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I think you still have some time before it normalizes. I had mine out when I was 10. That was a zillion years ago. I had been taking trumpet lessons for about six months and was just getting so I could make it do something that resembled music. To my surprise I couldn't play it at all after having my tonsils out because I couldn't keep the air from blowing out through my nose. I'm sure it took me longer than 5 weeks to get over that and be able to close off my nose from the inside. So I think your throat has a bit more healing to do.
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They dragged most of the kids in my class in on April vacation to have them out. One kid got lucky, he had a cold coming on so they wouldn't do him.
By the time I went back to school in September I was able to do just fine with the trumpet.
I loved it. Being in the band was one of the best things I did. I learned more about life in the band than anywhere else in school. Our band leader was one tough guy and he didn't take any s**t from anyone. He taught us to stand up for ourselves by example. The school board ignored the fact that the band even existed. We got no support at all from the school. When we wanted new uniforms we went out and earned the money ourselves. We played for their football games but we had to pay for our own busses to get to the away games. We hit up the parents of the football players and merchants in town to get the money. It took two busses and there was a teacher on each one for a chaperone. One time some new teachers decided the girls were going to ride on one bus and the boys on the other. We refused to board the busses and he had to tell them we weren't going that way. We paid for the busses and they had no right to do that. We rode co-ed!!!!
Back then Memorial Day parades were a big thing and every town had one. We used to march in our town for free but we hired out to two other towns. One year the town decided some other band was going to be the lead band in our parade. They wouldn't budge and we refused to march in our own town's parade. We did the ones we got paid for though.
We also did "exchange concerts" with other high schools. We went to a high school in a town a couple hundred miles away and played with their band in a concert, then they came here. We stayed in the homes of the band members while there. Those were great experiences. We had to pay for our own busses for that too.
We had two bands, junior and senior. Usually the senior band was high school kids. They called me up to play in the senior band for football season when I was in the 6th grade, then back to junior band. In the 7th grade I became a permanent member of the senior band. The year before I graduated he lost about 25% of the band and another 50% the year I graduated. Myself and another solo trumpet player were on a trip in the mountains after Labor Day when we went through a town where our football team was playing so we stopped in to visit the band. He asked us to play with them in the stands (we had no uniforms) because the new kids didn't know the bugle calls. Then he asked us to play with the band for the football season. I did it but the other guy had to work when they were having the games. I did that for two seasons after I graduated so I must be the only guy around who played in his high school band for 9 years without staying back in school.
Then I joined the Army and they pulled all my teeth and gave me dentures. I was not able to play the trumpet anymore so when I got home I donated my trumpet to the band for someone who couldn't afford one.
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