Current post op management is to eat normally. Pain should be managed with regular pain relief. You are at most risk of bleeding 7-10 days post op due to infection - supposed to be minimised with normal eating.
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Current post op management is to eat normally. Pain should be managed with regular pain relief. You are at most risk of bleeding 7-10 days post op due to infection - supposed to be minimised with normal eating.
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ouch. Hope your DH doesn't find it too painful and recovers well. My DH might be needing this done soon too....
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Thanks for your replies - it's good to try and get some idea of what to expect, though I guess we won't really know till it happens. I have heard that about regular eating, but I still have ice cream and jelly stashed away too!
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Had mine out when I was eighteen... was very fragile for a week or so, and still a bit weak, sore and sorry for myself the week after. I could talk the day after - but only because a stupid nurse SHOUTED at me 'what's your name' about ten times without looking at the chart to see I had had tonsils removed the day before. This was in the days when they gave you soft foods for the first few days, I would do that even if the hospital has other ideas, because it really hurts, and why should you aggravate it, it will heal in a week or so and diet will be back to normal. Lots of painkillers, lots of rest, lots of fluids and lots of TLC.
Wish him all the best with it.
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I had mine out about 10 years ago now when I was 25 and although the actual procedure was fairly standard the thing I do remember the most is my ears.
I got wicked inner ear pains for about a week afterwards and was told this sometimes happens.
Be prepared but it may not happen to him
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