A collection of various experiences of adult tonsillectomy patients on their ninth day of recovery
From thousands of post comments to the tonsillectomy recovery forum, I have assembled a sampling of various accounts and impressions of tonsillectomy recovery for each day. Below I share comments about tonsillectomy day 9. 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.
Many will experience depression toward the end of of their tonsillectomy recovery.
Depression After Tonsillectomy?
Please feel free to add your own experience with tonsillectomy day 9.
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Tonsillectomy Day 9 : Pain hasn’t changed, but something’s different. I’m going walking-So Day 9 was overall much better than any day so far of this recovery. But the pain came back tonight in force. Urgh. Back to the painkillers and junk TV.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 : My throat felt a lot better last night, it was moister and clearer than it has been in a few days. THANK YOU HUMIDIFIER!! The Tylenol I’m slowly easing off of, and the pain is almost gone in my throat. My ears still hurt, but definitely not that bad. I didn’t eat much today because of the panic attacks again, but I kept drinking through them because I know I need to keep a moist throat. I actually went out today!! I went to the mall with my mom which felt very liberating after spending so much time confined to my house. The only semi-new symptom is stinging in my throat. Every time I drink water it stings a lot and I’m not sure why. It could be because it’s healing and still raw; but I’m not really concerned. My dad looked in my throat today and he said almost all of the scabs are gone. He did see a few small red bumps in my throat, but I’m not quite sure what they are (another question to ask my doctor about)! Otherwise I’m feeling okay today.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 : day 9 and today I was able to talk a bit without pain. I haven’t napped at all today and am fading fast. It was nice to have friends visit me but also exhausting.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 : day 9 (today i feel better again)I had bled quite a bit last night before I went to bed which scared me a lot because it was more than a tablespoon, however I kept rinsing my mouth with ice water and sucking a piece of ice and after 5 minutes it stopped.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 : Day 9 – hallelujah… feeling so much better in myself. My throat still feels sore and im still on my meds., but I find I’m not willing for the 4th hour to come to pop more in. It’s also a little easier to talk today (something I have not done for the past 8 day’s and believe me it’s been hard having 2 son’s 5 & 2yrs) I went to the doctors yesterday to make sure thing’s where as they should and all is well.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 : Day 9/10 is slightly better than the last couple of days. The white in the back of my throat looks a bit more transparent, so I think it’s slowly sloughing off. There’s a red rim where it used to be. Everything is still sore, but not as bad. However, my right ear and the area behind my right jaw are KILLING me. It feels more like an ear infection than referred ear pain, but my temp is normal, so I’ll wait to bring it up at my post op on Monday
Tonsillectomy Day 9 : first day I’ve spent most of the day alone. No much to report, but that is a good thing. My appetite is returning a little bit. I had some chicken noodle soup last night, and tried some mac n’ cheese for dinner tonight. It was a little painful getting tonight’s dinner down, but not to bad. Pain levels are still about the same. I tried talking in a fairly normal voice for a little bit today, but didn’t maintain it very long, it did get a bit painful. In the interest of tracking my recovery and health i will share the following story. Had my first BM in a week yesterday, was fairly constipated.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 : Day 9 and I am waking with a bit more energy.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 :Day 9: The skies opened, and the angels sang! I felt good! (by good, I mean much better than the previous 8 days, but not “back to normal”) I could eat, with some pain, but actually consumed a breakfast, lunch and dinner. I stopped taking Lortab and haven’t been back. This helped get my head cleared up, and also helped with my extended absence from the bathroom, if ya know what I mean 😉 I was able to do some work (from home) and really started to feel like myself again.
