get my tonsils removed

I’m currently nursing to my 5th case of acute tonsillitis this year, 4th in less than 12 weeks. I finished my antibiotics from the last case on monday and started having symptoms again on wednesday. we’re trying a stronger antibiotic this time, since I’m in grad school and can’t take off the requisite 3 weeks to get the tonsillectomy till December (4 months from now). if I get sick again after this round I’m gonna go on a low dose of some antibiotic to keep it in check till december.

today i went to the doctor for the follow up appoitment. he said i was better, yea my sinus is better but i think my tonsils are the same. he want to see me again in 2 months. so… not tonsils remove for me for now. may be i will remove this goal.

thats right i went to a new doctor this week and he saw them. he said they are in a grade 3 of 4 and if you are in 4 you have to get removed them, so he gave me medications to see what happens and go back to see him in 10 days. i dont know but today is day 3 and they are like always. maybe my sinus is a little better. lets see what happens, i just want to finish this from the root!

ive always have the most big tonsils around. since i was a little girl i had tons of infections and now i have sinus and they are like worse than ever. when i show mine to somebody they get surprised by their size. sometimes food stock in them, and i think because of them i grunt. once when i went to the dentist he notice them and he told me thats why i talk like i talk, a little nose-ish and my ex always is telling me that i talk very low so i think all that problems will be resolve removing them. i went to a doctor for my sinus but he didnt want to remove them. now i have this pain in my throat…tomorrow i will call some doctors to see if they accept my medic plan because im tire of this sh^#$!!

Ok. So i had gotten strep throat every year since i was 5. Until a two years ago it stopped. And this year i got it, really bad. I went to the doctor and they told me i had strep, and i was like, okay no big deal. I got my antibiotics (zithromax -allergic to amox. products). This didn’t help at all, it only got worse. So i got on a different antibiotic, ceuphroxime(or something like that) this was doing nothing. I went to the hospital twice, and they told me i also had a viral infection which isn’t curable with medication. So i went to the clinic to get my referral to see and ENT ( i live in a small town.) I went and seen him and he said that i needed to get them out right away, even though i was still infected. Just four days after seeing him i had my surgery, which was on Tuesday (3 days ago). Surgery was nothing i don’t even know what went on because of the anesthetic. Waking up in the recovery room i had an oxygen mask on and that really scared me and i started crying, a nurse reassured me that i was okay. She took it off and i felt as if i couldn’t breathe and she said my oxygen level was going down so she put it on for a little longer and then took it off again. She told me i needed to take a few deep breaths every couple minutes. After that i was fine. I returned to my hospital room to find my parents. At this point i felt fine, i could drink and eat popsicles very well. The next day wasn’t bad either since i was used to eating popsicles and only having fluids. Day 3 was the worst i spit up things all day, didn’t want to drink anything, and eventually became dehydrated. In my spit there was also some blood so my mom called my ENT and he said gargle ice chips and stop the bleeding and if it doesn’t stop go to the ER. i then gargled ice chips and the bleeding stopped for a little while but continued so i went to the ER. I hate that place, the doctor was so snotty. She told me you are going to bleed after having surgery, and i was really upset. They ended up putting an IV in me ( i’m so used to those by now) because of my dehydration. They drew some blood twice for testing and gave me morphine for my pain ( which i now have for home) i spent the night in that terrible place. I got not one minute of sleep there. Day 4 (yesterday) i went home from the hospital around 11 AM… i went home and i slept alllll day. And my mom told me that i had to get liquids in me. So i tried drinking stuff and everything makes me cough, it really sucks.

My Advice:

Drink fluids no matter how bad it hurts.
Don’t let yourself get dehydrated.
Don’t talk a lot.
Always have someone by you.

I’m not sure if this is worth it because i’m not fully recovered.

I’m still in a lot of pain, but it already feels so much better in the back of my throat!

They almost had to ventilate me due to some breathing problems. I also had some problems with vomit. But after about 3 hours in the ICU I made it back to recovery. I’m doing SO much better!!

I had my tonisils removed on thursday afternoon (its now sunday night/early monday morning). i must admit after reading everyones experiances online i was pretty freaked out. but thank god it hasnt been as bad as what i was reading. luckly ive dealt with little to no consistant pain. swallowing and drinking is another thing, but if im not using my throat i have almost no pain. when swallowing id say the paid is about 4 times the worst soar throat you’ve ever had. its a choir to stay hydrated. the vicodin helps alittle. the weird thing is its gotten slightly more soar each day since the surgery.

Does one have to have severe tonsil problem for them to be taken out?
My tonsils are very easily infected..but it’s not that extreme…in fact they are infected right now.
What are the factors.symptoms that are considered suitable for the procedure?

still recovering from a tonsillectomy- so far- the pain, sleepless nights, and unable to eat/drink- is not worth it, ask me again when I am fully healed.

I’ve been dealing with tons of tonsil issues this year! I had to take an incomplete in one class and I’m pretty bitter about it. I ALWAYS test negative for strep too. My first bout was in 2003 and it seems to be coming back with a vengeance this year. I don’t understand, but I should see a throat specialist soon. I know it’ll hurt really bad but I will definitely request some stronger med’s than Tylenol 3!!