I'm madison & I'm 15!! I got my tonsillectomy done 5 days ago. I don't take the pain medicine they gave me because I'm afraid to take it on an empty stomach because I haven't been able to get much food down at all. But I do take amoxicillin & Ibeprofen everyday. I wake up in the morning and that's when the pain is THE WORST and I take liquids still not pills.. so I have to swallow the amoxicillin and ibeprofen in the morning and it hurts so bad. And then I get so much spit in my mouth so I have to go to the bathroom and spit it out because I'm to afraid to swallow it because it hurts and I'm afraid I'll choke idk why... but I am. I have trouble breathing laying all the way down and sometimes even sitting up. But my advice is to try to distract your self from all the pain and eat popsicles and drink lots of water. I haven't been drinking much water and that's only because it hurts to swallow but I try to as much as I can. The white stuff on your throat is normal, I do not want to bleed, and I heard that you bleed more or will bleed if you don't drink enough water and that scared me. But it hurts so bad to swallow anything and I have cried and freaked out and got stressed out from this many times so far. It's like having strep throat but 100x worse!!!! :) I have times where I feel okay, and happy. And my throat doesn't hurt that bad. But usually my pain level is 10 on a scale from 1-10 in the morning and then once I get that medicine down... it slowly gets better throughout the day.