I had my tonsils removed on a Wednesday and by Monday Im feeling just fine.  I take my pain meds every 4yrs and eating popsickles and Campbell soup & Jello, oh and forgot to mention my fingernails are growing good from the jello..lol  I had no problem 1st day I came home and around 4am in the morning was coughing so hard due to dryness in apartment and the blood started to rush out.  Please use a humidifier it helps a lot & please suck on plenty ice chips,  by the time I arrived to ER @hospital the bleeding was slowing down.  After that no more problems, I lost 12lbs which I needed to do and diabetes is fine now due to the weight lost.  I lost the 7% of body fat and now back into my jeans.  I will maintain my weight and watch out for grease & sweets.  One of my tonsils had an abscess in it and the other tonsil was just large, Im so glad I got this over with, while reading all the horror stories everyone has to know it's according to that individual dont listen to that painful stuff, I never was in pain just took the meds and no pain I had liquid percaset however u spell it but I am fine now and glad I wont have more problesm with TONSILS.