OOh, you poor, poor girlies. My heart goes out to you. I had my tonsils out age 30 and it was a disaster. I was suicidal with the pain once I got home and the hospital pain killers had worn off, which was way worse than child birth IMHO (and I had a home birth with an OP presentation thank you very much, so I am familiar with pain!). I think I would have actually chucked myself out of the window if it hadn't been for the fact that I had just met my now husband and was falling in love. It literally kept me going.
Then 10 days post op, when I thought I was on the home stretch, I had a dramatic middle of the night post-op haemorrage and was blue lighted back to theatre for emergency surgery. Strangely, my throat felt completely different as soon as I woke up from the second operation and I feel that my original op was never quite right in some way. The pain was extraordinary 
The worst thing is that I still suffer with frequent sore throats, some severe and though I cannot physically get tonsilitis anymore, I now end up with sinusitis and yukky catarrah problems whenever a bug comes around my way (which is a lot with a toddler in nursery). Ok, it's definately not as bad as tonsilitis and I haven't forgotten the nightmare of pus in your throat and the whole body ache and awfulness of it all, but in hindsight it's hard to say if I'd make the same decision again.
Tonsilectomies on adults are a WHOLE different ball game to the same operation in children thats for sure. Kiddies do bounce back with apparent relative ease, whereas in adults tonsils seem SO deeply rooted and especially after numerous infections have such convoluted blood supply it's just all a bit trickier and much more painful.
I'm not meaning to scare anyone (honestly!) and I'm not suggesting that my experience is representative, but it was real and valid. It's a hard choice to make for anyone considering this as an adult.
All the best all you post op ladies, I really do feel for you.
MOLM xx