First of all I would like to clarify some misrepresentation. There is in fact a HUGE difference between and adult and a child tonsillectomy. A childs procedure is cut stick 5-7 day recovery. An adult has them burnt out with a 14-30 day recovery. I had my tonsils removed on Dec 1st 2010, I am 26 years old. I have piercings and tattoos and in general not scared of pain. Always get sick alot but the last few years I was just sick time after time to the point they were sending me to immune specialists. I am so glad I had it done its just nice to get the balls out of my throat so to speak (yes my tonsils were that large) and I'm looking forward to not bieng sick but theres a few things...
In 15 days I could eat nothing more than luke warm water. Now mind you I also developed a fungal infection on my tongue that went untreated throughout this time and that made everything taste like fire but the tonsils were quite the part of it as well..... I lost 30 pounds in 15 days. No amount of perc could make the pain go away I was completely and utterly beside myself trying to sleep my life away while my boyfriend awoke me with an oven timer ever 45 minutes around the clock to drink. Drinking is your lifeline. if your tonsils dry out OMG the pain is just incomprhensible and dry tonsils promote an already extremly high hemorage risk. Adults have alot more blood vessels and nerves than children.
The doctors all were very serious with fear in their eyes as they said that this was not a surgery "to be taken lightly" which is why they put it off and made me get sick for a whole extra year to make sure is was necisary. I developed chronic tonsilitis and spent two months in the magical land of crypts and stones (for those who havent been there your tonsils can get so large they touch in the middle and then develop caverns that fill with balls of bacteria)
I would love to hear from other ADULT patients lol! It seems they are rather hard to come by, I was all the talk amoungst the nurses in my small town "was it really as bad as they say!?" yes. and worse.
In 15 days I could eat nothing more than luke warm water. Now mind you I also developed a fungal infection on my tongue that went untreated throughout this time and that made everything taste like fire but the tonsils were quite the part of it as well..... I lost 30 pounds in 15 days. No amount of perc could make the pain go away I was completely and utterly beside myself trying to sleep my life away while my boyfriend awoke me with an oven timer ever 45 minutes around the clock to drink. Drinking is your lifeline. if your tonsils dry out OMG the pain is just incomprhensible and dry tonsils promote an already extremly high hemorage risk. Adults have alot more blood vessels and nerves than children.
The doctors all were very serious with fear in their eyes as they said that this was not a surgery "to be taken lightly" which is why they put it off and made me get sick for a whole extra year to make sure is was necisary. I developed chronic tonsilitis and spent two months in the magical land of crypts and stones (for those who havent been there your tonsils can get so large they touch in the middle and then develop caverns that fill with balls of bacteria)
I would love to hear from other ADULT patients lol! It seems they are rather hard to come by, I was all the talk amoungst the nurses in my small town "was it really as bad as they say!?" yes. and worse.
