What to expect after having a tonsil removed?

[Shanti]

ouch. Hope your DH doesn't find it too painful and recovers well. My DH might be needing this done soon too....

[Sterla]

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!

[thepixie]

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.

[Feijoa Mum]

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