Tonsillitis AGAIN...grrr!

Argh i have tonsillitis yet again...last time i had it was 3 weeks ago :frown:

. i used to have it every 3 weeks or so but then didnt have it for about 6 months and thought i was finally free of it....but apparently not :frown:

.argh its so annoying and painful and makes me really ill.im thinking about getting my tonsils out but my gp said that im too old than the ideal age (they apparently like taking them out when youre very young), and so the op might be painful and i might bleed a lot and take a while to recover :eek:

...so now im not so sure....but i cant keep getting ill, its stupid.
so...just wondered if anyone has had their tonsils out at my kinda age and their experiences?thanks! :smile:

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Reply 1

Doom_and_Gloom

If I was you I'd have them taken out. My GP has said that if I get it just once more he's going to put me down to have them taken out if I like it or not and I'm only 2 years younger than you are. They say if you get it so often that it interferes with regular life than they should be taken out. I know how painful it is to get tonsillitis alot and how anoying it can get. I would like to have them taken out. I can't wait till the next time I have it so I get to have them taken out to be honest. Yes the op is going to be painful but it's alot less agrovation than having tonsillitis more times in a year than what your friends have had in their lives. Also you get to eat as much ice cream as you want after the op :biggrin:

that's got to be a bonus.

Reply 2

Rach:)

Doom_and_Gloom

Also you get to eat as much ice cream as you want after the op :biggrin:

that's got to be a bonus.

I know one person who was made to eat cornflakes as soon as they came round from the op....and another who was made to eat salt and vinegar crisps :eek:

...ouch!

think i might ask my gp about being referred tomorrow when i go to ask for my penicillin!xx

Reply 3

Doom_and_Gloom

Rach:)

I know one person who was made to eat cornflakes as soon as they came round from the op....and another who was made to eat salt and vinegar crisps :eek:

...ouch!

Rach:)

think i might ask my gp about being referred tomorrow when i go to ask for my penicillin!xx

Thats the reason right there why they don't like me getting tonsillitis. I'm alergic to penicillin. They have to give me the stuff without penicillin in it which they find anoying and it doesn't work as well either which is why I can't seem to get rid of the tonsillitis for long periods of time :rolleyes:

Reply 4

Rach:)

Doom_and_Gloom

I am a girl by the way and I never wrote it :mad:

. skatergirlannie don't be stupid. I feel that your red gems are there for a reason and that if you didn't do such things they wouldn't be red.

Rightyo

...and poor you for being allergic to penicillin :hugs:

...its my lifeline!
Anyway, nightynight all!xx

Reply 5

RetiredAccount89

Doom_and_Gloom

How are they allowed to do that!! You're only ment to eat soft foods (which is why most people go for ice cream I think) for a certain amount of time after the op as you have to give it time to heal correctly.

Thats the reason right there why they don't like me getting tonsillitis. I'm alergic to penicillin. They have to give me the stuff without penicillin in it which they find anoying and it doesn't work as well either which is why I can't seem to get rid of the tonsillitis for long periods of time :rolleyes:

just how allerigic are you exactly?
what happens when u take penicillin?

Reply 6

Doom_and_Gloom

Jamie

just how allerigic are you exactly?
what happens when u take penicillin?

I had a reaction to it for the first time in 1993 when I was 4 years old and they had given me very little of it. I swelled up very bad and couldn't breathe as my oesophagus was swollen shut. Not a nice time and I'm afraid of needles now as I'm afraid what they put in me will do that to me.

Basically it means if I was given it I could die very easily. I think it's in my dad's geans. Once my dad was given penicillin by the idiots in the hospital even though it clearly states in his records that he can't have it :rolleyes:

.

They wern't even ment to give it to me that time because my dad nearly dies every time they give it to him. They wern't ment to even chance it but they did as they are idiots. Alot of my family members are allerigic. It seems to only be those with brown hair on my dads side of the family :confused:

all those with blonde (which isn't many) aren't allerigic to it weirdly enough.

Reply 7

Glory

i had mine out when i was almost 20, best thing ive ever had done. I was getting i every 3/5 weeks and missing alot of college, it took 18 months of getting it recovering and getting it to be refered by my gp. But once i saw the specialist he was like we will have them out asap. Gp's are iddiots when it comes to refering people, if you want to be refered you have to be very forceful about it and not be fobbed off.

Reply 8

Gem

Someone I know had their tonsils out in their twenties, and has never looked back! She had missed so much of her first year at Uni that it was affecting her studies so in the Summer between 1st and 2nd year she had them taken out. Best thing she's ever done! The only thing is she had to go private as the NHS waiting list was completely ridiculous and her docotr was crap, so like Glory says, be forceful!

Reply 9

~Raven~

I've got tonsillitis too, for the first time really (altough I had something similar with glandular fever). It's really horrible, I just want my tonsils out now yuk! I've only got one and a half tonsils anyway coz when I had glandular fever one kind of disintegrated. Sorry, thats a bit graphic :rolleyes:

Reply 10

Sick Boy II

I suffer from tonsillitis (sp?) every month or so, I have it now actually :frown:

This time last year I ended up in hospital over night on a drip because it became so bad. I didn't eat for 2 weeks, couldn't swallow at all and my glands were massive. They still didn't take them out though so I have to suffer every month for a couple of weeks. Luckily I havn't had it as bad as last year, I think I would insist that they were taken out that day if i was put into hospital again. I am 20 so maybe that is part of their reason but I would gladly have them taken out and suffer a bit of pain rather than being ill every month.
I agree about GPs being rubbish as refering patients, When I was 12 I had my appendix out just in time. The GP didn't want to refer me and I was admitted 3 days too late, by this time my appendix had began to burst. I was very ill for over two months because of his delay. Also if that wasn't bad enough while I was in hospital the needle from the drip into my hand fell on the floor. What did the nurse do...only stuck it back in my hand!! :mad:

They also forgot an anti sickness drug for when you come round from being asleep so I almost choked on my own vomit. Needless to say the hospital was shut down a month later :eek:

Anyway....rant over!!! :biggrin:

Reply 11

Spurs

When i was younger i had tonsilitis every other week got a bit anoyin especially coz i'm highly alergic to penecilin and other anti biotics they gave me gave me a bad stomock every time AHRG! in the end they just whipped them out and now i just have chest infetions every other week, go me!

