Anyone had a child whose tonsils/adenoids have regrown after removal?

[POTC]

Ds2 had tonsils & adenoids removed in August 2011 to cure his sleep apnoea. It worked and for a while he was a changed child. Gradually all the problems we'd had when he suffered from sleep apnoea returned and after around 18 months of arguing with doctors he's been diagnosed as having it again.
We saw ENT this week and they've confirmed his adenoids are once again ginormous! He'll have another op to remove them but I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this and whether it then happened again after the second removal.
He's 6 and for most of the last 3 years has been ill, need to mentally prepare myself if this could be ongoing forever!

I had this as a child. Never heard of tonsils regrowing (is it possible?), but my adenoids regrew twice. As far as I know I was OK after the second op - no regrowth, but will check with ENT later this week, I'm now curious to see after all these years.

sorry, silly me, my adenoids only regrew once!!

Yes it can happen, we have children back in for revision of their adenoids occasionally!

Thanks khm & pobble
Am really hoping this is the last time he has to go through this, his brother rarely even gets a sickness bug but smallest has already had 4 operations in 6 years!
Now we just have to wait on a date.....

POTC, sympathies. I'm so sorry for your little ds, and you too - its stressful and upsetting.

dd2 had tonsils and adenoids removed when she was barely 2, for pretty bad apnoea (she was beginning to refuse solids, too). I've often wondered if her adenoids are back, as she is starting to mouth breathe again and does snore like a trooper - but the apnoea isn't back, which stops me from heading straight for ENT again.

In her case, the original problems were that much worse due to a floppy larynx - largyngomalacia - and that too was treated surgically. I'm often unsure as to whether I underestimate the current issues because the original ones were so much worse, iyswim, or not!

I do think, having researched and asked, that adenoids eventually quit re-growing. Fingers crossed this will be the last op for your little boy x

As an aside ...

Did anyone's lo have a serious dribble problem?

We thought this might clear up once the surgery and recovery had happened but it hasn't.

How did you correct this?

I'm not sure whether to go to ent as we have several bibs a day that are soaked through resulting in chesty colds.

Thanks

We had a dribble problem first time round, it hasn't been so bad this time which is lucky as he'd look a bit odd with a bib on now!