How long until you got your voice fully back? I am 18 and about to go to college. I am on day 11 and feeling like I talk funny. When will I be back to my normal self!
Hi your posted this a long time ago and I was wondering did your normal voice come back?
I had my tonsils removed yesterday and I agree it's very hard to stay asleep. I am in a good amount of pain, even with pain medications. I am hoping for an improvement with sleeping .... I didn't get too much sleep the night before surgery due to my nerves.
Well I can definitely say having my tonsils removed has been an..experience! I've just turned 22 and have got some advice for anyone who is gonna have their tonsils removed. No matter how much you think your voice is fine (minus sounding like you have a golf ball in your mouth whilst speaking) for the first few days speak the least you can!! I didn't and I'm on day 9 with absolutely no speaking voice! As annoying as it sounds as well I'm the first few days eat and especially drink as much as you can. I pretty much refused to eat anything except a tip top here and there and ended up getting an infection (my tonsils went from white to green to yellow all in a few hours). Which then led to bleeding a few days later after a scab (it was huge) fell off before it was ready. The bleeding was a lot! (Don't make the same mistake I did - go straight to the hospital by a walk in centre it just made things take longer). Yeah chucking up blood clots was pretty damn nasty! Anyway I was lucky that the bleeding stopped itself (after a looot of gargling ice water to minimise swallowing blood) just before I got there after about 2 hours of bleeding. I ended up having to stay in hospital overnight but didn't get any more major bleeding so it's all good.
My advice though is:
- drink a stupidly large amount of ice cold water
- For me the best soft foods in the first week I could manage was: tip tops, jelly, tiny bit of yogurt (be careful dairy can get a bit stuck and make you produce more mucus), meal replacement shake (water based ones instead of milk), super noodles, porridge.
- When the infection finally started to clear I then started to eat things like: pasta in a tomato sauce, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, toast (very important to help the healing), chicken (only if it's very moist e.g done in slow cooker), rice, potatoes, I actually ate cake yesterday!! Etc
- Do not eat acids foods especially in the first few days. I had a naked smoothie (green one) thinking it would give me vitamins and damn it burned!! So things like apples, oranges oh and no spicy foods obviously.
- For the next 1-2 weeks what you eat is gonna be super boring and bland but it's only temporary!
Hopefully my advice will help some people and hopefully not scare anyone!
My advice though is:
- drink a stupidly large amount of ice cold water
- For me the best soft foods in the first week I could manage was: tip tops, jelly, tiny bit of yogurt (be careful dairy can get a bit stuck and make you produce more mucus), meal replacement shake (water based ones instead of milk), super noodles, porridge.
- When the infection finally started to clear I then started to eat things like: pasta in a tomato sauce, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, toast (very important to help the healing), chicken (only if it's very moist e.g done in slow cooker), rice, potatoes, I actually ate cake yesterday!! Etc
- Do not eat acids foods especially in the first few days. I had a naked smoothie (green one) thinking it would give me vitamins and damn it burned!! So things like apples, oranges oh and no spicy foods obviously.
- For the next 1-2 weeks what you eat is gonna be super boring and bland but it's only temporary!
Hopefully my advice will help some people and hopefully not scare anyone!
I got my tonsils out 4 days ago. First day I could talk. 2nd day it hurt and i couldnt. 3rd day it was hurting alot. Today I can talk but it isn't talking it's more high pitched and not loud. 1st day no saliva. 2nd day tooooo much saliva. 3rd I could swallow most of it. 4(today I can swallow if I want but I have a horrible tasye
I realize this is over a year late, but I thought if anyone researching for their upcoming surgery was nervous, my answer might be helpful.
1. I was able to talk, albeit very quietly, very recently after my tonsillectomy. Speaking does cause some pain, though, especially during the early recovery period, so try not to talk too much. It's been over 3 weeks since my initial surgery, and my singing voice is still not back, but my talking voice is practically normal. Just be patient!
2. The white stuff coating the back of your throat is scabs! If you've ever scraped your knee and got your scab white, you've probably noticed it turns a whitish color and softens. The exact same thing is happening at the back of your throat. It's totally normal and healthy. White is good! Call your ENT if you notice any other colors back there, like black.
