Tonsillectomy Today

[thestalkmore]

So I had my tonsils out today, I've got two questions to pose to BG

1) Any favorite foods? Think mega sore throat foliage to graze on.

2) I'm on hydrocodone and it's great for the pain (which isn't as awful as I expected) but it makes me extremely lightheaded and nauseous. Any remedies for that?

[Skjie]

For at least the first week after mine got taken out I ate nothing but tapioca pudding and codeine.

[Warudo Ecksu]

make sure u got stuff in ur tummy before u take vicodin. u could try taking half and then the other half an hour later as well.

[Vandole]

ice cream.

right now, you basically just want empty calories.

compared to when i got it done 15 years ago, its nothing at all....

you'll be fine in 2-3 days.

[Skjie]

It sucks a lot more when adults get it done than when you're a child.

[Maguspk]

The trick to not being nauseated after taking codone is to lie down while it takes effect and make sure you have some food in your stomach.

I remember taking one on an empty stomach and I was crippled by how sick I felt, I had to lie down and couldn't even make myself something to eat because I was so uncomfortable, ended up just going to sleep like that, learned my lesson fast.

[thestalkmore]

It sucks a lot more when adults get it done than when you're a child.

This .

I'll try eating some stuff before I take pills tonight and go to bed.

[Devia]

Ice cream, pudding, jello and custard are your new best friends.

[Mortama]

When my brother had his out he would eat lots of Toast (mainly because the hospital told him to lol).

[Blabj]

You'll be nauseous either way TSM. Just keep taking them, and lie down as much as you can bare.

Favorite foods would have been really soaked cereal, hot chocolate, tea, ice cream, custard, beans, cold drinks, mashed potatoes, fish... Pretty much anything with a soft texture.

I'm sure they probably told you that you should eat some hard food to scrape off the crud that builds up over the scars. It's not a bad idea. I was force fed cereal without milk and toast after my operation, to stop the wounds from infecting. It's not very nice, but if they told you to I'd recommend you do!

Other than that, chill out, relax, recline, watch some TV and movies, eat, drink, sleep. Not a lot you can do when you're high on meds and feeling like shit after an operation. I think I slept for like 20 hours after I had my tonsils out, I woke up to doctors standing over my feeling my pulse because they thought I was going into a coma.

[Blabj]

Oh and, to add to my post (edit didn't work... wut?) it varies person to person on recovery times, I was practically bed ridden for a week, and it was 2 weeks before I was outside again walking around.

Just take your time and get better. There's nothing else you can do.