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 was on Day 8 yesterday and had been experiencing some slight bleeding since around day 6. Went to the ER twice complaining of the bleeding but it would stop by the time we got there and they gave me fluids and a steroid the first time and sent me home. The second time the bleeding stopped again before we got there and I stayed for a few hours and got sent home without getting anything not even fluids. Finally day 8 the bleeding continued throughout the day and I threw up quite a bit of blood. We rushed to the ER where I began to heave up more blood and some major sized blood clots. As a 16 year old girl I’ve never experienced something so terrifying. Having to shove my hand half way down my throat to pull out a blood clot that was stuck and made me feel like I couldn’t breathe is not pretty. There was blood everywhere and luckily the bleed clotted(in my teeth which was uncomfortable) and the ER called in the on call ENT. When he arrived it took him one look to call the on call surgical staff and I went into emergency surgery at midnight, the very beginning of day 9. The ENT that did the emergency surgery wasn’t my original surgeon but he assured me that getting this surgery was not like starting from day 1 and he would just be going in to fix all the places that needed it. I woke up in recovery with some pain but not as bad as the first surgery. The surgeon said that he fixed one major bleed on the left side and 6 little ones sparticlly on each side. They decided to send me home after I woke up and assured me that there would be no more bleeding. Now I’m not sure wether to say I’m post-op day 1 or post-op day 9, but I’m extremely glad it’s over and I can finally sleep at night and not wake up with a mouth full of blood. If you do bleed, don’t blow it off, because the first several times I did. I drank ice water and it stopped several times, only to start again. I even went and saw the ENT’s PA and he silver nitrated the bleed which is like re cauterizing it in hopes that would solve it but the next day is when things got bad again. Hopefully this means that the bleeding is over and the light at the end of the tunnel is just a short ways away.
Day 8 38 year old M. Started feeling a lot better yesterday and decided to try eating some chicken, didn’t go so well and no have minor bleeding in my mouth. Back to soup again . Overall pain is less each day but still feel I have a ways to go. Down 12 pounds so far
Day 8, 19/f. First time posting on this site. For the last couple of days I’ve been crying partially because of the pain, but mainly because I’m so hungry and the pain won’t go away enough to eat somewhat normal foods. Another reason causing the tears is the fact that my shitty Illinois insurance is making it very difficult to get refills on my Hycet, which has been my “elixir of life” for this crazy pain. The first 5-6 days were okay, but yesterday and today has been that dreaded relapse in pain that people say happens. My morale has been very low. But luckily I have an awesome mom pushing me to keep drinking and she’s taking care of me 100%. Thanks for the advice on this site, everyone.
Day 8: I’m a 40 yr old who dealt w chronic street throat and tonsillitis. Day 5-6 were the worst for me…day 7 yesterday wasn’t bad…was eating/drinking and out of bed more…then day 8 happened…woke up around 6am w a lot of pain, took my Motrin and liquid oxycodone and was able to fall back to sleep until I woke up with the taste of blood in my mouth. Ran to the bathroom and started spitting I out blood and a lot of it. I’m a nurse so I tried to keep my cool and has my husband call my ENT who sent me right to the ER. I has constant bleeding for 45min and lots of large clots. I was taken to the OR where they were unsuccessful in cauterizing the bleed and ended up having to have more stitches placed. FYI: I had issues w bleeding during my tonsillectomy and the doc was unable to use the conflation method and had to use electrcautery with stitches. I’m feeling better but still have ear pain/jaw pain/throats pain.
Day 8: 19/f never been so depressed until today. I thought the last two days have been pretty calm compared to the first five. When is this going to end?! Drinking the medicine causes more pain because it hurts so bad to swallow. I’ve been hacking up scabs for the last 3 days and I can’t believe I still have more. It tastes and smells so bad I wish it would just end already so I could go back to my normal life. I’m sure I won’t regret this in a few months but I sure as hell do now