tonsillectomy

[mrsoggie2008]

I apologise if i havent spelt it right lol.
have been told today that my daughter is going to be having her tonsils out.
does anyone know what we are to expect afterwards as i am bricking it lol. i hate to see her in pain, and have no idea what she will be able to eat, what medication she can take or anything.
thanks in advance for replies

Ds had his out last July and it went very smoothly. He was taken down to theatre and was back in the recovery room within a couple of hours. He was a bit spacey when he came out of recovery but within the hour was sucking an ice Lolly.
He came home the next day and we were told he could eat anything he normally would and he was to have painkillers every 4 hours for a day or two. After that only if he seemed in any pain.
Ds bounced back and within a few days was pain free and healing well.
It was the best thing we ever did. The constant infection/antibiotic cycle had reached a ridiculous stage.
It'll be fine. Nothing to worry about :)

thanks for the reply
they scare you with talk about haemoraging and infections, and check breathing as swelling can cause them not to breath. im just so scared for her.
are they in agony for the first few days?

I can honestly say ds didn't seem to be in very much pain at all. We of course gave him the pain relief every 4 hours as they prescribed but he wasn't complaining that much. I think I'd have been worse! I did say at the time to dh that maybe his pain threshold for sore throats was very high after 6 years of (what felt like) constant tonsillitis!
He healed very quickly thankfully and there was no blood loss, infection whatsoever :)

We found it slightly harder. My DS2 was 6 at the time and found the pain really hard to bear. You must keep up a constant regime of painkillers every few hours (even through the night). DS2 was reluctant to take his medication which then made matters worse as his throat was too sore to swallow the medicine. Funnily enough he seemed fine the first couple of days and then went downhill for about a week and was back in school after two. That said it was so the best thing we ever did and he has never been ill since (three years later),

My DS had his tonsils and adennoids taken out 3 years ago when he just turned 3. The op took about an hour and within an hour of this he was back on the ward sitting up chatting, bright and breezy eating toast. He did develop a high temp overnight so he was kept in 2 nights as precaution but thankfully no issues.
Personally we had no problems with pain as in hospital he was kept dosed up on nurofen and paracetamol throughout the full 24 hour period, which we then continued for a further 7-10 days and reduced dose therefafter for a few days.
At home he was running about as if nothing happened. The trick is to keep up their painkillers before they get pain, even if you think they seem ok as its much harder to stop the pain than it is to prevent it.
We did give pain meds throughout the night, via a syringe which he pretty much did not notice.
Clearly, this is our own personal experience, but complications are rare and for us, not doing it was not an option. We have never looked back and it was the best thing we ever did
Good luck