgery and I was horrified by my huge, alien-like tonsils. I’d rather just deal with that feeling of something being stuck in my throat than actually see the scab dangling and know I can’t just rip it off. Plus I don’t feel the need to gag or cough so it’s bothering me too much. I’m just waiting, and hoping, for the day when I wake up and I don’t feel anything in my throat.