Tonsils removed?

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NancyNGA

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How many of you had your tonsils removed? Was the procedure eventful enough to remember? :) Complications?

This surgery seemed to be common among the kids at school, and apparently reached a peak of popularity in the 1950's.

I never had them removed, but they long ago disappeared anyway. :wave:
 

I never did, even though lots of kids I knew back then did.

Nancy, you say your tonsils disappeared? I had no idea they would go away! Did a doctor tell you they were gone?
 
RadishRose said:
I never did, even though lots of kids I knew back then did.

Nancy, you say your tonsils disappeared? I had no idea they would go away! Did a doctor tell you they were gone?
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Have you checked yours lately?:) Maybe everybody's doesn't, but I think most do. Mine just started shrinking and were gone years ago. Now you've got me worried. I may have to go Google. Ha!
 

I did twice and part of one grew back again. I don't know if they still remove them, I had to almost beg them to remove my sons forty years ago. They were very large and continuously full of white pus. He would hang his head over the side of the bed to breathe. Sometimes they just gotta go! There was a big improvement in his health afterwards.
 
When I was four years old.... and I remember most of it.... It was a really traumatic experience. All adults bold faced lied to us kids about what it would be like... and how we could have all the ice cream we wanted... BUll Crap.... I couldn't even swallow it.. Horrible..
 
QuickSilver said:
When I was four years old.... and I remember most of it.... It was a really traumatic experience. All adults bold faced lied to us kids about what it would be like... and how we could have all the ice cream we wanted... BUll Crap.... I couldn't even swallow it.. Horrible..
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The first time I had tonsils removed, they were still using ether! I remember waking up so sick and barfing blood.
 
I used to get terrible tonsillitis as a child and can remember it being too sore to swallow but, for some reason, they didn't remove my tonsils, I eventually had them taken out when I was in my early 40's, and feel my health would have been much better growing up if they'd done it in my childhood
 
Had mine out years ago when it was almost REQUIRED! Seems it was the right thing to do.

Never missed them. Don't remember the event, but it was probably with ether or some kind of gas, like Carla mentioned.
 
They don't do it anymore - tonsils have a purpose to maintain health --- I had a bad case of tonsillitis as a teen and some penicillin made it go away and never came back.
 
I don't know if they were having a 'two for one sale' or what but mom had my tonsils and adenoids removed at the same time when I was a kid.....post op no fun but YES !! ice cream for breakfast, lunch and supper.
 
Same experience here. Adults flat lied to me about it -- in the first place they didn't even tell me I was going in to get my tonsils out. They told me I was going to visit someone in the hospital. Then when we got there this big crabby nurse the size of a tank grabbed me and carted me away. And it DID hurt, and I couldn't swallow that ice cream either, and the anesthetic made me sick as a dog. I gagged and wretched and caused the incision to open up and bleed all over the place. I was afraid I was going to drown in my own blood and it scared me within an inch of my life. The whole thing was traumatic. The memory of all that is as clear as the day it happened.

That was the only surgery I had ever had before my hips (60-some years later), and I think it was that experience that made me so blindly terrified of the hip surgery. The hips were a walk in the park compared to that tonsils mess.

I think it is absolutely inexcusable to lie to a child about something like that ("visiting, etc."). Part of me is angry to this day about that, and I lost a bit of trust for my parents that day.
 
I had my tonsils and adenoids removed at the same time in 1952 or so. Standard procedure back then. Both my kids had theirs removed in the late 1960s.

btw, ice cream was probably the worst thing they could have given us. The milk caused film over the incision that delayed healing. My kids got potato chips instead.
 
I'm the only one in the family who didn't get them removed.

My mother told me that the doctor removed both hers and her brother's at home on the kitchen table. He brought along a nurse and she administered the ether. Imagine that, the kitchen table.

I've never been one for sore throats and a doctor told me years ago I don't have any tonsillar tissue. I don't know if I never had any or if it just shrank over the years.
 
Carla said:
The first time I had tonsils removed, they were still using ether! I remember waking up so sick and barfing blood.
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Yes... I had ether.. I remember dreaming of carousels and hearing carnival music. And then waking up sick. and in pain.. I also had my Adnoids remove... whatever those are..
 

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