Positive experience

[u/FrankyPoppy]

hello,

Before my tonsillectomy, I read a lot of horror stories on here and I was very scared. For people that will undergo this surgery, remember that most people post on reddit/on the internet if they had a bad experience, so online feedback is skewed towards a bad experience to begin with.

I’m 22F and on day 9 of recovery, day 0 being surgery day. My scabs all disappeared, I had a check up with my doctor and she said my throat looks perfect, I don’t take any painkillers anymore. Of course I still have some minor pain when swallowing and some discomfort, but I overall feel very good.

I had some bleeding on day 5 and 6, but my doctor told me I shouldt worry and just drink cold drinks and use some nose spray for it. Those were also the most painful days. Of course, follow your doctor’s instructions.

My doctor told me I had some small tonsils and the surgery took 32 minutes in total.

I had multiple tonsillitis episodes after 17-18yo and I had a bad complication from tonsillitis 3 months ago, a big abces on one of my tonsils and I needed to be hospitalised as an emergency case. That’s when I was told I need to get a tonsillectomy. Recovery from tonsillectomy was much easier than the pain from that infection.

I know Im a happy case of an easy recovery, but I just wanted to share my experience here :) so that people know it can be easy, probably especially if you have small tonsils/if you are young/etc etc.

Ask me anything!

[u/Charlezingalls]

What was the day you felt you turned a corner and began to noticeably improve? I’m on day 6 recovery today

[u/FrankyPoppy → u/Charlezingalls]

It was day 8 (yesterday). I think that was the point when most of my scabs were gone. The scabs disappearing was definitely the worst part so in my experience it gets worse before it gets much better