ENT appointment - what to expect?

[bananainpjs]

Hello,

My son has an ENT appointment on Tuesday. This was due to an urgent referral given 7 weeks ago due to sleep apnea and enlarged tonsils.

We had a private ENT appointment this past week who said he needs his adenoids out, his tonsils are definitely huge (he was like woah when he saw them) and he has gluey ears (doesn’t needs grommets but need draining). He said he knew what he issues were as soon as he saw him as he looked like a mouth breather. He quoted £4.4K to sort these issues out. I can’t afford that so trying to stick with the NHS route.

Would the NHS ENT also observe the above? Would he have access to private ENT report as he did say he would give it to my child’s GP.

What is the probability of being able to get an operation on the NHS and would I be waiting long?

Do the NHS ENT do different checks? The private one just chatted to us and checked his ears and tonsils.

Thank you

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Hi. Ds had this long before covid (2018)

(so covid may add to your timings) he was seen by ent and marked as urgent in the March. He had the operation November of the same year.

He had sleep apnea, confirmed by sleep study, his sats were in the 80’s during his sleep and he kept choking on food in the day, his tonsils were humongous! he had tonsills and adenoids removed, (it did cure his sleep apnea)

You could possibly see the same consultant OP, all Private consultants have NHS lists too, based on my experience. If not take the letter with you from the private ENT consultant. Good luck, but I think you need to be prepared for a wait sadly, COVID has slowed everything up.

All the above on the nhs btw.

DD was seen in ENT for the same and op done 6weeks later on NHS. This was pre covid but a friends DS has had it done post covid with a similar time frame

@danni0509 did it cure the food choking?

My son has regular choking episodes and awaiting huge Tonsils out in May?

Yes @windowstothesoul it did. He used to choke / gag on absolutely everything! His tonsils touched in the middle, gross! He also used to get poorly all the time with croup and chest infections, he had a cough for 5 months and always on steroids / had to have an inhaler.

They took his tonsils / adenoids out, all of it sorted!

Thank you all for replies.
The appointment went well. He was a junior doctor but he said what the private ENT, when he saw him he knew he had adenoid problems as he’s a mouth breather. I’ve become so used to it and didn’t realise it was different.

He has to have an Adenotonsillectomy and grommets.

He said I’d be waiting months not years since it’s causing a sleep disorder. But months seem such a long wait

@danni0509 hope you don't mind me asking on here - our operation date is coming up and just wondered if you had any top tips for first 24hrs -

@bananainpjs did your LO have the op yet?

We are having it in a children's hospital but worried about afterwards and then back to local hospital - with infection/pain/not eating etc -