Tonsillectomy Day 9 :Recovery Day 9 (post-op day 10):
I have lost the majority of the scabbing on my right tonsil bed but my left side still have massive scabs. my uvula was so huge it was resting on the back of my tongue but it seems to finally be starting to shrink a bit but when i do talk it makes me sound a bit slurred. Pain today is not nearly as bad as it was during the first 8 days. Was able to eat 2 over easy eggs today
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Man, I envy you all! I have been in and out of the hospital constantly since my surgery 9 days ago. The roxicet that I was given made me really sick so I got a fever and vomited constantly. The dr told me to stop taking the meds on day 4 so I have been off all medicine except nuasea suppositories since then. This is the worst pain I have ever experienced. I feel like hell, look like a druggie from all the IVs I have had in my arms. But thankfully I am home now and am slowly on the mend. I will try that chewing him technique for my ears! And man, I sure wish I saw this website before I went in for surgery:/ I had no idea about the pain. My dr just told me, it hurts some but you’ll be fine. Needless to say I hate him. Hoping for a quick recovery for you all!
Day 9 for me, and menthol cough drops have been my only source of nutrition. No, I’m joking, but it feels that way. I’ve been able to eat soft noodle soups with cheese, and ice tea, without the ice. I can’t stand anything cold, except popsicles, and it takes me 30 minutes to eat those. I’m going to work tomorrow, and nervous about how I’m going to feel. I’ve been off pain meds for the past two days, those dreams were insane. I hope everyone feels better. It’s almost over.
day 9 sunday and I feel like I am getting better however I look like I’ve been in an underground nuclear hideout for the past week – unshaven, unable to speak, weak, famished, miserable, demoralised, just wanna throw in the towel already. I know I’m close to the finish line but the only way I can be sure is for my scabs to be gone but its frustrating to see the white scabs are still there. I try my normal brekky of ramen noodles with poached eggs for brekky which still hurts to swallow from a combination of the throat and oral thrush. Later for dinner I take the plunge and risk a bleed for the sake of some cold pasta soup with small chicken pieces. Thankfully it went down without any bleeding. I’m thinking now if I have advice to you considering this surgery then do it when your a child otherwise the longer you delay it the more serious the risks you face and consequent torture to endure.
I just wanted to take a moment and thank Greg and all contributors to this website, it has been my guide and saving grace to a surgery I did not thoroughly research or understand. I am now in day 9 of recovery and have finally turned for the better. I have lost over 20 lbs in the process as I refused to eat from day 3 on and had my first small meal for dinner on day 8. I still have some pain but have stopped all pain killers, I was only taking OTC Tylenol and Advil. I still cannot speak properly but am very happy that I can swallow liquid with bearable pain.
My one piece of advice to others that I can offer above and beyond this site is to get your hands on some Chloraseptic sore throat spray for the painful nightime wakeups with dry throat. I would wake up in excruciating pain, go the the bathroom and spray the back of my throat, take down some meds and water and get back to bed in the matter of minutes. The spray would start working immediately and numbs your throat as well as extinguishes the pain.
Other than that, get to know this website, it has all the direction you need to get through one of the most painful weeks of your life. Good luck to all.
I decided to try the throat spray for the first time last night (Day 8 for me.) I hate that stuff, but I was in so much pain that I was desperate. At first I thought I was going crazy, but the pain got worse! I have sores on the sides of my tongue (I think because it is swollen and rubbing on my teeth) and the spray got in the sores and burned like my tongue was on fire. After a while I thought it started working and made me numb, but I realized it was just that the burning had stopped and I was back to where I had started 🙁
DAY 9: 30 years old and had tonsillectomy (with adenoids removed too).
I have achieved a whole new level of pain. As the scabs fall off and get stuck in my throat and I bleed all over the place, I find the pain overshadowing everything else.
The doctor estimates that I may be a day or two behind the normal healing schedule since I had to have it recauterized…I’m glad I could draw out the process even longer.
I have gotten to the point where I am eating very little and not drinking as much as I should simply because it hurts too much to swallow. Ice chips don’t soothe anymore because they make the new skin growing in my neck feel like it’s being attacked by needles. I also have some really bad sores on my tongue right where the tongue meets the gums, so every single time my mouth moves to swallow the sores get hit and it’s a burst of new pain.
I want my life back…and to not be in pain just long enough to get a full night’s sleep.
