Day 1 thru 3 of recovery

Tonsillectomy Recovery

Days 1-3

Day 1: The surgery

On this day, the pain is bad but take the pain killers on time, sleep, eat plain ice cream and popsicles and just remember the surgery is done. One thing that helped a lot for me was sherbet ice cream ginger ale floats, my husband would make them. Stay away from dairy for at least 24 hours. As stated before, get help for the first week.

Day 2:

The pain on this day was no worse than some of my strep throats, so 1 pain killer seemed to do the trick every four hours. The pain was manageable, but as far as eating goes, rough. Tried eating some yogurt, no go. Drinking water like crazy, and once again popsicles and ice cream are the only items I can stomach. Ice pack on neck pretty much all day. Hard time sleeping at night.

Day 3:

And the pain spiked! Holy cow, forgot to set an alarm, when I fell asleep I slept 5 1/2 hours and woke up barely able to drink water. I have to break the pain pills into fourths or less to swallow them and now taking the max dose of 2 every four hours. I know they are helping but the pain is still pretty bad. Once again, yogurt not going down and even though I drink two cups of water and eat something with the prednisone, it still makes me really dizzy and nauseated. Thankfully, within an hour of taking it, I am usually asleep and sleep it off, but it does seem to help with the swelling.

My husband and kids looked at my throat for the first time today, first time I could open my mouth enough for them to get a glimpse. Needless to say, the kids never want to have a tonsillectomy or even get strep again and my husband said that is the kind of stuff that can give someone nightmares. Not a pretty sight.

The third night, rough. Sleep is screwed up. Cannot lay down on the stack of pillows, have to be reclined.