- Not me, thank goodness, but SWMBO. Had 'em taken out under general anaesthetic on Wednesday. A very painful operation for adults apparently, even though it's very simple to perform on kids.
14 days recovery time, living on painkillers, antibiotics, and anti-inflammatories! Tell you what, the house is very quiet!
Anyone been through this, or got any tips for speedy recovery - apart from the jelly & sorbet advice that everyone comes up with..?!
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Tell her not to talk for three weeks.
It wont aid recovery, but you have to take chances when they are presented
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...had mine done as an adult.
She has my total and absolute sympathy (and yes, it is very unpleasant).
The advice I had was to gargle with soluble aspirin in solution (which seemed to work somewhat), and to eat crisps and toffees (not the usual ice-cream, etc. advice), allegedly to exercise all the muscles, etc. (which get terribly bruised) - I was less convinced about this.
If it's any consolation, the operation did seem to resolve the issue(s) it was intended to (and resulted from an abscess on the tonsil - and that you really don't want!)
Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Fri 15 Jan 16 at 21:31
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Make the jelly with vodka instead of water....you won't care after a couple
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That rather sounds like the advice given by a hospital dental consultant. He agreed with me that painkillers weren't that good with dental pain and a few gins was just as good and rather more pleasant.
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I discovered these vodka jelly things at a part held by a celebrity friend's party. I have lived a sheltered life....in fairness got invited back this year and she'd made a stock especially for me...all I can say is wow...
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>> I discovered these vodka jelly things at a part held by a celebrity friend's party.
>> I have lived a sheltered life....in fairness got invited back this year and she'd made
>> a stock especially for me...all I can say is wow...
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Have you? Would you?
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I was advised by a nurse (can't trust these doctors) to try gargling with Solpadeine.
Worked for me.
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>>jelly & sorbet<< Hahahaha. How very 21st century England. It was jelly and ice cream when my tonsils came out 60 years ago - and that was a luxury. I hope your friends specified Waitrose.
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I had mine out during the war when I was quite small. The nurses were kind, but a regular meal was a very peppery soup. I guess the idea was to cauterize (as it were) the scarring in my throat.
Fortunately I always liked peppery food even when young. So although the pepper hurt, I liked the soup. Haven't a clue whether it was a good idea or not.
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Tonsillectomy; pah!
Try an adult male circumcision, ;-)
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>> Been there �
Didn't realise you had converted Roger. Chapeau!
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....or rather, No Chapeau....
;-)
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Having the stitches taken out by a newly qualified nurse, who admitted she'd not done it before, left me rising from the bed with a perfect outline in sweat on the bed-sheet!
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>> left me rising from the bed with a perfect outline in sweat on the bed-sheet!
Glad to hear you're still up for it Todger Rodger.
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These operations are no joke for an adult. A former colleague lost a huge amount of blood from his tonsillectomy. I didn't lose much blood from my medical "conversion" but needed three shots of painkiller for the slicing.
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>> >> left me rising from the bed with a perfect outline in sweat on the
>> bed-sheet!
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>> Glad to hear you're still up for it Todger Rodger.
If only........................
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Now can we share experiences about vasectomy :-)
Last edited by: Roger. on Mon 18 Jan 16 at 12:26
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- - - If only........................
=> www.drugs.com/viagra.html
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I had a hideous operation on my neck at St Mary's Hospital in Praed St, the removal of a congenital imperfection I had had from birth, technically a branchial fistula. It was an unusual thing and the surgeons were fascinated, a passage from somewhere inside my throat to the outside of my neck. It had always wept a bit but had now become inflamed and infected, and it was thought a good idea to take it out completely. Trouble was, to find where the damn thing came out in my throat, once I was thoroughly unconscious they had injected huge quantities of blue dye up it from the outside, and masses of this blue stuff found its way into my stomach.
Coming round from that one was no joke, puking blue dye all night long and keeping the other patients awake with my groans and awful noises. I was apologetic but they were very nice about it.
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Ghastly though it was at the time, the surgeons did a perfect job and two long, fine external cicatrices are pretty well invisible especially if I don't shave conscientiously.
NHS! YAY!
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Tonsillectomy! - Zero