3. Both sides of your throat are hurting, but your brain is only registering one side. This is also totally normal. The pain in ear is coming from the pressure inside your skull, and while really painful, it will only last a few days. I noticed putting an ice pack over my ears really helped. Or at the very least, the cold distracted from the pain :)
4. There are scabs after cauterization. Surgeons use cauterization to help minimize bleeding during surgery, but your body still has to heal, hence the scabs.The scabs will come off, but if you're drinking enough, chewing gum, and keeping your mouth moist, it will happen slowly and gradually and you shouldn't even notice it's happening.
5. Your jaw is most likely hurting from a combination of things. The first is during surgery, they hold open your mouth with a clamp. It stretches your mouth open really wide, which could contribute to the soreness. The second is you just had a piece of your mouth cut out of you, and the pain you're feeling from that area could blend into other areas of your body also. Chewing gum really helps this by loosening up the muscles around your jaw! Also ice packs on the neck help keep swelling down.
6. You most likely didn't bite your tongue while under anesthesia. Because your tonsils are at such a tricky place, surgeons use a clamp to insure your tongue doesn't get in the way. It hurts like crazy, and for me, it was one of the most miserable parts about recovering.
Extra tips: Getting my tonsils out was the most miserable thing I've ever done. I was in pain for 2 weeks straight. I wasn't able to sleep for more than an hour at a time, which was the worst bit. Sleep means not drinking water and not drinking water means your mouth dries out and scabs could come off prematurely which means bleeding. Suffer through it. If you're drinking enough, you should have to pee every 15 minutes. This is unbelievably annoying, but staying hydrated leads to a fast recovery and less pain. I noticed that if it hurt to drink, it meant I wasn't drinking enough. Also, keep a humidifier going in your room. Totally helped my recovery process. Don't be afraid to eat! Try to eat as much as possible. I know you probably won't feel like it, but keep plenty of soft, yummy food around to snack on. I lived off of ice cream and mac and cheese. Eating and drinking are the best things you can do. The pain is easy days 1-5, but around days 6 and 7, the scabs start coming off and it huuuurts. I'm fairly tough, I like to think, but I was feeling so miserable for myself (and so incredibly tired), that I wanted to cry. BUT the pain gets less and less and eventually goes away. Just be patient with your body, and don't be afraid to give it what it needs.
Hang in there! It'll all be over soon!
1. I was able to talk, albeit very quietly, very recently after my tonsillectomy. Speaking does cause some pain, though, especially during the early recovery period, so try not to talk too much. It's been over 3 weeks since my initial surgery, and my singing voice is still not back, but my talking voice is practically normal. Just be patient!
2. The white stuff coating the back of your throat is scabs! If you've ever scraped your knee and got your scab white, you've probably noticed it turns a whitish color and softens. The exact same thing is happening at the back of your throat. It's totally normal and healthy. White is good! Call your ENT if you notice any other colors back there, like black.
3. Both sides of your throat are hurting, but your brain is only registering one side. This is also totally normal. The pain in ear is coming from the pressure inside your skull, and while really painful, it will only last a few days. I noticed putting an ice pack over my ears really helped. Or at the very least, the cold distracted from the pain :)
4. There are scabs after cauterization. Surgeons use cauterization to help minimize bleeding during surgery, but your body still has to heal, hence the scabs.The scabs will come off, but if you're drinking enough, chewing gum, and keeping your mouth moist, it will happen slowly and gradually and you shouldn't even notice it's happening.
5. Your jaw is most likely hurting from a combination of things. The first is during surgery, they hold open your mouth with a clamp. It stretches your mouth open really wide, which could contribute to the soreness. The second is you just had a piece of your mouth cut out of you, and the pain you're feeling from that area could blend into other areas of your body also. Chewing gum really helps this by loosening up the muscles around your jaw! Also ice packs on the neck help keep swelling down.
6. You most likely didn't bite your tongue while under anesthesia. Because your tonsils are at such a tricky place, surgeons use a clamp to insure your tongue doesn't get in the way. It hurts like crazy, and for me, it was one of the most miserable parts about recovering.
