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Tonsillectomy and UPPP


Posted by Regina on October 11, 2000 at 08:51:19:

My husband and I have been reviewing everthing in these forums. After much sleepless nights for all, and much review and consideration, my husband underwent a tonsillectomy and modified version of UPPP yesterday. We just got home. He has a very bad sore throat. We are following a lot of the suggestions: pain med every 4 hours, making sure to drink as much as possible after the pain med starts working, resting, sleeping with head up, and ice chips. We had a wonderful ENT Physician- he is conservative with his approaches. He removed golf ball size and larger tonsils and clipped the uvula. No work on the soft palate. We are looking at tongue somnoplasty in the future. We had a pretty good night of sleep for the first time in 3 years. He still snores some, but not the gasping, choking, flailing, intense snoring as before. No cure, but we hope we are on the road to better things. He is on liqiud Lortab and liqiud amoxicillin. He was not wearing his CPAP machine period, so felt it was time to take a chance. Our MD recommended using a spray mister bottle filled with iced water to spray on the back of the throat frequently to keep it moist. Haven't tried it yet! Will let you khow if it works for us. Will write more later, since I have a feeling the worst of the pain is going to begin now that we are at home. Would like to hear from one and all!!!

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