Yesterday I thought I had finally started on the road to recovery; today I woke at 4 AM with the worst pain yet. It feels as if a scrub brush was thrust down my throat and the last four days never happened. The pain starts two hours after taking the Codeine and increases until a half hour after taking the next dose. The only problem is the next dose isn't scheduled for two more hours; or every four hours.
The best medicine is sleep. I seem to make it about two and a half to three hours if I can fall asleep after taking a dose of Codeine. Otherwise it's just suffer through it.
Eating doesn't hurt any more than swallowing water but it does hurt a lot, about a 8 on a 1 to 10 scale, which really makes me not want to eat at all.
My worst thought is that I made the pain worse myself. While I was taking a shower I spit up some thick pieces of white stuff, something that was coating the back to middle of my tongue. So, when I got out of the shower I brushed my teeth and scrubbed my tongue a little to clean it to. I thought it was dried saliva, like when you have a cold and snore a lot and get dry mouth, but now I'm thinking it is like a scab. I think I loosened it up and that is what is hurting so bad now.
I'll have to ask the Doc to find out for sure.
All I want to do is sit and breath. I have no desire to eat, drink, or talk.
I hope tomorrow is better.
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Sorry to hear about all the pain you are going through.May be you should just take it easy by taking your mind off the pain and watch some favorite movies.The bright side of the situation is you can be lazy and do nothing which most of us don't do that much.
Im 37 and I had my tonsill's removed on Aug 14th @0900. Its day 5 and I couldnt sleep after waking up at 4:30 am, I just missed my liquid meds at 3:00 am. I went to google and put in tonsillectomy at 37 and your post came up. I'm on the same course. I think day 3&4 were the worse, but I've had much worse when the tonsills were inflamed in the winter months. I like to read whats coming ahead for the next few days. I sleep alot but I thinks it the liquid roxicet. I am glad I had the operation, I would do it again, knowing I got those nasty things out. I believe I can take in more air..
Archie in KC
I'm not quite sure why they give out horse pills for pain meds when our (most of our) throats are swollen shut. I've been mushing up the oxycodone and putting it in a tiny spoon full of icecream the taste is bad but it goes down. another thing that has really helped, i told the dr i had a sensitive stomach (with all the meds and no food for 5 days its not a lie) he gave me some liquid med for nasuea. i'm sure it has saved me from throwing up numerous times. i've had a c-section, spinal meningitis, and numerous broken bones. Tonsillectomy pain is no joke! Today was the first day I was able to drink any soup broth. i'm sure i'll loose 10-15 pounds before this is over!
I am 33, and I had that weird tongue thing, too. By about day 6 or 7, my entire tongue was covered with this strange, white layer of something. I spoke to my ENT's nurse who said that is normal- it is a reaction that some people have to all the medication. She also said the tongue sort of has to rebuild itself after the trauma of surgery. I was just glad to hear it wasn't an infection. It went away on its own after about 3 days.
I am 19 years old and got my tonsils out 5 days ago, now I am getting ear aches... ouch... and my pain medicine doesn't seem to be doing much! It is 4:30 am here, I am hoping to sleep through most of this painful day ahead of me.
sorry to hear you and all the readers are in so much pain.
I am a 18 yr old male and I am currently on day 5 of my post tonsillectomy recovery.
Although todays pain is probably the worse of all 5 days, the pain is very bareable. Now, every individual is different and there are many variables that can sway the reocovery outcome so don't expect everyones day 5 to be A O.K.
This surgery was well worth it. Since January 2008, i started coming down with what looked like bacterial tonsillitis. As time went by I started to get it every 30-40 days. By the 15th month I had a total of 12 cases of confirmed severe tonsillitis cases. Every single infection resulted in high fevers, pain and etc. I still have a cabinet full of empty antibiotics bottles.
During the last 3 infections, before I went to seek for further advice from a otolarynologist, I develped peritonsillar abscess (a complication of bacterial tonsillitis). The pain was horride with extream ear pains and even swallowing my own seliva felt like hell.
So far my recovery hasn't been like that and I'm crossing my fingers It won't ever be.
I have been very cautious these past fee days. I have a 1L water bottle and I down 3 of those in a day. Plus jello, soup and gatoraid = alot of liquids.
I have worked very hard to help the healing process by dampening my coughs, lightening my teeth brushing and avoided spitting and horking like the black death. I guess it paid off.
hi, im in day 5 as well.. my biggest problem right now was my tongue, it was swollen for days and now that swelling came down its as if i have 10 cancre sores all over from where they clamped it.. then i read somewhere that i should try oragel, that was a friggin godsend, not only did it get rid of my tongue pain, it allowed me to eat some colder foods again like ice cream and popsicles, which were much too painful otherwise, and all in all, today is turning out to be the best day so far, even thought it started off horribly when i woke up this morning... im not done with the recovery by any means, but just to let everyone out there know, the harder u try to force urself to drink a lot of water, popsicles (id avoid ice cream at first at it creates phlegm and will make u wanna cough it up, which can be not too pleasant) but just tough it out, i guarantee u the first 5 sips of water, hurt more than the next 5, and so on.. goodluck to all who have this brutal and caveman'ish procedure done to them, its too bad they couldnt just put us all in an induced coma for 2 weeks.. oh well! barbarian doctors!
im definitely going to complain to the ENT about the tongue thing, as there was 0 mention of it happenening, and it seems quite normal for everyone who has the surgery.. especially cause he gave me 0 tips as to what to do if it is a problem...
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