Rnmack

I had the exact surgery you are. All I can say is it was the worst pain I've ever felt. Take the worst sore throat, multiply by 100, and it's worse than that. I weigh 185, and I lost 23 pounds in two weeks. Ended up back in the hospital for pain control.

I don't know where you were having this done, but I was kept in ICU after surgery for 24 hours because of the high risk of bleeding. Also, the dilaudid pain pump was the only thing that helped with the pain. I was discharged on Demerol by mouth. I drank a weeks worth of Demerol the second night home as the dilaudid wore off.

You can't eat anything hard for a week because it may cause the scabs to bleed, and you will end up back in surgery getting them cortorized again, and the healing will start over from day one.

The surgery did cure my apnea. I was able to sleep without cpap after surgery.

I wish someone would have told me about the recovery. I would have not had the surgery.