Your experiences: TAs for adults

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!!!DISCLAIMER: I’m already in a doctor’s care, the tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy surgery is in a little over a week. I don’t want advice for myself, they’re all being yanked end of discussion case closed! Just wanting to see what other’s experiences were like.

What was your surgery and recovery experience like? (Or child’s or teen’s?) I know it gets more difficult with age, but all replies will be helpful. I have to get myself psyched! :o (What courage the thought of getting rid of the constant pain and infections and fevers was once giving me, suddenly went out the window, a week just seems so much closer than a month, ya know? :p) I didn’t want to share this, but I’m getting desperate for some “nicer” personal experiences than the endless negative ones I’ve been receiving. Just looking for personal experiences with it. Give me the good, bad, and ugly. 😉 Thanks. 🙂
 
I was a little apprehensive about the tonsilectomy. The surprise was that compared to the sore throats I used to suffer, the post-operative pain was nothing. I just didn’t like the taste in my mouth for a day or two!

All the best with your surgery. Trishie! 🙂
 
Trishie said:
I was a little apprehensive about the tonsilectomy. The surprise was that compared to the sore throats I used to suffer, the post-operative pain was nothing. I just didn’t like the taste in my mouth for a day or two!

All the best with your surgery. Trishie! 🙂
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Yeah, I’m pretty much on bed rest right now (basically sit or lay down most the whole day) cause activity (of any kind, even light) just makes me hurt a LOT, become dizzy, nauseous, hot, sweaty and/or feverish. Then I start gagging, and often have to run to the bathroom and hang out there. 😛 So, I’m thinking that three weeks of possibly worse has to be better than months of this, no? :o
 
My son’s tonsil’s were taken out when he was in his early twenties. They used laser surgery and instead of being given ice cream afterwards, his first meal was dry toast. He found this to be quite painful but they told him it was necessary to remove the scabs left by the surgery. They stood over him till he finished it all, otherwise, he would have tossed it in the bin. He was over everything in about a week.

He no longer suffers from the constant infections.

Maybe you should ask about your post-operative procedures in order to be prepared. DS was rather mad at me cause I had told him he’d get ice cream and somehow, it was all my fault that they gave him dry toast instead.
 
Linda_Marie said:
My son’s tonsil’s were taken out when he was in his early twenties. They used laser surgery and instead of being given ice cream afterwards, his first meal was dry toast. He found this to be quite painful but they told him it was necessary to remove the scabs left by the surgery. They stood over him till he finished it all, otherwise, he would have tossed it in the bin. He was over everything in about a week.

He no longer suffers from the constant infections.

Maybe you should ask about your post-operative procedures in order to be prepared. DS was rather mad at me cause I had told him he’d get ice cream and somehow, it was all my fault that they gave him dry toast instead.
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Yes, my pre op appointment is tomorrow. And I have a list of questions ready to go. But they can’t really know what it’s REALLY like, unless they themselves had one. I’m just trying to learn some first hand experiences with this. You really gave me a good example with your son. I, myself, am in my late twenties. So I could very well have a similar experience. 🙂
 
I am interested in this also. I hope you get more people writing in on this one.
 
My best friend had a tonsillectomy in her 20’s. It went just fine, and she recovered fast.

What I remember most is how bad her breath smelled when her tonsils were bad. When she opened her mouth I could see them! I was amazed that she could even breathe.

She was much happier when they were gone, just like you will be.

Ruthie
 
I JUST had mine out on June 27th of this year:) I am 26 and can say I wasnt fully healed until 3 weeks post surgery. The tonsils actually didn’t give me as much pain as the complications from the surgery itself did. This may be TMI :o

When I awoke from surgery I was in alot of pain and after 5 shots of morphine that would not work they finally gave me something stronger which finally did help.

A short while later I discovered I couldn’t urinate (called urinary retention…possible complication from morphine or surgery) I had to have a catheter put in real quick and then they sent me home. When I got home (hour away from the hospital) I found that I still could not urinate (no they did not verify if I could pee on my own or not before sending me home). So I was in alot of pain and hubby drove me back to the hospital where I got an emergency appointment with a uroligist and he inserted a foley cath that I had to wear for 4 whole days! My bladder was in alot of pain because it had over 500cc’s of urine in it!!

Then came the pain medicine…I took Lortab every 4 hours on the dot, but it made me horribly constipated, so much that I was laying on the floor crying and almost had my husband drive me to the Emergency Room. Well after several enemas I was fine and I took my last dose of pain meds exactly 2 weeks from the day of surgery.