Reply 12

Glory

No you aint supose to have soft stuff. I had my tonsils out during the this morning show, i was sleeping off the drugs at lunchtime.

Come tea time i had some food, i had potato and leek soup, thinking it was the safe option as soon as it hit my thoat it felt like it had stuck to it. I felt sick and went light headed, i was really hungry so i forced myself to eat something else off the tray.

I had apple and cheese sandwichs and because it wasnt sloppy it couldnt stick to my throat and slid down pretty easy, the painkillers your on takes away the pain, its only the senation of food sticking you have to be careful about. I forced myself to eat the chocolate moose, its chocolate i cant turn it down, even thought it did the same as the soup.

Following morning i had toast, the toast was the nicest thing to have. Because they laser your tonsils out, i dont wanna sound discusting but, it leaves flakes of quaterised skin behind. The toast helps remove it making you feel less like you need to clear your throat and crave something to wash your throat with.

To be honest its not as bad as the doctors make out, you go in one night(sunday), have the op the following day(monday) and providing you make the effort to eat your evening meal and your breakie or your breakie and lunch meal you can go home the day after the op(tuesday).

They give you 2 weeks worth of painkillers and suggest you stay away from crowds and recoup at home for those 2 weeks. I do suggest you eat at your first opportunity about 6 hours after your op, while you still have a large amount of painkillers in your system, the lot they give you during the op.

Reply 13

Satine

Ack. I have chronic tonsillitis at the moment. I've been on penicillin, and every time, it starts responding to it and comes back when I stop. I'm terrified they might want to take mine out...I'm a singer currently recovering from vocal damage and I'd have to go a couple of months not even being allowed to do vocal exercises, which would set me back a long long way.

Sucks. I hope you feel better soon and can clear it up.

Reply 14

~Raven~

I want mine out, they get infected everytime something's wrong with me - its not tonsillitis, although thats what I've got now, its since I had glandular fever.
If I'm gonna get tonsillitis every few weeks now that I've had it (which I probably will coz i'm so unlucky) I just want them out.
hey, I dont think I've ever given enough sympathy to tonsillitis sufferers - this hurts so bad! :bawling:

Reply 15

Cazzi

~Raven~

hopefully u wont get it again!

i got tonsilitis in march when i went to alton towers (i didnt know what it was then, i just thought it was a REALLY SORE throat) i went through a week and a half of agony before i realised it wasnt going to go away and went to the doctor. It ruined my holiday because i was up all night, couldnt eat, had huge twinges of pain and had horrible smelling breath :frown:

But i havent had it since. Best advice, which im sure everyone does anyway, is to keep taking the penicillin after the pain goes for a while. to make sure its definatly gone.

Reply 16

Rach:)

Hey everyone :smile:

,sorry i havent posted in a while, ive been so ill this time that ive literally been able to do nothing else but lie in bed :frown:

.i had about half a centimetre of throat left to breathe through and i have never ever felt so ill in my life....as soon as i recover im going straight down to my gp and getting a referral...im not having this stupid illness ruin my first year at uni as well as my summer.
I seem to get it a lot when im stressed....i must have a genetic predisposition to it since it seems to run in my mums side of the family, and when i get stressed out about something that lowers my immune system and triggers it off (something like the stress-diathesis model for all you budding scientists!)...so i guess the answer is to not get stressed!...easier said than done :frown:

Hope everyone whos ill feels better soon :smile:

Reply 17

hayley05

ouch i ahve it now i have little white n green lumps on the back on my tonsils is this common ? :s-smilie:

but its killing now really soare feels like something is stuck in my throat and i cant eat properly :| cannot get a doctors appointment til thusday tea time help :| x

Reply 18

Rach:)

hayley05

ouch i ahve it now i have little white n green lumps on the back on my tonsils is this common ? :s-smilie:

but its killing now really soare feels like something is stuck in my throat and i cant eat properly :| cannot get a doctors appointment til thusday tea time help :| x

Aaw

poor you, I know how you feel.
The lumps on your tonsils are perfectly normal for tonsilltis.
You just need to see your doctor and get some penicillin as soon as possible!Other than that...drink lots of liquids and take paracetamol and ibuprofen (you can take them together) for the pain and if you start feeling physically ill as well. Lots of rest also helps. Last time I had it the doctor told me to gargle wih salt water to relieve the pain....might help, but I've never tried it.
Really hope you feel better soon :smile:

Reply 19

Little Girl Red

hey - i get tonsilitis a lot and sometimes quite severely. my gp asked me if i wanted my tonsils out and i said no - one of my friends had it done and he said it was really really painful and im such a wimp that i chickened out. i mean, i get it quite often (every couple of months) and whilst it is a pain i can cope with it. i mean, i can eat soup and ice cream and yoghurt and sleep a lot and take penicillin to make it go away. i would rather do that i think that have them taken out.

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