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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The last few days I have woken up with severe coughing and I am coughing up what looks and smells and looks like infection. I am still on Antibiotics so I am hoping it is part of the healing process. Both of my ears feel like I have double ear infections. They are very tender and I have been wearing a winter hat just to ease the pain. Talking is very strenuous and tiring. My throat feels very sore still and I am still very reliant on the pain medicine. I had my first bowel movement to days ago but I was beginning to worry before that so I took some laxatives, which didn’t help and finally decided to try some prune juice and that helped!! If anyone has had problems with coughing up infection looking stuff let me know!
Day 9 was another mixed day for me. It began with extreme pain when I got up. After my meds and smoothie it was time for my ice packs and apple juice slushy.
Spent most of the day coughing with the congestion in my chest. Finally got the pain to ease up and the coughing to slow down early this evening so I was able to open wide enough to take a good look at my throat.
I guess due to all the coughing, I lost several more large pieces of scabs(gross!). Most of what is left is translucent. Im able to see a lot of bright red tissue which is both good and bad.
This evening I started having a lot of pain again, so continued with meds on schedule. I did eat a few mashed potatoes, and about 1/2 can of soup about 30 min after a dose of meds. Took me about 2 hours to eat the soup, but I did it 🙂
My ears are still super sensitive and achy. I have yet to find them any relief.
All in all, things are looking up. I desperately hope this trend continues!
have you tried chewing gum? that has helped me heaps with ear ache
that and either covering them with a blanket or holding ice wrapped in a towel next to them
Well its the morning of day 9 for me, I feel very nauseous I hadn’t had that symptom until last night. Now that i feel a bit more human im starting to feel frustrated that I can’t do anything or eat anything ugh
My op was on Dec 19 and I would say the worst days have been from days 5 -9 . On day 7 I started bleeding and ended up in A & E with a 2 day stay in hospital over Xmas and Boxing Day. Since the bleeding the pain has been at it’s worst accompanied by severe pain in my ears . Starts to get worse as the pain meds wear off. This morning I was nearly in tears when I woke up as the pain was so bad. Have no idea if scabs are off yet as I can’ t open my mouth wide enough to check as it is too sore. Drinking lots of water and managing to eat meals very slowly , ice pops are also a god send. Here’s hoping I wake up tomorrow and feel better .
My 19 year old son had his surgery on Dec. 26th. He has his tonsils and uvula removed as well as some nasal work done. After reading all of the other posts, he is doing as well as everyone else…. taking pain medicine, drinking lots of fluids, and anxiously waiting to eat “real” food.
He is on day 9 today and unfortunately he woke me up this morning after bleeding for 30 minutes from a scab that had fallen off. He drank lots of ice cold water and ate a large glass of ice chips trying to get the bleeding stopped, but after 3 hours of the bleeding, we headed for the ER as we were afraid he was losing too much blood (we had changed his trash can liner 2 times… quite a lot of blood). While there, they gave him IV fluids and the bleeding actually stop on its own…. at that point it had been 3hr and 45 mins…..I just wanted to pass along that the hospital told us that we were doing the right thing with the cold water and ice chips as it will help clotting. I had not seen many posts about excessive bleeding and wanted to share. Hopefully not any more scares like this….
The last few days I have woken up with severe coughing and I am coughing up what looks and smells and looks like infection. I am still on Antibiotics so I am hoping it is part of the healing process. Both of my ears feel like I have double ear infections. They are very tender and I have been wearing a winter hat just to ease the pain. Talking is very strenuous and tiring. My throat feels very sore still and I am still very reliant on the pain medicine. I had my first bowel movement to days ago but I was beginning to worry before that so I took some laxatives, which didn’t help and finally decided to try some prune juice and that helped!! If anyone has had problems with coughing up infection looking stuff let me know!
Day 9 was another mixed day for me. It began with extreme pain when I got up. After my meds and smoothie it was time for my ice packs and apple juice slushy.
Spent most of the day coughing with the congestion in my chest. Finally got the pain to ease up and the coughing to slow down early this evening so I was able to open wide enough to take a good look at my throat.
I guess due to all the coughing, I lost several more large pieces of scabs(gross!). Most of what is left is translucent. Im able to see a lot of bright red tissue which is both good and bad.
This evening I started having a lot of pain again, so continued with meds on schedule. I did eat a few mashed potatoes, and about 1/2 can of soup about 30 min after a dose of meds. Took me about 2 hours to eat the soup, but I did it 🙂
My ears are still super sensitive and achy. I have yet to find them any relief.
All in all, things are looking up. I desperately hope this trend continues!
have you tried chewing gum? that has helped me heaps with ear ache
that and either covering them with a blanket or holding ice wrapped in a towel next to them
Chewing gum has been my saviour these last few days!
Well its the morning of day 9 for me, I feel very nauseous I hadn’t had that symptom until last night. Now that i feel a bit more human im starting to feel frustrated that I can’t do anything or eat anything ugh
My op was on Dec 19 and I would say the worst days have been from days 5 -9 . On day 7 I started bleeding and ended up in A & E with a 2 day stay in hospital over Xmas and Boxing Day. Since the bleeding the pain has been at it’s worst accompanied by severe pain in my ears . Starts to get worse as the pain meds wear off. This morning I was nearly in tears when I woke up as the pain was so bad. Have no idea if scabs are off yet as I can’ t open my mouth wide enough to check as it is too sore. Drinking lots of water and managing to eat meals very slowly , ice pops are also a god send. Here’s hoping I wake up tomorrow and feel better .
My 19 year old son had his surgery on Dec. 26th. He has his tonsils and uvula removed as well as some nasal work done. After reading all of the other posts, he is doing as well as everyone else…. taking pain medicine, drinking lots of fluids, and anxiously waiting to eat “real” food.
He is on day 9 today and unfortunately he woke me up this morning after bleeding for 30 minutes from a scab that had fallen off. He drank lots of ice cold water and ate a large glass of ice chips trying to get the bleeding stopped, but after 3 hours of the bleeding, we headed for the ER as we were afraid he was losing too much blood (we had changed his trash can liner 2 times… quite a lot of blood). While there, they gave him IV fluids and the bleeding actually stop on its own…. at that point it had been 3hr and 45 mins…..I just wanted to pass along that the hospital told us that we were doing the right thing with the cold water and ice chips as it will help clotting. I had not seen many posts about excessive bleeding and wanted to share. Hopefully not any more scares like this….