We have the same here. DD2 has huge tonsils. She also has sleep aponea BUT we are not removing her tonsils, just her adenoids (probably, just waiting on an xray to confirm). She had tonsilitis this year and last, so the ENT said that is not much and therefore it's our choice as to whether we want the tonsils out. He said for the sleeping prob, if we remove adenoids AND tonsils, there's a 95% chance of fixing the prob, and if we just remove adenoids it's 80%. For us, we go the latter, as the tonsils pose the biggest risk.

Although it's not common practice like it used to be, our ENT said just recently there was a study done as they were saying ENT's were taking out tonsils too often. The study actually found it was in fact not often enough. Since that study I've got 5 friends getting their kids tonsils out.

And one of my friends sons has such enlarged tonsils, he's got speech probs. So it really depends if they are causing a prob or not. xo