Blurry vision, what now

[Leah]

I am so sorry. That sounds horrific. Was going to suggest swishing with salt water. But sounds like that might not even be possible. Hopefully others would have better advice.

[Isaiah_40_31]

@Lemontree, I’m soooo sorry for your pain & suffering. Intraoral ES surgery is really awful & a challenging recovery.

You’re correct. The transcervical (surgery through the neck) is a less painful recovery in some ways because it doesn’t impact the ability to eat, drink & swallow in the same way that transoral (through the throat surgery) does. There is a higher risk of infection through the throat since your food & drink have to pass the incision. I firmly believe you should make a follow-up appt. to get your throat checked because of the gross taste you have in your mouth. A clean wound should not be causing that. Gradually, over the first month after surgery, you’ll begin feeling better. If I were you, I’d politely demand to have the second surgery through your neck.

I’m aghast about the dismissive way you’ve been treated by your surgeon. If you have an infection then you certainly need antibiotics for a longer period. You should also ask for a 10-14 day course of prednisone if you can swallow pills. Those are generally small but they can help significantly w/ swelling.

Are you able to suck on ice chips or popsicles to help ease your throat pain or is that too difficult?

Here are links to a couple of threads written by people who had intraoral surgery. There are others as well if you want to search for them (use “intraoral surgery” as your search term). There is reference made to the surgeon Rxing a prescription mouth rinse to help prevent infection & promote healing, but I couldn’t readily find the name. That is definitely something to request from your surgeon.

Intra oral surgery-who has had this who already had tonsils out previously?

I had my left side removed yesterday Intraorally. My tongue is numb and i can’t really taste much. My doctor said it was from using the clamp on my tongue. I’m also having ear pain. I’m disappointed because he didn’t removed to the base of the skull, but said he did get a good bit of it out(at least what he thinks was causing most of my issues) my doctor had me on norco in the hospital, but then last night one hof his residents came by and changed it to Tylenol every 4 hours and oxy every 6 hour…

3 Weeks Post Op

Thanks @BFresh, I’d appreciate your update after your appointment! Yes, indeed, we are on this ride together. I found the mouth rinse really helped with the throat pain, sadly I have none left, maybe I should phone in for a new script. Hope you are well otherwise. I look forward to your update! Take care.

You could send a private message to @Weezie65 &/or @BFresh to ask how they’re doing now & what helped them most during recovery. I recall BFresh had a slower recovery than Weezie.

I’ll be praying that your wound will begin healing in earnest so you can start feeling better.

[Danielle1]

I had the external approach. I just wanted to be clear on that. Dr Trevor Hackman did my surgery. He sent me home with a medrol dosepak along with pain meds.

[CoHDa]

@Lemontree How dreadful!!! I’m so sorry!!!

[Lemontree]

Thanks @Isaiah_40_31
Thanks for the links and thanks @Jules i for your precious message last week and forgot to reply.

I saw that about the mouthwash when reading the previous posts, I can’t believe no one is checking up on my wound. My next appointment with my surgeon is two months from now. My wound looks like a mangled up mess. I saw on the thread that someone else had it done where they go in through the side of the mouth behind back molar way and that there was a hole left. Im wondering how long it takes to heal. I feel big chunks of food is just going to enter in there, it’s just vile.
I’ve been cutting up ice lol lies because I can’t open my mouth to fit them in lol. But they have been my favour, ice is helping, it helps cool it down.

Thanks all x

[Jules]

I feel for you, it sounds grim & aftercare awful…if it’s any consolation I wasn’t able to open my mouth wide enough to clean my teeth properly for a week or 2 & that was with external surgery, hopefully that part will improve soon.
Is your GP helpful at all? It does sound as if you could have an infection as @Isaiah_40_31 says, going by the horrible taste you have, & it’s rubbish that you can’t have more antibiotics! I’m sure you’re probably not feeling up to being pushy, have you got anyone who can advocate for you, either with your GP, the surgery team, or a trip to A&E?
Hang in there, praying for you & sending you hugs

[Danielle1]

@Lemontree I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Are you in the U.S.?