Due to Manila lockdown surgery will be postpone until further notice.
I’m so sorry to hear you have a surgical delay. Is the Manila lockdown recent or is it an ongoing situation since COVID started? At least you know you have someone who’s still willing to help you when things open up again. I will pray for your symptoms to be manageable while you wait.
So sorry for you that you have to wait, it’s been such a tough time for everyone. Thinking of you…
It’s the Second lockdown which started last week. Just trying to relax myself everyday (though I know it’s tough to do). Having the breathing difficulty and swallowing. Anyways I have this theory about this right tonsil. It’s not swollen like with pus or infections. It’s larger than my left (left is normal) and hard as a rubber ball bulging my palatoglossus Arch (and the arch behind it) that sort of stretching a muscle under my tounge. My guess is this is what’s giving me discomforts and some confusing sensations from head to toe (right side) like spasms, tingling, numbness weakness, fatigue. I’ve seen few literatures about tonsillar hypertrophy and two patients on YouTube resolving the condition when they had tonsillectomy. I told me ENT doctor about this and she said she’ll take note on this and will make a thorough evaluation once we meet (remember we only had virtual consultation ever since, we haven’t met yet. I’m just sending her all my medical tests on the internet). I hope I’m making sense out of it. I’m just a bit desperate to get well.
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Good work observing things that may not be right in your throat area. Your symptoms sound pretty miserable but you’re doing the right thing (relaxing) to help ease them.
It’s easy enough for a surgeon to do a tonsillectomy & styloidectomy at the same time but the recovery is a bit longer & more painful. Nice to get it all done at once though.
I hope you get to see your specialist soon. I’m sorry your area is on a second lockdown. Things are gradually opening back up here in the US but it depends on the state you live in as to how open things are.
You’re doing a good job of working things out for yourself & sounds like you have a really good doctor who’s open minded! Hope you don’t have to wait too long & thinking of you…
My ENT doctor suggested to have my middle turbinate reduced due to my persistent breathing problem. It was shown in my previous CT scan. Bilateral concha bullosa. Though only the right side is giving me breathing discomfort. She said it’s only a minor surgery and an out patient procedure. Since she cannot come here due to Manila lockdown she will allow another ENT doctor near me to do the procedure. Allow me to show u the endoscopic view of my right middle turbinate.
and my CT scan
WOW! It looks like it’s completely closed! I had turbinate reduction surgery when I had surgery for Menieré’s Disease because I have a whistling nose ( 
). Sadly, it did nothing to stop the whistle but my nose is exceptionally clear all the time now. It was an easy & painless surgery for me.
Maybe that’s the reason why I can’t breath effortlessly thru the nose. I’m a mouth breather since last year. Is it worth it to have the reduction? Was your Menieré’s Disease solve with the surgery?
I think it’s worth it to have the reduction. It will help you breathe better.
Sadly, Menieré’s isn’t cured w/ surgery. What it helps is to stop the vertigo problems & stop the hearing loss that is caused by Menieré’s. Surgery changes the way sounds sound coming into the ear & don’t stop the tinnitus associated w/ the disease. Just as w/ ES surgery, it helps some things but is not always a cure all. 
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After your turbinate reduction did u feel that you don’t really need to guard your breathing pattern and it comes naturally now.
My nose was never obstructed by my turbinates like yours is but yes, the air passes much more readily in & out of my nostrils since I had the turbinate reduction done. My doctor insisted he do it bilaterally so I had both sides done.