Ok, I am typing this from my phone so I apologize for any future misspellings/grammar errors.
So, I'm a 27yr old female who just had a Tonsillectomy 5 days ago I guess (yeah, it was on a Wednesday, today is Sunday so 5 right? Or only 4?) Anyways, apparently they said I did great. I had to be in at 6:30am and I guess I was out before anesthesia hit me do to tiredness.
After surgery, recovery told me I was alert (I don't remember that part) and that my pain was only a scale 3 (don't remember that, either) but I do remember waking up in recovery and being able to talk, though quite raspy.
I got almost all control of my voice back yesterday, though is it normal to have a taste of wet rag in your mouth? Is that due to the scabbing? My ENT doc called the next day to check up on me and said "not to sound gloomy and dark, but tomorrow is probably going to be worse than today"... which, I guess it was, I stopped taking the liquid oxycodone they gave me because all it did was make me nauseous and I never ate because I was always tired so I switched to children's ibuprofen (although I wish they gave me the Percocet pills they had me take after surgery cuz those worked awesome).
Some questions I pose are:
*Is it really a million times worse once the scabs come off?
*Did/does anyone else still have problems opening their mouths/sticking out their tongues? Cuz I go to take my medicine and I can't tilt my head to open my mouth or stick out my tongue cuz it hurts
*And this may sound gross so my apologies, but anyone else get a lot of like.... gooey spit in their mouths that they find hard to swallow? It's not phlegm, but like a slimy spit that I can hardly swallow
I go back to work day after tomorrow, and my post-op isn't until October 9th (a week from Thursday). I guess it's just that I don't know if there's a particle. My ears hurt a little, but mainly when I lay down, but I'm not coughing up blood or bleeding and I don't think I have an infection because nothing seems to be hurting worse than the day before. Maybe I'm just paranoid? This is my first ever surgery (not counting wisdom teeth, which I only had out last year... I'm late, I know) but any help/tips/etc would be greatly and wonderfully appreciated :-)
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Your recovery sounds a lot like mine, except you have had better luck with your voice. The only thing about what you wrote that concerns me is your going back to work so soon. Try to push it back an extra week; if you overdo it and end up in the ER, then you're even worse off.
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Honestly, even my doctor (and Human Resources at work) said a week off... not sure why. But my job doesn't really involve hard, strenuous activity (I wash and sterilize surgical equipment) so I'm hoping nothing bad happens. A lady that works with my mom, who I don't think is much older than me, said they made her take 2 weeks off... maybe I should ask why mine is shorter???
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Im there now, actually lol. On break. It's not going too bad, but it's a slow week thankfully. I just wish the pain wouldn't spread to my ears because that's the worst part I'm dealing with right now. Especially at night, I wake up every like 2-4 hours with a horrible passion in both my ears. Thanks for asking :-)
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