God bless steriods

[Robboo]

So i have been sick for a couple days. Started off as a normal cold or so I thought. It cleared up in the sinus and hit my throat. My throat started swelling and eating became difficult.

So after a day or so of this and trying all sorts of meds I went see thr docs. I had a tonsil that was so swollen and enlarged he was amazed I could eat any solid food. he started me on an aggressive treatment. A large shot of cortizone and some super antibiotic cocktail. I was told..if its not cleared up enough for you to have zero pain and no difficulty eating tomorrow...we will have to take your tonsils out due to it likely being an absess behind the tonsil.

7 hours later...I can drink and eat and I have hopefully put off what is supposed to be a fairly painful surgery to recover from in adults. Thank God for steriods...and what ever other super antibiotics I got. Now I got 2 big antibiotic pills every day and no beer...for 10 days. At least its not percocet and drooling after the surgery as my boss explained about his tonsil removal he had..."worse pain ever during the healing"

So the moral of the story...go to the doc if you get sick and WASH YOUR HANDS.

[romeothemonk]

See, now you can play Pro baseball.

If you do need the surgery on the follow up, have them hook you up with the cortisone again. Another fun trick, apparently, is to get some HGH to assist in the recovery process, as one of the sources for pain is the extremely slow nerve regeneration and/capping of grown adults. That is where the HGH or other power roids help.

The other moral to the story is to get your tonsils yanked when you are a little one, like I did. The most excruitiating pain I have ever felt was when I had my wisdom team removed/cut out. It was just after I ended a 12 hour factory shift, I went in, they numbed me up a bunch, put me out and went to work. I went home went right to sleep and slept till the drugs wore off. I then got up and was in so much pain I passed out briefly. Some more pain pills fixed that, but for about 3 days, I have felt better.

Good luck on the healing and enjoy it. Best of health to you.

[Robboo]

my wisdom teeth werent that bad. But then again he only had to "crack up" on of them. For those...I never let the drugs get to a point were they werent working.

I feel like superman this morning. I didnt realize how much I wasnt breathing with the swollen throat. First good night of sleep in a while.

[Matrix]

In the Netherlands they are very easy in deciding to remove tonsils when a child is having problems with it. Just recently there's a debate about it, because they do have a function.

Anyway, I had my tonsils removed when I was about six or seven years old. It did hurt when I woke up, but it wasn't that painful. And I got to eat ice cream then. :D

[Tubby Rower]

I'd have to agree with your boss. although my moment of worse pain was when the wound started bleeding again and they had to cauterize it. They tried to numb the area but apparently swollen human flesh doesn't readily accept injected pain killers. So I had to sit there still while the back of my throat was being burned closed. My poor wife's hand was a little skinnier after I squeezed it and I swear I left fingerprints in the arm rest on the other side.

but other than that and the sitting in bed with a horrible taste and smell from the wound healing, it wasn't all bad. You get all of the pudding, apple juice, and grape juice you can (or care to) eat. I still to this day don't like apple juice due to the modified flavor of it from the stuff at the back of my throat.

enjoy.

[digger760]

I got a dose of Tonsillitus last year, i was on 3 different Anti biotic pills + 3 days on intravenous anti biotics. Which all seem to clear it but it would come back 48 hours after stopping the anit-biotics.

As a last straw the ENT specialist tried Nexium and also suggested i gargle disprin (4 times a day), Nexium is for acid reflux from the stomach, expensive ~80 Euro for a 4 week course. Garlging Disprin is very good at flushing out the muck in your throat. You can spit that out, you dont have to swallow it. As usual a few days after completing the anti-biotics the tonsillitus appeared to be coming back, but either the Nexium or the persistent disprin garle won the battle for me. I have been anti-biotic free for 6 months, what a relief, my stomach was in bits from it!!!

[mauer]

Don't know much about Tonsillitis, but I could use some of that HGH you've got there. I need some muscles. And it's not detectable in a urine test? Sweet, no Dept of Trans hits for me.