Extra tips: Getting my tonsils out was the most miserable thing I've ever done. I was in pain for 2 weeks straight. I wasn't able to sleep for more than an hour at a time, which was the worst bit. Sleep means not drinking water and not drinking water means your mouth dries out and scabs could come off prematurely which means bleeding. Suffer through it. If you're drinking enough, you should have to pee every 15 minutes. This is unbelievably annoying, but staying hydrated leads to a fast recovery and less pain. I noticed that if it hurt to drink, it meant I wasn't drinking enough. Also, keep a humidifier going in your room. Totally helped my recovery process. Don't be afraid to eat! Try to eat as much as possible. I know you probably won't feel like it, but keep plenty of soft, yummy food around to snack on. I lived off of ice cream and mac and cheese. Eating and drinking are the best things you can do. The pain is easy days 1-5, but around days 6 and 7, the scabs start coming off and it huuuurts. I'm fairly tough, I like to think, but I was feeling so miserable for myself (and so incredibly tired), that I wanted to cry. BUT the pain gets less and less and eventually goes away. Just be patient with your body, and don't be afraid to give it what it needs.
Hang in there! It'll all be over soon!
Don't rush your healing! Work needs to understand that. I'm 23 and in day 3 of my tonsillectomy, blueberry smoothy is perfect because the antioxidants in blueberries are notorious for speeding up the healing process. Everything you mentioned sounds typical, just keep swimming! Soon you will bounce back in no time. The pain has only been excruciating at night like early morning hours waking me up. But besides my pain meds that I'm trying to only take when I need because there's no refills, it's mind over matter for me. Counting in your own head , prayer and positivity has all slightly helped with the sudden pain.
i'm a sophomore in high school and i'm on day 9 of recovery. I think the scabs are almost completely gone and I am able to eat way more food now without pain but my voice is not coming back. I am having trouble saying more than a sentence. Is this normal this late in recovery? I talked immediately after surgery but that was most likely because the anesthesia haven't completely worn off yet. My whole family has gotten their tonsils removed too and they don't remember not talking for this long after surgery.
I am 14 and female i got my tonsillectomy 9 days ago and it will get better. My voice is still super high pitched and groggy sounding and I still dont know when I will be back to normal. I could talk right after surgery.
Day 1 and 2 u was very sick not eating anything worst days for me
Day 3-4 switched to advil and tylonol for kids switching every 4 hours I am feeling a lot better. The scabs (white in the back) are growing
Day 5-7 very painful to eat drink and talk close second on worse days.
Day 8 The ear aches you get when eating are terrible hot foods are not that bad
Day 9 I can eat whatever I want but it still hurts my ears best day by far.
Day 1 and 2 u was very sick not eating anything worst days for me
Day 3-4 switched to advil and tylonol for kids switching every 4 hours I am feeling a lot better. The scabs (white in the back) are growing
Day 5-7 very painful to eat drink and talk close second on worse days.
Day 8 The ear aches you get when eating are terrible hot foods are not that bad
Day 9 I can eat whatever I want but it still hurts my ears best day by far.
Hi everyone, I removed my tonsils 8 days ago and I just googled to see what happens, when could I talk and eat normally and stuff, and I am very glad I found this page. Reading all these responses really helped, especially getting my head around all this experience, so I just wanted to thank you all :D
They have to clamped down your tongue from what I was told when I went through it I'm on day 4 post op and my ears hurt with throat pain trying not be tempted to puréed food that won't go down well like bacon hahah
When did you get your voice back? I'm day 7 and I'm trying to talk but it sounds pretty bad! It also kinda hurts to talk. One more question. When does my taste return to normal? Everything tastes pretty bad! Thank you!
I had my tonsils taken out 2 days ago. This procedure IMO is worse than labor and I've had 4 kids.
I'm trying to figure out how to drink more without soreness. I also got a killer headache . The Dr. Gave me Percocet but it's not helping. I'm using ice packs and throat numbing apray. Not helping. The only way I'm comfortable is keeping my mouth closed and no talking.
After reading the posts above about over a week to feel relief, my timing could have been better to do this. I gave kids birthdays holidays and a hubby having do it surgery next week. But it's over, and I pray it fixes my sinus problems.
I'm trying to figure out how to drink more without soreness. I also got a killer headache . The Dr. Gave me Percocet but it's not helping. I'm using ice packs and throat numbing apray. Not helping. The only way I'm comfortable is keeping my mouth closed and no talking.
After reading the posts above about over a week to feel relief, my timing could have been better to do this. I gave kids birthdays holidays and a hubby having do it surgery next week. But it's over, and I pray it fixes my sinus problems.
The sores on the sides of your mouth could just be from you biting it during surgery or the tools used during the surgery
I was feeling so good after the surgery from the drugs I was talking up a storm. I’m a singer, and worried now. Stopped talking after 30 minuts or so. Did you find you had voice damage from talking right after surgery?