Man, I envy you all! I have been in and out of the hospital constantly since my surgery 9 days ago. The roxicet that I was given made me really sick so I got a fever and vomited constantly. The dr told me to stop taking the meds on day 4 so I have been off all medicine except nuasea suppositories since then. This is the worst pain I have ever experienced. I feel like hell, look like a druggie from all the IVs I have had in my arms. But thankfully I am home now and am slowly on the mend. I will try that chewing him technique for my ears! And man, I sure wish I saw this website before I went in for surgery:/ I had no idea about the pain. My dr just told me, it hurts some but you’ll be fine. Needless to say I hate him. Hoping for a quick recovery for you all!
Day 9 for me, and menthol cough drops have been my only source of nutrition. No, I’m joking, but it feels that way. I’ve been able to eat soft noodle soups with cheese, and ice tea, without the ice. I can’t stand anything cold, except popsicles, and it takes me 30 minutes to eat those. I’m going to work tomorrow, and nervous about how I’m going to feel. I’ve been off pain meds for the past two days, those dreams were insane. I hope everyone feels better. It’s almost over.
day 9 sunday and I feel like I am getting better however I look like I’ve been in an underground nuclear hideout for the past week – unshaven, unable to speak, weak, famished, miserable, demoralised, just wanna throw in the towel already. I know I’m close to the finish line but the only way I can be sure is for my scabs to be gone but its frustrating to see the white scabs are still there. I try my normal brekky of ramen noodles with poached eggs for brekky which still hurts to swallow from a combination of the throat and oral thrush. Later for dinner I take the plunge and risk a bleed for the sake of some cold pasta soup with small chicken pieces. Thankfully it went down without any bleeding. I’m thinking now if I have advice to you considering this surgery then do it when your a child otherwise the longer you delay it the more serious the risks you face and consequent torture to endure.
I just wanted to take a moment and thank Greg and all contributors to this website, it has been my guide and saving grace to a surgery I did not thoroughly research or understand. I am now in day 9 of recovery and have finally turned for the better. I have lost over 20 lbs in the process as I refused to eat from day 3 on and had my first small meal for dinner on day 8. I still have some pain but have stopped all pain killers, I was only taking OTC Tylenol and Advil. I still cannot speak properly but am very happy that I can swallow liquid with bearable pain.
My one piece of advice to others that I can offer above and beyond this site is to get your hands on some Chloraseptic sore throat spray for the painful nightime wakeups with dry throat. I would wake up in excruciating pain, go the the bathroom and spray the back of my throat, take down some meds and water and get back to bed in the matter of minutes. The spray would start working immediately and numbs your throat as well as extinguishes the pain.
Other than that, get to know this website, it has all the direction you need to get through one of the most painful weeks of your life. Good luck to all.
I decided to try the throat spray for the first time last night (Day 8 for me.) I hate that stuff, but I was in so much pain that I was desperate. At first I thought I was going crazy, but the pain got worse! I have sores on the sides of my tongue (I think because it is swollen and rubbing on my teeth) and the spray got in the sores and burned like my tongue was on fire. After a while I thought it started working and made me numb, but I realized it was just that the burning had stopped and I was back to where I had started 🙁
DAY 9: 30 years old and had tonsillectomy (with adenoids removed too).
I have achieved a whole new level of pain. As the scabs fall off and get stuck in my throat and I bleed all over the place, I find the pain overshadowing everything else.
The doctor estimates that I may be a day or two behind the normal healing schedule since I had to have it recauterized…I’m glad I could draw out the process even longer.
I have gotten to the point where I am eating very little and not drinking as much as I should simply because it hurts too much to swallow. Ice chips don’t soothe anymore because they make the new skin growing in my neck feel like it’s being attacked by needles. I also have some really bad sores on my tongue right where the tongue meets the gums, so every single time my mouth moves to swallow the sores get hit and it’s a burst of new pain.
I want my life back…and to not be in pain just long enough to get a full night’s sleep.