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Fri 8 Apr, 2011 09:26 pm
I had my tonsils removed on the 5th of April. Today is the 8th...and LORD have mercy it hurts like HELLLLLO~
OK, first things first... DO NOT use dairy products after your surgery. Dairy products produce phlegm and saliva. You do NOT want more of these flowing around since you will already have enough of it in your mouth...and it will be SUPER painful to swallow!
DO NOT eat anything with: Dairy (As mentioned above), Spicy, Carbonated, Caffeinated, RED (Might be confused with BLOOD if in case you start "bleeding"), or Acidic (Oranges, lemon etc). ...
Foods I tried to eat but that made it hard to swallow and got stuck in my throat by the UVULA : Potato (Mashed potato, potato soup), Bread, Realllllly soft Crab Meat, Soft Chicken, Mashed Apples!
Foods I tried that WORKED!!!: Icicles, Sorbet, Frozen Fruit Shakes (Fruit, suggar and ice), Apple Mouse, Jello, Peanut Butter -Creamy, and that is about it!!! ... Sux but havent been able to find anything salty to bring down the hunger! I AM STARVINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Now somehow I have managed to get this annoying cough that wont stop...and it hurts real bad when I cough. Sneezing is WORSE than ANYTHING!!! ... Oh and sleeping is a problem! haha.
Anyways I truly hope and pray that the Doc was right about " THIS WILL BE A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE ONCE YOU ARE HEALED" ... It better be, cus it HURTS LIKE HELL! Btw I am 28...and I have been told that the older, the worse...
ANY idea what else I can eat ...SALTY wise?
GOOD LUCK TO ALL & TNX
@PintoM,
Are you a kid? if so, have your folks go get some of those cut up watermelon snacks, they areeasily chomped and swallowed and they are cold enough to soothe.
Good luck kiddo.
@farmerman,
Quote:Btw I am 28...and I have been told that the older, the worse...
The whole time I was reading his post I was thinking "ahhh! ya big wuss!". Course it aint my throat that hurts.
Hope it goes good for you pinto.
@PintoM,
That's the complete opposite of what my brother and I were given back in the '60's. The hospital gave us vanilla ice cream to help soothe the throat and 7-up to help get the bloody taste out of our mouths. Once we were home, we continued to suck on cold popcicles. About the only other thing I remember from it is waking up the morning after coming home from the hospital with my pillow covered in blood because my coughing had dislodged some of the stitches. Of course, we were both under 10 years old at the time and I understand adults have a worse time of it.
If you still want to avoid dairy products, try the frozen fruit juice popcicles. To feed the salt craving, try some watered down chicken noodle soup. Hot herb tea and honey will also feel good on the throat.
I had my tonsils out when I was 9. I got jello, ice cream, juices (like apple, no pulp), barley candy, soups (broths)... just go easy on your throat.
@PintoM,
Hi PintoM,
My daughter got her tonsils out a couple of years ago, when I was researching then I saw a lot about how much more painful it was for adults (she was 8) -- my condolences!
Meanwhile, we did a lot of experimenting with what works and doesn't work. The big winner was
matzo balls in chicken broth. That saved her when she reached the starrrrvvvving phase. (She has a broth aversion and just ate the matzo balls, which were suffused with chicken broth + had some eggs in them, if you like broth that works too.)
Also
super-mushy macaroni and cheese (overcooked noodles, not al dente).
Feel better soon!
@sozobe,
Those were the high points, here's a whole post from right after my daughter had her tonsils out:
sozobe wrote:
Meanwhile, if anyone comes across this via Google in the future, this is what worked well for us:
The big star was/is overcooked, mooshy (NOT al dente) macaroni and cheese, with a little extra milk. This was the first thing she ate in any quantity, and it's still what I give her if she's a little sore.
Overcooked pasta with Alfredo sauce offered a variation on a theme.
She also had a lot of scrambled eggs early on.
Soft (slightly melted) vanilla ice cream was one of the first things she could eat/drink/ingest.
Jello was very, very useful for getting fluids into her when she had a really hard time drinking. When I felt she hadn't had enough fluids I'd set her up with a book or a computer game (something distracting) and then just spoon a bowl's worth into her, using a small spoon.
Strawberry syrup -- the kind sold next to chocolate syrup -- used to make strawberry-flavored milk worked well a bit later in her recovery.
Smoothies did NOT work for her, and I never figured out why. The first was made with a bit of mango and I thought that might be the problem. (Other ingredients -- banana, yogurt, milk.) The next had no mango but still made her throat hurt -- I thought it might be from using the straw, having to work a bit to ingest. The third had no mango and I gave her a spoon, not a straw -- still hurt her throat after a few spoonfuls. She had a banana without much problem, so maybe the yogurt was the issue? Dunno.
Also, any kind of hard popsicles were a bust. Like those fancy chamomile tea ones I made -- didn't work. The only ones she liked were smooth/ creamy and soft.
Chicken soup with matzo balls was tried a bit too early I think but it was one of the first food-food (as opposed to dessert) items she could tolerate.
Pudding! Wonderful stuff. Second only to jello. Chocolate, vanilla, tapioca.
Very ripe avocado was a good way to get some veggies/ healthy stuff into her.
Mashed sweet potatoes were another way.
Tried lots of other things -- some successes, some failures -- but those were the main things that a) were really useful or b) were a surprise failure.
http://able2know.org/topic/132031-1#post-3652039
@PintoM,
OMG I'm 38 & got my tonsils out on Monday & have experienced such horrific pain in my life! Nothing soothes it. Ice cream or anything cold makes it worse and anything hot is awful too. I do have some underlying health problems which I think is making mine so much worse. Throat constantly feels like on fire. My right ear feels like someones stabbing me. Can't blow my nose, can't swallow, they tell you not to cough but can't help it because I can't breathe due to severity of the swelling. This morning I was able to get down 2 scrambled egss w/ chz (did it in microwave so there was no salt or butter) & I was in heaven. Awhile later made a shake & brought myself to tears. It makes no sense why ice cream & cold stuff hurts me so bad!! Any suggestions on what to eat or do? I'm sick of jello & cool whip & my pain levels are totally off the chart. They've had to change my meds 3 times this week already because how bad I am.
@cimtrbl2,
Soup? You can probably mock something up with carrots softened in the microwave (no salt), water and maybe something like tofu.
Feel better soon!
@cimtrbl2,
Hi there,
I posted above with a bunch of details, will say to you personally that I know it can be extremely rough for adults!! From what you say I think that the overcooked macaroni and cheese -- eaten warm but not hot -- might be something else (besides the eggs you already tried) that would work at this phase. Good luck.
What did you make the shake with? I found that even a tiny bit of acid caused problems for my daughter. (Yogurt or fruit for example.) As in, the cold wasn't the main problem -- completely non-acidic ice cream was OK. (We got her several fancy flavors but only vanilla worked, for a while.)
@cimtrbl2,
I have had tonsillectomy and panendoscopy on Friday 22nd it is now Thursday.
I cannot believe the amount of pain and discomfort I am having. I am 62 so quite old and I believe the older you are the worse it is.
I have read all the posts about pain on each day but is there anyone of my age who knows how long this will take to get better? I am trying to eat and drink as normal but obviously only small portions. The ears are the worst pain ever. Are you better now or still suffering? I have had operations before inluding a hysterectomy but the pain with this is far worse.
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