I am actually glad I had the surgery, my throat is cured! But if I had to do it again I would make sure I had taken laxatives every single day:thumbsup:
 
I had mine out when I was 18. The adenoidcetomy didn’t bother me in the least but I was very sore for about a week from the tonsilectomy. I also lost a lot of bood during the operation and was tired for a while afterwards. I had my ear drained at the same time. I had dried blood occassionally comming out of my ear for a few weeks.
Was it all worth it? Most certainly! I still get sore throats, mainly laryngitis, but they are nothing compared with tonsilitis. Haven’t had an earache since either. Good luck!
Gearoidin
 
**I had mine out when I was 3…and I survived to tell you about it;):p:D

But seriously, barring any rare complication I think you’ll do much better than you are imagining. Like you said, even a rough recovery is preferable to what you are suffering now:thumbsup:**
 
My pre op was today and they all agreed my concerns were legit. They took tremendous care in recording all previous complications, health issues, and are taking many precautions and preventive treatments to hopefully prevent these from occurring this time. It was all good. I hope the nurses in the OR are that helpful and supportive. 🙂

So, now it’s OFFICIAL. I can’t take it back if I wanted to, without, of course, having a major medical problem, or owing a TON of money. 😛 It’s already transferred to insurance and it’s in there. Thanks for all who posted, hoping to get a few more before I go in next week. You’ve all been great. Thanks again! 🙂
 
Prayers!!

Remember to let your Priest know you are having surgery - maybe confession and daily Mass the day before?
 
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Prayers!!

Remember to let your Priest know you are having surgery - maybe confession and daily Mass the day before?
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Check! I was anointed this past weekend and will go to confession this next weekend. Thanks for prayers. Thanks to all! 🙂
 
I was 20. This was back in 1976 when dinosaurs roamed the earth and no computers (well, none like we have today) existed.

I also had dry toast (bleah). I had never liked eggs (not since the kid in the seat ahead of me in 1st grade barfed his egg salad sandwich one lunch period) but scrambled eggs were all I could get down. Now I love eggs. . .but only scrambled.

I was SUPPOSED to keep fairly quiet but I was supposed to do a 2 Christmas shows (plays) so I kept on talking anyway. . .I would get a little hoarse but I carried a flask of strong black tea with honey, lemon, and whisky (this was in late November/early December) which helped with the hoarseness and the pain (I was probably a little heavy-handed with the whisky, LOL).

One funny thing was that at the time I had been an alto for 5 years. . .but after the tonsillectomy my voice range went to soprano–not just second, but first soprano–for the next 5 years. I got some great solos out of that time! Even now that I’m old and getting gray, my voice is still higher than it would have been (back to first alto but my mother was a BASS by age 40. Yes, BASS. The woman can’t even get up to G BELOW middle C. I can still hit E above high C, go figure.)

So if you’re a singer or actress you may be in for a surprise!
 
Tantum_ergo said:
I was 20. This was back in 1976 when dinosaurs roamed the earth and no computers (well, none like we have today) existed.

I also had dry toast (bleah). I had never liked eggs (not since the kid in the seat ahead of me in 1st grade barfed his egg salad sandwich one lunch period) but scrambled eggs were all I could get down. Now I love eggs. . .but only scrambled.

I was SUPPOSED to keep fairly quiet but I was supposed to do a 2 Christmas shows (plays) so I kept on talking anyway. . .I would get a little hoarse but I carried a flask of strong black tea with honey, lemon, and whisky (this was in late November/early December) which helped with the hoarseness and the pain (I was probably a little heavy-handed with the whisky, LOL).

One funny thing was that at the time I had been an alto for 5 years. . .but after the tonsillectomy my voice range went to soprano–not just second, but first soprano–for the next 5 years. I got some great solos out of that time! Even now that I’m old and getting gray, my voice is still higher than it would have been (back to first alto but my mother was a BASS by age 40. Yes, BASS. The woman can’t even get up to G BELOW middle C. I can still hit E above high C, go figure.)

So if you’re a singer or actress you may be in for a surprise!
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Your post really struck me. I had one glass of wine since this whole bought started. I usually can have 3 glasses and be perfectly fine, no effects whatsoever. I thought the wine would help the throat, like the whiskey helped yours, but I had SUCH a reaction to it (never before had that) and wasn’t on meds at the time or anything. I literally got near drunk after one glass. :rolleyes: I spent the rest of the evening with a tummy ache, dizzy and couldn’t move. So, from then on, I have avoided ALL things with alcohol. I guess my body, for whatever reason, can not tolerate it with this illness. 🤷

My voice right now, due to chronic tonsillitis sounds quite different than normal. So I know what you mean. I have to strain to talk, so it comes out WAY loud and then I get hoarse quickly and can barely squeak (and it sounds just like squeaking) a whisper. So, no telling what the surgery might do. Maybe I’ll get a voice improvement like you, then I could sing well for the first time ever. 😛
 
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